INTER-esting days

Brocky45 wrote:

Basically Yes they are.. It is the low cab forward cab originally designed by the Murty Bros of Portland OR for Diamond T and then purchased by International to be their VCO. If someone can tell me how to post pictures, I have a picture of that cab being picked up and pushed back, Like a"H" model "Two Story Falcon" Ford, Prototype IH Emeryville built by and Badged as a Diamond T.
After WW 2 the design engineers at Diamond T and IH were close personal friends with a good working relationship. It is believed that they designed the "Compfovision" Cab together and IH contracted DT to build the prototype Emeryville.



Hot off the press from Brocky 

 

Paul
 

 

 
 
 

Arrived via email from Carl, forum viewer asking if these might be of interest 

And yes Carl they definitely are of interest, thank you

from Carl's emailPicture 1.  1830BPicture 2. 1830C helping a Cat 955L that fell off the back of a low loader as they do if not chained down.

 

 

And I  feel more evidence that cats dont always land on their feet 

Paul


Also from Carl...Added 14 October 2024

On the Frauline Friday forum there are pictures and a story of my fathers work history on pages 29 and 30 showing Caterpillar tracked loaders. Dad and 2 other owner operators formed a business venture mid 1970’s that was Combined Excavations and Supplies Pty Ltd,  an earthmoving and quarried materials supply company. The company directors were all owner operators of either earthmoving machinery or tip trucks. The directors preferred to operate their own trucks or earthmoving machinery instead of managing the business administration operations. They weren’t interested in running the office so they invited another partner in and he managed the office administration, accounts, dispatch and coordination of 30 trucks and earthmoving equipment. They had a premises on the outskirts of Sydney big enough for a shed to store most of the fleet and stockpiles of sand, soil, gravel, bagged cement and concrete in the yard.
The company ended up with a small fleet of ACCO single axle tippers delivering quarried materials around Sydney. They had 3 – 1830 B’s, 1 -1830 C and a Leyland Comet all as single axle tippers with an aluminium tipping body. Eventually the old 1830 B’s were sold off to sub contractors who worked for us and replaced by new 1850 D’s and E’s. I was 19 years old, had completed my apprenticeship and learnt to drive trucks in one of the ACCO’s and Leyland before buying my own Mercedes Benz bogie rigid tipper. In my opinion the Leyland Comet with turbo engine and 9 speed overdrive roadranger was better to drive than the ACCO’s but this story is about Internationals.The ACCO tippers were kept busy from before sunrise to sunset 5 and 6 days a week. A typical day was first load out of a sand quarry before dawn carting a load of filling sand to a suburban building site tipping the sand off for concreters to form up for a house concrete slab. The loader drivers would load the fill sand until it was running off the sides and up to the top of the hoist well, topping the load with a firm pat of the bucket. Then as a driver you would fasten a hessian tarpaulin over the load and shovel the sand falling over the side of the tipper body into the small gaps near the tailgate. The light fill sand usually ended up about an 8.5 tonne payload.  The house sites were more often than not excavated using the company excavation fleet. The next load would be to a quarry to cart blue metal gravel to another construction site backloading a load of clay dug out for the drainage back to another excavation site needing clean filling.

We could load 10 tonnes of gravel onto the little single axle tippers. Then the next load would be out to a sand quarry loading bricklaying sand, often going back to the same building sites where you had earlier dropped a load of filling sand or gravel a week ago. When carting the brickie sand we often had to drive past the yard to load 10 bags of cement or lime onto the top of the load by hand to go to the same site. When unloading the bags of cement or lime the bags often developed a tiny rip in them when loading, when unloading you reached up to grab a bag of cement and place it on your shoulder to carry off,  the small rip in the bag would be right next to your face and a sudden puff of fine cement covered your face and burnt your eyes. Sometimes we even carted pallets of bagged cement, concrete or lime direct from Blue Circle back to the yard, all hand stacked from a forklift pallet at the end of the tipper body, then hand unload again. Cement used to be 25kg and 40 bags to the tonne on a pallet back in the day, bagged concrete was 40 kg and 25 bags to the tonne on a pallet.  Some of the bigger and stronger drivers than me used to throw a bag of concrete on both shoulders, hauling 80 kg’s around buildings sites to hurry up unloading. Some times the last load of the day was cleaning up building debris and rubbish from house sites loaded by a backhoe and by hand. Home builders used to like the convenience of using the same company to excavate and supply some of the materials needed to construct a house. In periods of rainy weather when and the buildings sites were quagmires,  the ACCO’s would cart gravel, sand and soil from quarries back into the stockpiles in the yard all day. They would sell stockpiles of small quantities of sand, gravel and soil direct to tradies for cash $$$$ from the yard.Although a 10 tonne load was never legal, it is what they used the commonly cart back in the day. The ACCO tippers tared at 5,300kg with an agg weight of 13,900kg.  I now see Kenworth T909 rigid tippers towing 5 axle dog trailers around,  some with weight stickers on the side indicating PBS 12.5 tonne payloads on the rigid. I wonder how many of them ever completed a driving apprenticeship in a single axle tipper carting a 10 tonne payload.The 1830 B’s were Perkins 120hp, 5 x 2 gearbox, skinny brakes on the front and not much better on the back. They were slow and could be a handful to drive when fully loaded. The 1830 B’s superseded shitbox Commer knockers, Leylands  and Bedfords.

When the 1850 D’s and E’s came into the fleet they were much better to drive than the B’s and C’s with turbo Perkins and 180hp of grunt. A long one way loaded destination for us in Sydney would be about 80 kilometres. My favourite load was to cart washed Sydney beach sand out of the Cronulla sand dunes back to the yard stockpiles. A loaded ACCO coming back from Cronulla took us about 2 hours, I used to crank the AM radio on my favourite music station, flogging the ACCO all the way being thankful I wasn’t lugging bags of cement on my shoulder.  If anyone is interested as to why the Cat 955L is laying on its side, when Dad used to transport the Cat’s on the low loader he used to jam the rippers into the goose neck and the bucket teeth used to fit into rear frame and they would never move. Look at the pictures of the low loaders on page 29 - 30 of the Frauline Friday tab, not a chain in site. Anyway disaster struck one journey not far from home and Dad noticed the 955L sliding off,  landing on its side on the left side of the road in a cloud of dust. Fortunately, no one was hurt, injured or fined and from then on every load was chained down. The Cat 955L was bent outa shape a few inches. Royans Truck Repairs straightened it out and it went on to work 15,000 hours for Dad.

The ACCO 1850 C was bringing a load of truck tyres so they could pull the 955L upright by another tracked loader righting it up with some steel cables landing on soft truck tyres. Hope you enjoy the story of our awesome ACCO tippers.

John Lehane Transport Casterton C1935
 

Paul

Wow, I want some of these. For only $2.44, or less than $2.50 per week, depending on which page you read, I could afford one for every room.
 

That's cool Paul

These are new to me!! I knew IH made refrigerators and freezers for the home. Their dealerships up here in the States had a lot of farm related accessorys like cream separators, ETC