Monster Heavy Hauler. 9500 Original Miles. 1974 Pacific, 1150 KT Cummins Power

[@CodySipe-ce5me]

I worked around that truck in the late 90’s at the Williams oil refinery in Memphis Tennessee. Barnhart used it to pull Goldhofer trailers around to move giant towers and such on site. Watched it and another prime mover tied together pull a 250’ separation tower off of a barge on the Mississippi. If I remember right they tore both trucks up in the process. They used to call that Truck Big John

[@minhilg]

Hey, did you ever work with a fella named Byron that you can remember? Tall fella, mustached, had a bit of a limp from shattering his foot escaping a house fire. My dad also worked at the refinery from 91 to roughly 2010, and i'm watching this truck wondering if he mightve seen this same one many years ago.

[@Bloodbain88]

What a cool truck. I figure with planetaries you don't need a bigger driveline than that. The diff gears it down and then the wheel ends gear it down even more. This monster must put insane torque to the ground.

[@patrickmooney6615]

I picked this truck up at a transmission shop in CT and took it to Memphis about 17 years ago. Driving it onto the trailer was different. In 1st gear you almost couldn't tell you were moving. The whole trip it was quite the conversation piece.

[@thesteelcowboy1621]

What an awesome story!!!!! Thank you for sharing!

[@trainnerd3029]

I bet driving that thing would shake the teeth right out of your head

[@davidbamberg6658]

At least drop a filling out or two !

[@jaywattley335]

😂😂

[@tonycooper1909]

That’s how you get summer teeth some are here some are gone😂

[@whatislifebuttheenjoymento3405]

I don't see airbags I think you are right

[@rogerringold616]

Do you think women love it? ..😂😂😂 A paint shaker

[@bobfleming3400]

Awesome truck. I love those Pacifics and Hayes. It probably had 12’ wide log bunks on it, early in its life. If I remember correctly those would be 90,000 or 110,000 Clark rear axles. Triple frame. All the good things in life.

[@dannytechminds423]

Hello Bob, Could you please you please explain to me why the Mack M45sx was wider than the Pacifics despite both having the same axles?

[@preachers4135]

@@dannytechminds423 Well Danny if you study a tape measure you’ll find the numbers get larger as you pull the tape out and when you measure across that Mack the number is larger and that’s why it’s wider.

[@laundrieshanging9077]

Grandpa used to run these down Vancouver Island back in the day. Badass rigs.

[@andyringdahl3237]

Awesome seeing a Pacific that far down south of the border. We still use plenty of them in the BC logging industry 👍

[@johncreed-sy3jd]

The mines here in Australia still use these bad-boys although the newest Kenworth model. Amazing to see up close.

[@texaspinzgauer]

You mean the 953 model?

[@Jdigger4130]

Pacific ended up using international cabs. So paystar ect. Check the door handles on this one! Sooooo cool n thx fer catching this beast! Not common sight outside BC! Cheers

[@NixonInDaGhetto]

didn't they originally use white cabs?

[@yeahok115sure]

I want more of this!!! I manage a heavy haul company in Idaho. This is right up my alley! To bad we couldn't see it driving

[@michaelguerin56]

Monster, all right. Thanks for showing. As someone else has said, NZ Forest Products bought a number of Pacifics as off highway logging trucks. Restored versions are impressive, both in size and noise.

[@MrMan5014]

That’s a very rare truck!…especially with the front wheel assist..

[@andylauder2072]

Quite a few Pacifics made their way to New Zealand over the years for use in the logging industry. As a kid remember checking them out and thinking what a complete beast they were,absolutely no creature comforts whatsoever,their only purpose was to move heavy stuff and not break down!!!

[@petermalanchuk8210]

That's good solid design, engineering and construction in that 6X6 tractor. Pacific made excellent tractors back in the day. My favorite was the Pacific P-16 with Cat V12 D3412 diesel engine. In this tractor, all of the axles look to be Clark, unless I'm wrong. The Cummins K19 is a very good, proven engine. Cummins makes one which may fit under the hood, but would be slight overkill, it's the Cummins QSK23, a 23 liter displacement, and bigger brother of the QSK19, with a bigger block than the K19 and weighs on or around 7,000 pounds, dry weight, if I'm correct. I do not know if the QSK23 is emissions rated for a tractor like this, but is used in/offered for marine and standby power applications.

