Loaded up and trucking!!

[JeepJeep]

Quite like the look of it myself.
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I thought they looked good. Saw them pulling the Ford Rallye team about..

If you look hard and squint a bit there's a modern day Ford Transcontinental right there.

 

[76masseyman]

Seen this one in North Lincolnshire. Only available in left hand drive though, so may suit the into Europe boys.

 

[JeepJeep]

Seen this one in North Lincolnshire. Only available in left hand drive though, so may suit the into Europe boys.

For Sale at Moody's?

 

[JeepJeep]

 

[JeepJeep]

 

[76masseyman]

For Sale at Moody's?

Already sold this one.

 

[adam_farming]

In 2018 I went and did the America 2000 mile harvest. We were based in western Kansas and harvested from northern Texas in May right up to Montana and northern North Dakota, around 60 miles short of Canada. We ran John Deere combines and tractors and International trucks with a Freightliner too. One of the best bits of the job was hauling the combines and equipment from farm to farm, anywhere from 1-200 miles right up to a 3 day 1200 mile run in a 9 vehicle convoy to get back to base at the end of the wheat run. Anyway here’s a few pictures. I’ve lots more if anyone is interested.

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Oh yes!!! Always interested in that sort of thing!

 

[bumkin]

In 2018 I went and did the America 2000 mile harvest. We were based in western Kansas and harvested from northern Texas in May right up to Montana and northern North Dakota, around 60 miles short of Canada. We ran John Deere combines and tractors and International trucks with a Freightliner too. One of the best bits of the job was hauling the combines and equipment from farm to farm, anywhere from 1-200 miles right up to a 3 day 1200 mile run in a 9 vehicle convoy to get back to base at the end of the wheat run. Anyway here’s a few pictures. I’ve lots more if anyone is interested.

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more please

 

[adam_farming]

Oh yes!!! Always interested in that sort of thing!

Well as I said we mainly ran International trucks with a single Freightliner Cascadia in there too (the final red truck in my previous post). They were all second hand and some were over the 1 million mile mark. The red trucks were 9200i models with Eaton Fuller 10 speed manual boxes, which I mainly drove when I wasn't driving a combine (my main job). I’d never driven lorries before so this was really exciting, although matching the speeds when shifting did prove tricky to begin with. It was all too tempting to just drop the clutch and get the gear in.

The blue/green trucks were 9900i models with an auto box, and the Freightliner had a 13 speed manual, with a splitter for the gears. I had this truck for the drive from Colorado to Montana and on the hills it was great to just shift down half a gear rather than a whole one. It was also much more comfortable, though some guys reckoned they preferred the more old school internationals.
There was also this white 9900i with a 13 speed manual, and I think a Cat C15 engine. This was probably the most powerful truck, and sounded the best through the twin stacks. This truck normally had a permanent driver, but I got to cover for him for a couple of days hauling canola and it was great fun.

Standard setup hauling combines was the combine on a skeleton type trailer, with the header hooked onto the back of that. Corners needed a wide swing but were ok, it was reversing that really caused a problem! Most of the time we just unhooked the header trailer and turned it around.

Because we ran both stripper and draper headers on the wheat run, we also hauled headers behind the grain trailers. This train measured out at 103ft nose to tail from my memory and was only just a couple of feet short of the legal limit.

To haul the grain cart and tractor we had s step deck low loader. This often went on the smaller red trucks because it was so close to the weight limit. We also ran the tractor fuel/adblue tanks nearly dry, removed the tow chains and anything unnecessary to make sure the axle weights weren't over. We only had one trailer but 2 and later 3 grain cart/tractor setups, so this trailer did a lot of rnning about as we ran as 2 crews sometimes a few hundred miles apart. At the end of September I did 3500 miles in 7 days for this reason, maybe more on that later...

This was on the way home from Montana. There wasn’t much room for anyone else once we’d pulled in! 3 combines, a grain cart, 3 hopper trailers with headers on, and 2 campers behind a service truck and pickup. All in all a 9 vehicle convoy for 3 days back from Cut Bank on the Montana/Canada border, back to base in Kansas ready to start on the fall harvest.

 

[adam_farming]

Perhaps this should be in it's own thread rather than hijacking this one, then I could put some combine pictures etc in too

 

[JP1]

Well as I said we mainly ran International trucks with a single Freightliner Cascadia in there too (the final red truck in my previous post). They were all second hand and some were over the 1 million mile mark. The red trucks were 9200i models with Eaton Fuller 10 speed manual boxes, which I mainly drove when I wasn't driving a combine (my main job). I’d never driven lorries before so this was really exciting, although matching the speeds when shifting did prove tricky to begin with. It was all too tempting to just drop the clutch and get the gear in.

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The blue/green trucks were 9900i models with an auto box, and the Freightliner had a 13 speed manual, with a splitter for the gears. I had this truck for the drive from Colorado to Montana and on the hills it was great to just shift down half a gear rather than a whole one. It was also much more comfortable, though some guys reckoned they preferred the more old school internationals.
There was also this white 9900i with a 13 speed manual, and I think a Cat C15 engine. This was probably the most powerful truck, and sounded the best through the twin stacks. This truck normally had a permanent driver, but I got to cover for him for a couple of days hauling canola and it was great fun.

