Big Trucks that go ChiSshhhhh

[BuckSkin]

Eastbound Cumberland Parkway
On the South side of Cumberland Parkway at Exit 14

Photos Taken from a Moving Vehicle

Wednesday_10-June-2020
D & B Trucks and Equipment

[BuckSkin]

Russell County - Kentucky
Wednesday_31-August-2022

This 379 Peterbilt is pulling a Merritt "Cattle Drive" double-deck livestock trailer.

Read about it HERE and HERE.


I know this truck; it is One Road Eating Monster !
Throttle it and you cannot lean forward in the seat.

[BuckSkin]

Southbound US Hwy 127 - Clinton County - Kentucky
Photo Taken through the glass of a Moving Vehicle
Wednesday_10-June-2020
Bucyrus-Erie Well Drilling Rig mounted on an Autocar Truck


These two trucks are on the West side of US Hwy 127, just South of the Russell/Clinton County Line.

I am going to speculate and say that the reason a man who owns a Cable Well Rig also owns a Louisville Line Ford Fire Tanker is due to the huge amount of water necessary for the drilling process.

Cable rigs have mostly been replaced by air-rotary drilling rigs.

A cable rig can drill from 25 feet to 60 feet of hard rock per day. An Air-rotary Drillcat top head rig equipped with down-the-hole (DTH) hammer can drill 500 feet or more per day.

However, cable rig "percussion drilling" is still the most feasible drilling method for large diameter, deep bedrock wells.

Whereas a rotary drill tends to seal off small feeder streams, the impact of the cable rig fractures the rock and increases the water flow into the well.

Via a cable, these rigs raise and drop a drill with a heavy carbide tipped drilling bit that chisels through the rock by finely pulverizing the subsurface materials.

The drill is comprised of the upper drill rods, a set of "jars" (inter-locking "sliders" that help transmit additional energy to the drill bit and assist in removing the bit if it is stuck) and the drill bit.

During the drilling process, the drill is periodically removed from the borehole and a bailer is lowered to collect the drill cuttings.

The bailer is a bucket-like tool with a trapdoor in the base. If the borehole is dry, water is added so that the drill cuttings will flow into the bailer.
When lifted, the trapdoor closes and the cuttings are then raised and removed.

Since the drill must be raised and lowered to advance the boring, a well-casing is installed to prevent the upper earthen portion of the borehole from caving in on itself.
For the same reason, this casing stays in the well after drilling is completed.

The casing also prevents ground water from entering the well.

Cable rigs are very loud when operating; they make a sound all their own.
They have a very distinct rhythmic echoing clang similar to the sound of someone trying to smash a big iron kettle with a sledge-hammer.
This rhythmic clanging continues over and over for hours on end and can be heard for miles; if you have ever heard one of these rigs operating, you will always remember that sound.

The world record cable rig well was drilled in New York to a depth of almost 12,000 feet.
The Bucyrus-Erie 22 can drill down to about 1,100 feet.
Since cable rig drilling does not use air to eject the drilling chips, instead using a cable strung bailer, technically there is no limitation on depth; it is entirely possible to drill plumb through the earth.

This SHORT VIDEO will explain the process; however, the sound has been replaced.

This 56-minute VIDEO gives a better feel for what is going on; you can hear the rhythmic pounding sound at about the 46-minute mark; go ahead and watch the whole thing though; you might learn something.

This 10-minute VIDEO at about the 7:30 mark.

To really appreciate the sound these make, you need to be off about a thousand yards or more.

[BuckSkin]

Clear Springs Road - Half Acre Road - Russell County - Kentucky
Thursday_15-September-2022
Ford LTL 9000_1981-1998


Silage Truck

This has been and could once again be a beautiful truck.

It could look like THIS

Or it could even look like THIS

Read about the L-Series at Wikipedia

[pontiac1940]

I'll try to get some silage corn photos. There are close to one million feedlot beef cattle in this county and a lot of silage corn is produced. 

RE: silage packing. Of course, BuckSkin, you know this. Others might not be aware. 

High packing density will minimize dry matter (DM) and nutrient losses during ensiling, storage and feedout.

If too much air is present or if carbon dioxide escapes, respiration will continue and the plant cells will use too much sugar and carbohydrates. This wastes nutrients needed by the desirable bacteria to "pickle" or preserve the green material as silage. This is why packing and covering immediately after filling is important.
 

[BuckSkin]

Clear Springs Road - Half Acre Road - Russell County - Kentucky
Friday_16-September-2022
1985 Freightliner FLC120 Setback Axle with Dion XLS Silage Box


A plate under the leading edge of the driver door says Energy Saver II; I somehow doubt the accuracy of the label.

This setback axle version was only produced 1984-1987.

The bed on this truck does not raise and dump; instead, it has a walking conveyor floor.

Read about the silage box HERE

Read about the truck HERE

[BuckSkin]

Friday_21-October-2022
Tilt Hood International Harvester Loadstar 1700_1972-1978



Manufactured between 1962 and 1978.
Butterfly Hood 1962-1971
Tilt Hood 1972-1978

In the photo, it is sitting in Mick's soybean field, along with numerous other trucks and gravity-bed wagons, loaded with soybeans.

