storkmack

We took the. IH 4300, Freightliner cabover, and the Freightliner Conventional. 

We went, but didn’t take any pictures. Lunch was great!  

The view from the loader earlier this year. 

Flatbed 6 wheeler

John  Brady Trucking. West bound and down on I-90

My Dad ran a 300/5sp all over hell on and off road.   Just had to have a plan going into a soft situation.  Ran it till the crank broke then updated to an E7 and a 12 sp 

DynaTard also.   Very nice

Bump away!  Sometimes bumping an older topic sheds new light. 

Here’s one my Dad was driving when I was born back in 1981.   Pretty sure it was a 78’ 4200 Detroit v8  with a 13 sp on Hendrickson extended spring.  

6 minutes ago, 1965 said:

Story time:

There was a 4300 for sale on AuctionTime in TN, close to me. Truck was very clean inside & out. Can’t remember the farm name still on the door but was at a used equipment lot. Had 8V-71, I’m an old DD mechanic & I needed like I need another hole in my head, but I called place to go inspect truck before auction & they had sold it! 
Made my blood pressure rise & I told them & Auction Time what I thought. AuctionTime deal messed me up on another truck too. Sorry bout rant but couldn’t help it. 
Those farm all’s are nice trucks!

I saw that truck on there.  It was a sweet one.  

The cab has some rust on the back at the bottom and the drip rail is pretty tuff also.  Having driven Mack’s most of my life, driving a Cummins is a bit different.  My boys and I have had a blast getting it back up and running.  

Straight pipe action. 

So we have got the 4300 cleaned up and running.  Some pics of the process.  

I passed it on to my Dad thinking he would be all over it, but he wasn’t.  

Our new Pete’s with the 15 liter Cummins have been great also. 

Hope to be there with the 4300

Ours are baffled.  We can haul 52k in the tank which like 4650 gals.   The tank pictured is a 5000 gal, when loaded is about 6-8 inches down from the lid.  It pulls decent, but our 6200 baffled tank pulls better.   

We haul liquid fertilizer in them.  It’s an old food grade tank that we stripped the outer skin and insulation off of to cut weight. 

I was running one of the Pete’s this weekend. 

Fertilizer season 

The cowl on the front of the cabs are different, making it not work. 

Oh, and fun with electricity.   Cant beat it.   I have gotten more comfortable with it since I have been working with the ready mix plants.    

Agree on having the right spec’d truck.  We got guys that borderline fight for the truck with the arm rest on the right side of the seat.  🤦🏻