[@stephenmcelroy1179]

Those axels and hubs would make one hell of a rock crawler!

[@preachers4135]

Are you rock crawling in a semi? 2.5 ton Rockwells have their place but I bet these are too heavy to be practical.

[@bmad1386]

​@@preachers4135 too thick as well

[@jimzivny1554]

Beast of a truck, I started working on heavy trucks in 1974 while I was in high-school. Nice walk around, thanks for sharing

[@addlsu2083]

Loved video. That’s a beast of a truck. I’ve been looking for a heavy duty front wheel assist dump truck like that one. I seen a military dump truck one time dump his load of dirt then back up over the load he dumped. That gave me the fever I gotta get one like that one day.

[@gregoryhelton2408]

Dang...that's my dream truck!!! What a beauty!!! In such amazing condition!!!😊😊😊

[@BrianW._1313]

AWESOME piece of heavy haul history..!!! thanks for sharing.

[@lovesloudcars]

Cool stuff. Thanks for the tour. I'd stop and make a video if I ever had the chance too. I'm always watching for stuff like that to share.

[@BonheurEsperer]

That's is a mean looking truck!!

[@trainnerd3029]

It just looks pissed off!

[@hilham89]

Tennessee here. I love these trucks! Never got the chance to drive one though.

[@ItalianStallion1415]

I've never seen one of those low air pressure "wig-wag" things. Cool!

[@alsteeves2044]

My Dad has talked about them. Of course he's now 91 and trucked in the 50's. That was when Cummins and diesel power was just coming in. Oh and Peterbilt wasn't born yet😂

[@sandipandey6725]

What a truck mann .....just love those old big trucks

[@clintcampbell8419]

Pacific had its own cab and you can tell by the angles on the back corners. International also owned Pacific and those are international doors. Seeing bits of yellow it probably was a log truck on Vancouver Island to star it’s life.

[@Jasekingg]

I just imagine the torque this beast produces

[@georgewilson1184]

Atalissa Iowa exit 265 Nice little family run trucker friendly truck stop Phillips 66 use to be there I ain’t been there in 20 years

[@DuncanMcOkiner]

Lovely old Cummins! Screaming out for peg and all the Cosby sauce🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@charlesroer972]

This type was used on Alcan hi way construction . Definitely heavyweight and haul

[@DavidMartin-tp2in]

Cool old Pacific and still has a wig wag air guage.

[@dwjunior]

Thank you so much for sharing! I’ve never seen one up close and personal like that!

[@kobusdutoitbosman6240]

well built and designed hauling configuration ~ would love to hear it running ?? And also see the motor??? Thanks for sharing. It appears more powerful than most, which should be a real joie to listen to running through those straight pipes👊🔥⁉️ Great! Keep going…🍻

[@Robert-tt5tg]

Sounds like a real dream truck

[@gj5250]

Wow, that moose catcher is more like a elephant catcher. 🤛

[@joesutherland225]

Thanks for covering pacific trucks they were awsome

[@rattler8041]

As my Dad would say.....You get a stick down in a gopher hole deep enough and hook that truck to it, it could pull the world around backwards.

[@davidbamberg6658]

Look at the amount of front springs ! And the size of the tires ! You could probably drive over a quarter while empty and literally feel it !

[@perrymclennan868]

We had them in New Zealand in the forest roads back in the 1970 s@80s thay only used them on forest roads because of the weight

[@snydedon9636]

I always crack up when I see these six or seven axle lowboy setups with the words heavy hauling on the door. I even saw a video here on KZbin of a guy with a 35 ton lowboy with the words heavy hauling on his door. I use to move portable crushing equipment and the most I ever grossed on a regular basis was 250k lbs but didn’t consider myself a heavy hauler.

[@kg1033]

Thank you for taking the time to make and upload the video that was really cool to see

[@catman5546]

Probably came out of the oilfield. Seen these on the North Slope of Alaska field .Cool truck !!

