wrenchbender
Senior Member
This is my old 51 Diamond T wrecker we bought this in 1971 these pics were taken around 1973. And yep that's me in those pics I've always loved these old trucks and heavy equipment even as a kid. Any way it's got about 130 HP 6cyl Hercules gas burner engine 5 speed gear box plus a transfer case for engaging the frot wheels and going into extra extra low gear. Put this baby in 1st gear and the transfer case in low ease out the clutch and watch the ants pass you. It's got a front mounted winch and dual drum winches on the rear. Rear booms will swing out well beond 90 degrees. If you look just behind the cab you can see the out riggers that stable it while the boom/s are swung around.We added an extra front bumper under the factory one so we could push stuff around and not run over everything. The rear bumper is a 14 inch I beam lips & web are 1" thick this is for snatch blocks to be attatched to. This ole gal has retreived many a stuck Dozer,Back Hoe,and large trucks and lifted quite a few heavy loads. Only had it almost stuck one time pulling a mobile home up an old red mud drive. The drive was at a very steep incline had not been used in quite a few years and covered in pine needels and it was raining. Had to put the old gal in low range,low gear engage the front wheels and hook the front winch cable to a tree at the top of the hill. This really had the pucker factor up cause that road bed was slick as glass and at the bottom of the hill was about 30' of water. There has been many times while pulling equipment out that you could look up at the bottom of the front wheels.Well maybe some of you are still here after all this rambling if so here are the pics.