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TSMT hauled ammunition out of Indiana a lot. I think that plant is shuttered now. Used to see them around Ravenna Ohio too. That unloading crane setup has also been used by glass haulers to unload large crates of glass at building sites. The arms were hinged and folded back in along the wall of trailer with rails running length of trailer

 

Tube type were not easier to change I don’t know who lied to you ,plus the ring could come off and take your head with it .really we didn’t start running tubeless till about 1980

 

I believe he was referring to the Dayton style wheel versus budd. Less lugs,lower torque etc.

 

Oh yes thank you I can see that now we never had Dayton wheels so didn’t have much experience with them!

 

We used ether to seat the beads on tubeless. Biggest problem just changing a Dayton, was not to take the nuts off all the way. I've seen lugs fly across the shop.

 

Oh god. make it stop. I spent almost a year in one of those older frightliners. And yes we had those durn bingo cards. The only qualification DOT needed was a set of biofocals glasses to read them little bitty numbers on all of them.

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Yes those days were VERY simple. You have 6 days to be somewhere, call when empty. Don't bother us unless you broke the truck.

 

I fiddled with a crane twice in my lifetime out of necessity. Find which lever makes go up. And find the other way to make it go down.

I am not a crane man. Off the flatbed, put it here. Not there I said here, what part of here don't you understand you deaf or something?

Why yes (And show the hearingaids...)

OMFG... Get out of there. =)

Things like that tend to have very short careers in my book. Maybe 20 minutes all done. But we got the items off the flatbed which was what mattered. Why couldnt THEY get in there and do it I don't know. But after I showed the hearingaids, you bet 5 showed up to run the thing properly.

I turned out to be a way better front end loader than a crane man.