When you finally get all your dumps in a row...

[bcp]

that's a good time for a photo.

Bruce

 

[ovrszd]

Awesome pic. Can you tell what brand trucks they are? Wonder what they are mining? Wonder how many complained about having to line up for some stupid picture.....

 

[ovrszd]

Can't read all the name on the side of the truck. Can make out "Excavating Co".

 

[bcp]

Looks like "United."





Article about United from 1917.
The Motor Truck - Google Books

Bruce

 

[ovrszd]

I'll go with that. Never heard of them but that doesn't mean much. Probably bought components and constructed a dump truck. Would look really cool sitting under a tree in my front yard!!!!

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Awesome pic. Can you tell what brand trucks they are? Wonder what they are mining? Wonder how many complained about having to line up for some stupid picture.....

Me too. My guess is that it's a crushing operation. The crusher is in the ground, and the trucks haul the material to the crusher and dump it in, where it is crushed, screened, and sent by conveyor to the tower. It is then loaded out into RR cars or sent by conveyor to a stock pile. Could be most anything I guess; the ones I have seen produced aggregate for concrete and crushed ag lime.

 

[Big Barn]

I'll go with that. Never heard of them but that doesn't mean much. Probably bought components and constructed a dump truck. Would look really cool sitting under a tree in my front yard!!!!

And it would look even cooler having a half dozen or more all lined up nicely like in the pic !!!(in your front yard.

Awesome pic, Bruce!

 

[ovrszd]

And it would look even cooler having a half dozen or more all lined up nicely like in the pic !!!(in your front yard.

Awesome pic, Bruce!

I'll go in halves with you Terry. We'll haul it back and forth to display in our yards!!!!

 

[Big Barn]

I'll go in halves with you Terry. We'll haul it back and forth to display in our yards!!!!

There you go! A solution to everything!!

 

[cqaigy2]

Ha, i thought i was going to some hay processing photo.

This is pretty cool picture though.

 

[MossRoad]

Here's a link to the original. You can blow up a higher res copy of the photo and read the details on the trucks, etc... very well. Also, there's some history of the photo there as well. What a neat site! :thumbsup:

CONTENTdm

 

[tomplum]

That's pretty cool. I was talking to this gentleman last week, I would guess was 80 or so and asked him what he did for a living. Said he used to drive concrete truck for years and bit about that. He liked the work and the people etc. He also said that the trucks when he first started would haul only 2 1/2 yards of mix. Those were the days.

 

[Industrial Toys]

They CHEATED and used a straight edge. Always impressed how smart people were back then. Without computers and lasers.

 

[cqaigy2]

They CHEATED and used a straight edge. Always impressed how smart people were back then. Without computers and lasers.

No kidding, they had to be smarter!

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Here's a link to the original. You can blow up a higher res copy of the photo and read the details on the trucks, etc... very well. Also, there's some history of the photo there as well. What a neat site! :thumbsup:

CONTENTdm

Probably in Denver Colorado? I thought they had mountains in Denver!

 

[ovrszd]

Nope. Town was founded at a good water source. Denver isn't Colorado. It was founded by those looking at the pending mountains and saying "I ain't climbin that!!!!"