More Meaningless Pics,about a Thankless Profession

[LowBoy]

Just got back from a 3 week tour, out and about between Vermont and West Texas. Actually spent a week inside Texas, hauling some equipment from an auction site to a dealer about 80 miles north on Ft. Worth. Those pics aren't done yet, just these next ones are from the trip before.

The first 3 are: A new Massey Ferguson 573 tractor from a dealer in Statesville, NC back to our yard, dealer transfer. Along with that, I went down to Marion, Va. and loaded this 420 Cat hoe that a guy sold in Rock & Dirt mag. to a dealer, who in turn sold it to a customer that I got the honor and privilege to deliver it to in downtown Staten Island, N.Y....They were Russian landscape contractors who spoke broken English to say the least, and I had to teach one of them how to run the thing...from scratch.
Sold with the 2 extra buckets and 3 spare tires, as seen in the front bucket, the two spare front tires aren't visible though.

The last 2 pics are of an oversize (12 feet wide,) air condensor system I loaded in Taneytown, Md. on the Pa. line (by Baltimore,) and hauled into downtown South Boston...Wooof. The next thread will show more of that operation.

N Joy.

 

[LowBoy]

More photos of my world.

3 more pictures pictures this oversize deal into So. Boston. That's the Boston skyline in the background.

I delivered this to Shaughnessy & Ahern Co.,Truckmen & Riggers,in So. Boston, an outfit known for their expertise in heavy rigging and hauling. In business over 50 years, they have done some pretty amazing work around, including moving a fully assembled, brand new bridge into place in New York City, and various other facinating structural rigging around New England. I was parked next to, and mesmorized by, this awesome Talbert 450 ton lowbed. I counted 21 axles total, all steerable hydraulically. They pull it with a couple of absolutely unbelievable heavy duty tractors, which I took pictures of, but unfortunatley it was inside a darkened warehouse, and only a couple of them came out where you can see any part of the truck at all...

N Joy...

 

[jimmyjack]

nice pics, nice to see you made it home safe :drinkup

 

[LowBoy]

Last of this set.

Here are 2 lousy photos of Shaughnessy's awesome Pacific tractors. They came from Canada out of the woods after a lifetime of hauling timber. Shaughnessy took them both down to the frames and completely restored them to better-than-new condition. These trucks are 10 feet wide, and over 10 feet high. The guy standing in the picture next to one of these Pacifics, (Bubba...,) shows the size of them in reference to a 6' tall man. Again, these trucks were parked inside a warehouse without any lighting, and even with a flash, my camera failed me on this deal.

There was a 1981 359 Peterbilt in there also, a former Texas oilfield rig that they cut down to size for their operation. Bubba told me it had an 80 FOOT LONG tank mounted on it's frame originally, and they went out to Texas with a few trucks and cut the Pete up into smaller more manageable pieces, and trucked it back home to Boston to put it back together. It has a gargantuan (well casing,) fabricated front bumper that is mercury filled for extra balast out front, evidently to counterbalance for that enormous tank it used to carry on it's back in the oil fields. Next to the Pete is a pretty, old '60's Autocar heavy haul tractor as well. All these rigs have steel fabricated full fenders over the tandems, square front fenders, all oversized everything, and beautiful blue paint jobs with gold leaf lettering. They really deserve to be shown off in some shows, so the public can appreciate what they have there. It's an awesome operation to say the least. They were a bunch of great guys that I had the oportunity to hang around with for a couple of hours on a Saturday, and Bubba gave me the 50 cent tour of the company and it's equipment. Something I won't forget any time soon...

Thanx.

 

[Electra_Glide]

Here are 2 lousy photos of Shaughnessy's awesome Pacific tractors.

They have a few pics on their website.

http://www.shaughnessy-ahern.com/hauling.html

There was a 1981 359 Peterbilt in there also, a former Texas oilfield rig that they cut down to size for their operation.

I'm assuming this is it. Picture from Hank's.

Be safe...let me know if you're ever in Western PA...lunch is on me.

