Old Tassie Log truck

Having given some thought to what brand of truck it may be I will go for BITSA
Rex

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.I think I am leaning towards the AEC thingo..........or cab.........
........noting the cab bottom front tapered bit at the guard area.....................possibly ????????
.............................Billy................................

Could it be an old Ex ADF Kaiser Or Diamond T?

Looks like we have a winner... This just came up on the HCVC Facebook page

www.hcvc.com.au/forum/OldTruck/15842-let...au-road-truck#173511

An this post from 2016

So reading over in the other link it says 1958, I know from video and the like that NZ were opening up their massive forests in the North Island, a lot of Letourneau logging gear was used there

I wonder if this was to try and capitalize on that market, and to a lessor extent Tassies market as they were building a pulp mill as well I think around that time

It seems tha Pacific was the preferred choice in NZ and to a lesser extent in Tassie so maybe they just pulled the pin on the plan once that happened

Paul

There has been so back and forth about the fact it may not actually be in Tasmania.... I can't find the original poster to ask anything more

According to the advert ...7 1/2 ton tare.....lots of your prime movers are around 10 ton mark,so its not a particularly big truck.

I think in 1958 it would of been a fair size truck, my old Federal tank transporter is around 7.5 ton tare, Diamond T tank transporters I feel were around 10 ton
I agree that by anything from the mid 70's onwards it's not huge or even large, just average size
The first Pacific's usedd in NZ only pulled single trailers, had a 671 and were at a guess not a lot different in size than a highway truck of 20 years later

Paul

werkhorse wrote:

Looks like we have a winner... This just came up on the HCVC Facebook page

Because I officially dont really have a life I was up and thinking about this truck, dunno why I couldn't sleep, to much Christmas indulgence Im thinking

Any was looking at this photo and wondering about the drive line, been Letourneau it could be anything weird and unusual

Would have a GM and a 671 by the looks of what I can see

I wonder what the back end is, appears to have a spring hanger in front of the axle hanging down and I have no idea what the diff center is, looks like a giant Ford diff that splits in the middle





Dunno, what do the experts say ?

Paul