[@Altair885]

And to think my Tatra 813 would look like a baby next to that thing! 😂

[@Dex01-Z_WingZero]

Poor old truck needs some love

[@piotrzietek669]

Prawdziwy samochód, dla prawdziwego kierowcy 🦾

[@donnburge9774]

Northslope alaska in the day had many large heavy haulers KW and Autocar

[@dieseldave2383]

Never seen a Pacific up close pretty cool rig.

[@printer1105]

Sweet steel there ..old school heavy.

[@wes11bravo]

Beautiful truck.

[@michaelguinn5736]

Pacifics were always huge work horses!!

[@BrixPlays]

Been and seen that one. Good looking truck. Took some pics to put in the Pacific Truck registry

[@thesteelcowboy1621]

Do you remember the model?

[@BrixPlays]

@@thesteelcowboy1621 Not sure why my comment didnt stick. It should be a p12W3, but the hood isnt as long so could be a standard P12. It is not a Roughneck p12 because it is not 6x6. It was owned and operated by Barnhart Crane and Rigging. They had 6 that I knew of, Big Daddy, and big John were the most notable. They also had a couple of P12W3 Ultras which were their own kind of beast.

[@thesteelcowboy1621]

Wow. What great info. I really appreciate this! Thank you!

[@inkconceptualart8261]

Nice heavy duty truck!

[@Dragon.Slayer.]

Awesome piece of equipment!

[@fhsksu]

Badass log truck!

[@syntheticskull4284]

Gorgeous beast, it will be great, if someone restores that mega truck 😮😊

[@jerryrigsit5400]

What a beast. Mammout (not sure of spelling) has some heavy haul equipment.

[@Torch4ya]

It's not a spelling test, but Mammoet.

[@jerryrigsit5400]

@@Torch4ya I'm glad I got the spelling close 😬

[@derickleuenberger9519]

Pacific had International cab parts, doors and interior accessories assemble in house, but there have been some where cabs work full International Hayes was the one who's cab inspiration was of Kenworth styling aesthetics but also custom built in house.The cab you see here would be similar to the conventional 4300 Transtar of that era. The Pacific P510 would be most like an International as it was Pacific's on highway heavy duty offering.

[@Justrandomvideos-2023]

Thats a mean looking rig the only time u get to drive one is on my snowrunner game 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@CSltz]

74 diesel fuel was probably around the 60 to 80 cent mark. And going up. Wonder if they ever made there money back? 😁 I like watching these things and seeing how far we have come . And so fast too. I was still on my first year in the military.

[@darrelfuhrman8217]

In February 77, in Havre Montana. Gas was 0.32 a gallon. Premium was 0.36 a gallon. Low lead not No lead, was I think 0.38 a gallon. You could fill up on a $5 bill. Hello from north east Montana. 10 miles from the Canadian border.

[@preachers4135]

@@darrelfuhrman8217 I was in Havre, MT. two weeks ago, beautiful country! Hello from Texas.

[@preachers4135]

@@darrelfuhrman8217 Oh and two weeks ago five bucks would get you less than two gallons of gas. 😡

[@anncodec]

Thank you for uploading this.

[@DurzoBlunts]

My goal in life is to own one of these in Florida hahaha

[@DeathHead1358]

Given that it's an Ex-Barnhart truck, it probably used to belong to Burkhalter Crane and Rigging. They were bought out by Barnhart a few years ago, and this was the only Pacific they had as far as I know.

[@thesteelcowboy1621]

Good info there

[@koltonkinne7291]

Barnhart had a Mack M45sx that last I new was setting on the south end off Mason city iowa just off highway 65. Definitely neat trucks.

[@thesteelcowboy1621]

@Kolton Kinne South end of mason city you say? I go through there all the time. Any idea where abouts? How far south or north of 18?

[@koltonkinne7291]

@@thesteelcowboy1621 Barnhart has a location about a half mile north of 18 on 65 on the east side of the road. They're in the building the old rose bowl was in years ago. I can't say it's still there as it's been awhile since I've been past there but I could find out for you. The past few summers they've had it parked in the front of the lot right off highway 65.

