A view of the Past, Vintage Photos

I spent 8 years on that blue 72 Pete & every winter & thru spring, winching trucks & tractors out of the mud was the order of the day. The pete (as did 2 other of our trucks) had a 30K winch, 150' of 3/4 line & snatch block. all you needed was a good anchor & you could pull anything out. But they could be a killer in the wrong hands, I learned from one of the best. I was not able to save a D-6, 9U farm tractor however, once near Vandenberg AFB, & as far as I know it is still buried in the Santa Ynez River outlet.

 

This old girl is older than big so I guess it belongs in Vintage Photos. This is a D8- 14A series, cable blade. Just above the track you can see a tube that houses the cable then thru a pair of shives to the blocks. These in my opinion was the best sounding tractors ever. They were also the smoothest loading as you could feather the clutch at low low rpms to make it crawl. Well balanced. It broke my heart to take this to auction. The truck is 96 heavy specs, 98 Murray. Trailer was pretty new as it is still clean. Machine only about 27-28 tons.

 

Trip-6, That would take the fun out of it !! .................. LoL

 

Early 80s. 28 ton rock going to Morro Bay, CA. (should this be posted in the dump truck threads, rock & sand haulers section?)

 

Here is a 1970 "Duck" as it was called, late 1973 or early 74. I was hauling baled recycled newspaper into LA to the LuberFiner Co. They used shredded newsprint in the 750 oil filters. I did my share of tarping from 69-73 with sack sugar on flats, in the wind. Never thought to load then put the truck "into the wind" to cover sugar with plastic then tarp. Young & dumb.... This 70 model had a 335 (hot I might add) 13 sp. & a cab so wide you had to hold the wheel with your left hand, stand up, step to the right to roll the right window up or down. I drove this truck for about a year, pulling bottom dumps during the day then 2-3 nites a week we would pull freight doubles into Smith Trans. yard in LA & back at night.