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Memories for us old truckers

DMiller

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Cheap "old" Geezer
Looked a little closer at the old Paystar, has the Optional T/S guards that on a glass front would tear a hole big as a fist in that fender if caught on anything!! Single fuel tank, all the air supply tanks as driver steps appears 24.5 or 22" Daytons, did not see many of those out west either, somebody hijack a East Coaster? Definite Corn Queen front Differential, can tell by the nose even blurry.
 

Mother Deuce

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Have you ever traveled the old Othello/Beverly road that parelled the old Milwaukee RR? this cliffside was just southwest of Royal City. It was well known for dropping rocks in early spring freeze/thaw cycles. I won the lottery that morning.
I have never been over that road. A friend of mine owns or did own a missile site in Royal and I used to go that way.
 

RZucker

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Wherever I end up
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Mechanic/welder
That would be. He and I have been friends for 40 years or so.
He is one of the good guys, If you need it he can find it. I remember seeing one of his trucks loaded with Hanford surplus IBM computers, the old school biggies.
He supplied the Brown brothers in Royal with some interesting equipment for various projects and I got to modify, repair, or rebuild a bunch of that stuff. He dumped a little S-7 Euclid over there once, I should have bought the little beast for a toy, but I was raising 4 kids at the time.
 

Mother Deuce

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He is one of the good guys, If you need it he can find it. I remember seeing one of his trucks loaded with Hanford surplus IBM computers, the old school biggies.
He supplied the Brown brothers in Royal with some interesting equipment for various projects and I got to modify, repair, or rebuild a bunch of that stuff. He dumped a little S-7 Euclid over there once, I should have bought the little beast for a toy, but I was raising 4 kids at the time.
I just talked to him a second ago. They were heading out to a funeral. He is one of the good old boys. He used to drag the most interesting stuff home among them a M8 Greyhound, a LARC, a Gamagoat a grader from the City of Seattle that had the blade removed and was replaced by this flame bar that the used to heat up asphalt with in place (saw it when I was a kid and all manner of odd ball trucks. That old pedal steer 977H that was over there I have spent some time on. He owned the only two Brockways I had ever seen or driven until we moved back here. You are absolutely right... if you needed it and he didn't have it or couldn't get it... it was not obtainable.
 

Truck Shop

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Righted a rig in a situation just like the one above carrying a 100' pre-stressed concrete beam at the rest area on top of Rye Grass I-90. The steer car caught the gore area
in the turn tipping the drive axles about three feet off the ground. Used two tow trucks to recover it. Belonged to T & T Terry Nelson Trucking Seattle, his son inlaw was the
driver. 72 narrow nose Kenworth with a 8V-71 turbo-ed, 5 X 4, most of their rigs were big guns with 3408 or KTA for power. He said it took him 45 minutes to climb
Snoqualmie Pass. 45 minutes of a screaming 8V-71 at 2100 rpm.
 
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