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Memories for us old truckers

Mother Deuce

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I made two trips across wolf creek one east&one west with a 220 na that old horse gasped like a coal burner at about 10.800 to. also saw it snow in august up there
Wolf Creek with a 220? You are my new hero! I can't even imagine!... We used to work between 11, 500 and 12,500. This old horse by the time she made the 16 steps to the cab of the 994H she was done. We used to buy these little personal cans of oxygen at WalMart in Frisco. Pretty much had to half empty one of those before I picked up mike to ready up with dispatch LOL!
 
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RZucker

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kshansen

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Old DM series, Side saddle Cab, shift lever five feet long!!
I was actually thinking that might be a U600 did some Google search and this was all I could find right off:

The U was basically a short R, while the DM was an extra heavy duty version of the U often used in 6X4 construction trucks.

So guess it depends on what they refer to as an"extra heavy duty" version. I know all the DM models we had in the company were set up with 12:00X24 tires and if memory serves me correct they all had triple frames, at least from cab back. Then again most of the DM we had also had the steel flip up fenders and butterfly hoods!

Much easier to do in-chassis work on engines, R models were a pain to work on the rear head!
 

Mother Deuce

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wow, they really had personal cans of oxygen at walmart?
Yes they do. I usually kept 2 of these with me because I have asthma. https://www.walmart.com/ip/O-Skinni-3-pack-Oxygen-Plus/631462500 They were like 6 or 8 bucks. We lived at around 10,800 so your body make a more red blood cells for you and after you "acclimate" it isn't to much of a problem. Rambling around doing regular stuff wasn't a problem for most after you lived there for awhile. LOL! however with the asthma thing I can run short hiking down here at 1500 feet :) Getting from the ground to the cab of the 994 was always a adventure at 12,000. The machine is just an animal. Cat 3516 for power, I always wondered how much better it would run with Sea Level O2 levels at 12,000 feet!
 
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