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Old Jul 4, 2018 | 03:14 AM
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I found this beast in the 4 corners area of NM, probably an old oil patch truck;





its sitting on the side of the road with "For Sale" spray painted on the back of it.

Looks like fun huh?
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That sure would've given that poor operator a headache eh?
 
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Old Jul 5, 2018 | 09:47 PM
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Here are some working trucks I've found on the internet. Maybe theyve been posted before but worth seeing again.






 
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Old Jul 5, 2018 | 10:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Mervy49
That sure would've given that poor operator a headache eh?
That is precisely why some people should not be allowed to work with metal.

 
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Old Jul 6, 2018 | 09:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Mervy49
That sure would've given that poor operator a headache eh?
LOL, yea. It would make the drive from town out to the patch a little interesting.
This truck has since been sold (well, at least its not sitting out where it was anymore)

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Old Jul 11, 2018 | 09:18 PM
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Here are two Big Jobs that did their share of the work back in their day


 
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Old Aug 4, 2018 | 07:16 PM
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My 54 F-100 doesn't do much work anymore since I bought my 55 F-350 flatbed. But I put her to work today. I run a soccer camp for our club. It starts next week, kids 5-14. Each camper gets a T-shirt, a water bottle and a ball. So I took the ***** and the water bottles over to our fields in Old Betsy. It was light duty and nothing that could scuff or scratch the bed. I am expecting 85 campers. So there were about 85 ***** in the bed.



And while I was there I mowed 3 of our 4 fields. I mowed them all on Thursday, but central PA has gotten so much rain the grass is growing like gangbusters! It would have been too high by Monday. The 4th field I'll get Monday after camp....
 
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Old Aug 4, 2018 | 09:58 PM
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My 54 F-100 doesn't do much work anymore since I bought my 55 F-350 flatbed. But I put her to work today. I run a soccer camp for our club. It starts next week, kids 5-14. Each camper gets a T-shirt, a water bottle and a ball. So I took the ***** and the water bottles over to our fields in Old Betsy. It was light duty and nothing that could scuff or scratch the bed. I am expecting 85 campers. So there were about 85 ***** in the bed.
And while I was there I mowed 3 of our 4 fields. I mowed them all on Thursday, but central PA has gotten so much rain the grass is growing like gangbusters! It would have been too high by Monday. The 4th field I'll get Monday after camp....
So, you're working harder than the truck, right?
 
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Old Aug 4, 2018 | 11:39 PM
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So, you're working harder than the truck, right?
Thats right! Ask me on Friday how it went with 85 to 90 kids!
 
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Old Aug 6, 2018 | 08:15 AM
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It sounds like fun abe. A good use for you truck. Let us know how it goes.
 
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Old Aug 6, 2018 | 08:19 AM
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Originally Posted by abe
My 54 F-100 doesn't do much work anymore since I bought my 55 F-350 flatbed. But I put her to work today. I run a soccer camp for our club. It starts next week, kids 5-14. Each camper gets a T-shirt, a water bottle and a ball. So I took the ***** and the water bottles over to our fields in Old Betsy. It was light duty and nothing that could scuff or scratch the bed. I am expecting 85 campers. So there were about 85 ***** in the bed.



And while I was there I mowed 3 of our 4 fields. I mowed them all on Thursday, but central PA has gotten so much rain the grass is growing like gangbusters! It would have been too high by Monday. The 4th field I'll get Monday after camp....
Nobody could ever accuse you of not having any ***** abe...
 
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Old Aug 6, 2018 | 08:50 AM
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Hi Abe,

I hope You counted the ***** after the trip to the soccer-field. Did all the ***** make it to the field or how many are on the run on Central-PA-roads? Nice job! I bet, the kids will have a wonderful camp!
 
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Old Aug 6, 2018 | 04:14 PM
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Thanks, guys. We had a good session this morning. We ended up with 92 campers ages 4 thru 14. I had to order some more *****. And the weather looks good this week after a couple weeks of rain.
 
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Old Aug 21, 2018 | 11:13 PM
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Working truck in the rain

I was trimming bushes for an widowed friend of mine yesterday and today. Today I had to trim two wysteria bushes/vines. I had a window of 115 minutes with no rain according to AccuWeather. Well I didn't get it done before it started raining again.... This has been the wettest summer in central PA since 2003....

So before I ran to the landfill I took a pic of my working truck in the rain.


 
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Old Aug 23, 2018 | 10:46 AM
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I found this picture on Facebook. It looks like at least four 1953 Big Jobs, one of which is a Deluxe model. The others are Autocars. I don't know the year of them. The concrete company is Kern Rock in I think Kern County, CA.
kern county is not all that far from me about 150 miles or so
 
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Old Sep 1, 2018 | 04:11 PM
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I sure love my truck. Mowing our yard. Or what’s left of it. We have someone looking at it Sunday. Also loading some stuff out of the garage. Gonna move a little bit at a time until the house sales.
 
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