Pig Picture Album (13 Viewers)

[dogfishlake]

I wouldn't park under that tree

It was falling as I took the picture.


Not really, it is alive and hung up in another tree. Needs to go but not coming down just yet.

 

[wngrog]

Swine Cemetery

 

[Mark W]

I'll creep into this thread. This was my first Pig. Picture taken in about 1992 IIRC. We lived ON the airport in King Salmon AK. That is the control tower in the background. My youngest was 4 or 5 and my stone stock Pig had almost no rust and no dents. We were about to head over to the Markair hanger to pick up the months groceries.
When we moved back from the Bush, my Pig was loaded int the back of the last existing swing tail DC6 and flown back to Anchorage. I still have it. the remains of it anyway.

Mark...

 

[Mark W]

This was about 3 years later. This little piggy was growing a bit and getting used a lot more. Sorry for the terrible image quality. It is a crappy scan of an old picture.

Mark...

 

[Mark W]

Another old scan of an older pic. About 1996 or so. Not my rig. This beauty belonged to a kid named Jerimiah who passed through MUD and moved on long ago. The rig was deemed the "Flying None", based on his driving style, the flapping front fenders and the amount of money he actually had invested in her.

The rig is actually still in my storage yard. One of those destined for the scrapper soon.


Mark...

 

[Mark W]

Damn beavers!


Mark...

 

[Mark W]

This one dates back to our original exploration of the "Eureka Highlands" (The eastern side of the Talkeetna Mountains). The bog is worse than it looks here and my Pig was on 33s with no lockers. And I had years less experience than I do now! Fortunately we were on the main trail and a pair of buggified WWII surplus waepons carriers happened along and gave us a quick tug out.

Mark...

 

[Mark W]

Another "Happy as a Pig in mud" shot. You can't see it well, but there is a 10K PTO winch on there by this time. Came out of this spot in no time at all.

Mark...

 

[scrapdaddy]

Some great action shots!

 

[Mark W]

View attachment 1812562 Family pic

When this pic was snapped these three belonged to one of our local veterinarians. He owned a built '40 that went through my hands years ago. His GF owns a beautiful '40 that started life in Bolivia which she has at least 60-70K sunk into. The Pig on the left spent most of it' life with the original owner who used to to plow snow and also had it equipped with a boom for lifting and moving stuff around the yard in his fabrication business. He wanted to sell them all to me, but by that point I had no need for any more Pig carcasses. I did buy the plow and the winch that had been used with the boom though.

Mark...

 

[Gordobe]

Those pictures are like gold nuggets of memories. Unfortunately in the 70’s I did not own a camera much less anything else. I did own a pig I got with 3000k miles on it (still had plastic protection on the inside door panels). I was lucky enough to have those days like Mark and Jeremiah and lived to tell about them, but no action photos of my own.

Thanks Mark that is an outstanding batch of photos and an excellent representation of the real life that an Iron Pig lives for.

 

[PabloCruise]

Good to see @Mark W in here with some old-school Pig stories!

 

[Godwin]

A stock '73 that briefly passed through my hands. Might have been repainted all white, not sure about that. Wanted to keep it but could not. It later went to ACC and was dramatically changed with 80 series stuff, engine, suspension, etc. Last I heard it was in Colorado Springs, CO.

 

[scrapdaddy]

Shame, looks like a keeper.

 

[Godwin]

Shame, looks like a keeper.

It was solid but I had agreed to help pass it along and could not hang on to it.

 

[Godwin]

A stock '73 that briefly passed through my hands. Might have been repainted all white, not sure about that. Wanted to keep it but could not. It later went to ACC and was dramatically changed with 80 series stuff, engine, suspension, etc. Last I heard it was in Colorado Springs, CO.

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This 55 became this ACC FZJ55 Build

 

[Ol Yeller]

This 55 became this ACC FZJ55 Build

That dash

 

[J Mack]

 

[onemanarmy]

That dash

so many things that I would have done different on that build. SO MANY.

 

[wngrog]

New Toyota Highlander ad with a Pig.

Belongs to a beautiful surfing girl that lives in Venice. Her IG is @Venicebender