Hello Everyone: I have a bone stock '53 model 6400 flat bed dump truck with heater and the grain box sides. I've had this cool old truck for 10 years and love it! My truck was found on Ebay, and came from Illinois. I found old grain elevator receipts that show anywhere from 10,000 to 14,000 lbs of soy being offloaded at the local elevator. I keep this truck stock as a reminder to myself and people I talk to that these old trucks kept America and our Canadian friends fed, helped create highway systems, made local deliveries and took an incredible pounding on all the unpaved roads when this truck was built all without all the creature comforts we take for granted today. This truck was probably a big deal, because the farmer opted to put a heater in the truck.
The other day, I came across a post on Facebook that had a video clip from an old Pathe movie that was shot in 1952. This clip was of interest because it showed a portion of a Canadian wheat harvest and prominently shows our AD series trucks on the job. You wont believe what these trucks hauled, and how the trucks were handled at the grain elevator. Not being from a farm background, I was amazed at the 3-1/2 minute video.
Here is the youtube link:
In case the link fails, the name of the video is "Wheat Harvest Canadian Film Board (1952)" you can do a name search and find the video as well.
