Underdog

Well i have been working on this truck
since first part of the year. I do not have a shop or alot of money, so it goes slow.
Got it cleaned up and back in working order (I Thought).
It has an 8.3 Cummins and 6spd trans.
Anyway; got it together enough to get some work out of it.
Cleared and hauled alot of brush and such out of the fields. That went pretty well; One place was kind of steep and the truck rolled abit while loading; (Put that in my memory bank).
Today i got the top pins for the tailgate and rigged it for dirt duty.
Load it with about 7yrds of dirt, and head for fields.
Well the big hill into the field was to much for it. Ran out of steam near top. Ok so i try to come to a stop and regroup. very little brakes in reverse just enough to keep it from completly running away. So i ride it through the trees back to the bottom of hill. Wow that was to much fun.
But a have not wrecked yet; so try again. This time i give it the big right boot and spur it to top of hill. Make a mental note (need lower gear and brakes).
Get over to where i needed the dirt and end up with the tail down hill ready to dump into errosion ditch. Well while i am readying the bed to dump it takes off down the hill. I end up with the bed up - tailgate closed - and the truck parked, tail down with the fuel tanks on the ground, in the hole i was trying to bring dirt to.
Oh well did not tear anything up. Got the backhoe
and dug the dirt out of bed, then turned around and pushed the bed back down, then picked the rear of truck up with the loader and pushed the truck back up into field.
> Note to self (no more dirt work till brakes are fixed) and what to do about the pulling power. Have - other rear ends - auxillary trans - would love to try an 8LL - oh well brakes first<.
Other than all that fun and another chore i cannot afford or have time for,
I had a pretty productive day.

Ducati996

The truck looks to still have potential - the bed still has strong enough hydraulics for 7 yrds without a re-haul? The Case looks to be in great shape too

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Underdog

Yes the truck should have life left in it.
It was a lousiana state truck - then an asphalt company had it - Then the people i got it from beat the snot out of it; lucky for it they only terrorized it for about a year.
It had the usual starting to rust out problems it is a 1994 model.
The wiring on chasis was a mess, and assorted minor problems.
The bed is/was fairly new Ox body with telescopic ram. the seals in the ram are weeping abit but it did not even notice 7yrds.
I have alot of heavy steel work to do on the bed where it was abused.
The backhoe looks better in the pictures than in person about a 1991 model. It is starting to want the motor freshend up. Needs the hydrolics flushed and all the pressures checked. I think it was a rental machine and they had the pressures turned down.