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    Dammit! All out of "Likes" again!!! Leslie & Mark & Farmer-like,like,like!
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    I hear ya,Mike.Just wondering.We had 4 daycab Mich.Special WS tractors at the road contruction outfit I worked at,out of high school.They had KT-450 Cummins W/Jakes,RT-12515 trans. 18F,44R.They were brand new that year ('79).I guess after awhile,the cabs just got beat to hell! They sold 'em after a few years and the outfit Richie Bula worked for in Antigo,Wis,bought them! They were all retired,and a couple years ago were all sold off. That Link Air Ride cab kit,kept many a cabover together for a few more miles,anyway!
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    Thanks for the explanation,Rick Al
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    It could have been Canadian-built.But the spread axles are popular here in Illinois on mixers, because it allows 36,000 lbs on the tandems,rather than the standard 32,000 lbs(non-designated),34,000 lbs. (designated). Even the last bunch of Granites Meyer bought,have spread tandems on 'em.
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    Happy Birthday,you REBEL, you!! Al
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    That truck was once a Meyer Material Co. mixer.Ernie bought it,had the wrecker body custom-made for the spread tandems,then sold to someone who just had to have it!
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    B. Dhamer sent me a couple more there,Mark,of Ernie's Wrecker Services' DMM......
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    Wait a minute,Thomas.As of '72,the M-15 (15 ton) single axle,only had a 180 Thermodyne in it & had planetary hubs! This would have to be more like a M-35 (35 ton),to have the 855 Cummins in it,wouldn't it? Like I said,I'm not well versed on the Off-Highway M-series,but 15 ton capacity seems to be a little light on a tandem axle off-road tractor,isn't it? I don't know,either.Just sayin' !!
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    Thanks,Thomas! Thats why I put the (?) after it.I knew somebody would have the answer! Not real well versed on Off-Highway .Would like to try one out at the pit where I work,though! Closest I ever got was a '74 20 ton Euclid-6-71/Allison.The 40 ton Deere that I run,scattered the drop box (transfer case) on it.My boss thought it would be funny to put me in the Euc,since I LIKE OLD TRUCKS! Put my ear muffs on and went to work,laughing every time he went by! I had a blast in that thing!
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    My cousin and I had a '56 B-60 also, that had been cut behind the cab.It was bought originally by National Tea Co. (grocery chain).
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    The BULLDOG had to good in the hills,just to get out of Pa.!
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    That would be cool!
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    Thanks for posting that,Ken.There probably was a post about it,I don't get on the site as much during the busy season.
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    Leslie,thats a great "lookin' at the world through a windshield" picture! It is now my computer's background picture(if thats O K?)!
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    Never did drive any "facelift" Cruise-Liners.Were they any better than the 1st generation ones? The interior seemed to just rattle itself to death.
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    There was a Chemical Leaman special (MACK blue,spoke wheels,bobbed bumper) Cruise-Liner around N.Illinois around the mid '90's,but I lost track of it.
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    O K guys,here is the picture of the Curran Contracting off-road M-45(?) Brian,Trent,and I were talking about.......... This is monster that Jimmy Valzano,#1 lowboy driver for Curran at present,drove when he wore a younger man's clothes! He said this one only had a 300 Cummins in it,so he'd have run balls-out to get up out of the pit!! This truck was hands down,the biggest BULLDOG in our area! Thanks again Jim,for sharing this picture with us,and Brian Dhamer for buggin' him for it! Its not an R model,hope it will do!
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    .....Just jump on in and HOLD ON!!
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    ....................And a will be mysteriuosly mounted on the hood of your Clintonville Fire Bucket!!
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    Congrats,Matt! Only a dream for me to get the BCR there! I envy you guys that can bring your iron there!
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    I'm pressuring him,Rich.But he doesn't buckle easy!
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    Good deal!
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    Funny you should mention Newkirk Concrete,mackey.One B model (a '55 B-61ST) my cousin bought,had been owned by Newkirk Concrete! I found ICC papers in the glove box with their authority on them.The truck barely ran,but was a solid, short wheelbase,wet kit equipped,tractor.My cousin sold it to a guy who just hauled it to his property and left it! I hate to see what it looks like now.I still have those papers in my "archives"!
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    It must have left one hell of a "shadow" where it proudly was displayed for 40+ years ? I talked to a guy,Jerry Warmkessel,at MATS a couple of years back.He said at that time, the bulldog was to stay on the building and it would always be known as "The Building".Guess things must have changed,huh? A buddy of mine bought a picture from Bob Johnson a couple of years ago at Macungie, of a J.(Joe)H. Beers B model dump,putting fill around the then new HQ building.I keep buggin' him about the whereabouts of that picture!! It was cool,no sidewalks poured yet.But the B model was loaded, and in the background was the !
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    Your Chicago R model of the day goes to.... Ganna Construction. Yet, another Chicago area contractor that has gone out of business.I don't know how big their fleet actually was.I would venture to say they had 30-40 RD's & dump/lowboy trailers.They were everywhere anything was going on,it seemed.Now they are just a memory.

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