Popular Post Superdog Posted October 5, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted October 5, 2015 Hauling out of the field this weekMy uncle's farm truck,'79 DM685S,237 with a air shift 6 speed.Caught a stray rockBought 5 storage trailers,2 Fruehauf 40 ft.,2 fruehauf 45 ft. and a Wabash 53 ft. Took a few pics in the NW pasture while I was hunting some parts. 14 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/42062-this-weeks-pics/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baxter Posted October 5, 2015 Share Posted October 5, 2015 Nice looking trailers. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/42062-this-weeks-pics/#findComment-306244 Share on other sites More sharing options...
j hancock Posted October 5, 2015 Share Posted October 5, 2015 Nice pics, nice trailers, super nice parts department.Damn rocks. Quote JimIt doesn't cost anything to pay attention. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/42062-this-weeks-pics/#findComment-306246 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry T Posted October 5, 2015 Share Posted October 5, 2015 Those 40' Fruehauf's bring back memories. I remember being a kid & riding with dad to Ft. Madison, IA to pick up new trailers & bring them home in our single axle R Models. Units 204 & 210 were the two trucks we used. Gary Parrish crashed unit 202 (also an R) coming home with a new trailer during one fo the trips. Trailer was towed back to factory & repaired then came home on another trip. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/42062-this-weeks-pics/#findComment-306248 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superdog Posted October 5, 2015 Author Share Posted October 5, 2015 Those 40' Fruehauf's bring back memories. I remember being a kid & riding with dad to Ft. Madison, IA to pick up new trailers & bring them home in our single axle R Models. Units 204 & 210 were the two trucks we used. Gary Parrish crashed unit 202 (also an R) coming home with a new trailer during one fo the trips. Trailer was towed back to factory & repaired then came home on another trip.I just got home from paying for the trailers and p[icking up the titles,these were one owner trailers. The 40's are '75's and the 45's are '76's.All good dry trailers,just going to need a little door work,best part they were really,really cheap. 2 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/42062-this-weeks-pics/#findComment-306254 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Dash Posted October 5, 2015 Share Posted October 5, 2015 Those 40' Fruehauf's bring back memories. I remember being a kid & riding with dad to Ft. Madison, IA to pick up new trailers & bring them home in our single axle R Models. Units 204 & 210 were the two trucks we used. Gary Parrish crashed unit 202 (also an R) coming home with a new trailer during one fo the trips. Trailer was towed back to factory & repaired then came home on another trip.Those Fruehaufs are classics! Coincidentally, I made 2 trips with my dad from Long Island to the Fruehauf dealer in Kearny, NJ to pick up new trailers when i was a kid.Love those Transtars, too. 1 Quote Jim Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/42062-this-weeks-pics/#findComment-306256 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post mack mhe9 Posted October 6, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted October 6, 2015 We should out laws stray rocks. Dirty Bastards. 3 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/42062-this-weeks-pics/#findComment-306365 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timothy Maikshilo Posted October 6, 2015 Share Posted October 6, 2015 Great DM! Now that's a truck! Nice straight trailers. Pulled some like that for Federal Paper back in the "80"s into NYC and NJ Will make awesome storage units! Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/42062-this-weeks-pics/#findComment-306397 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vladislav Posted October 7, 2015 Share Posted October 7, 2015 The trailers look very straight and strong.Hope they will serve a long while being parked.It would be nice to build shelves inside them to lay out small parts but seems as a lot of job.Nice candy store pictures.That tandem B and L-model look having potential. Quote Никогда не бывает слишком много грузовиков! leversole 11.2012 Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/42062-this-weeks-pics/#findComment-306554 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike69mackman Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 Like that F model. What's the history on it? Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/42062-this-weeks-pics/#findComment-306669 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superdog Posted October 8, 2015 Author Share Posted October 8, 2015 Like that F model. What's the history on it?It's a '65 F715ST,still has the V8 END864 in it,15 speed alum.case Triplex. I've probably had it close to 20 years,I got it from an old farmer/scrapper from across the river in Gladstone,IL .He hadn't used in it a couple years,just sat there parked , hooked up to his grain/scrap trailer. I'd bought a B61 from him a couple years earlier,and told him if he ever decided to sell it,let me know. Someone came along and wanted to buy the rear ends so he cut it in 2 and was getting ready to scrap it,but as luck would have it,I was hauling by his place a few days later and bought the rest.He liked to cut things in 2,the B61 I got from him was same way,but I was lucky enough to get both halves.He had it about 10 years,before that it was a local construction co.'s lowboy tractor for a couple years,and prior to that,a local grain hauler had it. I don't know anything about the original owner.The cab is a mixture of original F model,plus alot of homemade panels and bondo. It's not very pretty. The series parallel switch went bad,so the last owner cobbled up a big electric switch box in between the 2 sets of batteries,he flipped it on to start and back off once it was running. 2 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/42062-this-weeks-pics/#findComment-306678 Share on other sites More sharing options...
68-f-model Posted October 9, 2015 Share Posted October 9, 2015 Stick these on that poor F-model and make it whole again.http://knoxville.craigslist.org/hvo/5226198871.html 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/42062-this-weeks-pics/#findComment-306742 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomastractorsvc Posted October 9, 2015 Share Posted October 9, 2015 buying those trailers to turn into parts storage or other plans? Quote Robert"I reject your reality and substitute my own." Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/42062-this-weeks-pics/#findComment-306780 Share on other sites More sharing options...
1958 F.W.D. Posted October 9, 2015 Share Posted October 9, 2015 I did a lot of trailer body work back in the day and those Wabash trailers were built like brick shithouses......Until you tried to move a bridge with them.......Built solid but still easy to work on at the same time. 1 Quote TWO STROKES ARE FOR GARDEN TOOLS Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/42062-this-weeks-pics/#findComment-306786 Share on other sites More sharing options...
other dog Posted October 9, 2015 Share Posted October 9, 2015 The 40 footers would make nice chip trailers. 1 Quote Producer of poorly photo-chopped pictures since 1999. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/42062-this-weeks-pics/#findComment-306799 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike69mackman Posted October 10, 2015 Share Posted October 10, 2015 Thanks for the history mike, very interesting. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/42062-this-weeks-pics/#findComment-306867 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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