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Post by clayton on Mar 5, 2012 20:07:23 GMT -8
Got the idea from the web and some what from a plant here. once or twice a week the trucks would go up north with loads of turpentine. So I came up with this idea. Pick up logs and Berles(SP) of tar in the woods then take too mill. Or take barrels of turpentine up north then back haul lumber down south. So this give the drive change to run on(kinda like free fuel). Stake bed is nail fails with the sand paper removed and glued too flat stock.  Hosted on Fotki |
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Post by tufftin on Mar 6, 2012 9:50:49 GMT -8
Going to be a long wheel base.
Mike
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Post by Muleskinner on Mar 6, 2012 13:08:31 GMT -8
Love those double duty rigs.
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Post by gator on Mar 18, 2012 10:34:41 GMT -8
Cool, idea, I am going to be watching this build.
Gator
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Post by clayton on Mar 19, 2012 17:19:47 GMT -8
From what I can see on Hanks site until the 70'S you could have double duty rigs. This is not dead on but is it close?? Will be a few weeks used up the last of the building stuff on this. I pulled this out of thin air.
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Post by Muleskinner on Mar 19, 2012 19:29:58 GMT -8
You couldn't get any closer unless you had the real 1:1. Most of them were of company or owner Operator design, so they could be guaranteed a haul back load. There are a few of the die hards left here in Oregon who still operate on the same principle. Old habits are hard to break.
One time in eastern Oregon I remember seeing a rig which had an open drom, such as your build, who hauled lumber into Utah and Idaho. I seen this same truck with a load of hogs on the drom with stake and rails around them, in bend Oregon heading for Corvallis, with a flat bed and stakes loaded with watermelons. Now that's double duty!
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