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OK, as I said earlier, we went down to Truro this evening and picked up the International!
Kenny came over banging on the door, said "we gotta go! i got till 8pm and then my hours are up!" He'd been delivering excavators all day with the Freightliner, and the alternator went on him late this afternoon. It just came out of Fred's shop down the road a bit (Fred Dunphy is the owner of the equipment, Kenny is his brother) and she was ready for a road test! Fawkin-A! I am game for this! Best neighbors in the universe.
We loaded up the CJ, and hoped the drums on the International weren't frozen in time, or we'd be in a hard way to get it loaded.
This is Kenny's heavy hauler rig for the big equipment, Fred has a wack of gear all over the place that needs to be moved all the time. Its all air ride, and the trailer is a detachable neck. Should tow the CJ pretty good. lol
Lots of stainless and chome on this rig, she's a beauty! '94 with 1.3 million kms.
On the road, and its threatening to rain.....Some woman tries to drive into the side of the truck at Fall River, we need to get over on the rumble strip to not destroy her. Moron! How can you not see this beside you?
the rain is holding off, and we figure out how to situate the rig and trailer to load the '52 COE.
I couldn't move it at first....turned around, got geared down into low and 6:1, and the fella I bought it off geared up the chain to give downpressure to the Jeep's tires when I was pulling...turns out he is a retired tow guy. He was suitably impressed with the CJ. I don't think he thought it would move the truck.
Well the CJ got the COE budged, but its dragging the rear tires on one side
Eugene, the previous owner, produces a sledge hammer for Kenny to beat on the drum. I so glad these guys know what they are doing, because I don't!
It worked! She's rolling free, the 360/T18 CJ has no problem moving the weight once its free'd up.
We pulled the cabover over to the trailer, and unhooked the CJ.
I backed the CJ up on the trailer in preparation to winch the International up on the trailer. I couldn't imagine trying to get the truck up over a regular float. Nice to have the good gear.
The 12K Tabor and yellow Optima *just* about stalled getting the front wheels up the bump, but after that it was a breeze to pull the COE up. It really couldn't have got any smoother, the plan worked perfect!!!
Check out all my stuff! ;D I'm sooooo excited! Que up the soaking downpour of rain during the securing of the load.
The big Freightliner backs in and picks up the trailer again, and Kenny expertly backs the whole shebang down the narrow driveway, and we are on our way! Eugene and I shake hands one more time, and he asks me to keep him updated on the progess of the rig. He was kinda sad to see it go, but he couldn't work on it anymore, bad shoulders, so he was happy to see it go to a good home.
the COE is loaded backwards, so i was kinda paranoid about the doors flying open and destroying the cab...we had to stop to tie 'em up a little better, and we grabbed a coffee for the ride home. No one tried to drive under the truck this time at least, and the scale by-passed us, smooth sailing!
Home safe! Kenny pulled the COE off with a backhoe, and we stuffed it on my little grass lot behind the shop for the night. I have to re-arrange my shop parking tommorrow, then when Kenny gets home from work, we will situate the COE in front of the garage so I can pick at it, and it wil be mostly out of the way at the same time.
I can't thank enough my neighbor Kenny who did this for a coffee, and Fred Dunphy for the equipment. THANK YOU!!!!Tommorrow I can crawl all over the COE and get some specs and whatnot. I've found some IH forums on the intarweb, and they are pretty stoked on my rig. Very rare!!!!!
That's all for now.