Really , Been at the heavy haul since i was a pup and started on a low boy way back in 63 . I dove the mid size lowboy outfit and would move loads to 100000 lbs , my boss who trained me ran the big truck and moved load on up over 200000 lbs. I was 17 when i started and the truck driving was a necessary evil part of my job to move the tonka toys from one job to the next . i WOULD MOVE MOST OF THE BIG DOZER, PANS AND SOME OF THE SHOVEL/CRANES . Small stuff like D7 class and down went on the 35 ton lowboys and were pulled with the Whites i drove the Mack , my boss ran the BIG AutoCar . Never drove that one . When i moved up from mowing grass cleaning the offices and shop when i turned 16 the owner of the company handed me a Class D operating engineers book and the keys to my own company truck It was a new 1963 Ford F 350 4x4 cab and chassis in company colors red body white roof black interior 352 four speed 4.10 gear My boss and i built the bed for it and was somewhat the first service bed as ya just did not go to the store and buy one back then . I had a 250 amp HOBART pto driven welder running off the pto off the transmission and a gardner denver air compressor running off the transfer case that was large enough to run two 90 Lb jack hammers We built the two fuel tanks and a water tank made a place for a 55 gal. drum of engine oil, a keg of grease a keg of 90 weight and a 55 gal drum of hyd oil;Then made up tool boxes and i carried the new to us portable track pin press and portapowers up to 100 ton The owner bought all the tools that at the time the Mac tools offered p to 1 inch drive and wrenches up to 2 1/2 inch Yep i also worked on the equipment i could weld as well as our welders could and had a set of Airco torches Welding rod wise i had 6010 6011 6013 7018 and 308 stainless . Then Old John my boss and i sorta spiced up my new truck with a 4 bbl carb and dual exhausts . IN the dirt moving months i was out on the jobs where ever in the winter months my days were spent in school till noon then to the shop and do what even , maybe rebuilding a engine , working on the finals on a dozer installing new steering clutches and brakes , might spend days welding up rollers and idlers or putting new sprocket rings on maybe welding on grouser stock on tracks half day five days a week and a full day on Saturday . When the frost came out of the ground till school was out i worked on jobs close . The one year me and another young guy We dug basements on a new allotment started on one side and dug to the end of the street installing the sewer lines and the water line into the basement and go to it I ran the shovel and jim did the hand work and kept me on grade , two afternoons to a basement with a 22 B Bucyres powered by a 4 71 Detroit . Got to the far end and worked our way back to the other . Then moved the D4 over and started back filling same way Loved the work . did this till 66 when i got drafted .
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