ROCK TRUCK, 1954 EUCLID HAULING LOGS, BETTER QUALITY VERSION
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Hate to sound mean, but these are the exact type of people who make it to the Darwin Awards each year. This truck was designed to have weight resting ON the rear tires ..... NOT 15 feet out on the sides.
That's why they make skidders & trailers. Not only can the job be done 4X faster with the correct equipment, but 100X SAFER. A dead operator not only gets no work done, but can be a HUGE financial disaster after the lawsuits & such start happening.
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it is good to see that old truck are still in use for work
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@cnrailman2 10-4, the detroits run extremly smooth when there maintained and tuned rite, except like jusportel said, they do puff when you first startout, or when you lugg them because of the fuel buildup/not completly combusted.
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Actually they are very similar, because the superchargers used on gas engines are modified versions of what Detroits used back in the day. Look at the model numbers of the superchargers, and they are numbered after the Detroit engine that size was used on...for example, many big-blocks use 6-71.
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he stops because he doesnt want to tip her
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everybody out of the wayyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!
he stops when he turns because this truck has air assist steering and he has to let the air pressure build to turn the wheel. old truck. lots of air leaks
Alsaire 1 year ago
@Alsaire No on both counts, the steering was a conventional hydraulic ram boost, and that truck had a great air system. No leaks at all. If you steer with the truck in motion, the booster doesn't have to work at all.
jusportel 1 year ago
2 stroke Jimmy smoking because it is old,
poor maintenance, dirty filters, dirty injectors low compression, not because it is pulling a heavy load. when the engine is running right all you should see is heat vapour coming out the stack.
cnrailman2 3 years ago
A Jimmy will smoke when lugged down, even when it is new. The engine gets more fuel than it can use when it's lugged down. You'll notice that in normal service it hardly smokes at all. The 6V92 TA will often blow a puff of black when you first start out. So do Cat engines.
jusportel 3 years ago 4
@jusportel yes and this is a very old truck they dont even make them anymore terex bought them out
brian93ist 1 year ago
@brian93ist No, Volvo did, then I think Hitachi. GM owned both Euclid and Terex, but if I remember right, the US Government made a stink that GM had their fingers in too many pies. They forbade GM from making trucks for some years, but they kept the tractor and loader lines going under the Terex name. They also continued to build the trucks in Scotland and Canada. Something like that, anyway. Check Wikipedia!
jusportel 1 year ago