Let us try again…
IN the second picture, is that a Slick Minimum Truck? Designed in America? I have a book published in 1979 for kids, about The Future, and such a vehicle is noted as a solution for moving containers.
The only reference I have ever seen, in fact. Can you confirm?
Thank you in advance for your thoughts…..
See my reply in the previous post… I can confirm I have thoughts, not suitable for a family orientated old farts blog…
Where’s the campers dammit?
You should just move out there. My camper is a rotting shed now.
Ii think it was Strick Trailer over here in Fairless Hills PA that came up with the idea of the cab under tractor. Imagine getting a fatality by hitting a squirrel. And they came up with the idea when trailers were less than 50 feet long. When I first started hauling cars, the rig was 55′ feet long. When I retired in 2002, they were 75′ feet long and you could have 7′ feet of overhang. 3′ in the front and 4′ in the back or vice-versa. Before NJ allowed 75′ trucks, I was driving a 65′ car hauler and got pulled over on I-195 by a cute as a button NJ State Trooper. First words out of her mouth were, “How long are you?”
#2 looks like an Aircraft Tug, being used as a Yard Spotter. If it is, it has both 4-Wheel Steer and “Crab Steering” or both Axles turn the same way as you Steer, making the Rig move Diagonally. I had for a while a Coleman MB-2 Tug that could do that, it made some things much Easier when moving Big Planes in Close Quarters in the Hangar. A Low Tug like in the Pic also can go Under the Fuselage of the Plane, and Push from Behind the Nosewheel.
That’s a Toy compared to the one the Russian Rocket Forces use with the RS-28 “Carmat” Missile…
Their stuff HAD to be big, most of it was as crude as hell.
Brilliant Engineers, Thumb-fingered drunk idiot manufacturing. No pride in their work, for one thing.
Any of you guys have any experience with an NP229 transfer case?
’85 Grand wagoneer,
4×4 goes grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr but doesn’t move
I see they sell a chain for it.
It’s a Jeep, a Chrysler product, stuff it with balled up newspaper and light it and sit back and enjoy the weinie roast…
Big help… it’s Momma’s car…
Used to be all kinds of repair forums, back in the Yahoo days. Not much out there now, except youtubers.
I need a lift. Working on my back aint what it used to be.
Oh… You had better get it fixed then! Life will become miserable and suckable worse then you can ever imagine. Ask Igor about his Jeep, I am sure he can give you tips and life hacks.
Just trying to be sure what it needs before I take it apart.
Igor! You’re outed. Know anything about that chain drive?
Looks like a timing chain but nobody’s got the gears with it.
I got a bad feeling.
Let us try again…
IN the second picture, is that a Slick Minimum Truck? Designed in America? I have a book published in 1979 for kids, about The Future, and such a vehicle is noted as a solution for moving containers.
The only reference I have ever seen, in fact. Can you confirm?
Thank you in advance for your thoughts…..
See my reply in the previous post… I can confirm I have thoughts, not suitable for a family orientated old farts blog…
Where’s the campers dammit?
You should just move out there. My camper is a rotting shed now.
Ii think it was Strick Trailer over here in Fairless Hills PA that came up with the idea of the cab under tractor. Imagine getting a fatality by hitting a squirrel. And they came up with the idea when trailers were less than 50 feet long. When I first started hauling cars, the rig was 55′ feet long. When I retired in 2002, they were 75′ feet long and you could have 7′ feet of overhang. 3′ in the front and 4′ in the back or vice-versa. Before NJ allowed 75′ trucks, I was driving a 65′ car hauler and got pulled over on I-195 by a cute as a button NJ State Trooper. First words out of her mouth were, “How long are you?”
#2 looks like an Aircraft Tug, being used as a Yard Spotter. If it is, it has both 4-Wheel Steer and “Crab Steering” or both Axles turn the same way as you Steer, making the Rig move Diagonally. I had for a while a Coleman MB-2 Tug that could do that, it made some things much Easier when moving Big Planes in Close Quarters in the Hangar. A Low Tug like in the Pic also can go Under the Fuselage of the Plane, and Push from Behind the Nosewheel.
#2 reminds me of a Minuteman Transporter-erector:
https://minutemanmissile.com/images/TransporterErectorLoaderEarlyB.jpg
They upgraded them in the 2000’s to a regular tractor-trailer:
https://minutemanmissile.com/images/TransporterErectorLoader.jpg
That’s a Toy compared to the one the Russian Rocket Forces use with the RS-28 “Carmat” Missile…
Their stuff HAD to be big, most of it was as crude as hell.
Brilliant Engineers, Thumb-fingered drunk idiot manufacturing. No pride in their work, for one thing.
Any of you guys have any experience with an NP229 transfer case?
’85 Grand wagoneer,
4×4 goes grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr but doesn’t move
I see they sell a chain for it.
It’s a Jeep, a Chrysler product, stuff it with balled up newspaper and light it and sit back and enjoy the weinie roast…
Big help… it’s Momma’s car…
Used to be all kinds of repair forums, back in the Yahoo days. Not much out there now, except youtubers.
I need a lift. Working on my back aint what it used to be.
Oh… You had better get it fixed then! Life will become miserable and suckable worse then you can ever imagine. Ask Igor about his Jeep, I am sure he can give you tips and life hacks.
Just trying to be sure what it needs before I take it apart.
Igor! You’re outed. Know anything about that chain drive?
Looks like a timing chain but nobody’s got the gears with it.
I got a bad feeling.