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SVcummins

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A good tune up Goes a long ways . Went from less than 2.3
empty mpg to about 4.5 loaded and empty miles gross at
20,000 pounds on a certifed scale .
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Good deal! Not too bad for a wore out 350. How's the yellow Dodge doing? Did ya get the starter for it yet?
 
That is my favorite GM cab style, especially on the bigger series trucks. What engine did you say it has?

Garry
 

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Man i would have loved to sold you my 89 Ford F800, 429, 5 speed with 2 speed rear , 18 foot deck with hoist. I always figured 8 mpg full or empty, didn’t seem to matter. I put short side racks on to keep the sh!t from falling off. It sits in semi retirement now. Too much money too keep a truck on the road in Ontario with too many rules, it’s gotten crazy. Still a good truck, but cost me over a grand every year in paper work with safety inspection and bs plus insurance, Just got too costly.
 
I almost bought a truck like that years ago,because it had a HIAB knuckleboom crane and 16' flat bed.I could have gotten the truck for $1500,which is less than the crane itself is worth.I still kick myself for that, especially since the guy that did end up buting it,is right down the road from me and he removed the crane and does nothing with the truck.

Rock
 
Bruce, you should be able to run that truck as a modified farm use only vehicle and avoid the licensing and insurance....would still need to be safe on the road of course, but no e test, no annual safety, farm liability insurance should be all you need.

Ben
 
Looked into a vehicle of animal husbandry exemption, and the vehicle must be adopted so it could only be used for a prescribed use. Like mounting a forage box, fertilizer tender, or manure spreader. But as she sits with the flat rack, it has to pass annual safety inspection, and be licensed for whatever tonnage weight you need, 5 ton or what ever. I do have a Commercial Vehicle Registration, and have to pay the annual $50.00 fee, even with farm plates. Just hard to justify the cost. And with farm plates, I am a Not for Hire truck.
 
I imagine after the new green deal starts it will be about impossible to keep old trucks on the road here to
 
Around here, it would likely qualify for a farm vehicle....one neighbour uses several dump trucks for hauling silage when cutting, just a dump box with extensions. Another fellow uses a rolled milk tanker for his maple syrup operation. Must be tougher cops down that way, I once talked my way out of a ticket using just a pick up truck with a sheet of plywood on one side to catch silage as it came from the silo....long story , but happy ending😉

Ben
 
New plugs . The old one’s haven’t been changed in about 5 years as near as I can figure the oil also hadn’t been changed in about 5 years
 
I thought it was great for a wore chevy running full throttle at 20,000 pounds up hill loaded .
 
I’ve been looking for a truck like this for quite awhile but never found one I could afford and i still couldn’t afford this but big iron wouldn’t put it on there auction and that’s how I ended up with it .
 
It’s not cops. We have a lot of gravel pits, owned by concrete companies. And they hire any trucking companies they can get to haul gravel into Toronto. So the MTO are always never to far away, and doing road side inspections. Friend had a old dump truck with a slow moving vehicle sign on the back hauling grain from his field to the farm, and they nabbed him. Another of the MTO favourite targets are the numerous grain elevators. They set up and get cops to send in trucks to them during harvest. Also the sales barn down the road , another easy picking ground, all livestock trucks and trailers need to be safely inspected every year. It’s like living in a fish bowl here. Old buddy of mine got hauled in two weeks after his inspection, and they went over his truck like he was hauling a load of cocaine, but the old truck was safe, and they finally let him go. Old farm trucks are just easy prey. More and more guys are now going to big hay wagons, fifth wheel dolly to pull a grain trailer behind 250 hp farm tractors. Now that lots of tractors can go 60km, a ten mile trip to the elevator is nothing. And no license, no safety, nothing.
 
Alright Bruce, you got me with that 60km, darn metric system again! 😂😂😂
 
Ya, theres a couple big dairy farms around here, they have some big case ih tractors with duals, they were hauling liquid manure in those Houle liquid tanks, i think 3 or 4 axels on them, man they were moving going down the road! Almost scary! 😂🤔
 
I just hope they don’t regulate the old trucks out of use like Bruce but I think that’s the way we’re heading that’s what people want communism
 
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