Vladislav

That's not all On the next day we started back. Ferry again with trouble to land regardless we kept much more planks with us. Covered all the sands and stayed overnight on the side of the road because of darkness.

The guy who had DMM waited for me. He brang the crane and we started to load. He removed the cab before my visit because the truck couldn't get into the trailer due to its height. There was a bonus with Mack - one more off-set cab and three engines. After 2 hours of work we had all the crap in.

Those 300 km of trial cost us 9 hours. In the evening we finally came... to the river. Because there was no bridge. More correct there's the bridge. But the rail road only. So we went in a sack until a nearest ferry. It arrived in the morning and the captain said "You have no chances to get on with your trailer" We answered "We need and will try" and had it done with the wooden planks we took off the sides of out trailer. After 20 minutes of sail we landed on the other coast where's the city - the point of destination. Being there it looked pretty common and it's difficult to imagine there's no normal way to the "main land". By the word it's not the end of the world or inhabit island. Just 2000 km to the North from Moscow and about 300 souther than Polar circle.

Glad to report I finally got my new 6x6 beast home. There's nothing to boast of due to its overall condition although I would be too sorry to leave it dying in scrap. I had to wait a long while until a friend of mine said "I'm finally free from current job and ready for the adventure". The story turned out as an adventure indeed. We covered about 1700 km of different asphalt roads and came to the most "nice" part of the journey. Pavement was changed into gravel for about 100 km and than continued as just pressed sand. Those 60 km in the woods were most hard to get over. There were steep hills and we had many chances to get stuck having only one drive axle. Many times we saw rusty broken ropes just on the road and after 20 lost their count. Direction singns were also poor in number so we asked with CB every big truck we met along the way. Not much help of navy becase some parts of the road were made and redone recently and haven't been updated.

What are the rear axles? Camelback, Neway, Hendrickson? What is the ratio? What hubs are there - spokes or budds? It would be perfect if you post some pics of the stuff or better the whole truck you're taking apart. Vlad

Is that a West coaster with so long WB?

It looks like you drove over a nice looking region this time. Pigs ear Rd is funny. I like that big Marmon truck. Thank you for one more weekly report.

Or "electrifying" personalities of your seat's clothes.

Keep the project moving The summer has come over its edge.

Happy belated B-day Larry. Sorry nobody mentioned it out. Excepting you

Best wishes!

Many thanks for the pics and the info. Looks like you got a good bunch of old iron but not for free. Hope and wish you lots of time and power to rebuild those goodies.

It looks to me those tanks with built in steps were optional, I saw them on some MH's. Sun visors were at least of two styles, like on RW's. The newer one is smoother but the older one seems to me as Lund. Does anybody know were they arranged due to the production years? Or better where to find the old style one?

Cool sceneries Tom, and many others. Don't you know to wich fleet is belonged that CH in Harrisonburg? I saw a pic of green RW and CH with the same stripping somewhere in the net. Probably in the spot we don't used to repost here though. And that Tilted bar seems as a cool place to visit with a fire truck.

Wow, it seems to be a good thread. Keep it growing

Best of luck to your wife. Hope you'll not miss a lot of classic stuff being sorrounded the treasures you work with in the museum.

Hell, that's a real gold mine! No, not a mine, an open pit. Quarry! Many thanks por posting those treasures Tom. It shure worth the trip.

Looks done well. I hope it will work for you longer than original unpained rails. There was written on here about grease fittings before. It seems to me as not a bad idea. Vlad

I double it!

It's difficult to me to realize where did you find all that but looks like a lot of to work over.

Hope you guys had a nice day. Glad to see a pedigreed gathering.

Pigs must be happy having their new accomodation. Thank you for posting Mike, I love them RW's.

I don't want to talk much about foreseening frustration although do you think folks Randy is so just a guy to keep the FWD in the garage? If I'd be him I keep the truck with myself while the vacation By the way you have good chances to grab different garden stuff there with the kid's toys for an outside.

Very nice, thank you for posting. How many of those trucks were originally built in Australia? Any imported from the States?

Keep it moving!