Pid 1831 Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 Thank you guys. That is obvious now you mention it. I spent ten minutes pondering that before I asked Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DR.EVIL Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 5 hours ago, Pid 1831 said: Doctor Evil. You mention, "Finger print loads." What may I ask are finger print loads.? It's a load that EVERY box, crate, bag, whatever has a complete set of your finger prints on it. I never had that problem, I WORE GLOVES! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pid 1831 Posted September 13, 2018 Share Posted September 13, 2018 3 hours ago, DOCTOR EVIL said: It's a load that EVERY box, crate, bag, whatever has a complete set of your finger prints on it. I never had that problem, I WORE GLOVES! Thanks for the reply. I'm glad you were careful to break the chain of evidence ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redneckchevy9 Posted September 13, 2018 Author Share Posted September 13, 2018 4 hours ago, DOCTOR EVIL said: It's a load that EVERY box, crate, bag, whatever has a complete set of your finger prints on it. I never had that problem, I WORE GLOVES! While most of the time, a forklift or skid loader will take it off my truck, I still have to use the pallet jack to get it to the back of my truck. As far as fingerprints...I dont know if I qualify, but I do build my own loads in the warehouse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redneckchevy9 Posted September 13, 2018 Author Share Posted September 13, 2018 On 9/8/2018 at 7:48 AM, DOCTOR EVIL said: When I drove over the road out of Davenport, one of the runs I made pretty frequently was taking a load to Eagle Foods, Lucky Stores Westville Indiana warehouse, load would be anything from a load of plastic bags, ketchup, dog food, then we delivered a 45,000# load of groceries to a suburban Chicago-land Eagles store. 22 skids in a 45 ft trailer, light weight paper goods in nose and back, HEAVY canned goods in the middle, actually saw an Eagle's trailer in the intersection of 79th Street and Western Ave that the center of the trailer buckled and dropped onto the pavement from being loaded like that. Then went to a Chicago area warehouse, loaded and dropped the load at Eagles in Milan. Eagles....I slightly remember that store. There was a good family friend that worked in the warehouse in Milan I believe...Wayne Meier was his name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redneckchevy9 Posted September 13, 2018 Author Share Posted September 13, 2018 On 9/12/2018 at 7:03 AM, DOCTOR EVIL said: If you can get in the area, We met our friends for supper one night at the Breitbach Restaurant in Balltown, Iowa, be a great place for you to grab lunch, and just north and west on Balltown Road of the restaurant is a scenic overlook to catch up on paperwork in and snap a couple pictures. Bet you can see 2-3 miles across the valley. I tried to take another way home some days when I was driving, but hard to maneuver a 45 ft trailer some places on the Scenic River Road. The most I get into IA is to our warehouse in Cascade. When I leave Fulton on Tues. and Thurs., I go there first to pick some mixes, etc... and then continue my route thru Dubuque and yonder crossing the Cheddar Curtain. A couple months ago I will to Sigourney, IA for a customer. That is the deepest I get into Hawkeye land Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rainman Posted September 14, 2018 Share Posted September 14, 2018 22 hours ago, redneckchevy9 said: I'm not sure, it is near Mineral Point exit. The other guy mentioned it to me and said keep your eye out....he remembers like a 2x4 shoved in the wall with jeans and 2 boots. Years ago I stopped & took a couple pics. I'll see if I can find them...Bee n a while since I've passed thru. I've only seen a work boot sticking in the wall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve C. Posted September 14, 2018 Share Posted September 14, 2018 When I was in the feed business, we had box trucks delivering 7 tons of bagged feed. Every driver unloaded and stacked 280 bags every day, sometimes in some pretty crappy places, like little old grain bins with braces across the door, dusty old barns, etc. Didn't make me want to sign up for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redneckchevy9 Posted September 14, 2018 Author Share Posted September 14, 2018 1 hour ago, Steve C. said: When I was in the feed business, we had box trucks delivering 7 tons of bagged feed. Every driver unloaded and stacked 280 bags every day, sometimes in some pretty crappy places, like little old grain bins with braces across the door, dusty old barns, etc. Didn't make me want to sign up for it. I haven't ran across any of those situations yet, but I sure did while delivering for Golden Harvest...plenty of old and dirty quansit huts. Most of my pallets weigh 1 ton and I can fit 10 pallets in my truck (without stacking a couple ones). Usually the bag pallets ain't to bad to move around, but the white bulk bags can be heavy..I always looking for a little lean downhill when I am moving those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redneckchevy9 Posted September 14, 2018 Author Share Posted September 14, 2018 This was a big cheese factory in Bermuda Ken's backyard in Juda. I couldnt get the whole place in one shot...it is a big place. #2 is just a quick snap of my truck #9. It has a 350hp Cummins in it matched to a 10 speed. It is a nice riding truck, just a tad short on power in some of those WI hills. I have only had to shift down to 8 a couple times, usually dropping down to 9 does the trick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wes806 Posted September 14, 2018 Share Posted September 14, 2018 Like your truck there. Bet it rides nice with a load Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redneckchevy9 Posted September 15, 2018 Author Share Posted September 15, 2018 On 9/6/2018 at 8:10 AM, DOCTOR EVIL said: Ahhh, Rainman, AKA Paul beat me to the House on the Rock. Hope you went north of Dodgeville, past Don Q Inn, Farrah Fawcett autographed that I