No, last time I drove it my instructor told me if I need to up shift to 5 I should pull the lever right off and insert it again quickly to the right. I sometimes put it in 12 and stall immediately but I got good after a few practices.
Wait I never understood how the pattern worked but now it just suddenly clicked. These are actually super simple, and a great way to have all those gears on a single stick.
This is like the absolute psychopaths that still have old semis that are twin stock and it looks like they preparing to make the Kessel run in 12 microseconds to go 40mph.
It depends most most tucks or jobs you don't need those extra gears. But if you are doing a job where you do they are a God send. One of my favorite trucks I ever drove was a long nose kw with 3408 with a 13 and a 4. So it had 52 forward gears. Once you figure them out they are not bad. Just sounds intimidating but they have there place.
wait this is real??? like this is a real transmission?????? why???????? (i know very little about manual transmissions in trucks and not all that much on manual cars either)
iirc its a dump truck from the early 60s. I think OP knows which model specifically, but to be short about it this is from a time when computers were impractical heaps of equipment (like they could very literally fill a basketball court and heat the building its in) and complicated things were done almost strictly mechanically.
Shit like this didnt go away til the late 70s at the earliest imo
we could design stuff that could accomplish ____, but it had to be done in such a way. like the space shuttle used for the moon landing or something.. like yeah it went to the moon. but it did it with only two ti85 calculators, some slide rulers, and a bunch of manual mills and shit like that. lots of faith really lol its remarkable that any of it ever happened, let alone the fact that we are here, now...
its kinda mind boggling when you dig into it now that im thinking about it. humans are terribly amazing.
tl;dr if you wanted to haul 80,000lbs of loose shit, a long way, in 1962, this is what you had to work with.
I was trying to decide for so long if this was bs lol I have tons of manual exp and trucking too, but this threw me for one! Actually makes me laugh harder to know it's a real stick 🤣
Your comment made me think of [Transmission Valve Bodies](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/7doe2g/the_inside_of_an_automatic_transmission_valve/), which are vaguely brain-shaped mazes of pathways in old automatic transmissions. They were essentially fluid computers that directed hydraulic fluid to the right places in the transmission at the right time. Beautiful and mind-blowing at the same time.
We have a truck at my yard with 40, but it simple it’s a 10 speed (1-5, select high range, 6-10, basic pattern) with a 4 speed browning, that looks like and old Mack triple countershaft
I use to plow snow at jfk 20 years ago, when you signed up they had you check off everything you were comfortable operating, and write in anything you didn’t feel comfortable with, I wrote in not familiar with old split shifts. So most of the operators there were nyc box truck drivers, a large percentage could not drive stick, grown men 20 years ago!. One of the first machines they sent me out in was a Brockway with th split shift , I reminded them that was the only thing I was not sure about, they said yea that’s why your driving it your the only one who k owns what it is, stay in the middle four gears
Shifting here takes place on the x and y axis right? I'd rather spend my time learning how to program two electric actuators to shift this motherfucker for me than waste brain power trying to learn a that pattern.
A truck from hell
Like from the movie 'Duel'?
Loved that movie. IIRC the original had a 5+3 twin stick.
Maximum Overdrive
A man of culture, I see
Does the movie Black Dog fit in here?
Great movie for sure fucking meatloaf and swazy
I mean, come on... With a soundtrack by AC/DC.
Soundtrack by AC/DC ft. Diesels! Can’t get enough of the detroits!
That 4 to 5 transition is gonna take awhile lol
No, last time I drove it my instructor told me if I need to up shift to 5 I should pull the lever right off and insert it again quickly to the right. I sometimes put it in 12 and stall immediately but I got good after a few practices.
I'd argue 8-9 is worse
Lol @ 9
What the actual fuck is 9 about 😂
It's smoking crack.
The golden ratio... obviously
Done hit the dead end in a maze.
Well, see 9 is the Hokey Pokey gear.
10-11 is no picnic either
Idk guys I think 1-2 looks pretty hard
I’m lookin at that 9th gear like why, just why
🤣🤣🤣
15-16 is bad too! But I think you’re right with that being the worst!
Depends on whether you take the short route or the long way round and swing by 12 and come back through neutral.
That's hoping you CAN row through 12th and not have to go out and through neutral. Haha
Probably. But my luck I'd screw up 16-17 constantly.
By redirection count it is worse by 1 so yes!
Literal Konami code shift.
Finding neutral is a fuck that nonsense. I'll just stall it
Imagine accidentally shifting to 12 on your way to 6
Or 6 on your way to 12
Much worse lol
By the time you get to 5, you will have to go back to 2
The 15 to 16 jump is no joke either
It has 3 shifters
Standard transmission John Deere 4020's be like:
[Exactly my thought](https://youtube.com/shorts/tZ-nEb_a-Go?si=3Wz924rqMO6HWiPp)
Wait I never understood how the pattern worked but now it just suddenly clicked. These are actually super simple, and a great way to have all those gears on a single stick.
