LowBoy
Senior Member
- Joined
- Nov 23, 2006
- Messages
- 1,149
- Location
- Southern Vt. on the Mass./NH borders
- Occupation
- Owner, Iron Mountain Iron & Equipment (Transport)
#ironmountainironhauling
Just another day in paradise...or several of them over the summer here.
Above: 10-20-17: Town of Brattleboro, Vt. 872 grader I'm hauling to Nortrax in Springfield, Vt. for repairs.
Above: 1998 IH bucket truck from Ritchie Bros. auction in Franklin, Ct. to Lancaster, (Buffalo) NY last week also. 3 truckers arrived at the auction in 3 weeks, and all 3 declined to haul it due to the 12' height. This is what we are facing these days in this business, unskilled, non-thinking individuals with no clue. It was 14' 10" on my trailer until I removed the boom from it's center perch and offset it off to the ditch side and then took a chain and 3 binders, and took the slack out of the chain from the trailer to the boom and got it to 13' 3" and shuffled off to Buffalo with no worries. Unreal how the others' couldn't figure out such a simple thing, but it's what's out there nowadays unfortunately.
Above: a Case 880D from waaaaay up in Colebrook, NH to down around Great Barrington, Mass. this summer. This machine is a creampuff, low hours, well maintained one owner, shed kept for the past 30 years, a rare find.
Above: Komatsu PC220CLP just down the road from me, move it a lot for my neighbor/farmers to do field work around town.
Just another day in paradise...or several of them over the summer here.
Above: 10-20-17: Town of Brattleboro, Vt. 872 grader I'm hauling to Nortrax in Springfield, Vt. for repairs.
Above: 1998 IH bucket truck from Ritchie Bros. auction in Franklin, Ct. to Lancaster, (Buffalo) NY last week also. 3 truckers arrived at the auction in 3 weeks, and all 3 declined to haul it due to the 12' height. This is what we are facing these days in this business, unskilled, non-thinking individuals with no clue. It was 14' 10" on my trailer until I removed the boom from it's center perch and offset it off to the ditch side and then took a chain and 3 binders, and took the slack out of the chain from the trailer to the boom and got it to 13' 3" and shuffled off to Buffalo with no worries. Unreal how the others' couldn't figure out such a simple thing, but it's what's out there nowadays unfortunately.
Above: a Case 880D from waaaaay up in Colebrook, NH to down around Great Barrington, Mass. this summer. This machine is a creampuff, low hours, well maintained one owner, shed kept for the past 30 years, a rare find.
Above: Komatsu PC220CLP just down the road from me, move it a lot for my neighbor/farmers to do field work around town.