dont suppose you could call this a truck? lol

this old jigger has belonged to my grandpa for more years then i have been around and recently i have been out there slashing and decided i wanted to get it going. so i convinced my dad to bring it home for me and i changed the oil and filled her up with diesel and away she went. it has a 2 cylinder lister diesel. i was just wondering if anyone knows anything about these old things.

Twin cylinder Lister with decompression lever on top of rocker cover Tipping front approx 1/4 yard rear steer Where known as Husky (other names ?) dumpers do not know why. Very common in the early seventies in the construction industies
Geoffb (may be wrong)

Benford was another brand that made them to.. Was Pommy built with a 3 speed crash box. Power was not an option. They just never had any. Crank handle start with decompresser handle. Great way to warm up is to start one on a frosty morning.

These dumpers were also made by Thwaites and Liner in the UK

Aveling Barford are another company who have made these dumpers since 1936, and they still make a substantial line of them today, in various sizes.
Their biggest current dumper in this style, is a 10-tonner, and they've produced a four-tracked version of it, that looks like a bit of a beast ..

www.farmersguardian.com/attachments.aspx...ttype=P&atcode=10047

autoline-eu.co.za/sf/special-machinery-r...710500553110800.html

thanks for the info fellas. not a bad bit of history. last night i was driving it and it stopped...no fuel. so today i flushed the tank, a nice amount of rust floating round. took off the fuel bowl...1/4 full of rust and dirt so i cleaned that out. now it has an incredible gain of power, plus running on two cylinders we loaded her up goin up a bit of a hill lol

btw the water tank is a bit on the completely empty side

G,day Mike, what a ripper, just as well there's a few of you young guys around to keep this old stuff resurfacing. Keep it up mate, & the photo's too. You're doing your Grandfather proud. cya Tim

it's a liner roughrider dump truck I had 1 many years ago when I was a kid .