williamchevelleman1972 Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 (edited) made from scratch built plastic and wood inserts for the deck gmc crackerbox with scratch built lowboy trailer international with scratch hand built extendable drop deck (slides in an out to your own size) scratch hand built belly dump trailer with kenworth Edited April 7, 2012 by williamchevelleman1972 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inky Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 Those are amazing, did a great job on the trailers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 Very nice!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim B Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 Nice trailers. Where did you get the Crackerbox? Did you scratch build that, too? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackinac359 Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 Great work ! Tim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williamchevelleman1972 Posted April 7, 2012 Author Share Posted April 7, 2012 no the crackerbox is a resin kit and so is the primered crackerbox on the flatbed trailer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plybeep68 Posted April 8, 2012 Share Posted April 8, 2012 Nice builds!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truck parts Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 Nice builds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
race06 Posted April 9, 2012 Share Posted April 9, 2012 AWSUM builds my friend jus awsum! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
butchey Posted April 12, 2012 Share Posted April 12, 2012 Great job Love thr CrackerBox tho! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donkeypuncher76 Posted May 15, 2012 Share Posted May 15, 2012 I love the doulble drop! I am doing a freightliner coe like my grandpa's, He pulled a double drop/lowboy as he called it. Looks spot on to your w/o the stretch. can i ask what kit or what your plat form was? That is exactly what i want, thinking of using the fruehauf flatbed and chopping it up but any help is greatly appreciatted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
signguy2108 Posted May 15, 2012 Share Posted May 15, 2012 Nice trucks! Love the GMC & lowboy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich_S Posted May 15, 2012 Share Posted May 15, 2012 Great looking models William . I drove a few IH 4070's and Transtar's and had the chance to drive a crackerbox once. It has a Detroit Diesel 318 with a 5 speed transmission and a two speed rear end. It looked like a tandem axle tractor, but in reality only the front axle was powered, the rear axle was known as a pusher axle and was only there so the truck could be licensed for 80,000 lbs. Since it had arm strong steering, you had to be careful you didn't crack your knuckles on that front windshield. I don't remember the actual size of that steering wheel, but it was big The three scratch built trailers look awesome. I never pulled a drop deck or grain trailer but did pull an Fruehauf 40' to 65' extendable trailer for a few years hauling 65' "H" beams and "I" beams for USS. I'm not sure if it was the same with the extendable drop decks, but on the extendable Fruehauf flatbeds, the first extension hole was set at 42', the next hole was set at 45' and the remaining holes were in 5 foot increments up to 65'. The emergency and service brake lines had quick disconnects like the kind used on air tools and there was also a plug at each extension hole for the light plug. A couple of trailers I pulled had manual release levers and the rest were all air actuated, that looked like pancakes controlling the pins. Very nice Job William, your truck models brought back some nice memories Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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