Re: BIG MUSKIE

Posted by The tractor vet on February 25, 2016 at 21:09:20 from (104.179.81.68):

In Reply to: Re: BIG MUSKIE posted by casenut1 on February 25, 2016 at 18:58:04:

Ah yep i did , hauled a lot of Lump and Nut coal out of there some egg . Now that was some really good coal . There and the coal out of WB coal W B coal , now that place was not for the faint of heart . That hill coming up and out of there claimed atleast a truck a week. My truck and my buddy's were the only two that could come up and out on our own power . Slow Poke and i had 1977 I H 4300 with small cam 350's , Well that is what they were set at at the factory I was putting over 478 Hp to the drives at 65 MPH . That was more power to the ground then a KTA 600 was putting to the ground . we really never knew for sure how much HP i really had due to the fact that while on the dyno the gauges were still going up and the engine was not slowing down when the big chain holding it to the dyno broke and Chucky Echman went out the door at 65 MPH or better and trying to get it stopped before he hit the cement retaining wall . slow pke's truck had everything done to his the same as mine but he did not have the other housing on the turbo like mine did and we had trucks that were the same all the way down to the S/N as there was only one number different and our paint scheme was a tad different . Both of us had East tandem 30 ft. dumps mine was all alum. and his had the steel frame we could get 40-45 ton on of good coal per load and flat up and run with it . that hill out of W B uinonport ohio was Steep and it took every horse we had to come up and out it was second gear power divider locked in and pray . There was no fancy gear jamming as you could not shift fast enough and if your choice of gear was wrong and you stalled out or spun out you were in deep trouble , even if your brakes were set up and in good condition they would not hold you going backwards . I learned that when i ran out of power tryen to do the lets make a run for it and grab gears , it was seventh fourth and first and i spun out . Fast thinking is the only thing that saved my donkey as i stuffed it into rev. and used the jake to back down off the hill in somewhat a controlled decent and fancy backing around the curves . So i learned fast that you have to much power in first and not enough in forth but second did work . Old Bill the loader operator would load a half dozen to a dozen trucks and then fill the bucket on a 988 Cat and he would go out and help each truck up and over . Slow Poke and i were always the last ones to load at night and Old bill would come out with the loader and wait till we had topped the hill just incase we did not make it . Old Bill < Doc and a couple other guys that worked there were great guys and we called them friends . Friday evenings were great to load down there. as it was PIZZA and Barley pop night Couple pieces of Pizza and a couple cold ones and a good B/S session were great. wha was no great was when ya had more then a couple and then head home . That hill on a dark night with a couple more then ya should have had will wake you up. Then ya had the county road up to 646 then west to Rt. 9 and to the house . Now for you Flat landers those old roads would make you a believer and if you had been along for the ride you may never want to ride in a big truck ever again . and oh i also know a short cut from that old deep mine that not many know about that if ya take it off old 151 as it is not marked and the road going up to the old Hanna haul road will take you on up past Germano and if you do it correctly it will dump you out on Rt. 9 Lets put it this way if you were the last truck out of the deep mine and everybody was going to the same place as you , when you got to where you were going you would be dumped and setting waiting on them to arrive and they would never see you pass them. while they were playing with the hills and turns on 151 and then on 9 if you ran the old haul road you were up on the flat with no curves and no hills and don't worry about the bridges you cross if they could handle them 150-200 ton Darts it will hold 117000-125000 with no problem and you can plum get with the program . You will be 6-10 miles ahead of the rest , did this many times it would plum freek them out on how i got around them and them not see me do it.

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• Re: BIG MUSKIE Trkr 05:28:31 02/26/16 (2)
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