Starting out a loaded big truck without using the clutch would take one kell of a starter. I have driven the old school Mack trucks with a strait 5 speed hauling gravel trains. If you werent on a grade with the pup you needed the loader to push you a few feet to help you not burn up the clutch. Rev them engines up till they sound like they are going to fly apart then double clutch at just above an idle and grab the next one. Those old 300 plus Mack engines where tough. The next day you might drive a 318 screaming Jimmy n 13 speed that would leave you limping at the end of the day from shifting so much. I learned how to shift up or down without the clutch because my left leg was so sore. Same size loads as the guys haul today,But they have 500 plus horses now. We had 238s detroits and 250 cummins with no turbo. This was a step up from a gas engine. Boy times have changed. Al
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Today's Featured Article - A Cautionary Tale - by Ian Minshull. In the early 1950s my father bought an Allis Chalmers B and I used it for all the row crop work with the mangolds and potatoes, rolling and the haymaking on our farm. The farm and the Allis were sold and I have spent a lifetime working on farms throughout the country. I promised myself that one day I would own an Allis. That time event
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