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Offline stokester

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Re: Vintage Photo Of The Day
« Reply #420 on: October 10, 2019, 08:02:31 PM »
Here is one I bet will surprise a few, my 1999 1/2 ton has a cigarette lighter in it.

cigarette $0.25, what are they now5 bucks ?

Ok, to smoke bellow 10,000 ft

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When I was stationed in Germany a pack of cigs at the PX was $.25 while a CARTON at the commissary was $1.10.  Of course that was 1981 - 1984.
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Re: Vintage Photo Of The Day
« Reply #421 on: October 11, 2019, 01:55:50 PM »
I smoked till I was 43.  Now turning 62 next week, I don't miss them a bit thank God!!

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Re: Vintage Photo Of The Day
« Reply #422 on: October 11, 2019, 07:43:48 PM »
Yep I was a 30 pr day man, damn I`m glad I don`t do that anymore.
I was going ion to the local library the other day and there was a young girl sitting outside with a cig, looked so strange now.
Is the need enough? Or does the want suffice?

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Re: Vintage Photo Of The Day
« Reply #423 on: October 12, 2019, 12:47:52 AM »
Not just WW2. Several of my buddies picked up smoking after Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Re: Vintage Photo Of The Day
« Reply #424 on: October 13, 2019, 05:13:31 PM »


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Re: Vintage Photo Of The Day
« Reply #425 on: October 13, 2019, 05:16:51 PM »


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Great, but will it take off F350 dually lug nuts? --- LOL

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Re: Vintage Photo Of The Day
« Reply #426 on: October 13, 2019, 06:46:10 PM »
"Tractor Mounted on 'Stilts' Is Used to Dust and Detassel Corn -     Moving slowly through the sweet-corn fields of California is a weird tractor on stilts. The tractor is used to dust and detassel the high corn. The builder started with a 21-horsepower crawler tractor. He raised the tractor chassis including the motor and transmission so there would be 78 inches of clearance beneath it. Side frames—the 'stilts'—support the tractor in this position. Additional sprockets and links of track were installed on each side. The result is a tractor that rolls through the high corn, dusting and detasseling it even during wet weather when rubber-tired tractors bog down in the mud. It has 6-1/2 feet clearance and straddles two rows of corn while dusting 12. A framework across the back holds the dusting equipment. During detasseling, men ride on hangers dropped down between the rows alongside the tractor." From Popular Mechanics, Sept. 1954



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Re: Vintage Photo Of The Day
« Reply #427 on: October 13, 2019, 09:01:08 PM »
That's probably one of one. My friends restored a high crop HG. I believe only 3 or 4 are still known to exist.





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Re: Vintage Photo Of The Day
« Reply #428 on: October 14, 2019, 06:57:20 PM »
90 ton Ruston dragline, there were two of these on the Waihou River job in the North Island of NZ. They worked one on either side of the river. After that job finished they were dismantled and went to the Sukkor Barrage, a huge canal project in India (now Pakistan).

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Re: Vintage Photo Of The Day
« Reply #429 on: October 14, 2019, 07:02:16 PM »
Steam Pumpers












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Re: Vintage Photo Of The Day
« Reply #430 on: October 14, 2019, 08:53:21 PM »
Those Percherons are moving that steam pumper pretty fast. That is one reason the fire depts. liked those draft horses. Our Perch gelding loved to go fast when pulling and I had to work to keep him at a fast trot instead of a gallop.

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Re: Vintage Photo Of The Day
« Reply #431 on: October 15, 2019, 02:01:28 AM »
I looked up the Sukkor Barrage, the biggest irrigation project, built 1923 to 1932, in what is now Pakistan and found these pictures of (probably) the Ruston dragline above.
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Re: Vintage Photo Of The Day
« Reply #432 on: October 15, 2019, 08:10:35 PM »
That's probably one of one. My friends restored a high crop HG. I believe only 3 or 4 are still known to exist.





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Tim, what would that have been used for? Wet ground areas where a rubber tire would get stuck?
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Re: Vintage Photo Of The Day
« Reply #433 on: October 15, 2019, 08:19:38 PM »
That's probably one of one. My friends restored a high crop HG. I believe only 3 or 4 are still known to exist.





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Tim, what would that have been used for? Wet ground areas where a rubber tire would get stuck?
Tracks were often used on steeper grades where a rubber tired tractor would tend to slide and scratch downhill. The high clearance is for tall crops such as vegetables.

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Re: Vintage Photo Of The Day
« Reply #434 on: October 15, 2019, 08:34:00 PM »
That’s pretty cool
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