Paul, Thanks so much for the photographs. That truck is one year older than I am! Congratulations on getting life out of a vehicle that old. Wonder what that walking beam weighs? You can see the front of the truck lifting a little. Thanks for taking time to upload those! Paul Moore
Since we are on the subject of trucks, here is the latest project, a 1955 Mack B61 with a lowboy trailer. Still considering what the load will be. Paul Slavens gave me some good ideas on what to have the gin pole truck lifting off of the lowboy. It will either be some kind of skid or some new production tanks. I guess the other option would be to have it hauling a freight car or caboose sans trucks.
Some Chevrolet C60 smaller sized oilfield trucks are still active and on the roster. Check out the image where they are working together to lift a gas compressor. A trailer was backed under to be loaded. These trucks were originally grain trucks and worked for decades on farms and spent the non harvest season parked in a barn. I converted them to oilfield service several years ago because light duty oilfield trucks are rare to find in good condition. They were heavily abused when new and could not take a beating like the bigger rigs.
Just a few images of random scenes that can show up in oilfields. There is always lots of used equipment in yards, lots of it. Decades worth in most yards. The stuff is here for when we may need a part or connection. There are engines too and they get moved and hauled even in pickup trucks when needed. Check out the Frisco caboose image by Preston George. The location is Bowden, Oklahoma, same place as these oilfield pictures I have shared. The bed under construction is from the 1953 International Harvester. We had to rebuild the bed frame a few years ago after decades of heavy use.
Paul Moore, The D rings look great. Very nice work. Paul Slaven, Those trucks are all terrific. Thanks for the pictures.
Those C60 winch trucks are cool. A good friend of mine still maintains a pumpjack that is powered by one of those single cylinder gas engines. Once a month or so, on Sunday afternoon I will ride with him out to the oil patch to check on the well and the associated production tanks. Last year the gas engine sucked the intake rod and bent it into an S shape. He gave it to me, I made a shelf for it and mounted it on the wall over the layout. Thanks for the photographs!
That walking beam weighs about 3 tons complete with the horse head, the equalizer and Pittman arms. When you notice how far back the center of gravity is, it makes the front end a bit light! I took that thing down U.S. Highway 66 for almost 6 miles!
That would be fun to witness! There are a bunch of different sizes of pumpjacks. That one looks much larger than most of the ones we see in this part of Texas. In the photograph where you are actually lifting the tank with the white 1974 Autocar, what on the tank are you hooking onto? Again, thanks for sharing the photographs.
Truck and trailer are mostly painted. Added a rack behind the cab to store chains and hooks, wiring to power the winch and the tower for the trailer brake hoses. I decided to go with an electrically powered winch instead of a power take off (PTO), they have both. The dog decided she wanted in on the action. Actually, she was giving me the "it's dinner time" look. The trailer and cab were painted together with the same batch of paint. Yet they came out completely different colors. Obviously, zamac metal and casting resin take paint differently, and they came out different colors. Some weathering will have to hide that, because I do not feel like repainting them. Working on the loads for the trailer, as well. Paul Moore
Paul, Bet your dog is thinking the trailer is a sausage, good girl. She looks great. So do your models. Joe
Great looking builds Paul! I enjoy those Model B Macks, they sure had neat curves. Your puppy has some really cool markings. She looks smart as a whip. My dog hates when I take pictures of her for some reason. It is like she is saying, "you make me look fat in your pictures, quit it".
She is our third Australian Shepherd, and she is extremely smart. We adopted her after her owner died of cancer last summer. This model truck has had a rough life already. We have no paint booth, so I have to spray in the shop, which does not have air conditioning. The morning I painted this I was hurrying to finish before it got hot. We have already had 72 days over 100 degrees. The chassis was on a length of wire with a curl in the end to hold it on. It did not hold, and the spray blew it off at only 30 psi. It landed on the concrete. That did not do it any good! Oh well, it is just a model. It no longer has a couple of the pieces I scratch built and added. It is also missing the steering wheel and the original bumper. Lots of trucks of this era had a bumper made out of a piece of channel steel, so that is what I used to make the new bumper. Actually, a construction or oilfield truck would most likely have had a heavier-than-stock bumper.
Australian Shepherds are great dogs. I had no internet service from Monday to yesterday. You have got a lot done since then! Loving the Model B Mack truck!
Still needs exhaust pipe, windshields, junk, load, mirrors, and some more weathering, but it is getting there. At this point I am leaning towards two 210 barrel production tanks. That could change, but that is what I am working on for a load. There might also be a pallet with two large generators on the front part of the trailer.
Looks great Paul. The first heavy truck I ever drove was a B Mack. They are beautiful. That and the Kenworth T-800 are my favorites for sure. I like they way yours looks. Nice job.
Never driven a large truck of any kind, and definitely not one of these. The older ones have the reputation of being a handful to shift. They have two transmissions and two shift levers. I will have to look up the Kenworth. It is not one I am familiar with. Thanks for the comments on the model truck. It is not quite there yet, though. Good models look like a miniature of the real thing. However, the tractor part of this one still looks like a little toy. A little more weathering, windshields, exhaust stack and more chains will help. The cast resin kits are an acquired taste. There is tons of flash that takes quite a bit of time to remove. The parts can be warped out of the box, which has to be remedied by carefully heating and straightening any crooked part. The frame on this truck was pretty wavy before being straightened. There are lots of little pits and hollow pinholes that can turn into breaks. Why Sylvan, the kit manufacturer, included disc wheels instead of good old Dayton spoke wheels is beyond me. Nearly every Mack of the 1950s through the 1970s had Dayton wheels. Due to the way the wheels attach to the suspension, it is nearly impossible to replace the wheels with Dayton wheels of another manufacturer. How far off Frisco yellow is the truck? The thought just occurred to me that this could be a Frisco truck! The yellow is probably wrong. Anyway, it is getting there, but still needs lots of tweaking. I will check out that Kenworth T-800.
