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td25c

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That's an idea Truck Shop . Not to mention it has the environment friendly " Green Engine " , it's a tier something rating . It's pretty green anyhow LOL ! :)
 

td25c

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Can't think of the name of these wheels but they are like a 3 spoke with 6 lugs with wider gaps between the spokes . Not a big fan of them but so far only see the problem on the one wheel .

We did a brake job on a customers mid 1970's 35 ton Vulcan lowboy . It had the same style 3 spoke Dayton with 6 lugs . Two wheels were busted up & ended up replacing them .
Few picks of the Vulcan lowboy brake job & 3 spoke Daton wheel it used .

Took one look at it and tolled the Old Man " I aint doin this job laying on a creeper " . I'm either flipping this lowboy over & work from the top or the bogies are coming off .

We cut the u bolts & rolled the bogies out . Good thing we did because every pin was froze , allot of heating & beating . Had to use a bucking bar against the anvil to keep from bending the pin boss .

I love it ! :D
 

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rzucker

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I think it was about 2 years ago I did a brake and suspension job on an early '70s Hyster lowboy that had those miserable 15" wheels. Had about the same issues getting the brake shoes off. The shoes were cast iron and you had to reline them as rebuilt shoes weren't available. It had weird cams and bushings too. Thankfully drums were easily sourced.
 

Truck Shop

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I had a 35 ton Hyster to rebuild the beams and brakes on some years back. Bushings were easy to get and IIRC the shoes I up graded to steel web 12".

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td25c

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Offloaded an evaporator for a chemical factory with the CCC rig this morning .

Had to use 3 spreader bars to get it rigged rite .

Frustrating to me on an item like this " cost 350 thousand " and no lift eye's . WTF !

Like .... For another 500 bucks they could have glued on some lift points . :beatsme:

Wrapped it with nylon straps & all went well .
 

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rzucker

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Got to work on a CCC chassis today. It was one of those "Stinger" hay stackers. Just fixed a broken shock mount, The rest of the chassis is built like a tank, one heavy duty critter.
 

rzucker

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Was it similar to the old New Holland hay stackers RZ ?
http://www.balewagon.com/
Always thought they were pretty cool rigs . More popular out west , never was around one .
When I was 14-16, I spent a good bit of time on a New Holland 1068... Industrial 460 Ford engine, 5 and a 2 spd rear end. Quite the gas hog when you worked it hard. About 60 gallons in a 12 hour day. Most of the time I could stack around 600 bales an hour in a 120 acre circle field. And you got good at changing axle shafts. They used the rear axle from basically a Ford F-600. Not quite up to the job.
 

td25c

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Found it RZ , that's a pretty cool outfit !

http://www.stingerltd.com/prod_6500.php

Depending on how much help we had we might bale it all then go in with wagons ,trucks and a group of teenagers to toss the bales around .

Then at times when short on help we would pull a wagon behind the baler with one feller on the wagon stackin .

Was really happy when we got a round baler & loaded it all setting on a seat pulling levers :)
 

rzucker

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I wish I had a buck for every bale I had to hand stack... As kids, my brother and I had a '56 ford 1 ton flatbed and we would hand stack around 40 acres a cutting. That was hard work for 30 cents a bale. Load the truck, then stack it 8 tiers high. Seemed like he was mostly the driver and I was the loader.

Then it really gets dumb... I drove a hay truck for awhile in the early 80's. More bale bucking there, grain hauling was a wonderful discovery. It loads and unloads itself.:bouncegrin
 
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