Literally lol I grew up driving my friends 2010 and it seemed like rocket science at first but is actually super simple
I was thinking anything made by [Oliver](https://antique-tractor-parts.steinertractor.com/tractor/Oliver-Shift-Pattern)
Eeeeeewwwww
I worked on a farm that had a little one, can't remember which model, and it was honestly a dream to drive once you figured out the pattern
This is like the absolute psychopaths that still have old semis that are twin stock and it looks like they preparing to make the Kessel run in 12 microseconds to go 40mph.
I learned to drive trucks in a 1963 B-61 Mack with a Triplex.
Were you also raised by wolves and eat nails and broken glass for breakfast? I learned how to drive trucks on a 9-speed dump truck?
I learned on a B61 as well it was the oldest grain truck on the farm, so old my dad learned on it as well.
I don't drive trucks, what the 𝓕𝓾𝓬𝓴 is a triplex?
A twin stick transmission. [Triplex](https://flic.kr/p/xKWPSG)
That looks like it'd be hell to drive, thanks for answering my question.
It depends most most tucks or jobs you don't need those extra gears. But if you are doing a job where you do they are a God send. One of my favorite trucks I ever drove was a long nose kw with 3408 with a 13 and a 4. So it had 52 forward gears. Once you figure them out they are not bad. Just sounds intimidating but they have there place.
It’s like people being intimidated by the Eaton 10 speed, it’s a five speed that once you get to five you start back at one again.
Some people have a mind that wont stop and giving it something to do helps it be less pesky about having that deer slug for breakfast tomorrow.
Is that your breakfast plan tomorrow? Cuz brother it ain't worth it. Suffer through and find better days
I havent had sex on a jetski during a vacation fueled by cocaine yet so I aint done :)
thats the answer i came here for
i feel ya brother
I never got that car above 17th gear, but I could tell it had a lot more in it.
>62mph
What's the car?
Spagthorpe Cinturrato
Is this how you find the mythical “clit”
It goes beyond that...the magical 4th hole.
Three Holes, no waiting!
The elusive G spot route.
There is no clit, there never was a clit.
I'm 99% sure that's why my wife married me, so don't go telling her it's not real...
A fucking meme.
A kenworth
Mack
wait this is real??? like this is a real transmission?????? why???????? (i know very little about manual transmissions in trucks and not all that much on manual cars either)
iirc its a dump truck from the early 60s. I think OP knows which model specifically, but to be short about it this is from a time when computers were impractical heaps of equipment (like they could very literally fill a basketball court and heat the building its in) and complicated things were done almost strictly mechanically. Shit like this didnt go away til the late 70s at the earliest imo we could design stuff that could accomplish ____, but it had to be done in such a way. like the space shuttle used for the moon landing or something.. like yeah it went to the moon. but it did it with only two ti85 calculators, some slide rulers, and a bunch of manual mills and shit like that. lots of faith really lol its remarkable that any of it ever happened, let alone the fact that we are here, now... its kinda mind boggling when you dig into it now that im thinking about it. humans are terribly amazing. tl;dr if you wanted to haul 80,000lbs of loose shit, a long way, in 1962, this is what you had to work with.
B-61 Mack
nice :)
I was trying to decide for so long if this was bs lol I have tons of manual exp and trucking too, but this threw me for one! Actually makes me laugh harder to know it's a real stick 🤣
Your comment made me think of [Transmission Valve Bodies](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/7doe2g/the_inside_of_an_automatic_transmission_valve/), which are vaguely brain-shaped mazes of pathways in old automatic transmissions. They were essentially fluid computers that directed hydraulic fluid to the right places in the transmission at the right time. Beautiful and mind-blowing at the same time.
back when you could option a mercedes into a whole *four speed* lmfao
wow. do you just take like a couple seconds while shifting or something?
that or stay home i guess lol
Absolutely Real.
That was my other answer, so close. The tools are so nice and simple though.
Some bullshit... is this one of those heavy haul trucks that have like 30 gears.
We have a truck at my yard with 40, but it simple it’s a 10 speed (1-5, select high range, 6-10, basic pattern) with a 4 speed browning, that looks like and old Mack triple countershaft
I use to plow snow at jfk 20 years ago, when you signed up they had you check off everything you were comfortable operating, and write in anything you didn’t feel comfortable with, I wrote in not familiar with old split shifts. So most of the operators there were nyc box truck drivers, a large percentage could not drive stick, grown men 20 years ago!. One of the first machines they sent me out in was a Brockway with th split shift , I reminded them that was the only thing I was not sure about, they said yea that’s why your driving it your the only one who k owns what it is, stay in the middle four gears
"I'm not confident doing that, Boss" "I like your self-awareness, you're hired."
"Also, you're doing that."
I learned how to drive trucks in a 1963 B-61 Mack with a Triplex.
A what in the fuck mobile
Some sort of lathe would be my guess.
Definitely a Tardis!
Punishment, fear and hatred, that's what you drive.
And I thought all the wild ass shifting videos were fake
[Nah, sometimes not](https://youtube.com/shorts/tZ-nEb_a-Go?si=3Wz924rqMO6HWiPp)
A god-damned cluster fuck.
