4/6/88 Just another day at the office...

[digger242j]

Posting this one first, just so you can see that I was on pretty much level ground. There was just a little slope to the right, but not what I judged to be too much. Little did I realize...

[digger242j]

Some of the lean you see in the picture is because all the weight of the bed is pushing down on the passenger side of the truck, honest...

[digger242j]

I never did think too much of that skinny little hydraulic cylinder anyway. Really, ruining it was a blessing in disguise...

[cat320]

Looks can be deseiving when you are only on a slit incline.I was doing a job this summer and a tractor trailer dump would not dump because the incline was there had to dump in the street it didn't look bad to me but I gues the guy had some of the same experinnces like you .So what did you replace that truck with?

[digger242j]

Closeup of the subframe as seperated from the truck. Two of the three bolts on that side had sheared earlier, as evident by the fact that the breaks didn't show fresh metal. You can see the head of the one bolt, still in place...

[digger242j]

Another angle...

[digger242j]

Last one. It was quicker to buy a whole bed out of the junkyard than to fix the original one. The new bed cost me $300, but it was strictly a quick fix. I did put the original one back on sometime later...

[cat320]

You still have that tuck?

[digger242j]

Actually, yeah, but it's junk. The motor had a bad lifter. When it stopped running the trans was a little shakey anyway, as was the 2 speed rear. I believe it began life as a municipal unit. There's brackets for a salter back at the tailgate, and in one of those pics you can see the holes in back of the cab where the hydraulic lines came out. Having been a salt truck, it was on its way to body cancer too. It's just sitting rusting away now. Anything that might've been any good has been vandalized.

Wanna buy it? :)

[Taylortractornu]

Digger your trucki looks like my 75 Ford F60 I have. friend bought this one up north but it has 2 tille rust spots Im about to fix. Is your bed and Anthony. Mine is an Anthony but it has the Scissor lift on the bed. Around here i can go to the quarry and get nine tons if the right scale worker is there. Its one of the only tracks that agfe here thats got power steering and brakes. Folks call me Triple75 because my truck is a 75 Ford and My 3550 Ford hoe and my 4500 Ford hoe.
The county hinghed one off last year thay had a chain wrapped around the bed to keep it from bounchin they forgot it and it self destructed. they also had a 85 Chevy long wheel base that had a 20 flat bed thay made a low sided dump out of it but the other day they called me and the bed wouldnt raise. I went out looked and saw gravel under the truck they tried again and the end of the cylinder was poking through the gravel.

[digger242j]

That one's a 74 F-750. It has power steering and vacuum assisted hydraulic brakes. I don't have any idea what make the bed is/was. I've enver seen another one set up quite the same way. It had a small doghouse in the front of the bed, and a skinny cylinder that stood vertically in it. It fed fluid from the bottom, and had three telescoping segments, but they were upside down from what you usually see--when it was all the way extended the thinnest part was at the bottom, and the thickest was at the top. The top/outside one had big ears at the bottom of it that stuck into the frame of the bed, and pivoted as the bed raised. I'd had to replace it once already, and it wasn't very old when this happened. I wasn't happy. :mad:

When I finally got around to replacing the original bed I used the bed frame and subframe off my old 69 International (which I'm sure had come off an even older truck). It had a Penn body on it, which had one great big cylinder that mounted right about in the center of the bed. That one was about 8" in diameter, in three telescoping sections. I had to remount the vacuum tank because of how the hoist sticks down between the frame rails. I cut the whole assembly out of the International, flipped the bed from the Ford over on it's back and welded the other frame and hoist assembly to it. Flipped it back over and used a crane to lift it onto the Ford chassis. Hey, it worked.... :rolleyes:

[Taylortractornu]

I live 6 miles from the Heil plant here, I had a friend um well a distruntled employee friend there that when they made a bad bed they would scrap it. well my friend was low on cash and needed a boom for his work truck. He told me if I made the boom in 2 weeks and mount it on his truck he'd make it worth my while. I made the boom and the next morning in front of my shop I had a new pump,pto,valve hoses ,resevoir,and telescopic cyinder and the electric actuator to latch the dump. Kept the actuator and sold the rest to a friend. I hate to see them cut some of that stuff up.
When things are slow i open my shop to the public usually working on log trailers and dump trucks. I have no problems turning a dupme bed over to weld the bottom in lol. I think i have a long wheel base chevy traded for I may shorten and put a low sided dump on it for rubbish hauling. I also may make it a side dump for sm road wok that need to be done.

[dayexco]

you are in possesion of stolen property

[Taylortractornu]

well actually the plant workers are allowed to have actuators and other parts like that if they are damaged but they arent allowed to resell them with factory part numbers. Its a liability issue. Employees could buy warped beds for scrap prices complete but had to take a torch and cut out all the heil numbers and plates. I have bought several from them like that.
When I mentioned distgruntaled employee making something worth my while he just traded me damaged stock that was going to be dumped into a scrap wagon and charged to be hauled off by my uncle. I dont beleive in theft of property. I have too much invested to worry about that kind of stuff. now they cut all the beds up for scrap when they dont pass and inspection, allthe cylinders, steel lines and pumps are cut up they cut pump shfts off even with the housing and the rams into 3 pieces and dontae other parts the fine welding and machineing class next door atthe Votech. Sorry if I sounded like I was running a theft ring after I reread my post i saw how it was stated.