the second truck I ever drove was a '71 Diamond Reo tri-axle dump. NTC 250 cummins; 13spd double overdrive (RTOO9513); with 44,ooo# rears with 5.17 ratio. (first was a sidewinder Mack. drove it maybe 2 months before the boss sold it). Got to learn a good bit about them since I drove it AND helped work on it. This was in late 75 and 76; just about the time White quit building them. They were a product of the merger of Reo and Diamond T. When White quit; as has been stated; a Penn. co started buying out all of the dealer inventory and began building a limited number. At one time they used the name Giant. I read where they quit production several years ago; but; now have plans to start building again. I own a piece of their history in a 1948 Diamond T pickup. It has been sitting in my shop now for 28 years. Hoping to restore it after I retire. Not many people know that Diamond T built pickups as well as the big trucks in earlier years. This 48 is one of the last of the model. I have seen a few Diamond Reos sitting along the road in my travels. Do not recall seeing one in use for several years. I many ways; the Diamond Reo was ahead of their time. The interior; and "creature comforts" of the 71 I drove will rival many new trucks being produced.
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Pat Browning. The setting is rural Wisconsin, halfway between East Troy and Elkhorn, on Hodunk Road, our nation was at war, and I was 6, 7 and 8 years old. George was our "threshing neighbor." He was the one with the threshing machine, a JI Case on steel wheels, and he pulled it to our farm with a JI Case standard tractor also on steel. In those days, steel wheeled implements were common. The roads were general gravel, so the lugs cutting into them wasn't a problem. George would set up the thresher, s
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