did see that place and that big airplane...I wondered what it was all about. I dont get the connection to the airplane, but it sure grabs your attention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redneckchevy9 Posted September 15, 2018 Author Share Posted September 15, 2018 On 9/14/2018 at 6:00 AM, Wes806 said: Like your truck there. Bet it rides nice with a load It does ride nice, but I made a mistake. #9 has a CAT in it, not a Cummins...truck #10 has the Cummins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redneckchevy9 Posted September 15, 2018 Author Share Posted September 15, 2018 This is truck #10..it has the 350horse Cummins, not a CAT as I previously mentioned. Same tranny in this one as #9 it's just a couple years newer and has the heavy front end as you can see. There is no need to downshift in this truck. It will pretty much pull any hill I have encountered so far except for one or 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sledgehammer Posted September 15, 2018 Share Posted September 15, 2018 Nice looking rigs. I remember the days delivering seed by hand off of flat beds and out of box trucks. The customers always had weird storage locations like into chicken coops, grain bins, and grain trucks. Really fun when the guy didn't show up and you had to handle it all 2-3 times to get it off the truck and into position. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redneckchevy9 Posted September 15, 2018 Author Share Posted September 15, 2018 2 hours ago, Sledgehammer said: Nice looking rugs Thank you...we are looking into getting a new one in the near future. Each truck has around 500k on them. I need to get the cutter bars and buffing wheel out and give the tanks and diamond plate some attention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
new guy Posted September 15, 2018 Share Posted September 15, 2018 Tell em to get you automatics next go round so you can eat your fresh cheese curds going up and down the Sconny hills... I am not a fan of 10spds. Give me a 13 spd please. I have grown fond of the automatics now. A little more sluggish in the hills but going thru the little towns and some stop and go traffic i don't miss all the shifting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jass1660 Posted September 15, 2018 Share Posted September 15, 2018 21 minutes ago, new guy said: Tell em to get you automatics next go round so you can eat your fresh cheese curds going up and down the Sconny hills... I am not a fan of 10spds. Give me a 13 spd please. I have grown fond of the automatics now. A little more sluggish in the hills but going thru the little towns and some stop and go traffic i don't miss all the shifting. Auto shift in rush hour Chicago traffic=priceless! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redneckchevy9 Posted September 15, 2018 Author Share Posted September 15, 2018 41 minutes ago, new guy said: Tell em to get you automatics next go round so you can eat your fresh cheese curds going up and down the Sconny hills... I am not a fan of 10spds. Give me a 13 spd please. I have grown fond of the automatics now. A little more sluggish in the hills but going thru the little towns and some stop and go traffic i don't miss all the shifting. That is the talk. The boss knows my background in trucks and is looking for my input. Auto was brought up and I have drove a few newer KW with autos and can't complain. Small towns are the devil and most of my days are spent on 2 lanes and small towns. For some reason, all WI towns seem to be 25mph. I dont like cheese! ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jass1660 Posted September 15, 2018 Share Posted September 15, 2018 Sad to say that auto shift is now standard in new trucks and manual trans are the option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
new guy Posted September 15, 2018 Share Posted September 15, 2018 You will appreciate the auto on the winding roads paired with the jake brake. Tell the boss to bump the HP about 50 for the auto. Wish i had auto back when i had to fight the Chicago mess pulling a 7000 gal smooth bore tanker. Dont get me wrong, i still like to get in my old POS Freightliner with the 3406B Cat and row thru the 13 spd hauling grain to town but on a daily grind i DO NOT miss shifting gears. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redneckchevy9 Posted September 16, 2018 Author Share Posted September 16, 2018 14 hours ago, new guy said: You will appreciate the auto on the winding roads paired with the jake brake. Tell the boss to bump the HP about 50 for the auto. Wish i had auto back when i had to fight the Chicago mess pulling a 7000 gal smooth bore . A jake is a must. When I was trying to decide on which straight truck to buy for the lumberyard, I drove the new vocational Freightliner truck with Allison auto in it. I was very impressed in the hills as it down shifted nicely and I never got the sense of "coasting" down some big hills, which I liked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redneckchevy9 Posted September 17, 2018 Author Share Posted September 17, 2018 Boring bi-weekly trip to the Signourny, IA area...lots of time spend on I80. The Kinze complex still amazes me each time I take that exit. I had to stop by a turn of the century warehouse on the way home to pick some pallets of empty bags to bring back to the plant...this warehouse is really cool on the inside. I just thought the last picture made my truck look mean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hillskinefarms Posted September 17, 2018 Share Posted September 17, 2018 Mentioning going to Signourny, IA made me think of the actress Sigourney Weaver. Man, my mind is wandering tonight........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redneckchevy9 Posted September 17, 2018 Author Share Posted September 17, 2018 22 minutes ago, hillskinefarms said: Mentioning going to Signourny, IA made me think of the actress Sigourney Weaver. Man, my mind is wandering tonight........ Is it bad I have no idea who that is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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