What year is that brigadier? I hadn't thought about it before, but I think it uses the same cab as my 1970 C-90.
Well I asked my teacher Kevin and he looked at me kinda funny then said "80s" in that sorta unsure slow voice that kinda sounds he's questioning himself. It's got a cummins in it I guess.
Our 80ish Brigadier with the goofy chrome shift knob and lever had a push button clutch brake on the shift lever. Any chance it's the same? The brake was strange but they really couldn't wear out.
Nope, no push button clutch brake. I actually drove it and I find that if you shift it it into reverse and then go to 1st real quick it don't grind so much and sometimes you catch it just right and it doesn't grind at all. I like the PTO on it much better, it's alot simpler it seems to me atleast.
Tuesday me and my grading partner in crime Tyler were sent out to grade a road. It took us 2 hours to get out there and our substitute teacher Butch decided it was a good idea to come out and check on our progress... Well the grader has really awful brakes. You want to be pumping them long before you actually want to stop, and you can forget about stopping quickly. We were going along in 4th gear getting all the grass and crap that had made the road almost invisible, going down a pretty decent hill, we start to round the corner and all of a sudden Butch's van pops outta nowhere. Me and Tyler are freaking out, being all panicky forgetting totally that we could have used the blade to help stop us :Banghead. I pumped the brakes then practically stood on them with both feet holding onto the steering wheel to give me more weight. We stopped finally, we weren't that close to hitting him but man it scared us. Luckily the grader decided to stay in gear on the hill, it likes to pop into neutral. That happens to us quite abit...
Later on that day me and Tyler were waiting for the trucks to come back and we had finished what we could so we parked the grader and turned her off to eat lunch. By the way on a cold day sitting on top of the grader where the radiator is, is very nice
. Well the trucks go by and we waited for them to spread and come back our way, when they passed us we attempt to turn the grader on... notice how I say attempt, because it didn't start. It's tough to tell if you have it out of gear because it's so sloppy. So we check that and we're sure it's out of gear, we then check the fuel (still had a quarter of a tank), check the oil (that was fine). Try to start it again, it sounds sick, like it's not getting enough power to turn over... oh sweet batteries are dead! We only had it turned off for a couple hours or so. Now out where we were there is no radio contact with our trucks (the trucks don't like to share their radios so we don't get one
) and no cell phone service. So me and Tyler go take a walk. The trucks just went by to go back so they wont be back for some time. Took us a little bit but we finally found a hill we could get a little cell phone service, we call our teachers cell and it's off :Banghead. So we called my room mate, she didn't answer.. We then called Tyler's room mate John and got him on the phone and told him to get Kevin to bring the service truck out to help us with the grader because it wont start and we think we need a boost. By the time he got out there and looked the grader over, and boosted us it was time to bring the grader back to the pit for the day. We found out today that the alternator wasn't charging and we have a parasitic draw somewhere.
