MossRoad
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- Joined
- Aug 31, 2001
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- South Bend, Indiana (near)
- Tractor
- Power Trac PT425 2001 Model Year
These were brand new hummers straight out of the factory in early to mid 80's. They were diesel, but I don't know the size of the engine. I don't think they were turbo charged at that time and it was before the Terminator convinced them to make the commercial (civilian) model H1. As I recall, that one had a diesel or gas option, and later, they turbo'd the diesel. Again, that's just off the top of my head.
Anyhow, AM General had acres and acres of hummers. We had a sheet with the lot numbers our company was responsible for. There were 6 of us in a crew. We'd meet at the rail spur. Then we'd all pile in one car, drive to AM General, find 6 of our lot, drive them up to the fuel pump. Put in just enough fuel to get where we were going. Then we'd caravan back to the rail spur. We'd load them on the rail cars, pile into the next guy's car and head back for the next trip. 5 trips per day and the last car took us back to the factory to pick our cars back up. For times we had to make longer trips to other counties, we'd take fewer cars and 6 tow bars in the boss's truck. We'd haul two hummers each and make only two trips. It was a fun job. The worst part was plating between rail cars. Those plates were about 3-4 feet long and maybe 16" wide. They had a tube welded on one end that sat on the railcar and you'd slide a bent piece of re-bar through those tubes and one on the rail car to lock it in place. Those plates were HEAVY. But I could lift one by myself back then. No way today. :laughing: Plating a couple dozen hot steel railcars on a 90+ degree day out in the sun.... not so much fun.
Anyhow, AM General had acres and acres of hummers. We had a sheet with the lot numbers our company was responsible for. There were 6 of us in a crew. We'd meet at the rail spur. Then we'd all pile in one car, drive to AM General, find 6 of our lot, drive them up to the fuel pump. Put in just enough fuel to get where we were going. Then we'd caravan back to the rail spur. We'd load them on the rail cars, pile into the next guy's car and head back for the next trip. 5 trips per day and the last car took us back to the factory to pick our cars back up. For times we had to make longer trips to other counties, we'd take fewer cars and 6 tow bars in the boss's truck. We'd haul two hummers each and make only two trips. It was a fun job. The worst part was plating between rail cars. Those plates were about 3-4 feet long and maybe 16" wide. They had a tube welded on one end that sat on the railcar and you'd slide a bent piece of re-bar through those tubes and one on the rail car to lock it in place. Those plates were HEAVY. But I could lift one by myself back then. No way today. :laughing: Plating a couple dozen hot steel railcars on a 90+ degree day out in the sun.... not so much fun.
