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I gotta go through my grandfathers stuff I bet the info is there :rolleyes:

HOLY crap :eek: Nate you just gave me an Idea for scrappy to use as a temporary dump mechanism till I make the cylinder for it :D.

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Have you tried Hank's Truck site?
Cheer's,Neil.

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That was the 1st place I tried Neil and the search brought me nothing, as most of the pics are not individually named. :(

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Wow that amazing, I've never seen that sort of old school dump trailer. Amazingly simple but kind of effective. That would be a really neat build to be pulled behind an old b model mack or a crazy old brockway/ autocar.

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Maybe, Joe. I never really heard of anyone using one for anything besides the tow truck bodies. I would think even a weak winch could still dump a trailer. Make a couple loops with the cable. A block and tackle would double or triple the pull pretty easily.

Do some digging, and let me know! Scrappy would be cool as a cable dump.

I thought the same thing. A really great, and prototypical alternative to screw drives, and hydraulics! You read my thoughts exactly about a nice vintage truck trailer combo. Lets just say I'm working on it.

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Perhaps you'll have your 1st running rc trk... ever? :p :D

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No kidding, right? I won't know what to do with a real, functional, driveable RC semi truck! :D

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Nathan, the only way I see having a real, functional, drivable RC semi truck is finding some else to build a kit and hand it to us RTR. I can't even build a simple tamiya pole trailer without reworking and modifying the s##t out of it!
All seriousness aside this cable dump defiantly would be a fun build to tackle, I just hope hydraulics aren't outdated by the time it's done!:p:p:D

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It'll probably be 5yrs, maybe 4, that I attend the next St Louis meet... think you can get it done by then & I'll pick you up along the way? :D

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These trailers look very nice, nice change compared to the regular dumps.

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Tell me about it! But then again, who wants a cookie cutter rig anyway? 3/4 of the fun is building one and making it your own. I just......get a little carried away sometimes! :D

It'd be a little out of your way, Joe, to come pick me up, but okay! I should have something done by then. :D

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So, Nathan, when are you going to drop the bomb on everyone?

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When I'm done building it. :) Speaking of that, I should get off the forum. I'm not going to get it finished if I sit here all night!

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Nathan I don't know if you realize this or not but when those trailers were around the tractor were single axles and those trailers weren't very long. To give you an idea of what I'm talking about the one I drove was a 20 foot trailer with a 260 Brockway with a 5 speed trans. You didn't have many super highways mostly what you would call back roads today. Ed

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Ed, I haven't found a lot of photos, other then what I posted here, but I did notice all the trucks were single axles. In the prints, at least some of the trailers are tandems. For the sake of 'play value', if I build anything, both the truck and trailer will be tadem axle, but I'm not sure how long the trailer will end up being. It would be nice if it could still take at least as much load as a straight frame dump truck. Thanks for the tip though! Back then, it would have been great to have thought about snapping some photos! Those old pieces of equipment have almost all disappeared today.

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Dang it! I'm not home to search my library. I might have some pictures for you, just need more than a 34 hour restart to find them.
Cheers, Neil.

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Anything you can find would be great, Neil. I'm not in a hurry for photos, just yet. I have a truck to finish first.

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LOL that makes two of us...my king runs, just needs tweaking ang a new controller. N the globe is a work in progress.

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I'm out for another week, oh well pay the bills and look forward to summer.
I'm itching to order a couple of king haulers, so I can start an oil field truck.
Cheer's, Neil.