![]() ![]() Also drove a 237 one day at around 40 tons and it was clearly beyond it's comfortable limits- Even thought the route was flat as a pancake freeway, it barely made it to that 88 KPH speed limit after a kilometer or too and was running wide open most all the time. It was quite on top of the job, pulling our short small hills in top gear and dropping a gear for the longer grades coming out of the river valleys. I drove a 237 at around 32 tons )metric) back in the 70s when we had an 88 KPH speed limit in the midwest. I love a 237 w/ a 2 stick 6 spd tranny w/ 5 reverse gears. ![]() My granddad that raised me & his foreman laughing their ass off cause I got that load in where his KW COULDNT GO !! I told my pops buddy the only stipulation was he have his D6D LGP Winch Cat ready to pull me out after I was empty & have the money ready !! I had my had out before he put the cable to the truck. Matter fact I made $500 extra on a load when a buddy of my pops bet me when I was 21 yrs old that I couldn't get 20 tons of 57 Rock (code here for oversize limestone like on a railroad ) in a muddy field On a Clearing job my pop & his buddy was doing the time. You may have out ran Red Dog on the road but in the field that ole Bulldog was Hard to beat & out pulled & pulled out a lot of brand X Trucks in the 2O Plus years my grandfather owned that truck. Most of my grandfathers friends ran brand X Trucks & when they got stuck on a job they were doing together it was always Red Dog that pulled them out if a dozer or excavator wasn't available. Top speed on that truck was somewhere around 58mph to 60 mph but didn't hesitate to pull the loads out of the pits & always pulled hard through soft ground loaded. Tn we are allowed 20 tons on a tandem dump & 25 tons on a tri axle I can guarantee that Red Dog carried 30 tons of dirt out of dirt pits & through out The Millington area more times than 1. I Wish I had a dollar for every load of sand, mulch, road gravel, oversize wash gravel, crushed limestone, rip rap, brush from clearing jobs & demolition from jobs we done & of course what was our bread & butter West Tn Red Clay Dirt. We had a 77' DM685S Tandem dump w/ 237 & 2 stick 6spd w/ 5:73 ratio gears double frame 16' bed 18k f/a & 44k r/a.
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