Posted by The tractor vet on November 30, 2018 at 08:19:35 from (104.179.81.68):
In Reply to: Re: Heavy Haul! posted by farmer656 on November 29, 2018 at 01:31:20:
No it was and aluim. plant and i had what was called BAG DUST . Plum nasty stuff it flowed like water but was dry dust that would find the tinniest pin hole and leak out . It sloshed around like water and took a long time to settle. You loaded under a auger and they timed the loading and it was suppose take 46 min. to get 46000 lbs . They had a break down on the auger sometime that day with a shive and maintenance installed a smaller shive that caused it to run faster and instead of a 1000 a min it was doing 2000 lbs a min there abouts and i ended up with like 96000 and change . Once on the trailer there was noway of dumping because the load was hazardous materiel . It was a Friday evening getting late and i should have already been getting close to the house , but NO i was in the far reaches of the Hoosier and the house is in N/E Buckeye . So as the old song goes i had a long way to go and short time to get there . Had that state cop not been setting in the closed gas station in the next little town up the road and had he not started following me we would have kicked the 4300 in the gas called Scotty down in the engine room and we would have flowen up that road as that road reminded me of one road here in the Buckeye that i hauled many loads of coal over , so hills and curves do not bother me , what bothered me was him setting on my tail gate all the way up to I70 . I am dead sure that had i not had the pony power to muscle the hills and flatten them out he and i would have been talking . Same as back home for three years my buddy and i drove past the one state bear that worked with the portable scales and he would watch us get on I 77 and head north off Ohio 212 just opne mile north of the perminit scales , we had one mile to get rolling before the big hill qand the bear and the scale wagon would set in the cross over at the base of the hill and watch trucks climbing the hill as aq lot of bucketes got on 77 at 212 and if the were heavy the freight boxes would pass them about half way up the hill , well not me and my buddy we were the ones doing the passing and we could top that hill if we kept them on the floor at over 70 and this was back when it was 55 . BUT if you did not go over 60-61 they would not bother you . Most trucks back then on that hill ran between 40-45 mph loaded legal . Between the power and gearing we could pull my top speed flat out empty or loaded was 88 MPH running 2550 rpm i could get 2650 if needed .
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