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Standard setup hauling combines was the combine on a skeleton type trailer, with the header hooked onto the back of that. Corners needed a wide swing but were ok, it was reversing that really caused a problem! Most of the time we just unhooked the header trailer and turned it around.

Because we ran both stripper and draper headers on the wheat run, we also hauled headers behind the grain trailers. This train measured out at 103ft nose to tail from my memory and was only just a couple of feet short of the legal limit.

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To haul the grain cart and tractor we had s step deck low loader. This often went on the smaller red trucks because it was so close to the weight limit. We also ran the tractor fuel/adblue tanks nearly dry, removed the tow chains and anything unnecessary to make sure the axle weights weren't over. We only had one trailer but 2 and later 3 grain cart/tractor setups, so this trailer did a lot of rnning about as we ran as 2 crews sometimes a few hundred miles apart. At the end of September I did 3500 miles in 7 days for this reason, maybe more on that later...

This was on the way home from Montana. There wasn’t much room for anyone else once we’d pulled in! 3 combines, a grain cart, 3 hopper trailers with headers on, and 2 campers behind a service truck and pickup. All in all a 9 vehicle convoy for 3 days back from Cut Bank on the Montana/Canada border, back to base in Kansas ready to start on the fall harvest.

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Picture 3 a fair few livestock trailers too

 

[Juggler]

Well as I said we mainly ran International trucks with a single Freightliner Cascadia in there too (the final red truck in my previous post). They were all second hand and some were over the 1 million mile mark. The red trucks were 9200i models with Eaton Fuller 10 speed manual boxes, which I mainly drove when I wasn't driving a combine (my main job). I’d never driven lorries before so this was really exciting, although matching the speeds when shifting did prove tricky to begin with. It was all too tempting to just drop the clutch and get the gear in.

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The blue/green trucks were 9900i models with an auto box, and the Freightliner had a 13 speed manual, with a splitter for the gears. I had this truck for the drive from Colorado to Montana and on the hills it was great to just shift down half a gear rather than a whole one. It was also much more comfortable, though some guys reckoned they preferred the more old school internationals.
There was also this white 9900i with a 13 speed manual, and I think a Cat C15 engine. This was probably the most powerful truck, and sounded the best through the twin stacks. This truck normally had a permanent driver, but I got to cover for him for a couple of days hauling canola and it was great fun.

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Standard setup hauling combines was the combine on a skeleton type trailer, with the header hooked onto the back of that. Corners needed a wide swing but were ok, it was reversing that really caused a problem! Most of the time we just unhooked the header trailer and turned it around.

Because we ran both stripper and draper headers on the wheat run, we also hauled headers behind the grain trailers. This train measured out at 103ft nose to tail from my memory and was only just a couple of feet short of the legal limit.

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To haul the grain cart and tractor we had s step deck low loader. This often went on the smaller red trucks because it was so close to the weight limit. We also ran the tractor fuel/adblue tanks nearly dry, removed the tow chains and anything unnecessary to make sure the axle weights weren't over. We only had one trailer but 2 and later 3 grain cart/tractor setups, so this trailer did a lot of rnning about as we ran as 2 crews sometimes a few hundred miles apart. At the end of September I did 3500 miles in 7 days for this reason, maybe more on that later...

This was on the way home from Montana. There wasn’t much room for anyone else once we’d pulled in! 3 combines, a grain cart, 3 hopper trailers with headers on, and 2 campers behind a service truck and pickup. All in all a 9 vehicle convoy for 3 days back from Cut Bank on the Montana/Canada border, back to base in Kansas ready to start on the fall harvest.

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This is my one big regret, I really wish I'd done this when I left ag college, now with 3 kids and the big 50 looming large on the horizon, these photos and others like them are the closest I'll get. Great pics, more please!

 

[adam_farming]

Picture 3 a fair few livestock trailers too

This was at the livestock sale barn in Brush, Colorado where we used the massive yard outside to gather our convoy together as we were meeting the other crew to travel as one. We saw a lot of "bull haulers" as they are known. Unfortunately I didn't really get any pictures of them, but they were the most tricked out trucks usually, and often the fastest and loudest on the road too!

I'm going back to Houston in early April so I'll be on the lookout for some pictures of trucks then.

 

[JP1]

We saw a lot of "bull haulers" as they are known. Unfortunately I didn't really get any pictures of them, but they were the most tricked out trucks usually, and often the fastest and loudest on the road too!

I'm going back to Houston in early April so I'll be on the lookout for some pictures of trucks then.

Be good if you post some up here . Thank you

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Thanks Adam, great pictures and good info. Glad you enjoyed it all, a great experience I’m sure.

@Juggler is in exactly the same situation as me!! Too old and too busy to do it now!

 

[colhonk]

So what was the green sign that somebody has ran over in the last pic?

 

[JP1]

So what was the green sign that somebody has ran over in the last pic?

"Do not drive on the verge"

 

[76masseyman]

Good pictures @adam_farming please show more if you have them.
Credit to you for going to do the harvest while you are young and free of the ties us older ones have.
Couple of questions for you......are you going again ? And what are the covers on the combine and tractor windscreens for ? I presume protection.

 

[Chae1]

Protects window from stones.