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830-630 overnight at the Philly airport. We're putting in some new taxiways and a runway extension.

The truck has a pretty full set of gauges, but unfortunately I don't think they all work anymore.  All the extra lights work so at least I look cool from the outside lol

1 hour ago, mackey58 said:

What's the rack on the lowboy neck for when you haul a mill.

Yeah it's for the mill conveyor.  So far my only action is loading a dozer, taking it across a runway and then dropping it.  When they're finished I load it up in the morning and take it back to our staging area.  I love this truck.  The old driver took great care of it and it's really comfortable.  E6 with a Mack 12 provides the muscle.

On July 10, 2016 at 0:21 PM, felicello122 said:

I think its Orange and white now, Ken Nagy own a it

Yup, here it is now.

10 hours ago, mackey58 said:

Yea hope your guys clean the tracks before you pick up  track machines some times it takes me almost an hour to clean  them. I hope it's a hydraulic  detach got my start on a mechanical  detach lots of in and out of the rd with those  must be why I was in better shape when I was younger lol

Usually the crew using the machine cleans the tracks before they get moved.  Keeps the flow of things nice and smooth.  This truck and the two others all have wetlines for the hydraulic gooseneck.  The 77 R model that used to be on lowboy duty doesn't have a wetline and its old gooseneck with the pony motor is still sitting in the yard.  Just doesn't get used anymore.

11 hours ago, hicrop10 said:

Tell Herbie I'll come down and show you some pointers and running a lowboy.Nothing hard about it,it just like anything.Just got to make sure you have enough chains and binders.It's not like it was back in the good old days,i remember taking D9's with blade and rippers intact and taking them out to Maryland with no chains and binders at all,just put a 12x12 block behind the track.

 

 

When I was younger I remember seeing a scraper driving down 95.  Was that you guys?  Neat that it could be done back then, probably not anymore lol

That's what I'm working towards.  One of our lowboy drivers is retiring and I wanna get in there and make some money while I'm still young and spry lol

Send it to me and I'll test it out in the mud for ya!

Needs chrome Alcoas all around.  Steel wheels on an R totally ruin it.  Spokes are my favorite, but if it has budd hubs, throw some chrome on em!

Then I had to go pick up a roller at Plasterer in Sellersville and saw the H&K superliner hydroseeder.

I had to crop my pics down and they're all fuzzy now.  Every time I try to upload a pic from my phone, it says the image is too large.  This new site sucks.

We finally got the go-ahead to set up our compound for the airport job we got and while I was taking some stuff in I saw this AP water truck.  Earlier truck because it has those little beauty lines on the front fender.

21 hours ago, philatruck said:

That Mack Grapple Crane is looking good!  I think I saw it loaded on Street Road a month or two ago.

A video I found of some trucks working the blizzard of 2016. There is a AP DM800, and a couple of DM690s in it.  The company that owns the silver DM's and RDs also has a steel noose RD600.

 

The company with the silver trucks is Petrongolo out of Jersey.  Their stuff is kinda rough looking, but I see it often.  Those AP tandems only seem to come out to plow.

1 hour ago, Rich Reinhart said:

Always looking for you out on the road  

I've been doing most of my work on the 95 job between 676 and Allegheny.  Though once I get out on the road I like to let her stretch her legs a bit.  Usually running up to the Tullytown landfills and occasionally G&R Cat.

I gotta agree with Mackey.  Even though that old R had some ugly paint, it looks a hell of a lot better than some of the junk I see pulling containers around the ports.

I like that the H&K group repurposes all their older stuff.

I see that guy all the time.  The tractor has been gradually collecting more and more gray primer over the years.  

Needs red spokes with white rims to match the rest of the truck

Gotta bump this again.  My usual truck came back from the shop and upon checking it out, I noticed a new reversing relay installed on the intake manifold.  The issue is that the shop left the pipe plug in the rearmost port and the airline is leaking since it's not connected.  I jammed a screw in the line so the truck would build air pressure. 

The mechanic will eventually fix it but I'm asking for my own knowledge.  What is that line?  The one on the front is the one that goes to the puff valve on the fuel pump, but what are the other two?  I'm thinking one is a supply line and the other goes to the trans for reverse?