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Memories for us old truckers

Mother Deuce

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About 43 years ago I ran a mid fifties R22 Euc with a manual box and no brakes and power steering that had long since gave up. Loading under a 80D shovel ran by a 80 year old very cool dude who had gotten it new. The only way to stop it was to crash into a stockpile... We didn’t go real fast LOL. The guy’s who drove those rides were a tough bunch of dudes!
 

Old Doug

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Mo
At the place i was at the Eucs had a hand brake or foot brake sometimes. They had some Eucs 5 speeds that a guy wanted to buy but he wanted us to put 10 speeds in them because of the way the 5 speeds worked. I rounded up some 10 speeds but the deal fail throw. They used dumpys there for a long time the Eucs were a big steep up.
 

skyking1

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washington
I never got anywhere near them. My only real bad no brake situation was a 980. The right pedal was for going fast and if you were on a hill, the left pedal was for going a whole lot faster :)
I only loaded trucks a few times with it it was a joy try and find a hill to load up hill.
I had a 988b for mining the rock for the crusher at the dam job, but I lost the transmission seal on that and had to feed the crusher with the no brake 980 with two different size front tires. It look like a farmer was down there in the pit plowing.
If I downshifted all the way as I came up on the grizzly and dumped in first gear everything was cool I could get it in reverse and back down. unfortunately the only place to back was towards the river and there was a little 3-ft safety birm between me and a really long bad roll.
One day I forgot to go from second to first and I killed the engine. Buckets in the air, rolling back up on that little birm, restarting my heart. I went to the mechanic and begged for him to give me any brake just a little bit of brake. Sure enough he did.
 

skyking1

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Now that's a big property piece of iron :)
Imagining a quarter section with a good quarry spot on it, building your own roads. Find a mom and pop crusher, run it a few seasons, sell it. But I digress as usual.
 

crane operator

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Mar 27, 2009
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sw missouri
This one was in the local tire shop. Customer brought it in, just got it, and wanted new tires. The tire boys kinda gave up on finding different rims, and last I saw it - they just had it rolled outside by the curb. They found a place that would make new rims, but the +$5,000 price tag for rims and tires was out of the new owners budget. I'd be finding some different axles to put under it, but nobody asked me.

Body was pretty straight on it, had a big inline 6 gasser in it.
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4x4ford

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Jul 20, 2007
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Las Vegas Nevada
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aunts on the strip Currently drive a 1951 chevy pa
Mid to late 90s Chevrolet 3500 hd 19.5 rims fit may have to open up center holes a bit don’t remember for certain can also put hubs and spindles from a solid axle step van on it for disc brakes either have to Machine a new thicker king pin bushing or put the one for the truck or inside the original for the van
 

DMiller

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Feb 21, 2010
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Hermann, Missouri
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Cheap "old" Geezer
Has gotten to where little to nothing out there to support the old machines still viable out there. Probably a 216 or 235, do not believe the 292 was out yet.
 

DMiller

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Hermann, Missouri
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Cheap "old" Geezer
7.50 17 tires or 7.00 18s Good luck finding any. At one time we had managed to find some 17.5 rims that fit the five bolt pattern but lug sizes were different and inability to convert shut that down pretty quick, was 30 years ago as well.
 
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