For you guys that have been asking for pictures, thanks to an un-named good samaritan, here they be :

https://www.dieseltruckresource.com/...4&postcount=14

 

Looks purty enough.

 

dang lots of nice work bearkiller.

 

It's even nicer in person.

What's that thing weigh? Gotta be up over 9k with full tanks.

 

Last trip over the quarry scales = 9800#, with an un-known quantity of fuel in the tanks and no one in the cab; quite a few extras have been added since then.

I need to scale her again; no reason not to, as my back fence borders their local stock-pile, and my closest neighbor is the loader/scale man.


Of course you gotta allow a little bit; they ARE selling rock across those scales.





For what it's worth, I also built the trailer shown in the picture, completely from scratch; I even built the genuine oil-bath axles w/hydraulic brakes from a pair of new military surplus rear-ends, replacing the center-section/differential with a straight tube; each axle holds over two-gallon of lube.

Note the silver-colored box, under the neck; all trailer wiring circuits terminate there, with each seperate string of lights being fused independently.

The smaller box, beside the larger one, houses all the ground-wires, from each seperate string of lights.

I never have to play "wiggle the wires" to get the lights to work.

 

you can allways tell by the way someone's trailer wiring is built how much time they have wasted in the past on a rats nest. i have never had the hydrolic brakes on a trailer but my brother has used some rigs with cow trailers out of canada that had them. everyone says you''ll never go back to electric.

 

Funny how perceptive you are; you hit the nail square on the head.






I can mention vacuum-over-hydraulic trailer-brakes on any towing forum and immediately get bombarded by the virtues of this, that, or the other, electric-brake controller, and how if I only knew how to properly install/maintain electric brakes that they would be all the brake I would ever need.


BUT, just as soon as one of those naysayers gets a little taste of REAL trailer-brakes, he will never be satisfied with electrics again.

 

nice truck i like those old fords i mite put a cummins in one