My truck gets used for lots of things, but this is the thing I like best. 6 kids & 2 dads in the back and the director of the local history museum in the front with me driving. After the parade was over I parked the truck at the local airport which is adjacent to Lady Bird Johnson park. Caught a ride home with a neighbor and came back about 9PM to sit in the bed with my wife & SIL to watch fireworks.
'57 GMC 102, Original 347 V8, HydraMatic, 3.08 rear gear, added A/C, disk front brakes, HEI, AFB carb, '98 Honda Black Currant paint. T-boned and totaled 10/12 '52 GMC 152 Stake Bed, Original 228, SM420, added A/C, HEI, disk front brakes, '67 Chev 3.55 rear gear. Gets used as a real truck.
~ Peggy M 1949 Chevrolet 3804 "Charlie" - The Stovebolt Flagship In the Gallery "We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give." -- Winston Churchill
Hubcaps are paper plates held on with zip ties. I got the oval paper plates on purpose so they would "lumpity lump" as I drove.
'57 GMC 102, Original 347 V8, HydraMatic, 3.08 rear gear, added A/C, disk front brakes, HEI, AFB carb, '98 Honda Black Currant paint. T-boned and totaled 10/12 '52 GMC 152 Stake Bed, Original 228, SM420, added A/C, HEI, disk front brakes, '67 Chev 3.55 rear gear. Gets used as a real truck.
I have a row of lilac bushes some 70 ft. long which has had very little attention since they were planted some 25 years or so ago. This week I decided to give them a massive haircut. Still not finished with that, but have many piles of brush and clippings. Got the first load hauled out this afternoon, but still have several more to go.
Got the first load hauled out this afternoon, but still have several more to go.
Now THAT is a flatbed hard at work for sure!! Truck looks good when it's working ... IMHO. Thanks for including the pictures.
~ Peggy M 1949 Chevrolet 3804 "Charlie" - The Stovebolt Flagship In the Gallery "We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give." -- Winston Churchill
~ Dan 1951 Chevy 3 window 3100 Follow this story in the DITY Gallery "My Grandpa Carl's Truck and How it Became Mine" 1966 Chevelle (Wife's Hot Rod) | 2013 Chevy Silverado (Current daily driver) US Army MSG Retired (1977-1998) | Com Fac Maint Lead Tech Retired (1998-2021)
Green truck did a bit of work today. It pulled the new (to the herd) ‘64 CJ5 to the deer woods for a preseason stand inspection. Only minor issue was a chip in the new Jeep windshield. 20 miles of towing over gravel and substandard rural Arkansas roads will do that.
Aside from farming and logging, I reclaim vintage barns as a (one of many) side job. I typically remove everything I can by hand, place strategic relief cuts in remaining supports, and then use the old girl to pull over the barn skeletons to finish up salvage. This season I tackled 3 barns back to back on an old farmstead about a mile from my farm. I cant directly post videos here so I linked them to a hosting site. These are the last two on this site being pulled over.
9500lb empty weight truck, high traction off road bias plys drive tires, and a 292 in 1st lo at 1200rpm really make a heck of a pulling combination. The photo is from a jobsite last year doing the same thing, just with the barn not yet ready to be pulled over.
I just used mine to haul a few loads of concrete from a new driveway I am working on. I overloaded it and exposed a weak spot in the frame where it thinned out from rust. It caused the left rear side of my frame to buckle behind the leaf spring shackle. It can be repaired. Just add it to the list.
My dad salvaged an old Amish barn when I was a kid in Ohio. He builrt a huge addition to our house with the hand hewn beams. He rented a truck a lot like yours to haul the stuff to our house.
1950 Chevrolet 3100 (Ol' Roy)
1939 Packard Standard Eight Coupe (The Phantom) | 1956 Cadillac Coupe de Ville (The Bismarck) | 1964 Ford Galaxie 500 coupe |1966 Ford Mustang (Little Red) | 1969 Pontiac GTO (The Dishpit) I 1979 Ford F-100 | 1976 Ford F-150 (Big Red) | 1995 Ford F-150 (Newt)
My dad salvaged an old Amish barn when I was a kid in Ohio. He builrt a huge addition to our house with the hand hewn beams. He rented a truck a lot like yours to haul the stuff to our house.
