Re: Always the last load of the day

Posted by the tractor vet on April 15, 2021 at 08:53:20 from (104.179.81.68):

In Reply to: Always the last load of the day posted by jon f mn on April 15, 2021 at 05:57:53:

If you want to play OFF ROAD then ya need and OFF ROAD truck . From what i have found to be the best is a Mack , bar none . Learned this many years back hauling coal out of strip mines and into the days of running two Oil patch service companys . I ran a Mack R 700 pulling a coal bucket in the early years and loading down in the cut they did not PAVE the ramp nor the mine road , the old township roads were dirt and gravel that turned into a mud bog . IF i could break the load out and get the Mack into second ( not working with huge hp. here being it was a 318 Detroit ) and with those Armstrong 10.00 x22 Drive tires she was coming up and out dragging 40-45 ton and at times pushing mud with the ft. bumper . The one service company i ran the owner was G M all the wayas he also ran a Detroit diesel engine rebuild company for the oil patch . He had two G M C 9500 water trucks and when hauling water to or from a drilling rig you had to have one of the dozers there to drag them in and out . The new company a friend started he wanted me to run the operation and get the equipment so he and i went SHOPPING and bought all Macks except the two frac tank haulers and two 80 BBl water truck one was a Ford 9000 and the other was a 2500 S model I H , Those two did not get off the pavement . To stop the Macks it had to be one nasty location for them to not get in or out on there own. As the company grew we went with semi water trucks and again all Mack . And again they could get in and out of places with 6500 gallon of water far better then anything else even with ones with full lockers Choise of drive tires is another thing . What ya find for a LUG Highway tire is not made for OFF road . I always hated setting in my office and have one of the drivers call on the radio with the WORDS I AM STUCK Let lone have two or three all stuck as we had units scattered all over Ohio W/Pa. W.Ny and W.Va . Then what level of stuck are you , are you D 4 class stuck - D5-6 Stuck or D7 Stuck , always bad when they say BRING TWO

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