Wikipedia

Cab Ride

[BuckSkin]

Tuesday_01-November-2022
Central Transport
Peterbilt 579 Day-cab w/Grille Guard


Truck #211819
Trailer #2242047

Travelling South on US Hwy 127

LTL(Less than Trailer Load) Transport based in Louisville, Lexington, and Knoxville

[BuckSkin]

Tuesday_01-November-2022
Tarter Gate Truck #136


Pulling an open top Wood-chip/Saw-Dust Trailer

Travelling North on US Hwy 127; less than ten miles from home base in Dunnville, Kentucky

[BuckSkin]

Wednesday_11-January-2023
Standing in my driveway to take these photos.
Case W-20C Articulated Loader




1980-1989
Engine: Case A504BD 504ci Liquid-cooled 6-cylinder Diesel
(Although I saw several for sale claiming a 6B Cummins engine)
123 hp
Transmission: Power Shift 4 Forward - 2 Reverse
Operating Weight: 25,050 lbs w/2.5yd bucket (weight varies depending on attachments)
Weight: 22,735 lbs w/no attachments/no bucket

GMC C9500 with a Late Model Brigadier Hood




The truck is a GMC C9500 with 93"BBC and a Tilt Hood, manufactured between 1966 and 1972.

A common occurence on these trucks, a later model Brigadier hood has been retrofitted.

Note the three back windows.

Also note the round cab-lights; I have looked at hundreds and haven't seen another with them.






Thanks for looking; I hope you enjoy them.

[pontiac1940]

Mar 31, 2023 1:57:23 GMT BuckSkin said:

Also note the round cab-lights; I have looked at hundreds and haven't seen another with them.

That truck has probably turned a few miles, eh? 
Would those lights be after-market then? i.e. added later or replaced the original lights? 

 

[BuckSkin]

Mar 31, 2023 2:07:09 GMT pontiac1940 said:

Would those lights be after-market then?

Most likely they are aftermarket and not meant to be cab-lights; actual chrome/stainless torpedo cab-lights are from fifty to seventy bucks apiece; while those round plastic one are more like three bucks each; I must say, though, the rubber seals look to fit and conform pretty good.

Were that my truck, I would be looking for an original hood and add the proper cab-lights.

Judging by the five-digit truck number on the rear corner of the cab and the color, I am going to surmise that that truck was originally a Yellow Freight truck built to pull double and triple trailers.

If so, even though it is not tandem, you can bet there is a powerhouse under the hood.

[BuckSkin]

379 Peterbilt w/New Leader Lime Spreader



In the distance is another 379 Peterbilt, that one pulling a 5700-gallon fuel tanker.



Trucks at Jax
Russell Springs - Russell County - Kentucky
Wednesday_29-March-2023





New Leader Spreader Bed

To the locals around here, this is known as a "Lime Truck" ; they go to the local rock quarry and load with powder-fine agricultural limestone (Calcium Carbonate).

Once loaded, the truck pulls across the big in-ground Fairbanks & Morse scales to weigh and get a scale ticket.

After weighing, seeing as how the lime is powder-fine and no heavier than dust, they pull over, out of the way of other quarry/scale traffic, and use the provided high volume fire hose to saturate the load so that it won't all blow away as the truck travels at highway speeds.

The wet lime is then covered with an automatic roller tarp, controlled from the driver seat.

Once the loaded truck arrives at the farm, he rolls the tarp and pulls into the field where the spreader bed is engaged and he proceeds to spread the lime all over the ground.

The rear of the spreader has two opposing rapidly whirling spreader blades; these whirling blades are fed by a conveyor chain that drags through a channel at the bottom of the bed.

The bed sides angle inward to funnel the lime into this conveyor channel. WATCH THE 4-minute VIDEO

The whirling spreader blades cast the lime about four to six truck widths either side of the truck.

Back in the good ol' days, experience and a good eye for distance insured that the entire surface of the field was evenly covered with no missed strips and no overlapping.

Nowadays, a little satellite beacon on top of the cab is wired into a monitor screen in view of the driver.

The driver first enters the width of the spreader coverage and drives all around the perimeter of the field; this yields a map of the field on the monitor screen and tells how many acres are inside the boundary no matter how many ins and outs the field may have.

This first establishing lap around the boundary is already painted in on the monitor screen map.

The driver watches the screen and continues going around or to and fro until he has painted in the entire field on the monitor screen.

If he gets too far toward already covered ground, lights flash and a warning signal alerts him that he needs to move farther over; if he gets too far in the other direction, away from the covered ground, such that he would leave a strip uncovered, the monitor will alert him with a different signal.

Actually, if you don't care just how deep in debt you go, there are devices that can be installed in the truck that will do the steering for you; however, this is steep as a mule's face Kentucky, complete with bottomless hollers and huge sinkholes just waiting to swallow truck, driver, load, and all; so, anyone with any sense is going to want to do the driving themselves.

This exact same spreader bed can be used to spread fertilizer; but then, it is no longer a "Lime Truck", it is a "Fertilize Truck."

[BuckSkin]

Friday_14-April-2023

2008 GMC C7500 - Isusu Diesel - Automatic

An Ex-Department of Highways truck.

Powered by a 476ci inline six-cylinder Isusu diesel badged as a Duramax 7.8 L LG4 Diesel I6

This truck is equipped with front snow-blade attachments.

This truck is somewhat unique for a rock truck in that, instead of a big single cylinder tower hoist, it has a twin-cylinder scissor hoist.

I'll let somebody else drive this one; I hate an automatic.

[BuckSkin]

Friday_14-April-2023

1992 L9000 "Louisville Line" Ford
300 Cummins
9-Speed

Back when America was strong, Ford had a plant in Louisville, Kentucky, specifically for building these trucks; they had acres and acres of them sitting there, waiting to be shipped out.

Please pardon the tree limbs; sometimes one has to take the only shot offered.