Posted by warbaby on June 09, 2021 at 05:29:59 from (24.247.205.221):
In Reply to: OLD truck pic posted by JerryD on June 08, 2021 at 17:28:07:
An AC Mack. My dad had a friend who used one (with a second one for parts) at his gravel pit up through the mid-1970's. He used it every once and awhile when his equally ancient Northwest dragline would pull a really huge rock out of his gravel run- one that had been pushed there and left a few millennia ago by a melting glacier- and into the old Mack it would go. Then he would dump it along the drive back to the pit with all the other boulders (Glacial Erratics they are called) and sell them to folks who wanted a big rock in their yards to mow around.
I wanted my dad to buy those trucks, but he had no interest in reliving his early excavating years starting and driving them. Eventually, somebody did buy them and they disappeared, replaced by a 1960's Seabee-owned Cat 769 he bought at a surplus auction and drove 60 miles to get it home!
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