Truck 505's lowboy thread

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Buckfever

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What's funny is after a while you will get use to that bigger turning radias and learn a few tricks on how to get in and out of tight spots. Then someone sticks you in a SBA tractor and it will fell like your driving a go-cart.
 
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Oxbow

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I would love to put full fenders like you have on my tractor, but with walking beam suspension they would have to be fairly high to allow for axle travel, and then I fear they would hit the neck when detached. Does your neck fit between the fenders when detached Truck 505?
 
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RonG

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Truck 505 said:
Here's a few more pics of stuff I have hauled lately. Also a pic of a broken u bolt and block on my truck. Rear diff also went out the same week the u bolt and block broke. I guess after 1,570,000 miles and hauling heavy for a good amount of that something is bound to wear out eventually.
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Thanks for a great thread,I thoroughly enjoyed the great pics and commentary.Your tie down of that machine cross chained is pure poetry and the mark of a real pro,picture perfect.I used to double up when I could get away with it,one combination was a 550 John Deere dozer and 410 JD backhoe which left me a little over width on a 35 ton Rogers low bed but was able to get away with it several times.
I like the ratchet binders but have cussed them out over the years because many times I worked all day operating and then had to move equipment after dark and nobody ever had any standard agreed upon as to how to leave the ratchet when it was stored for the next use so when you think that you was tightening it in the dark the damned thing would come apart in your hand and there you were in the dark trying to collect the pieces and put it back together again.My SOP was to always **** the ratchet when you stored it but you could never count on it being cocked when you needed it.Sometimes throwing the binder up into the goose neck could reverse the dog but if you stored them right it wouldn't happen.If only one person ever used them then they worked pretty good.I didn't have hookup lights usually and having to carry the binder out in front of the headlights to configure it was always another chore which I did not need at that time of the day so over center binders with a short pipe was always my choice.Great thread!!Ron G
 
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RonG

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Excellent work,nice equipment and used very efficiently.Thanks for taking the time to get all those shots for us.Ron G
 
Steve Frazier

Steve Frazier

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Am I seeing thing correctly? Both machines in the last pic say 580 on them but the one over the axles looks substantially bigger than the one at the gooseneck. Optical illusion?
 
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Truck 505

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Nope. No optical illusion here. Both 580N's. More like a technicality :cool:.

The one on the back is a 580N Wide track. Front one is standard. The wide track reminds me of a 590.
 
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RonG

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I like those ground pads on the outriggers.The first time I ever saw those was on a John Deere 410 many years ago and I was sold on the brand right then.I said that somebody is thinking in this company!
Years ago you a choice which ground bearing configuration you wanted but never both.Nice pics,thanks.Ron G
 
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RonG

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I ran a Case W-20 for years,it looked just like your W-30 but mine had oversize tires on it.They were a nice machine but I don't like the way they articulate,those and the Hough.What are they thinking?They are a robust machine though.Ron G
 
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Truck 505

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It seems awkward to me also.
It fed that plant in the background for 3 years before they got a 950F. It was starting to have issues. It is still around. They use it for the back up and they have a widener that they put on it a few times a year
 
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