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Memories for us old truckers

skyking1

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That bottom picture is a fascinating piece of gear, "a good one" as my dad would say about any unknown thing.
It appears to bore a hole in the wall to remove some material in a layer or vein and load it out via conveyor. Thanks TS!
 

skyking1

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Love this Pete and offroad lowboy from the estate sale.
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This strange contraption that Weyerhauser cooked up for yarding trees out of creek bottoms along roads. It had two drums with lots of line and a couple of different booms out the back. It was so grown in I could not get a good picture of that.
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mowingman

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That bottom picture is a fascinating piece of gear, "a good one" as my dad would say about any unknown thing.
It appears to bore a hole in the wall to remove some material in a layer or vein and load it out via conveyor. Thanks TS!
They are doing auger mining, probably for coal. You can recover a lot of col this wy, when the stripping gets too deep. The company I worked for in the 80's, used this method to recover coal in Thurber, Tx. I may have been the last bituminous coal mine in north Texas.
Jeff
 

crane operator

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Radiator burst-compression gasses-head was just replaced under warranty.
I just had a head replaced on a 12.7. We haven't put 200 miles on it since getting it back, and I've put 2 gallons of antifreeze in it. Its not in the pan, and I haven't seen it leaking out anywhere, so I'm guessing its going out the exhaust. Nice to know I'm not the only one.
 

Truck Shop

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I kind of like chains and binders when I'm hauling counterweights, but to each their own. They at least have good taste in cranes.

You can't see them in the photo-there are angle irons on the bed of that trailer to keep weights in place.

I just had a head replaced on a 12.7. We haven't put 200 miles on it since getting it back, and I've put 2 gallons of antifreeze in it. Its not in the pan, and I haven't seen it leaking out anywhere, so I'm guessing its going out the exhaust. Nice to know I'm not the only one.

It happens sometimes more often than not. Parts quality and careful block prep isn't what it once was.
 
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