We found a bigger high dump for silage to replace our old one. It's a Richardton 700 that holds @750cu' compared to our old one that's only @450. Building the sides of the truck up with 18&22x12" 1/4 plate +3x3x1/4" angle iron and using rough 2x6 Juniper on the passenger side and using 3x6" on the drivers side so we don't need a center bracket. Adding 18w led lights to the steps on both side wired into the back up light wiring to make it easier to see in the field to back up to the high dump and at the pile to dump. Will save a lot of time and truck fuel hailing bigger loads.
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Martin Reece
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Looks great Phillip. Should be a lot more efficient. Detroit power?
Cheers
Martin
Cheers
Martin
Adirondack case guy
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I don't think silage is going to strain it much.
Loren
Loren
coonie minnie
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There's no shame in a pull type chopper.
flying belgian
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I can't quite tell. Is that a Sterling chassis or IH?
Nice truck Phillip! Those Sterling trucks are pretty good trucks. My old county truck was a 2000, it had 13,000 hours on a C12 Cat when I was forced to upgrade into a newer Freightshaker. That old Sterling did nothing but work, and work hard at that. Not too hard scraping roads, but the pedal never left the floor when plowing snow for 16-18 hours a day for days at a time. They are a work horse, and are the ones that are always used for the spares at work since they are always ready to run when the new ones are broke. My Freightliner I have now was in the shop for 8 weeks after I got it. I got it back 4 times in that time period, and it usually only took a few hours for a new problem to pop up. I got one full days use out of it in that 8 weeks. They seem to have "most" of the issues ironed out of it now. That's a heck of a truck you have there, enjoy!
Ross
Ross
Yes sir, they do turn short. Some larger intersections I could turn a circle in the middle of the intersection with my tandem. Full lockers, she was pretty hard to get stuck. Had a loader operator at a pit load me with WET gravel, 24 tons worth. My tandem usually weighs just shy of 70,000 lbs, but she was at 83,000 with that load.
Ross
Ross
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