[@thesteelcowboy1621]

@@koltonkinne7291 awesome..I'll try and go by there today! Love to see that monster!

[@kenjedlicki6870]

I would take that motor in a heartbeat put it in one of my tricked out GMC 5 Star generals

[@skylarsoper241]

It’s a 1974 pacific p16 or a p-14 , I beam frame planetary rears , up here on Vancouver Island we got em with v-12 Detroits and big cats , but the Hayes HDX 1000 takes the cake for fat trucks , kenworth makes a 850 that’s just as big or even bigger in some cases than that pacific , my dad owns a kw 850 and a Hayes hdx 1000 off highway logging company

[@andrewking4885]

There's a clip of an KW 850 with a V12 and Allison going up a dirt grade loaded with logs

[@alsteeves2044]

I worked on those logging shows in the early 80's. Seen all of those going up mt and down to the dump with peaked loads. You forgot to mention the big water tank/head ache rack and water cooled brakes. Those trucks were 20 years old then and they were taking them in for rebuild. Jimmie V12 power deafened a few drivers I suppose. N. Van Isl and Rivers Inlet soaked to the ass 70% of the time. Fond memories.

[@skylarsoper241]

@@alsteeves2044 yes best gd job I ever had was a camp logger 92-2008 I was a loader operator linkbelt 4800 was my favourite of all , bute inlet , rivers inlet , Bella Bella , frazer valley, Harrison lake , Campbell river, now I haul logs with my 79 kenworth lw 924 , 3408 cat 18spd , butterfly hood , protruding rad , pacar bush cab , compensator in truck frame , yes it has a water tank for the breaks 😊kw big six suspension and Columbia 30 ton rigging , fathom blue with a red pin strip , my pride and joy , 3 stage jakes and a breaksaver , sometimes I even run a 12’bunk on truck and a 10’ on the trailer , it really looks like it’s fat truck cousins

[@YoUnOkNoWoK]

There’s a feller here in my hometown that runs a heavy duty wrecker similar to this.

[@GarbageSean]

What a beast! Would love to hear this monster out on the road, running up and down through the gears of that Allison automatic! Do you happen to know what model Allison is in it?

[@thesteelcowboy1621]

That I do not.

[@larryskeeper1197]

@@thesteelcowboy1621 was wondering myself. I'd guess at a 5860, or possibly a 6061, matched with that Cummins

[@wornoutwrench8128]

@@larryskeeper1197 Most likely a 6061 but the 5960 was another option. Also not an automatic but a powershift.

[@chuckg2016]

That's an oil field or logging rig. No speed, no comfort, & no frills; just gut level pull power.

[@Eric-gi9kg]

Nobody would dare break check this big girl

[@joesutherland225]

Yes kenworth had a plant in Burnaby bc about 5 miles from Pacific's facility

[@brianjohnston413]

Excellent video

[@bendeleted9155]

Wow, luxurious automatic.

[@danweaver345]

That's really cool, thanks for showing this.

[@kurtremislettmyr7108]

wow, I wanna drive it! ask to drive it!

[@rusty1898]

The oil fields used to be full of these monsters.. but I don't know now it's been years

[@michaelburian2428]

9500 miles - on the current odo!

[@johnr5545]

That a big old girl god bless

[@DouglasWilkins-be5qg]

Hey bud I appreciate you. Loved every second of this capture. Keep it up

[@thesteelcowboy1621]

Thank you Douglas. I appreciate your kind words. I have some awesome videos I'm working on going to make.

[@Myfrilleddragons]

Need to get "Zip Ties N Bias plies" in on this!!!

[@Robert-tt5tg]

It looks like a fun truck to have, a person could really customize it turn into air ride front and rear really make quite the hot rod pulling rigged such as the monster truck, quite interesting

[@kimnielsenthewordyvikingett159]

What a sweet monster!!!