I run a small woodworking business on the side that specializes in reclaiming old barns specifically for selling bulk reclaimed materials to end users, creating custom furniture (both for sale and for personal use), and obtaining materials I need for my farm. I am still building up my personal farm so this ensures I always have good dimensional lumber, sheet metal, etc on hand to use and produces income to cover other farm expenses via selling the high dollar beams, siding, etc. I've overhauled all existing buildings out here and started to raise new ones specifically with these materials. Its a good way to quickly build up an operating farm without needing lots of money or taking out major loans.
The materials from the buildings in those two videos will raise the new cattle/hog barn next spring and then the processing barn sometime next fall or early 2025. I also managed to snag all the old poles since both building were pole style barns and once retreated with creosote, those will net me ~1000' of fence posts for new pasture expansions. Very little goes to waste.
We are back to firewood processing this week from the wood pile. With full bedsides the truck holds just shy of 4 cord of wood and grosses 12,000lb (cherry wood) with GVW around 22,000lbs. Technically lightly overloaded, but this old girl doesn't miss a beat and doesn't mind at all. They sure don't build them like they used to.
We burn around 3 cord a year, so each load is roughly a years worth of firewood.
My '50 Chevy 3100 5 window, '62-235cu, 3:55 rear My truck ....... Respect The Rust If I'm not working on my truck, '65 m00stang or VW camper, I'm fishing with the wife or smoking Salmon.
My 53 will be my daily, around town driver when it's finished. It's getting close now. Everything except the bed will be finished by the end of October.
Mike Burns 1940 Chev 1/2 ton 1953 Chev 1/2 ton 1950 Studebaker Starlight Coupe 1947 Indian Chief 1943 Indian 741
My 53 will be my daily, around town driver when it's finished. It's getting close now. Everything except the bed will be finished by the end of October.
~ Peggy M 1949 Chevrolet 3804 "Charlie" - The Stovebolt Flagship In the Gallery "We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give." -- Winston Churchill
We had a 60 MPH windstorm two weeks ago and I finally got around to to doing some cleanup this morning. I'm guessing 6-10 more loads to the burn pile. Mostly Mesquite, with some Oak and Persimmon.
'57 GMC 102, Original 347 V8, HydraMatic, 3.08 rear gear, added A/C, disk front brakes, HEI, AFB carb, '98 Honda Black Currant paint. T-boned and totaled 10/12 '52 GMC 152 Stake Bed, Original 228, SM420, added A/C, HEI, disk front brakes, '67 Chev 3.55 rear gear. Gets used as a real truck.
My '50 Chevy 3100 5 window, '62-235cu, 3:55 rear My truck ....... Respect The Rust If I'm not working on my truck, '65 m00stang or VW camper, I'm fishing with the wife or smoking Salmon.
Ol' Roy actually got to do some work the last couple of days instead of just acting as daily transportation so I guess it should go in this thread instead of the driving report. They're both pretty similar, though.
Seventy degrees here in the A-T-L. I figured it was a good time to haul some stuff to the Ritz Carlton Downtown. APD actually had the nerve to tell me I couldn't just put out some cones and block an entire lane on Peachtree Street. Fortunately I was already finished so I pulled Ol' Roy down to the loading dock. Last year when I was pulled up on the sidewalk, a cop told me to just park in the street and put some cones out. Get your story straight, guys!
Either way, this guy was cool and told me that with a chuckle and asked me to move "as soon as possible". Of course he didn't say anything to the Royal truck across the street or the US Foods tractor trailer parked a couple hundred feet in front of me.
Naturally, I got the usual compliments from passersby, city workers, Portuguese tourists, derelicts and bums, and some Mexican dude at the Ritz who assured me the truck was worth $100,000.
Yesterday I cleared some debris from a yard over by the Atlanta Zoo. It's great driving around an antique vehicle in weather like this. Actually, it's great no matter what the weather is. Antiques are the only kind of vehicles I drive anywhere and I LOVE driving.
By the way, those plants aren't dead, they're supposed to be golden color. Who's that idiot in the reflection?
1950 Chevrolet 3100 (Ol' Roy)
1939 Packard Standard Eight Coupe (The Phantom) | 1956 Cadillac Coupe de Ville (The Bismarck) | 1964 Ford Galaxie 500 coupe |1966 Ford Mustang (Little Red) | 1969 Pontiac GTO (The Dishpit) I 1979 Ford F-100 | 1976 Ford F-150 (Big Red) | 1995 Ford F-150 (Newt)
Got the Ole 62 out today after several bolters helped me get my brakes straightend out 👍🇺🇸👍
A property owner I work for said she needed a few trees and some privet cleaned out from the sides of a driveway. So me and my son in law Mike took care of it and pocketed a C-note each 👍. Plus a few sticks of wild cherry 👍. We was about wore out , but it didn't hurt us none 😁😁. That picture of the wood in the bed was on a pretty steep grade. The E-brake held it fast while we got it loaded 👍. Then we chugged it on back home in the 62 ..
