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Who got the Freighter?
- Thread starter Lyndon
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the twin turbo burban tucker hunter has left again, hunting big tucker
Sounds like a little bull 
pictures are required
pictures are required
My son was just asking what Jinn is doing last night. I now know what to tell him.
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Just more bullswe need machine pictures
OK here you go, Sno-Cats from buffalo country, you want to buysome?
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These type roof racks are what NW Bell Telephone installed on all their Tuckers for carrying ladders. The box on the side held two one gallon cans, 90wt and hyd oil. The shovel and axe mounts were also a trade mark. The '59 we are restoring for Timberline was of the same outfitting.
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the cats were sold originally to NW Bell Telephone, one going to Portland and the other to Seattle, really very solid and quite straight, both look like they would run with fresh gas and a new battery, good machines.
AdkSnowcat
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What year machines?
Awesome find! I am curios, how long and wide is your trailer. I was under the impression the tracks would not fit between the fenders of a trailer and that one needed a deck over trailer to haul them. I guess that was obviously wrong.
Re: Pull Over Buddy!
O.K.,.. PULL OVER BUDDY, WHERES THE FIRE? this means you Glacierparkbus & Sno-Drifter! Your 'blastin-around' North america is burning up fuel faster than we can pump it down the Trans-alaska Pipeline! When that cheap Saudi Crude that everyone is buying runs out you'll be crying.
Snowed a couple of days ago, about an inch, It's snowing today, were expecting another inch. We still have some snow piles that are 20 feet high and cover 2 to 4 acres. Ho, ho, ho, I love the Snow! and it's JUNE!
How come that beautiful Tucker Tank that Bill and Mary had didn't end up in one of your collections?
O.K.,.. PULL OVER BUDDY, WHERES THE FIRE? this means you Glacierparkbus & Sno-Drifter! Your 'blastin-around' North america is burning up fuel faster than we can pump it down the Trans-alaska Pipeline! When that cheap Saudi Crude that everyone is buying runs out you'll be crying.
Snowed a couple of days ago, about an inch, It's snowing today, were expecting another inch. We still have some snow piles that are 20 feet high and cover 2 to 4 acres. Ho, ho, ho, I love the Snow! and it's JUNE!
How come that beautiful Tucker Tank that Bill and Mary had didn't end up in one of your collections?
1956 and in my opinion, THE BEST YEAR. Same as the Antarctica Sno-Cats.
400 series are under 6 1/2 feet wide. 500 are 8. 700 are 7 1/2.
Minor point, but if the Tuckers were purchased in the late 50s then Pacific Bell was the original owner. In '61 Oregon, Washington, and part of Idaho were spun off into a newly-created operating company called Pacific Northwest Bell (PNB).
My first job out of college was designing point-to-point microwave radio systems for PNB. The old TD-2 analog radio systems were the backbone of AT&T's long distance telephone network and a ton of those sites were built in the late 50s and early 60s. I'm sure these cats were purchased to access those sites. I never saw these particular machines (I worked for PNB in the early 80s), but I did ride in a two-track (probably an Imp) to access a radio site outside of Klamath Falls. It would be fun to find a machine still sporting telco markings.
Ron
My first job out of college was designing point-to-point microwave radio systems for PNB. The old TD-2 analog radio systems were the backbone of AT&T's long distance telephone network and a ton of those sites were built in the late 50s and early 60s. I'm sure these cats were purchased to access those sites. I never saw these particular machines (I worked for PNB in the early 80s), but I did ride in a two-track (probably an Imp) to access a radio site outside of Klamath Falls. It would be fun to find a machine still sporting telco markings.
Ron
Re: Pull Over Buddy!
Please save a Tucker or two for the guys that would be Happy with ONE example in there collection!
Sno-Surfer
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Awesome! You guys are all over it! This should keep you busy for a while.
I'm still daydreaming about next years snow cat event!
I'm still daydreaming about next years snow cat event!
Keep on daydreaming, plans and ideas are in the works for an even better event than Meow!
Did you mean sno-cats or buffalo? Both strong like bull
I (herd) there cheaper by the dozen
OK, I am only going to show you one time, and it aint brain science or rocket surgery,
HERE'S YOUR SIGN:
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the pontoons are in the freighter trailer, the torpedo was turned into a street machine hot rod
sleddogracer
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what is the orange box with the pointed end between the cat and the trailer?
That wood be a very early tow behind the Sno-Cat trailer before they were made with steel stamped sides. The pull end is up. This trailer was sold by Harry Truman with the 1949 420 and they have stayed together.
Is this one of your Buffalo Tucker Soldiers?
April Newsletter from Tucker half way down the pdf.
April Newsletter from Tucker half way down the pdf.