Big Loads - Post Photos Number 2

same route we’ve always taken

we’ve taken heavy #### across the tracks for years now


Just give it some pedal

 

Ok, ive always went 695 if I was heavy. Thank you. I was sitting at the light to leave the port and hesitated to go straight lol...... i ended up turning left to go back across then bridge( I know now not supposed to do that) and the MTA officer that was posted up to the right out of the port started driving right behind me.....He didnt stop me thank goodness.....

 

Take care when you do that as they have cameras. We had the city call us out for doing that same deal. Nothing official just a verbal knuckle buster on the phone. But I agree about the tracks and do the same as others, raise the deck as mash the pedal.

 

Dont answer any calls from 410 area code...got it!!

 

Huememe,,,, since I last posted the truck I was pulling the forklift with decided that the oil pan identifies as an exhaust. Like oh we tested the blow by all right ,twisted the oil cap and watched it fly. Cuz I got the red screen of Doom and well we started investigating.

Get on a plane went to the yard got a loner took it back to the load delivered that picked up this going back to the yard.
Loaded on and balanced just perfect. But of course no good deed goes unpunished. Literally the second time that brake chamber has cracked off specifically.

 

Also yeah over the years that over the railroad tracks route down through all those "14ton" weight limits.

I've had to take that one both ways.

And the first time I came from the other way cuz they were working on that bridge. I miss the right turn down the road with the railroad tracks. Fortunately I had a much smaller trailer and turned around in a shopping plaza I think.

But yeah going through all them residentials over there sketchy the first time you think surely someone was smoking something....

But it's been going on years over there. I remember they they sent a lot of us down there when they were working on that one little bridge over by the water. Even on the smaller trailers.

No real surprise that they have reinstated it.

 

Looks like a pigeon roosted on that and took a #### while he was there. From the picture, it doesn't appear there was any weld penetration into the bracket. Judging by the porosity on the axle tube weld, there isn't any penetration there either. If they can't penetrate the bracket, I can assure you they didn't get the any into the axle tube either.

 

Yeah going out Dunhill rd wasn't bad at all actually, ive never went that way, always went 695. Ive always questioned Maryland when it comes to routing..... they've tried to send me 395 through downtown a few times....

 

Hey there, I must have missed the story of the needle nose in your avatar. Please catch me up!

 

1962 351 needle nose, BC 1 with no data plate and a mutilated S/N on the block. I couldn't identify much of anything by numbers. Many thanks to @OLDSKOOLERnWV for helping me identify it. The pump is tagged as a 350 NTC. 9 speed OD main transmission, 4 speed OD auxiliary and unknown rears (tags missing there too), on springs.

It was originally a Gibson's fleet truck (department store similar to K-mart). 250 NH Cummins, 4 & 3, and 5.83 rears.

My late father-in-law drug it home back in 2003 where it underwent a farm shop restoration. He spent a couple winters working on it. The big boxes on the side cover the fuel tanks. The passenger side has a big groove in it where somebody hit something. He didn't want to replace the tanks or remove them, for some reason. They'll eventually come off and I will just use the tank under the step. It's just a toy for me.

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