Mike was with me last year at Minters Farm and met a few bolters. He will be with me Saturday too 👍👍
1962 C10 with a 235 6cyl -- all of the drive train seems to be original. Some of this story is in the Side Lot Some people like a new truck. I liked the old ones.
Up until Wednesday it was 70 degrees here. Today it didn't get over 45 and rained all day.
Who drives a 74 year old truck on the interstate during rush hour in the rain? Me!
Ol' Roy has new Firestone radials and I rebuilt the brakes last year. Also, there's no danger of driving too fast with that 87hp stovebolt.
Look at the pretty rainbow he made on the blacktop!
1950 Chevrolet 3100 (Ol' Roy)
1939 Packard Standard Eight Coupe (The Phantom) | 1956 Cadillac Coupe de Ville (The Bismarck) | 1964 Ford Galaxie 500 coupe |1966 Ford Mustang (Little Red) | 1969 Pontiac GTO (The Dishpit) I 1979 Ford F-100 | 1976 Ford F-150 (Big Red) | 1995 Ford F-150 (Newt)
1939 Packard Standard Eight Coupe (The Phantom) | 1956 Cadillac Coupe de Ville (The Bismarck) | 1964 Ford Galaxie 500 coupe |1966 Ford Mustang (Little Red) | 1969 Pontiac GTO (The Dishpit) I 1979 Ford F-100 | 1976 Ford F-150 (Big Red) | 1995 Ford F-150 (Newt)
~ Craig 1958 Viking 4400 "The Book of Thor" Read the story in the DITY 1960 Chevrolet C10 "A Family Heirloom" Follow the story in the DITY Gallery '59 Apache 31, 327 V8 (0.030 over), Muncie M20 4 Speed, GM 10 Bolt Rear... long term project (30 years and counting)
If you don't like driving yourTruck, you won't drive yourTruck..| Living life in the SLOW lane
I haven't. That picture in Moultrie is about as far north as it's been, which is a relaxed 5-hour drag. I'm still towing with the 230 six...when I get around to finishing it, there's a 327 to swap in, which will let me climb slopes without channeling The Little Engine That Could.
Wayne 1938 1-Ton Farm Truck Stovebolt Gallery Forums 1989 Silverado 1996 Mustang GT convertible When I die, I hope she doesn't sell everything for what I told her I paid for it!
A trip to the waste recycle center today. It still draws attention whenever I take it out.
Wayne 1938 1-Ton Farm Truck Stovebolt Gallery Forums 1989 Silverado 1996 Mustang GT convertible When I die, I hope she doesn't sell everything for what I told her I paid for it!
Wayne, what are those two white circles on the passenger side lower cowl?
1950 Chevrolet 3100 (Ol' Roy)
1939 Packard Standard Eight Coupe (The Phantom) | 1956 Cadillac Coupe de Ville (The Bismarck) | 1964 Ford Galaxie 500 coupe |1966 Ford Mustang (Little Red) | 1969 Pontiac GTO (The Dishpit) I 1979 Ford F-100 | 1976 Ford F-150 (Big Red) | 1995 Ford F-150 (Newt)
Drove to work today to a close in rural area - Just 9 miles outside the ATL city limits
1950 Chevrolet 3100 (Ol' Roy)
1939 Packard Standard Eight Coupe (The Phantom) | 1956 Cadillac Coupe de Ville (The Bismarck) | 1964 Ford Galaxie 500 coupe |1966 Ford Mustang (Little Red) | 1969 Pontiac GTO (The Dishpit) I 1979 Ford F-100 | 1976 Ford F-150 (Big Red) | 1995 Ford F-150 (Newt)
Wayne, what are those two white circles on the passenger side lower cowl?
That is a pair of reflectors that fill the holes an antenna would normally be attached to. Or so I was told
Wayne 1938 1-Ton Farm Truck Stovebolt Gallery Forums 1989 Silverado 1996 Mustang GT convertible When I die, I hope she doesn't sell everything for what I told her I paid for it!
