We bought this old single axle Ford dump truck this weekend. 5 speed with high and low range, gas burner, and six brand new tires. The bed looks great, but the cab floorboards could use some work. Got plans to haul some rock for the farm road and move some dirt around to the low areas. Eventually, we hope to buy a small dozer and trailer with a pintle hitch.
We were joking around last night about painting it green and yellow. It will probably stay just like it is. I don't see it getting used that much. I am trying to talk Dad into going partners with me on a backhoe. We are always paying someone to clean the creek out, clean ditches, dig waterlines, and need something else with a front end loader and hay spear so we don't have to drive the one tractor back and forth. So, if we get one the truck would be used more. Then we could paint it green and yellow.
Last night we got my pickup truck into the shop, and got the bed loose and wiring unhooked. Tonight we worked on it some more, and took the tractor loader and lifted the bed off the frame. Then we removed the bent bumper, and got the new bumper assembly put on and the wiring back in place and...
Here is a Kenworth Road Train used to transport dump truck tyres to our remote minesites here in Australia. Loaded with 14 tyres, probably all 40.00R x 57 size and each weighing about 3½ tons.
This photo shows a Cat 793D truck (240 ton capacity) and Liebherr T282 truck (400 ton capacity) and...
Finally got to a point in my life that I may have time to poke around on my project truck. I saw one of these 35 years ago and thought that I'd one day like to have one of those of my own. Found one!! Got it home!! That was ten years ago and right after that purchase, we moved out to the...
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