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Loggin' again!
elubsme
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My first loggin' truck, a 1968 International "Donald Duck". Cold in the winter and hot in the summer. 335 straight pipe with a five & a four. Probably why I can't hear ennymore.
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I drove an old International about the same vintage as yours. 250 Cummins, 10 speed trans. Not much power but very dependable. After that was a Peterbilt with a 318 Detroit and straight pipes. Thats the one that caused my hearing loss.
my first was a cabover International 4070 ? maybe 1970 ish if i remember right , with a 250 Cummins and a 5 & 3
Old Cornbinder with a 335 and a brown gear. There was a time when a 335 was THE engine. Powered America they did.
They were a popular truck with Walmart back in the 200's. Also with bedbuggers.
Ahhh yes, the noisy 'ol 8V-71.
A bunch of gear jammers on here. Damn, I loved driving the big rig. Here I am at El Capitan Texas, on the road to El Paso.
Allen, Was that the same G&P trucking we called -Grunt and Push?
No, it meant "Good & Perfect."
Used to live just 30 miles south of the Golden road in Maine. The video here has some smaller log trucks. When we lived in Maine the Golden road was owned by paper companies. There would be logs stacked 30 ft high both sides of the road for miles. The logging trucks were like trains there would have two cabs with 5-6 long trailers attached.
Like the guy in the video says you watched for the dusk cloud and got out of the way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9m2-E_gaj8
Nice back ground shot!
Cool, thanks for the video.
I bought my first truck , a new '74 COE 8664 White-Freightliner, and went into the trucking business. It had a 350 Detroit (8V-71T) and a Fuller RTO 9513 Roadranger transmission. 4.44 rears kept the top speed down but it pulled hills pretty well considering the narrow power band of the 2-stroke Detroits. In '75 I drove 90,000 miles (all short hauls of 100 miles or less) and averaged 4.3 mpg. Trucks have changed a lot since then.
Changed is an under statement! They are as luxurious as an automobile today. Remember being told to "keep yer thumbs up"? And the A.C. was the fan on the dash! My first new one was a '74 W-900.