kshansen
Senior Member
- Joined
- Mar 11, 2012
- Messages
- 11,173
- Location
- Central New York, USA
- Occupation
- Retired Mechanic in Stone Quarry
Good to see it standing on its own feet again with no real damage!
Nice job! I don't see the guy with the collar in any pics.
Gracious,I haven't seen a peavey for years,of course I have not been around anyone who would be using one either but it was fun watching the recovery,well thought out and executed.Back in Maine before I left one of the contractors had an old Mack flatbed,about a 1947 maybe and a D2 like yours and that was just about all the equipment he had and he was always busy.This would have been in the '50s,I just loved to see that old D2 working.A D2 was a big dozer in those days,we were used to the OC3 Olivers and the Cletracs doing the work a team of horses used to do but old Oscar Jordan and his D2 was my hero in those days.
When I quit school I worked for a dollar a day and my dinner helping load a truck with pulpwood and unloading it at the mill.Those were the days.Ron G
I agree,the peavey had a spike and the cant dog had a claw and a short handle I think.We never discussed a price Ken if you want to email me first.Thanks,Ron G
Gotta tell you what I remember about that engine,among other things.It was first used in 1949 and the belt drives,fan,water pumps,generator etc had the wide belts and the 1950 model year had the narrow pullies so if you went to a bone yard for a waterpump you had to know which one you had.Don't ask me how I knew,my first car was a '50 Ford coupe.Ron GYup,that 100 hp was the 8BA block,seen a bunch of 'em over the years.LOL.Ron G
I need to clear the air a little bit here,my family were always involved in harvesting and processing wood,one of my uncles had three sawmills in New Hampshire and another had two at least in Maine where I grew up and one of them was on our farm (325 acres) for several years so I had the opportunity to see first hand how things were done.There was also another mill in town where I worked occasionally.I was too young to work in uncle Stans mill in our pasture.So,when we talk about peaveys and cant dogs etc I can only relate my experiences as they applied to me.Ron G