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Recent content by JaredV

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    351A Pete

    I get a lot more enjoyment seeing old anything that are restored/conserved to original condition than what somebody thinks looks good. I recently spent a weekend within a couple hundred yards of a pair of chromed/lowered/dozer blade bumpered/visored Pete 379s that just pull big RV trailers and...
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    Antique & Vintage Trucks.

    Looking forward to the thread!
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    Engine only runs with full choke

    Probably just some crud in the main jet which needs choke to increase vacuum to help pull fuel past it.
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    Crawlers I photo'd recently.

    Must be this one
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    Kenworth

    I don't know the inspiration for the radial other than maybe he liked air-cooled. He later had Amboy Trucking and ran Deutz in KWs.
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    Kenworth

    Story I've heard about how the Brute came about was there was a log trucker by the name of Gene Brock around here that put a Guiberson radial diesel in a truck. He started with a KW and had to hang the engine over the front axle to clear the lower cylinders so the crank could line up with the...
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    Overload of the Day

    That sucks for that guy and everyone involved, but he wanted a new car/viral video/get on TV. Instead of trying to get the driver's attention and prevent further damage, he had time to get out his phone and start filming.
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    GMC C7000 Larger Tire Size

    I don't know how many other outfits do this, but our steer tires are recapped for drives. Works well for the work we do. Check around with your tire shops, they might have a pair of 10r22.5s that they want to move. I got a set of 9r22.5 drives for my old IH dump truck that originally had...
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    Identify this flail mower.

    Might help to see the rotor with knives attached.
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    Moving a Cat 15 miles

    I'm not going to tell you what you should or shouldn't do, Dave, but... We move 150 size excavator on tilt decks in the woods all the time, 2 and 3 axle trailers. Steep, 15% grades, sometimes more. With 8 or 10 tons in the truck and a Jake brake, you never really use the trailer brakes if you go...
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    Old conventionals at work

    I'm thinking 22B. The tractor undercarriage is factory. That was an option favored by pipeliners and machines doing lots of walking into tougher places but I think the grousers have been modified into street pads.
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    How to fill in potholes/road maintenance

    Are they full of water? Water just makes the material mushy and squish out. But you can use the material to displace the water and come back a little later when the water has drained off the road. With a grader, if I can't cut them out, I'll fill them, wheel pack them, top them off and repeat...
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    SW Washington loggers from the 70's/early 80's............Filla,Portway,ect....

    Not to take anything away from accounting, but... logging makes for better stories.
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    Moving a Cat 15 miles

    Put the loader bucket up on the cab guard to get it farther forward.
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    Free quarry overburdened?post away

    It's interesting what different areas call rock products. Around here crushed rock is whatever screen size it went through, like 1-1/4-" or 1-2". Round rock is screenings, pea rock, con agg or 1-2". I'd never heard of #xx's or Class x until I started hanging out here. Maybe it's because we tend...
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