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skyking1

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Another Ford checking in.
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CM1995

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Spud_Monkey said:
If we are bringing up dump trucks, then let me pull this one out...View attachment 290655
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Spud I didn't know you had a General. That truck looks great for it's age.

One of the old timers I grew up with ran single axle Brigadiers and had one tandem General. IIRC they were Detroit powered?

He was a sharp business man and basically pioneered the "Bobcat" business here in the '80's. His family ran a dairy farm and had one of the old no ROPS Bobcat's to clean the barns with. After the lime quarry next door set off a charge to hot and several 3-4 ton overburden rocks landed in the barn, the quarry bought the family out at a hefty price of course..

So he had triple axle deck over trailers with 843's, a backhoe attachment, forks and two buckets one smooth the other toothed. Pulled that behind the single axles. He also was one of the first around with a hammer for rent by the hour. At one time he had 3 of those rigs running all over town doing residential and commercial projects.
 
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Truck Shop

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Last two days I saw a poor bast--d driving a 71 Freightliner cabover truck/trailer hauling to
the elevator. Detroit 318 and a extremely worn out 9513 speed, you could hear it sing 1/8
mile after he left the elevator. No power steering, No A/C, no jakes, gutless, it was 101* at
the elevator, the sweat just running off him.
 
Spud_Monkey

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CM1995 said:
Spud I didn't know you had a General. That truck looks great for it's age.

One of the old timers I grew up with ran single axle Brigadiers and had one tandem General. IIRC they were Detroit powered?

He was a sharp business man and basically pioneered the "Bobcat" business here in the '80's. His family ran a dairy farm and had one of the old no ROPS Bobcat's to clean the barns with. After the lime quarry next door set off a charge to hot and several 3-4 ton overburden rocks landed in the barn, the quarry bought the family out at a hefty price of course..

So he had triple axle deck over trailers with 843's, a backhoe attachment, forks and two buckets one smooth the other toothed. Pulled that behind the single axles. He also was one of the first around with a hammer for rent by the hour. At one time he had 3 of those rigs running all over town doing residential and commercial projects.
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Yeah it's what brought in the rock for 900' of driveway here, 45 tons of rock base for pole barn, gets rid of trash to landfill twice a year and in use hauling off with scraps from a garage and house I tore down. Has a Cummins 400 BCIII underneath the hood of this one.
 
Spud_Monkey

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cfherrman said:
I've been places that thing can't pull me out of. Bring a cat
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You don't want to challenge my will and experience of getting one out or myself out. Out here there is no one waiting with a Cat to get you out and the ground is far from flat meaning sometimes only way out is up a incline or sideways on one cause going downwards means loosing the rig.
 
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