Joe

 

[LowBoy]

They have a few pics on their website.

http://www.shaughnessy-ahern.com/hauling.html



I'm assuming this is it. Picture from Hank's.

Be safe...let me know if you're ever in Western PA...lunch is on me.

Joe

Appreciate the offer, Joe...I was in Washington, Pa. Monday. Sunday I delivered a manlift from Ft. Worth, Tx. to JLG plant in Mc Connelsburg, Pa. and stayed at a neat little motel in town with nice diner and everything. Slept in Snowshoe, Pa. Monday night after a long, hard ride up out of Pittsburgh up rte. 28 (never again,...) and finally to I-80 in Brookville.

Oh, thanks for the picture from hankstrucks...that definitely is the beast I was looking at in Shaughnessy's warehouse, and I'm glad you put in on, because my camera didn't come through in that dark garage.

Take care.:thumbsup

 

[Electra_Glide]

Appreciate the offer, Joe...I was in Washington, Pa. Monday. Sunday I delivered a manlift from Ft. Worth, Tx. to JLG plant in Mc Connelsburg, Pa. and stayed at a neat little motel in town with nice diner and everything. Slept in Snowshoe, Pa. Monday night after a long, hard ride up out of Pittsburgh up rte. 28 (never again,...) and finally to I-80 in Brookville.

You were on the wrong side of Pittsburgh for me...I'm about half way between Pittsburgh and Youngstown.

Now, had you just run the "big road" up I-79 you would have been a little closer to the neighborhood...

Joe

 

[digger242j]

And if you needed to go west on 80, you could've come up PA 60, and been right in my backyard (figuratively), and Joe's too. I'll second Joe's offer of lunch, or we can all get together, and I'll spring for dessert.

 

[LowBoy]

And if you needed to go west on 80, you could've come up PA 60, and been right in my backyard (figuratively), and Joe's too. I'll second Joe's offer of lunch, or we can all get together, and I'll spring for dessert.

I'll keep these offers in mind for sure, men. My problem is I don't have I'net access once I leave the vestibule of my domain here. I need to find a good deal on a decent used laptop. The Flying J Travel Plaza in Indianapolis usually has somebody in the parking lot peddling every type of product imaginable, although probably not sold with a "guarantee..."

I would have taken 79 out of Washington Monday evening, but the stinking DOT was in the rest area set up for the "kill" just north of Pittsburgh at 8:00 at night, and I wasn't interested in their visitational privilages at that particular time, if you know what I'm saying.
I loaded 30K lbs. of steel rings in Washington that hardly looked like anything at all and took up little space on my trailer. But...I had a 1960's Massey Ferguson 97 series farm tractor on the upper rear deck which I loaded in Rising Star, Texas, 100 miles west of Ft. Worth, going back to our place in upstate NY. Needless to say, with that heavy duty beast complete with inner & outer wheel weights and the well known Massey bulky rearend, I was slightly over gross. A conversation with a PennDot officer was not in my plans that evening.:spaz :naughty :wink2
So I opted to try that rte. 28 to get to I-80, and asked two or three different (seemingly) semi-intelligent individuals how to get to 28 from 79. One said I couldn't, I'd have to take the 279 loop to get to 28. I head that way and asked another time to solidify my decision, and was told I couldn't get to 28 from 279, I had to get onto 376 east. I make that last minute, split-second decision which turned out to be wrong anyways. Ended up on the PA Pike westbound for an exit or 2, then FINALLY onto 28 north. Every time I listen to another one of those dimwits on that stupid radio, the same results are achieved.Negative ones. I usually just mind my own business and plan everything out myself so I have no one else to blame, but I let my guard down again and...well....foiled again.:Banghead

And to add insult to injury, I was kicking myself in the backside from the time the 4-lane disappeared on 28, till I saw the I-80 sign in Brookville. Never again. Uphill, both ways. Narrow, steep, winding, dark, everything I didn't need to have thrown at me that night,... was.

Again, thanx for the invitation. I'll devise a plan somehow to alert you of my presence, and I'd enjoy having a lunchbreak with you guys for sure.:drinkup