Diamond T dump truck
- joethemechanic
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1956, 450 red diamond, 5-speed, 2-speed rear, a bit rough but not butchered up or modified, more or less everything is there.
Anybody interested?
- coaledsweat
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Is it a gas job?
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Yeah it's an international harvester 450 red diamond gasoline. I think they were in around 160 170 horsepower then . Big power in 1956
Diamond t was buying engines and tabs from international harvester back then . Same cab as on like a r190 international, just a bit of extra trim when they put it on the diamond t diamond tea was like the fancy truck
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GVW? How is the rubber on it?
- joethemechanic
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10:00-20 tube type bias supplies on split rims. They're probably 40 years old. The truck probably never went farther than about half a mile to the junkyard maybe once a week since 1977. It's been sitting at least 6 years. I probably have tubeless radials that are decent for it somewhere here in my empire of obsolete crap.
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Outstanding rig J. Shame I'm not younger!! I was 11 when that was built. BUT--I've done my share of bouncin around!!! LOL
- joethemechanic
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Yeah I've done my share of bouncing around too. The first dump truck I owned was a r 210 international harvester 10-wheel dump with a 5-speed and a 3-speed brownie behind it. Probably the worst bouncing around I did was running a big auto car 318 Detroit 13-speed double over with a two-speed tandem on that Hendrickson suspension that was just mounted on rubber blocks, no springs whatsoever.freetown fred wrote: ↑Sun. Nov. 22, 2020 1:26 pmOutstanding rig J. Shame I'm not younger!! I was 11 when that was built. BUT--I've done my share of bouncin around!!! LOL
We moved that Concord coal, booty beltrami dragline that disappeared from Penn terminal to hazleton with a bunch of them. 122 truckloads it talk to move it almost all of them oversized and overweight with permits and state police escort
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I worked for this company, McHugh Brothers when I was in my twenties. We did some wild chit. That's a Klein off-road dump that they converted into a tractor and a thrombosis trailer. The thrombosis was all modular you could assemble it all kinds of crazy ways and all the wheels steered
http://sbiii.com/roadmch1.html