[@MatthewSmith-to1hz]

I bet it's a really rough ride. Mechanical spring suspension is no joke

[@joefell7845]

My friend has a spring ride trailer, we call it Jerry. 😅

[@jamesritter623]

The a in kta stands for after cooled, ktta means twin turbo after cooled, a freaking dinosaur of an engine, my grandfather had an kta 450 in a cab over peterbuilt it was definitely a extremely powerful engine, the closest thing to it my father said was a 1693 catapiler but my grandfather said that the kta would out pull out run and just flat walk all over any catapiler ever made

[@thesteelcowboy1621]

Been around kt ktta motors for years. They are huge as are the 1693s. Love hearing stories about them. Unfortunately I could only see 1 turbo and the owner never specified it being a 600 or 450. No way could I get to the engine tag or see a aftercooler. Lol. I didn't feel right snooping that far lol. Thanks for your story bud!

[@mattstarr8203]

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[@J.R.in_WV]

K-1150’s were a better engine than 1693’s from an objective standpoint….6 individual cylinder heads meant easier service, they actually had a compression brake available from jacobs (Never, ever did they make a Jake for a 1693 and there has never been one with Jake’s, although some misguided cat fanboy old-timers will say different), and a lot of their design was similar enough to the 855 a guy that knew his way around an 855 could work on them. The 1693 on the other hand had one single cylinder head and was a very early OHC design, only using the cams to run the valves because they still used a fully pressurized injection pump and simple poppet injectors unlike Cummins or Detroit who had figured out a camshaft actuated unit injector was better in most ways. Also the injection setup is why Jake’s were originally only available on Cummins and GM / Detroit engines.

[@thesteelcowboy1621]

@J.R. In WV great info bud. 1693 were a big motor but very very expensive and harder to work on than a 855 or 1150 kt. Kts are expensive as well but back then they were even expensive. Thank you for your input! Great stuff!

[@charlesroer972]

I’ve worked on a lot of these K models 6 cyl and V12 k3800 models just one hell of a lot of power

[@ronunderwood5771]

Cab and doors look a bit like the International Harvester 4300 Transtar cabs. IH did sell cabs to other builders.

[@JBAutomotive794]

That thing is rad!

[@tractortalkwithgary1271]

That was pretty impressive.

[@SuperDriver379]

The torque bars are massive, and them geared hubs supposedly multiply your torque 3:1.

[@eddieweigel9490]

I believe 1973 the first KTA 600 HP came out

[@montedyoung3247]

Yeah, that’s a way to wake up swift!

[@richardmcleod3577]

Sure looked like an international cab

[@johncunningham4820]

Solid Pedestal Driving seat ! OUCH ! Back breaker . A shame that Magnificent Old Brute is languishing in a Yard . Should be working a Forest or a Mine somewhere .

[@darrinbunston5932]

I seen what I thought looked like the same thing at the old bowling Alley in Mason City Iowa

[@J.R.in_WV]

I believe you must have Hayes and Pacific trucks mixed up…That’s is absolutely not a Paccar cab. Look at the door handle. The shape of the roof and that big drip rail…it’s an International Paystar / Transtar Conventional cab with a few minor modifications. I drive one every day, it’s fairly easy to spot. It would have been a nearly brand new design in 74’, there are actually quite a few later Pacific trucks with this cab. Now Hayes trucks did use cabs from KW, another company with a factory in Canada that could supply them with cabs.

[@geraldo7325]

Pacific built their own cab or used Internationals cab. Both used International doors. This one has a pacific cab with International doors.

[@RobSharp-wo5qj]

There is still a lot of Pacific’s/ Hayes used in the forest industry . They just rebuilt them.

[@jshafer51]

Now that's a proper truck.

[@kennethwallen5572]

What a badass truck this is,I love it! I couldn't help noticing what appears to be a clutch pedal in the truck. But he states a couple of times that the transmission is an Allison automatic. What gives? Is it simply a foot rest? Or maybe for a splitter differential? Anyone in the know?

[@rdavila26]

That’s what I need to work local 😂

[@KentuckyAk101guy]

You know it’s big truck when you have to have 4 sets of normal semi mud flaps to make mud flaps for this thing as well as a 1150 Cummins looking like a normal sized engine in it lol

[@earlytw]

How much gallons per mile he probably need?

[@monteclark1115]

I bet it would be fun to drive off road.

[@skeetermcswagger0U812]

☠I'd love to show up to WASTELAND WEEKEND with a truck like this!!!!☠