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Could you figure out how many owners it has had since they sold it in 97 and where it traveled?

Wow - you are lucky to even be here and be able to run a keyboard after that ride. I bet the other poor soul never knew what happened. I don't want to make you mad, but I just can't help asking if Joe Ditchkus drives in the ditch very often?

Great photos! Thanks!

Price for hole truck?

Old fuel - thats funny I thought that only works in a gas burner! The only trouble I have had with old diesel was mold that clogged the filters but did not make it smoke more Or is that Texas old fuel like everything else down there - hotter, bigger and stronger?

exceptin' da winders

I like the blue painted hubs - does it steer front and back and also crab sideways?

Were you hurt? I hope you sat down on the side of the road to collect your thoughts and enjoy some fruit

If you stare at things and they start moving after a while, whatever you do, don't tell anyone, or the guys in the white coats will come "visit" I like to stare at the sun for several hours and then at night it feels like I have gravel in my eyes.

I just died laughing - we haul some big loads, but that is more of a load for a Mack instead of a GMC!

I hate to admit it on a Mack forum, but that was my favorite as well. I just wish I had the guts to have lifted the hood to see what was in it. I did not want to fool with someones truck without asking.

As I suspected it might, the truck did not sell on ebay, it only brought $2950.00. So I sold the winch to a sailboat place in Maine, the railroad wheels are headed to Hagerstown Maryland, and the knuckleboom is going back to work in the oil fields of the Dakotas. Now this is what I have left: It looks more like a normal truck now, it bet it brings more without all the goodies on it than it did with them - the parts are worth more than the complete truck

Considering that she be 5 months wit child - it prolly werent what you-uns be thinkin it be She did have me a nice thick home raised ribeye steak right off the grill - I called her when I was 5 minutes out so she could just kind of show each side of it the fire for a couple of seconds - just long enough to get the moo out of it

Keep trying with the pics - We had a 150 Hough loader - that thing was a beast - the people we got it from had removed the old IHC diesel and replaced it with a 350 cummins - that thing had plenty of power but not a lick of brakes. You had to always know where something was that you could run the bucket into to stop it as needed!

Pictures are always welcome! no telling what memory you might spark and start a whole new whirlwind of jokes, lies, stories, and just all around general fun-nin!

Here she is again - needs clutch http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190637332321&viewitem=&sspagename=ADME%3AB%3ASS%3AUS%3A1123

[ I bid it up, but I am out - it is at $5700.00 - but the reserve is not met - You would have to do a lot of searchin to still maybe never find one that clean. I wish it still had the original trans.

I always am amazed at what tires can take! How many tires did he have down on the road?

We are gettin' fed up Rob - come clean with the "more to follow" - no more fish stories

Are you kidding me? Is this *&&^$%$&^ real? I really can't get my mouth lathered up for something that swells the can before you open it, and you have to eat it outdoors. He said Bulge, he-he-he and Odor, he-he-he

The only advantage we have found with a heavier chassis (other than longevity) is when we run trucks with logger plates. I don't totally understand it, and I KNOW the average DOT boy does not fully understand the law either, but basically logger plates allow us to legally gross a higher weight on a tandem axle truck, but limits us to certain classes of highways. If we are pulled over in a truck licensed with logger plates, they are not allowed to put us up on set of portable scales, they have to measure the load and base the weight on a formula that uses the cubic feet of the actual logs to determine if we are over loaded or not. So we love our old triple framed DM600 with the cones on the rear axles - the heavier the better, because it does not matter what it weighs empty, and the additional weight of the heavier truck does not contribute towards the amount of logs we can legally carry. Clear as mud? Ha Ha! The real trouble is you don't know who is going to pull you over and if they read this chapter in their little guide book or not. It is one of those deals where the man in the field, the lady at the license office, and the folks at the capital all think the same law means three different things. The big drawback of logger plates is you are restricted to only hauling forest products with the truck. We no longer run with log plates here as sometimes we get a backhaul of some other thing after we unload at the mill or we just want to use the truck for some other purpose during the year. We stopped using them when I used a truck with log plates to haul a bunch of big square bales of hay home and got in deeeeeep (as deep in my wallet) trouble with DOT over that one.

We have had the easiest winter in years - most days have warmed up to mid 40's (fahrenheit) and it has never gotten colder than about 25 degrees. We usually have some subzero days and several weeks where it never gets above freezing. I have not put any anti-gel even in the tractors yet. We have been able to work outside on things this winter almost everyday. Usually we halfway hibernate in the shop and just stoke the fire and sit around and watch each other get skinny. I had a guy at the diner the other day complain about how the temp has been so up and down this winter - warm days and cold nights - what does he want? freezing cold 24 hours a day so he knows how to dress? I showed my kids on the map the other day where you and Pawel live - you can keep your winter weather!

Same here in Missouri - I see tandem DM's with a 64,000 gvw and we can't even legally load them up to use them around here

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The top side. oh wait, they are on the other side of the world, so that would make them on the bottom right?