vintage freight shaker

Any of you guys still make a living with an old school freight shaker?
I bought an old 89 FLC on a lark a few years ago from an old friend that was retiring, it was set up with log gear but also had a hotshift pto set up for a side dump.

I really didn't plan on using it a whole lot, but had always wanted to run a log truck, so why not.
The last few years my other truck, has been used less and less, pretty much to the point of not at all, especially if there is any logging going on.
I did pull the wet kit off and install it on my other truck, so I don't have pull the log gear off of it, if I want to haul dirt, but mainly so I can use it with a hydraulic lowboy.

Just something different and fun after years on the road.
The old beast has a 400 b model, 15 over and ss rears, sporting 529 gear ratio, I don't get in any hurry with it. lol

 

No saavy the pic thing, maybe get someone to help one of these days. we barged it out to icy bay last summer, and my helper has some good pics of it there.
This is the only freightliner I have ever owned, never have actually been a fan of them, but it has been a pretty good rig, all in all.
It started out life on the haul road with 2 lift axles, until they decided we didn't need lift axles up here, it was wrecked on the haul road once and rebuilt by my friend, I laid it over with a load of logs on it the second winter I owned it. I went off in deep snow, and the only damage was to the passenger mirror, we got it back up on the road and on it's feet a couple of days later, fired it up, reloaded and brought the load to town.

I was suprised it only had about a 1 inch scratch on the passenger fender. I knew it would be 3 or more hours before anybody would be coming along, and it was about 10 below, so I didn't even climb out of it. I just found my coffee cup and thermos and got as comfortable as possible and waited. I figured there was way more damage and I had plenty of time to think, so since I had just traded for a fairly sweet old A model, I made plans to just swap the engine over and repower it, but the old freightshaker is a survivor, and has paid for itself many times over since then, the poor old A model still needs rebuilt.

 

Mine is an 88, I don't know how I came up with 89. It as far as I know it is the FLC, it has the wide spot between the windshields, and there is some interior differences besides that in trucks just a couple of years newer. Hvac and dash differences that I know of, but I am by no meins a freghtliner expert.

I ran a 99 freightliner I presume classic That had a 600 horse cat, 18 spd and 46 rears and 325 wheel base north and also pulled a side dump with it. Other than it was a condo, I liked that truck well enough.