Brocky

Bob. I am somewhat in the same position.. After retirement my motivation level went way down.. After them morning news I like to check my emails and truck sites, THEN I have to force my self to get off the computer and do something.

Any reliable Mom and Pop upholstery shop should be able to repad and recover them as long as the frame and springs are workable.. Check your local body shops for a reference??? Also check out boat, if you have any lakes, upholstery / cover making places????

That is a beautiful truck!!!! Welcome to BMT. Pleas add some pictures of it working..

Is that one of the winch propelled fold up trailers like Swishy from Australia has?? I think (???) it is the first one like that I have seen up here???

Both are beautiful trucks.. In the Diamond T numbering system from 600 to 900 the higher the series number the heavier duty the truck was.. I am not that knowledgeable on IH's numbers, but I would say they are about equal in working strength???? Going by the background in your pictures I am assuming you will only be using them, basically locally, in planting and harvest seasons. Personally if both trucks are roughly equal mechanically I would keep BOTH!!! and still keep my eye open for another Comp-fo-vision cab? Be careful though!! They are not totally interchangeable!! DT bought the raw stampings from IH, BUT assembled them in the DT Factory and there are some differences, especially in the cab mount area..

I had heard that T-Line was mostly ex Osterlund DR Giant people and had a lot of experience with them. You are right that today it is very hard to break into the market, even with a special specked assembled truck, as the regular manufactures make so many options available they cover the market.

You want Truckin' songs?????? Go to You Tube and search "Slim Dusty" !!!! Pushing Time, Married to my Bulldog Mack, Trucks on the Track, Lights on the Hill, I'm Gonna Take My Dog for a Run, Highway One, and many more.. I have his 4 disc box set of 80 trucking songs.

Simply Amazing!!!!!!!! I wonder if there is any way to find out where these funds went???? If so the recipients should be prosecuted...

If he had done just the steering axle it would have been period correct. But he is bling happy!!! Even his father was upset

Bob, Copy your picture in the album then take the copy to Paint.com then you can crop it there and save it back to the album. That is what I have to do to put them in my newsletter.

Buckskin, That picture was taken at the Western North Carolina chapter show at the WNC Ag Center in Arden NC in the fall of 2014. It is one of the pictures we used when presenting him with his 50 year achievement award. His son has since changed the wheels to aluminum Budds.😟

Here is a picture of Leon Ledford's F-700. It was bought new by Duke's Manoyanse a local Greenville SC manufacturer.

Good News!!! You have been busy!!! I pray the wildfires have not affected your area??? Hope to see you with one of your trucks at the Dark Corner Show..

He had trucks at York last year, BUT I did NOT talk to him personally.. Just the Aussie man who came up to drive the Valueliner east.

Geoff is right!!! Probably it is the Bendix / big solenoid not pushing it all the way engaged. If it has done it much probably the ring gear on the flywheel is damaged also????