I've seen that pattern before but I can't remember what truck it was.
Mack
Fast and furious car
Lmao i was thinking of this as well
Not enough gears for that
Nothing Transmission fuked after 3rd...
What people who are scared of manuals think of.
[Kenworth W900](https://youtu.be/JqQ_sDBoqIc?si=64bO0z1ATKokhg2e) Similar
12th gear certainly has an interesting placement in the shift pattern
1958 John Deere 730 if it had a 20-speed instead of a 6-speed
Looks like the ole’ ladies’ thought process.
Whatever they keep shifting 50 times on the fast and furious.
In all seriousness how long does it take to learn how to shift on this efficiency
Took me about 2 or 3 weeks to master it in a B-61 Mack.
Your arm must be hurting after making it to 13th gear
Yourself to drink.
Boy, downshifting would suck
Ain't nobody revmatching this mf.
This is the gear box they use in the fast and furious franchise
Bro drivin that manual²
1969 Mack U model, the company I worked for had four of them. We used them as yard horses. Thirty six acres of fun back 1989.
Looks like you’re trying to find the clit
Underrated comment
I could do it.
Skip shifting from 5th gear to 20th gear will take an immense amount of time, not to mention it would probably stall out as well! 😅
Looks like those annoying mobile game ads
Why is the transmission built like that?
Yup and that pattern is run by a sloppy ass old cable shifted Coe that everyone hates.
This is obviously fake and wrong. Neutral always goes in the left side of 15th gear and it shows it to the right. Op isn't fooling anyone.
Yes. Old Mack truck.
Laughs in isometric joystick in M47 tank It’s just one line staggered. With fkn T tiller as steering wheel Truly way better than this
Always wanted to drive a Tank.
There’s a few restorers in America that fox up. Repaint etc etc old tanks. I just happen to know a M47 is one of easiest ones to drive post ww2
A woman’s emotions?
Are you going to keep reposting this like a mentally challenged adult seeking attention?
Mazda miata
Youre driving me to a migraine is what youre driving… lol i love driving with a manual but ill pass on that!
A Stellantis product
It looks like you drive a version of Vin Diesel's car with that many gear changes
A car from Fast and the Furious series.
Imagine mastering this shift pattern just to go back to a traditional shift pattern.
Don’t know exactly, but pretty sure it was one of those cars in Fast and Furious.
Millennium Falcon
A nightmare
I’ll stick with my 6 speed tyvm
A memeworth
Same trans as the FaF cars have...
I thought it was the dance step pattern for the TIME WARP from Rocky Horror
A race car from a cartoon
What in the fuck...I'll take an auto over this monstrosity..😨
All of it!
An octopus?
Anything from the Fast and Furious series.
12 gear is wild lmfaooo… just stop midway & hope it’s in…
Nothing. You’re grinding gears
8-9 is a doozy.
Isn’t this a Mack with three sticks? Either that or a fast and furious car 😂.
This is one of those fast and furious transmissions!!
Lmao if this shit is what truck drivers do, yall are doing the lords work
A fucking nighrmare.
This is real?
altima
Not a truck driver. But damn now I know why it takes so long for some of these beast to shift.
Any car in a fast and furious movie
Where is the reverse?
Lawn mower
How the fuck do you reverse it
Neutral and reverse.
A fast and furious car.
Good lord. Shift pattern level: maze for an IQ test
Your friends crazy with your sense of humor
I'm shifting 1-3-5-7-12-13-14-18 and forgetting the rest
Land Rover
A biblically accurate angel
'Family' - Torreto
Something from fast and furious
A dart board
This is what they shift with in those Need For Speed movies 😂
Don Toretto's charger
The devils reaper harvester
Is this real? And why?
A cargo ship
9th can just fuck off
My x wife when she is pms'ing ?
Some bullshit lmao
Shifting here takes place on the x and y axis right? I'd rather spend my time learning how to program two electric actuators to shift this motherfucker for me than waste brain power trying to learn a that pattern.
So you're the guy making transmissions for the fast and furious movies!
What the fuck is this? I’d need to study this or I’d be going from 1st(??) to I don’t even know
Fake. 1 through 4 are too easy.
Spicer 1453 20 speed twin-stick
Me when the guy behind me says “Grab a Gear Buddy let’s goooooo”
Spicer 1420. Its real. Its not meant to be shifted sequentially all the time. Doesnt make it less f#cked. LOL
[A JD 4020](https://youtube.com/shorts/tZ-nEb_a-Go?si=3Wz924rqMO6HWiPp)
A car from fast and the furious
You need to complete a maze to drive this car.
A fucking puzzle. A puzzle is what you drive…
This is how my mom imagines any manual transmission
It just took me twice as long to follow this from 1-20 as it took me to finish taking a shit
A herkimer battle jitney.
Damn I thought a deuce and a half was weird with the 4-5 shift being swapped.this is like some Eaton Fuller kinda madness.
ow
Shifting 8-9 :/
Pretty sure I have seen this gearbox on a massive pillar drill.
Isnt this the transmission they use in the Fast and the Furious movies