My New Brockway!

[jostev]

Here is the Brockway that I was posting about earlier. This is the one that we are going to get for FREE from my great uncle. It needs some body work, but it runs and has a wet line to the back for say a dump body/goose neck etc. and here are some other pics. http://photobucket.com/albums/c47/jostev/Brockway/?

[beaconlight]

Lots of luck with it.

Bill

[jostev]

Thanks Bill, I hope to get it this spring, and restore it over the summer. My great uncle also said that he had a bunch of spare parts for it too!!! I also am starting to think about making small batches of veggie oil for it!, just a thought right now, nothing concrete yet.

[jostev]

I just wanted to tell everybody that I might not need to get a CDL when I'm 18 because an exclusion to a CDL is any farm vehicle that operates within 150 miles of the farm. And the tractors are registered as "farm" tractors, so... we might get off with it!!!!!!!!! and I AM getting it this spring

Johnny

[beaconlight]

Lots of luck with it. Seems it won't be a Christmas present but rather an Easter Present.

Bill

[jostev]

Yeah, we have "hired" some friends to go and get it in the spring, or something with a gooseneck!!! Now we need to start looking for a pintle trailer or gooseneck!

Thanks, Johnny

[Carm]

Sounds like fun! A friend just bought an old Mack He is requesting my labor.....I know nothing about Macks or any other rig for thar matter....but I guess I might be up to the challenge! Good luck with the Brockway

[phantom]

carm,

if you like hanging around with the guy who asked for your labor, take him up on it. these are only a few of the reasons for this advice.

1. when working on a truck of that size you get into places that make a real pain in the butt to get the wrench you didn't take with you, or a clean finger to flip the page in the manual is a big help.

2. some of the torque requirements on engines and rear ends of that size make a couple hundred pounds on the end of a wrench valuable if the "dead weight" knows what it is doing or not.

3. a good chance to catch up on shim stock production.

4. that's a chance to get a cheap education. it never hurts to clutter up your mind with some more knowledge if there is a sheepskin at the end or not.

5 a person working on this sort of equipment alone, or with help, can find themselves in situations when someone to dial 911 is a genuine life saver. BE CAREFULL.

[Carm]

I'm sure I will get into it. Looking forward to it actually. His father. along with another friend's dad worked toghther as Mack mechanics so he is pretty well up to speed on everything. So I will be the one learning....which is fun.

[Rudi]

K guys:

Forgive mein ignorance... but what/who made a Brockway...

Looks like a normal tractor... just never saw that marque before.. curious..

[jostev]

I don't remember Rudi, my great uncle told me, but... I think that Mack bought them out?

Don't know, but...

Johnny

[johnbron]

K guys:

Forgive mein ignorance... but what/who made a Brockway...

Looks like a normal tractor... just never saw that marque before.. curious..

OK Rudi, I shall be your curiosity doctor and heal you. Here is the lowdown on Brockways.

http://www.skweezer.net/skweeze.aspx?i= ... story.html


AND many/many pictures

http://images.google.com/images?q=Brock ... a=N&tab=wi

[jostev]

Thanks johnbron!!

I didn't know most/all of that either...

Thanks again, Johnny

[beaconlight]

Back whe Bev and I were first married I moonlighted for a trucking company. They had a contract with a small supermarket chain. We used trailers for graceries with full sized diesel tractors. We used a 1941 Chevy cab over for pickup in the old Washington produce market in down town NY. That tractor was the only one short enough to meet the length restrictions during pickup hours. I don't remember exactly but with a 28 foot trailer we just made the 32 or 33 foot limit. There was a big old Brockway regestered for 38,00 lb with a refrigerator body used in the meat market.. There were times I barely got home in time to leave for work. The Brock would be parked in front of the house. When Bev wanted the car she had to return the Brock to the yard and pick up the car. She is a good sport and learned pretty Quick to drive a 2 speed with a clicker on the shift. This was before CDL's. All you needed was a NY Chaufers license. Brockway was a good truck, so were Diamond T, and Reo.

Bill.

Bill

[jostev]

We hope to "restore" it to near original condition, but paint it IH Red!!!

Cool story Bill...

Johnny