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Loggah, as much as you have added since I was there I would advise you to spend the winter designing Vault #2  (non-Savage guns & non-guns) with connecting tunnels including one to the house. Then when the ice clears you will be ready to start the summers project. ...and maybe you could get Cheryl to take multi digital photos of each item and upload to the Cloud for our viewing pleasure?
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Gonna get some torpedoes to go with those trucks? Those things are certainly a couple of beasts!
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Okay Don... now you need a couple Halpin-Savage torpedoes for those trucks.
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I don't know which I would enjoy more- an afternoon in The Vault or a hell-bent-for-election romp through New Hampshire in one of those beasts with Don at the wheel with a maniacal grin on his face.😀😎
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If it were me I'd say storm the Siegfried Line with a formation of Sterlings! There is a Siegfried Line in New Hampshire, isn't there? Damn the torpedoes, four speed ahead! Or would that be 10-speed?
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Id bet theres still a few of my Finger Prints in the Vault! looks like your starting to get the back yard filled up again!
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I don't know which I would enjoy more- an afternoon in The Vault or a hell-bent-for-election romp through New Hampshire in one of those beasts with Don at the wheel with a maniacal grin on his face.😀😎 LOL!!! Would be fun to get behind the wheel of one of those Sterlings. For alot of the 19 years I spent as a heavy equipment operator I operated one of those 40 ton off road 6 wheel drive articulated haul trucks with tires a bit over 6' in height. Even with 30-40 ton of dirt on them they could crawl through about anything. When ya got one of those stuck in what we called a "shxt hole", you were stuck, sometimes took a dozer pullin and a back hoe pushin to get ya out. One of my co-workers once said he had envisions of taking one of those Cat or Volvo trucks and just start driving across country eluding the police and see how far he could get. I agreed with him, but my law enforcement background said it would be a stupid thing to do, maybe a fun ride, but one of those things you'd get locked up for and they'd lose the key. You could though make it a chase across 'hill and dale' that would make the local evening news.
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Are they for restoration or just yard art? Any idea how many of the 100 are still out there?
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I don't know which I would enjoy more- an afternoon in The Vault or a hell-bent-for-election romp through New Hampshire in one of those beasts with Don at the wheel with a maniacal grin on his face.😀😎 LOL!!! Would be fun to get behind the wheel of one of those Sterlings. One of my co-workers once said he had envisions of taking one of those Cat or Volvo trucks and just start driving across country eluding the police and see how far he could get. You could though make it a chase across 'hill and dale' that would make the local evening news. That remark reminds me of this (remember ?) : click on meIt kind of got lost in the national news because of President Reagan dying the same day .
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I remember that. Wonder what kind of sentence he would have gotten if he hadn't taken himself out. That dozer looks like a D8 Cat. We had one of those with a ripper like the one in the picture. Alot of power in that dozer, wouldn't have had any problems going into what buildings he damaged.
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We were in Granby a few months later and some of the buildings looked like WWII ruins in Germany.
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We went through Granby a week or so afterwards. The damage was horrible.
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That dozer was a armored 155 komatsu! i had a couple of them at that time,between d8-d9 cat size 50 tons with ripper. I sold mine to a guy in Pennsylvania to reclaim a 80 acre strip mine. Rick im going to get one running out of the pair, maybe I think there might be a dozen or so still in existence,from the Sterling collectors group.
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Don, I think you could put three Weasels on the back of each. Then when Gary, Jerry, John, Randy, and I come to visit there would be one for each of us to play with.
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WOW!! What an amazing collection!!
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Don, what kind of engine are in these "original"
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Ken,They have a waukesha 6 cylinder flathead model 6srkr 519 c.i. 125 h.p. thats not a lot of horsepower in todays world but enough for 1944. The top speed on these was probably 45 mph. Don
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those are cool. antique cars seem to be pretty popular around here. Some of us are caravaning to Rock Springs for a car show next Saturday.
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