They don't make them like this anymore #2. This is a 1940’s Kenworth truck designed to haul sugar cane from the fields to the mill. I stopped and talked to the man who owns it while he was working to get it running again. He has a contract to harvest trash trees from forest reserves and intends to use this truck to haul the trees. It has a 150 hp Cummings engine and goes 25 mph on the flat and 20 mph up hill. I stopped by on another day when he was working on it and he had the engine running and was putting a tow hook on the front end. A week or so later it was gone. I miss seeing it.
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Wow, what a truck! Fascinating too that 150 diesel horsepower can do such hard work. I love the bit about 25 mph on the flat and 20 uphill.
Hey Carl. The thing was a brute. The loaded truck also pulled a loaded trailer as long as the truck. The old guy that was working on it said it was the only non-tracked vehicle that could get in and out of the fields.
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