Memories for us old truckers

[Hank R]

Sure like that flat deck Ford with the crane on it, good little shop truck. I like the square body style on those Fords.

That Ford with deck they used to haul poles around with, PLP only worked about 30 mile area from town.

 

[Hank R]

 

[DMiller]

Had forgotten Fargo was Canadian Dodge., fairly decent condition under that Dupont Overhaul.

 

[Old Doug]

Sure like that flat deck Ford with the crane on it,good little shop truck. I like the square body style on those Fords.

Every time i see one of those Fords i think about the junk brakes it may have.

 

[Hank R]

Had forgotten Fargo was Canadian Dodge., fairly decent condition under that Dupont Overhaul.

Much better than a rattle can paint job...

 

[skyking1]

This was probably the last Telecommander rig I operated, here we're setting traffic signals. Pretty short stick you either nailed your spot or picked up and moved. It was annoying for a boom truck guy. This was a short coupled little bugger with a pole in the rest. Railroad crossings would rock your world!
Cummins with Allison auto, the only one I ever drove. Clutch foot kept going for the floor

 

[DMiller]

Every time i see one of those Fords i think about the junk brakes it may have.

The Lucas Girling Nightmare on Elm Street!!!

 

[Birken Vogt]

We never had a L/G system but the F-700 had 24 chambers in the back and the tiniest air chambers and drums in the front I have ever seen. Was hard to get parts for. They did work OK though, so long as you did not heat them up with lack of engine brake.

 

[Hank R]

One knows when your getting old when you remember these along a construction zone on the highway.

 

[Hank R]

Found in garage corner forgot I even had.

 

[DMiller]

Smudge pot flares, hmm
I used to have the hex bar for that socket.

 

[Bumpsteer]

Dating myself, but, yea I remember the smudge pots being used in our small town.....
Have to ask the dpw guy if we still have any, lol.

Ed

 

[Truck Shop]

Junk shop here in town had a bunch of those smudge pots setting on a shelf. I do remember those
but I remember the Orchard Smudge Pots well. Our dairy was surrounded by orchards.

 

[DMiller]

North east of here is a small
Section of Illinois across the Golden Eagle Ferry. Some of the largest apple peach orchards around here, huge smoke pots for those frosty spring nights when flowers have not pollenated. Little burg I grew up in used smudge pots until I was 9.

 

[Truck Shop]

Get a load of the Hop-To Excavator, mid 60's.

 

[Birken Vogt]

McGuire and Hester, built a bridge near here a while back. I went to HS with a guy who is one of their engineers.

 

[Hank R]

Dating myself, but, yea I remember the smudge pots being used in our small town.....
Have to ask the dpw guy if we still have any, lol.

Ed

I have had that since the early 60' my cousin 3 years older than me borrowed a couple in 62 or 3. I remember the city crew man would drive around and switch out pots for full ones. I wonder why there were not more grass fires around in the good old days. Me I was not bad just full of fun....

 

[JaredV]

Get a load of the Hop-To Excavator, mid 60's.

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What's not to like in that picture? Though I wonder how quickly the back of the Mack cab rusted out, what with nothing to stop the rocks flying off the tires.

 

[Hank R]

 

[Truck Shop]

One if those setting outside of town, 4x4 C model.