Old truck picture from before Barney- Heavy haul

I need more power Scotty.

where is the valve stems on those back tires ?? lol

What do you mean, need more power?
Done already made the trip, we are now unloading.

Can you imagine that? I wonder if it could go 20-25 mph on flat land loaded. Sure would love to have that old truck! Thanks for posting

Can you imagine stopping the thing on any kind of grade, always pull it in a low gear but brakes on something like that must have been very weak.

The railroad tie loading ramp is NOT OSHA approved!

Both the Bucyrus Erie shovel and the International truck date from 1927-1930.


Arrow Transfer Co. Ltd. was originally located in Granville Island, Vancouver, B.C. and among other business ventures, is still trucking today!

Slings and Arrows

I'm sure it was capable. Maybe not fast
but capable. Of course not much for roads
back then either. When I was growing up there were still a lot of dragonfly trucks on the roads. Drag on up the hills and fly down them.

Interesting. There was (maybe still is) an Arrow Transfer here.

OHSA would have had cardiac arrest if they saw how we used to load when i first started driving lowboy , everything went on and off over the side . Once up on the deck ya made the 90 degree turn , that normally went well BUT on one frosty morning while i was by myself loading a 22 B bucyrus i got it up on the deck with ease BUT with the smooth pads when i started to make the turn off the other side i went with cab door on the down side right onto the city street , that brought on a 10.0 pucker factor . Working it off the wrong side to get her back down for the second try was fun , this time we reached across the trailer and got a bucket of dirt to sprinkle on the deck . In the company's main office there were pictures from the early days of old trucks pulling the lowboys , old Chain drive macks and old Autocars. back from the early 20's till after the war. I started with them in 59 at 13 mowing grass cleaning the office and shop , by 1963 i had my own company truck and by 64 i was now driving the B 61 Mack pulling lowboy when needed or running dozer or pans . Every once in a while i was digging basements with either the 15 B or the 22 B .

I'm still lookin' for 'em.
Butch

Center of gravity of that boat is just about over the rear set of wheels.

Someone on here said a few days ago that trucks back then couldnt move what a modern pickup can.

They still side-load excavators on lowboys.

(quoted from post at 23:06:41 12/04/22) The railroad tie loading ramp is NOT OSHA approved!

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elcome stranger. Pull up a chair and grab a cup.

(quoted from post at 19:06:41 12/04/22) The railroad tie loading ramp is NOT OSHA approved!

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OSHA...........isn't that a small town in Wisconsin? :wink:

Heres a clearer version of the picture that you can enlarge to help!
run flats?

Yes they do and watching them load and unload is something to watch. Just had a pipeline installed through my pace and watching
them load and unload those machines was a sight to see. i don't know the models and forget the mfgrs., but they took up the whole
platform.

The lowboy stops on the road. The operator approaches from the side and uses the bucket to lift the front of the tracks to lowboy
platform height. Using bucket leverage and track power the machine crawls onto the lowboy and the operator executes a 90* turn,
tucks the bucket up under the boom and the crew boomers it down. Only takes a few minutes.

Watching the process and how they protect the steel pipe is a tightly controlled and inspected process. This 12 pipe was
transferring diesel and gasoline from storage tanks near the interstate to a new storage area 35 miles away which has become a
high use area due to the explosive nature of the settlement here in N. Tx.

The pipe was buried 8' deep and on my property consisted of bored and surface installation. The wall thickness of the steel pipe
was 3/8 for the surface installed part and 1/2 for the bored part. I have 2 high pressure gas lines that are at least 50 years old and
they flushed out the dirt, making the two pipes visible so that the new pipe, buried deeper and bored could be viewed by the guy
steering the drill head ensuring that he passed under the old pipes without incident. The coating on the older lines looked like it was
new after all these years. Very impressed and pipelines are the way to go for moving material of the sort.