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I went up to Heber AZ yesterday to recover my M275A1. The tractor was at an auto shop, it had sat in front next to Hwy 260 for two years. I had asked the owner to air up the tires for the trip. 2 of the tires did not have valve stems, the tubes had disapeared into the tire. Kenny had suggested that I pull it with only 4 tires on the rear. The previous owner was a great guy, he had his shop guys do all the work on the tires.
I put a rotating beacon on the 5th wheel and magnet lights on the back. The trip was 250 miles from Heber to Tucson. Heber is at about 7000 ft. so lots of very mountainous roads and many 6% grades up and down for many miles. Once I got used to it, I was able anticipate its behavior. Drove 45-50 mhp in the mountains. Stayed far away from other vehicles, braking was abit longer, still had good braking power, my F350 has an engine brake so that held me on the down hills real well.
Once I got down to the desert on I-10 to Tucson, I set the cruise control at 60. It was very stable. Trip was flawless. I pulled it to Jack's Government Surplus, Jack and his son Josh are going to prepare the tractor over the next week for the trip to Pendelton to recover the semi-trailer M128A2C. I've got an 800 mile round trip in it week after next so farmed the work out to Jack. His shop rate is $40hr. Going with new 11x20's as well.
The truck has about 4300 miles on it & 102 hrs on the hr meter. Jack said that the mirrors on it were 10 ton mirrors.
Anyway, the last picture is my Deuce Tractor next to one of Jack's 5 ton tractors. Jack showed me more of his rare trucks last night, he has over 1000 trucks, deuce wreckers, wreckers of every flavor, gassers, diesels, evan an experimental one a big boom that rests over the front of the truck. It has an XM(don't remember the rest) number. He showed me a complete WWII welding truck with only 1900 miles on it. He has lots of 5 ton gassers.
I'll take my camera into his yard when I go back down to get the tractor.
I put a rotating beacon on the 5th wheel and magnet lights on the back. The trip was 250 miles from Heber to Tucson. Heber is at about 7000 ft. so lots of very mountainous roads and many 6% grades up and down for many miles. Once I got used to it, I was able anticipate its behavior. Drove 45-50 mhp in the mountains. Stayed far away from other vehicles, braking was abit longer, still had good braking power, my F350 has an engine brake so that held me on the down hills real well.
Once I got down to the desert on I-10 to Tucson, I set the cruise control at 60. It was very stable. Trip was flawless. I pulled it to Jack's Government Surplus, Jack and his son Josh are going to prepare the tractor over the next week for the trip to Pendelton to recover the semi-trailer M128A2C. I've got an 800 mile round trip in it week after next so farmed the work out to Jack. His shop rate is $40hr. Going with new 11x20's as well.
The truck has about 4300 miles on it & 102 hrs on the hr meter. Jack said that the mirrors on it were 10 ton mirrors.
Anyway, the last picture is my Deuce Tractor next to one of Jack's 5 ton tractors. Jack showed me more of his rare trucks last night, he has over 1000 trucks, deuce wreckers, wreckers of every flavor, gassers, diesels, evan an experimental one a big boom that rests over the front of the truck. It has an XM(don't remember the rest) number. He showed me a complete WWII welding truck with only 1900 miles on it. He has lots of 5 ton gassers.
I'll take my camera into his yard when I go back down to get the tractor.
really clean.
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It is way better shape then mine. I wish mine was as clean as yours, but then I would have had to pay a lot more then the $1,200 I gave for mine.
