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Sure can a friend owns a Grain elevator around 3 sides of the older deuce collection. A friend of mine has an old one with the tandems that had regular rearends in it with the drive shafts that go around the middle chunk. The rear axle as removed and out on another truck. It was a...

I remeber in 98 Mom took me and my younger brother down to Gulfport for a vacation before I went to college. Right outside of Gulfport I remeber seeing what looked like hundreds of Russian trucks. SOme even had 8 wheel drive. Ithought it was neat. Three years ago on the way back...

Im still learning all the Duece types and found out a few of the older ones like my neigbor had. MY neigbor before he passed away had an early deuce with an auger bed o nthe back. It looked like a 211 it had duels on the rear axles and a 4 speed trans mission in it. He had...

ALredneck you can vulcanize your tired when they get a big gash in them. Ive had several done in the past. I have a freind that was loading scrap cars from a clean up and we built a set of chains for the fronts that wrap around the tires. I ve spet many hours in a 645 with a...

Ive got and AC book with a section on the military machines. It had training wheels for a 645 to drop it in sections. Also they sold a hitch and an elevating scraper for it for pioneering air feilds. I think the torque converter was beefed up for this.

Im an equipment operator and love all sorts of earth moving machinery Im looking for a 290 M right now. THere was one at a sale about 12 years ago and I missed it for 1500. I was just a dumb kid but had money in my hand. aAn old Car dealer had it and was building ponds on his farm...

Heres a few of the pics I uploaded to Photo Bucket. Heres the one from the Alligator farm. http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr78/tumblebugtaylor/035.jpg And the other 3 at Hastings. http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr78/tumblebugtaylor/033.jpg...

I saw this thread this morning after I got a call last night. My wife and I were outside of Birmingham AL last night near the town or Calera. My phone rang and I took the off ramp to Calera. It was a friend of mine that knows I dow excavation work. His daughter was in a car accident...

Im looking at one of the 3 forsale. I will post a few pics when I get home on thrsday. Im getting ready to go back home lol.

My wife and I are in St. Augustine Florida on our 3rd Anniverary trip. We have seen 4 Dueces 3 of them forsale. Thes first one is on Anastasia Island and is a driving sign for the Gator Farm there. Its got a huge fiberglass Pi$$ed of f Gator in the back for display. The other 3...

WM great looking tractor, I fixed an injector line on the Cat compactor at work. THe #1 injector line snapped as the shop that built it last year didnt put the clamps on it. Cat had one 2 days away so I undid one end and slipped a section of 5/16 ID tubing overthe joint over...

Great lookig dogs you got there, Im glad to see I m not the only one here with White Sheperds. I have 4 at the moment Lily my oldest is the the great grand pup of my first 2 I had when i was 9. She will ride in a DM Mack without the passenger seat all day then get on the dozer with...

Old nine car carhauler trailer ramps make good light ramps. I just sold a set to a man that has a duece a few towns ver to haul his mud buggy in. THey used to be cheap but scrappers have claimed most of them as they are extruded aluminum. I dont have a Duece yet and my wife informed...

If I getthe job Ill mount the tank lower and add a baffles. The IH is a hheavy spec truck 44k bogey under it. THe old tank looks like a water tower on the MV lol.

We load our rolloff containers on soft ground and load them by letting the the truck roll back and let the reeving winch pull truck under the can. We have a line of 40 and 20 yard cans. We leave the drivers door open so the driver can apply brakes as needed. ANd we...

If you met these folks and saw the rig youd completely understand it. THe bumper looked like warmed over crap. The tank is about 1.5 feet off the deck of the tank without baffles lol. I think I heard banjos while I was there. Its good looking truck minus the red brushed on...

I was given a lead on an MV they said it was a 2 ton but the Fenders are really long and alot of room from the rear of the tire to the fender. The truck is now a tanker for a VFD. It had a halfa$$ed giant dirt dobber welder bumper welded onto it. anda Cage and a tank on the...

If you can get some TM numbers I might can find some, Im heading a bookstore in Florida this week and have a list to look up for folks. Good chance the ywill have it.

Im just a newby dumbA$$ but Im more familiar with Air brakes. Is the parking brake on a Deuce mechanical with a cable the axles shoes ore does it have a drum/ disc on the back of the transmission/ transferr case. The reason I ask is a few years ago I had a friend get...

Well folks ot was a too good to be true deal. The man had 3 good wrenches in the pile and the rest were junk. Not good old worn out tools just junk in ammo boxes. Turns out he works for an import sales company that sells cheaper stuff than harbor frieght. Turns out he had...