Ha! You sure fooled me. I'm 47 and I thought I was talking to someone
my Dad's age! In their day, International was top of the line, and
would work rings around Chevys, Fords, and Dodges.
My brothers' KBs don't have that many miles on them either, I don't
think. Especially the gin pole truck, which is essential a mobile
crane. Odo works, and reads just over 18,000. It was used for
maintaining oil drilling equipment, and he got it from the original
owner. It's got a two-speed winch with 3/4" cable rated at 8 ton
lift, 16 ton pull. My brother's lifted the front end of a semi off
the ground with it.
Nothing wrong with those KBs for doing the type of work you did and
my brother does. He hauled a rolling semi cab several hundred miles
with his at 50 mph, and has had 5.5 ton of rock in it. These days,
everyone thinks they need a 24 valve cummins to tow so much as a bass
boat, but lots of ratios and low-compression torque will do some
amazing work.
Where was this potato operation--Maine (where I'm from) or more likely Idaho?
Dan
Dan, I couldn't pay for a better straight man.
I'm gonna be 30 next month. This would have been in about '88. The
whole operation up until my Uncle Pat died was running (most of the
time) with 40 year old equipment.
I wish I'd paid attention, I'd like to know how many miles that
KB-7 had on it. Probably not all that many but how many hours would
be a whole different thing...
-Curt
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 12:09:28 -0600
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That would have been a great combination, with the boom. My brother
uses his gin pole truck to load stuff onto his stake body.
Sounds like your great uncle ran a pretty fine operation.
Dan
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