INTER-esting days

Port Augusta (north)is the other way to mt lofty, (east).
Lots of bricks were carted nth when the (then) satellite town of Elizabeth was built in the early fifties
Gumpy

A joey box and a big diff would do the job, looks like 20 pallets, the trailers would weigh next nothing, you would not want to see the scalies though, where I have taken 60 ton payload behind a 330 Cummins KW on permit would scare the shit out of you, well it scared the shit out of me. If that was in Africa or the middle east it would have the sand, cement and the timber for the house on as well, we are just a bunch of Shelia's in this country, There has been a lot of 60 tonners up the Hume highway that never went near the weigh bridges, I would have pictures of quite a few but we won't share them here, but making plate steel 9 Foot wide probably stopped a fair bit of that.

I reckon the badge on the mudguard says it's a V8 petrol. Go a bit better than a Perkins.

Jarrod. 

354 perk not any slower than a 345 petrol.......we had perks in bogie 1840 butterboxes ,new motors all round every Christmas shutdown , a new perk was about $1200,a 'Perpetuity ' motor was $800 ........they were supposed to be reconditioned ,but it was just a sales tax dodge ,they were new long motors....best value in trucks ...ever ........people are always going on about best diesel .....Perks were best value diesel,and made owners rich ........when I cleaned up the back yard a coupla years ago ,I must have scrapped a dozen Perks that were swapped out .......nothing wrong with them ,just the housing and flywheel missing.

Perks and Inter DT 466 were the best motors in brick trucks we had .......very worst was Cummins 555 VT190 , in a 1950B ...new truck ,traded after 12 months on a 1950C with a dt 466.........that was 1984 ,and that was the truck I bought for the sandblasters in 2004 from Jack ,who ended up owning all the brick trucks as we dropped out for one reason or another......good old days.

Lang wrote:

I don't know the weight of a pallet of bricks but seems to me Adelaide to Port Augusta on the flat would stop that old girl dead. Can't see her going east over Mount Lofty.
 There are some important factors to consider when picking up your bricks. Each brick weighs approximately 4kg, which means one pallet of 500 bricks weigh 2 - 2.5 tonnes.

She'd be a handful coming down the Adelaide hills too!

A solid brick was reckoned to weigh 9lb ........the mud bricks were somewhat lighter .

Hi,

last night I was on a factory tour of the Jaunt workshop, www.jauntmotors.com/ , and amongst the Land Rovers and Mokes was an IH Scout getting their conversion treatment. I did take a photo or two of it but I wont post it here until it is completed and revealed out of respect for the owner.

Terry

Sounds interesting, I wonder how they drive once the conversion is done, I think it would be better than a new one

Paul

Hi All
Did we have many of these BCF series in Australia?
I know the pic is of USA version-thanks Old IH Trucks.com
The one (and only) I can remember was petrol powered, and two sticks.
At that age, I had NFI what the two sticks was all about
Cheers