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Getting your treasure home
- Thread starter sno-drifter
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Quite the find Mr. Drifter. Congrats! Always an adventure [emoji1303]
Sno-Surfer
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That must be the cheap seat up there on top. Looks good.
Up high and on the stern, hopefully no salt water spray.
We are praying for calm seas and heavy rain.
Kind of looks like the barge got switched to a smaller tug and is moving again.
Jim
it had snowed by the time the barge left I loaded a huge crane, compactor end dump and some other stuff on over snow covered ramps, talk about pucker factor
Aaron Tucker
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Nice freghtier. Would like to see this build
so, mr drifter, are 400 series tuckers exempt from this problem
I believe this to be the transition Freighter. The early("53 Bogie/Aaron) models have the suicide doors, auto transmissions, round grills with eleven vertical bars. The later('55 Rock & Roll) models have front hinged doors, manual transmissions, flat front grills with the outside bars wrapped around with 15 or 17 vertical bars. This Freighter has suicide doors, auto transmission, flat front grill with 13 vertical bars without outside bars that wrap around. The engine side panels do the wrap around similar to the '53 models. Also the front door windows are radiused at the corners which the others are not. One stray cat.
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To duplicate this condition on a 400 machine you would have to break the axle or have the axle nut come off.
Aaron Tucker
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A very interesting freighter. It has factory installed drum brakes on the rear axle. Notice the two extra holes in the pontoon for adjusting the brake shoes. The hood sheet aluminum is one piece side to side with four 90 degree breaks which form the VEE. Early ones are three piece welded. Late (1955 on) are one piece without the VEE.
I talked with a Nome resident who knows about this cat from it's arrival in Alaska. He knew that the U.S. Air Force bought two of them, which checked out from the factory records, sequential ser. nos. He said that they did service above the Arctic Circle and went to the North Pole! We will research this and hope to find photos of this. Perhaps this cat(1953) went to the North Pole before Rock and Roll (1956) made it to the South Pole. We will get the two of them together and take the bi-polar Sno-Cat photo.
I talked with a Nome resident who knows about this cat from it's arrival in Alaska. He knew that the U.S. Air Force bought two of them, which checked out from the factory records, sequential ser. nos. He said that they did service above the Arctic Circle and went to the North Pole! We will research this and hope to find photos of this. Perhaps this cat(1953) went to the North Pole before Rock and Roll (1956) made it to the South Pole. We will get the two of them together and take the bi-polar Sno-Cat photo.
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Sno-Surfer
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Cool hood on that thing! Looks like she's ready for a long hot bath of oil and some elbow grease. 
The shipping was done by Alaska Logistics. They did a fine job of carefully moving her and helped with the transfer from their skid to my trailer. Thanks Curtis and crew. The way they had it stowed on the two barges, it got no salt spray Mr. Ciderman. Here is the second Alaska Logistics barge in Seattle before unloading. This cat was pulled out of the wild by Snowtrac Nome. Thank you Don for the fine job of getting her on her way.
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Brakes, what a concept. Nice find Mr.
Aaron Tucker
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this thread is one I really enjoy.
Mine has the same brake system plus a emergency brake on the transmission tail shaft . I love the story behind it !mine was also order by the air force and was delivered to Casper Wyoming. I think the unit is worth more when you have the whole back story on it .
I have to be honest tho ..... there is a shit load of rust on this freighters undercarriage. How are you going to restore the pontoons ? or just get new ones made ?
Mine has the same brake system plus a emergency brake on the transmission tail shaft . I love the story behind it !mine was also order by the air force and was delivered to Casper Wyoming. I think the unit is worth more when you have the whole back story on it .
I have to be honest tho ..... there is a shit load of rust on this freighters undercarriage. How are you going to restore the pontoons ? or just get new ones made ?
does your rear brakes work?
Aaron Tucker
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yes they do . I could not imagine going down some of these rocky mountains with out it . worst would be to stall out hill climbing and go sliding back down backwards . I do wish that I had brakes on the front to axle to . Some times it takes 10 ft to stop depending on how steep the hill is . My emergency brake dose not work tho. I always have to park it at an angle.
Aaron Tucker
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How many miles dose the Alaskan freighter have ?
16,480 What is your ser. no. or engine no?
elbo grease is an understatement. I was so afraid of doing any more damage to it getting it loaded. I will have talk to steve down there about that Daewoo forklift, they have one just like it up here, except no cab. I want that cab on the one up here, seems like everytime I have to load out something it is raining horizontally.