6 Comments on “Toledo Jeep Fest is This Weekend”

1. ROGER MARTIN August 11, 2018 at 6:34 pm

   Dave, The pictures of me working on my FC 170 DRW truck with the Ottawa back hoe on it were taken Thursday night. I still had to put the front end together, put tires back on, put on some brake lines and master cylinder, put ujoints in the pto shaft that runs the hydraulic pump, install the main hydraulic hoses that run the hoe, vacuum out the hydraulic tank and clean out all the sludge, fill it with hydraulic oil, grease the whole truck and backhoe, and clean up the truck and backhoe. I had it loaded on my 32 foot deck, tandum axel, dual wheel gooseneck trailer by 130 pm. I took a quick shower and was on the road to the Jeep Fest at Toledo by 2:00. Thursday night, i looked at it and thought I wouldn’t get it done in time and about threw in the towel and gave up. But I stuck with it all night. It was long 2 days with no sleep. As always, thanks for putting this on your eWillys site. Next time you are in Ohio, you can actually run it instead of just look at it like you did this spring.

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2. YELLOW JOURNALISM August 12, 2018 at 12:05 am

   those things are childs play —I used to fix aerial bucket lifts — very dangerous — almost lost an arm in a telsta t40 boom

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3. Craig Brockhaus August 12, 2018 at 6:12 am

   …nothing like a deadline. Looks great Roger!

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4. Emmett August 12, 2018 at 5:29 pm

   Love the backhoe, I want one badly. But maybe the CJ5 version. Side note, that’s my black Mitsubishi in the first photo lineup.

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5. David Eilers Post authorAugust 12, 2018 at 6:40 pm

   Emmett … congrats for making the show!

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6. Blaine August 13, 2018 at 9:49 am

   Roger, I’m glad that you made it to the show with the FC and thanks for sharing the pictures with us.

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