longhaullounger
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Swiped this photo from Instagram for y'all.
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longhaullounger
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Orange ones.
Roadway spy
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Worst company in America unless your a yellow fellow. I’d never tell anyone I work for this company because I work at putting them out of business that’s all.
Who are you trying to kid?
I'll bet you wear a Yellow belt buckle with safe forking badges all-around your fat belly.
ragamuffin
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When they saw that you could drive one of them there things, you were hired on the spot. They figured that anyone who could handle one of them could handle just about anything.
1984Sideways
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We used those for punishment tractors in one outfit years ago. Fortunately they only had two.
YellowFellow
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Those were near the end of the ArmStrong days. 6v92 Detroits and 6 speed. I had muscles then. Then along came PS, AC, Cruise Control. I became a p###y.
Didn't they have Cummins engines and 7 speed trans in the 1980's?
Ours were 78 models and had 9 spd. I think
maybe 10.
6V92s and some 3406 Cats, pushers, I'll bet you remember that.
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Nobody wants to remember 6v92s.
For sure, I didn't even like the 8v71s and they were good horses.
I'll take a Comeapart anytime or a Cat.
1984Sideways
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I'll have to look up some of those engines.
Some were bad. I don't recall low gear count manuals except a particular R model Mack used for Milk work decades ago. I think was about a 200 horse mack and a 6 speed with pretty tall gears. It was not very fast and horrible on the upgrades.
One farm regularly saw the drives fail on the mud backing to milk house. Farmer would use 4 of his shires to help me come around enough. The Shiers did their work with precision. As if they were learning as they went.
The cats I remember. Love live cats. Some of them got a little picky in higher RPM and you had to go through some high range gearing a little bit on the hills depending on how much of a run you had at em.
Some were bad. I don't recall low gear count manuals except a particular R model Mack used for Milk work decades ago. I think was about a 200 horse mack and a 6 speed with pretty tall gears. It was not very fast and horrible on the upgrades.
One farm regularly saw the drives fail on the mud backing to milk house. Farmer would use 4 of his shires to help me come around enough. The Shiers did their work with precision. As if they were learning as they went.
The cats I remember. Love live cats. Some of them got a little picky in higher RPM and you had to go through some high range gearing a little bit on the hills depending on how much of a run you had at em.
YellowFellow
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Yes they did. The 6v92, 6 speed Brigs were late 70's early 80's I believe. The 6 speed sounded like A house on fire 1-3 then fell flat on their face in 4th. The seven speed helped some. Plus going back to the Cummins saved the lots from being covered in oil.
I worked for Fredrickson Motor Express in the 80's and they had 7 speeds , backing up steep hills were a nitemare as the cab would bounce violently and felt like you were going to hit the dock doing 45mph
Our short wheelbase Freightliners with the jiffs
were just like that.
I've seen hostlers drop and hook to a different tractor just to back it to the dock.
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Did you try bumping that speed up to 46?
(Asking for myself)