Posted by Grandpa's Fords on February 06, 2019 at 06:36:21 from (50.107.184.112):
In Reply to: Feedtruck on steroids! posted by BobReeves on February 05, 2019 at 16:41:12:
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Lot of truck for little work. They seem to have their place though and not sure if military life was it.
We had 1968 deuce and a half for use on pipeline restoration. It came with 22' personnel carrier body meaning it had folding wooden seats on each side the body side wear 1' high +/- that folded down with wooden racks that were about 50" tall. Also had hoops and tarp to cover. Continental inline 6 cylinder not multi fuel and 4 speed with the granny and I mean granny. Was able to get steel roof for the cab and super singles for tires. IIRC the rear tires on the tandem were so close together you could barely put your hand between them. We had it road legal so it could get to a job on it's own.
We removed the hoops, tarp and seats left the racks and could stack 180 square bales on the body. Built a slide off frame for a square bale shredder/blower and mounted it 1/2 way hanging off the back. Each load would mulch about 1,200 ft of 100" wide right of way. With the gearing so low very little use for braking on the ROW and the driver could set the hand throttle and get off the seat and stand on the running board to watch the operation. If the terrain was to steep we could arrange with the pipeline contractor to have a D-6, D-8 or equivalent nearby to cable us in and out. It would track surprisingly well in softer ground with wide super singles and we always had a skid steer nearby to dress any ruts we made. 3 guys on the back had to be tethered to avoid being bounced out.
Yea you can get them stuck but the problems mostly occurred when the driver would try to power out and start spinning. The u-joints and driveshafts seem to be the weakest link. Quite small considering the loads.
A couple companies would not use us because we used such old equipment. We also used JD 430 with 6 way blade, JD 730 diesel and 68 4020 and later a JD2950. Most of them got over it as we were making as production as well as the competitors. The comparable machine was a Marooka fulltrack machine that couldn't hold the capacity of our truck. The Marooka's couldn't climb a whole lot steeper terrain either.
At the time 2010 we had invested in the truck a little over 5k. Plus the blowershredder 24K. Marookas used at 80k just beat to death, plus the blower.
When that truck wasn't on the ROW it was pretty much worthless. It was tough to maintain it for just seasonal use. We had no other practical uses for it.
Later got an 88 5 ton M-1 w/Cummins that was used much the same way. No one cared for the automatic transmission as much. It was geared slightly higher. But they were real work horses on a ROW.
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