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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.

Looks great. Good time for all. Love the hubcaps!!!

I saw that - the hubcaps. Is that a decoration?

Looks like lots of happy faces.

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.

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.

Now THAT is a flatbed hard at work for sure!! Truck looks good when it's working ... IMHO. Thanks for including the pictures.

Blue has always been a truck, doing truck things.

Blue looks right at home doing truck work!

Thanks for sharing!

Dan

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.

Got to lengthen the Green trucks mud flaps.

RonR

I've got pictures of the 28' trailer my Dad grew up in, being towed by a GMC truck of about that vintage.

How about sharing those neat old pictures with all of us...we love old pictures and the stories that go with them!

Mike B

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.

https://i.imgur.com/Hav5jg3.mp4
https://i.imgur.com/j870xxj.mp4

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.

What do you do with the reclaimed wood, HF?



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.

WOW is all I have to say.

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.

That's a nice old truck! Good to see it getting used.

We can hear it purrrrrr

I guess I can say yes because trucks today are used as a status symbol.

I like to think of this truck as a status symbol. A symbol of how trucks should be used. It always stands out in a crowd regardless of where I go.

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.

Seems like only yesterday, you posted in the Welcome Centre. (August 2018)

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.

Trimmed up my palm trees & had to make 2 big runs to the landfill. Had the wife ride along & help out( it WASher idea to trime the palms)

I had to make some stake sides out of 2x4's b4 I could load it up this high. Lot of work but kinda fun too

Exactly what our trucks are for. Nice haul.

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?

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 👍👍

Looks great. I remember the first time I hauled a full load of firewood in my '52. Slow as Christmas but rode like a Cadillac!

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!

Oh oh, the green people aren’t going to be happy with Ol’ Roy!

Well, I can't race it, so it gets used as a truck...to tow the race car.

Do you ever come to Atlanta for the Walter Mitty?

That is one COOL Suburban 😎.

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.

Pulling my boat this Saturday.

A trip to the waste recycle center today. It still draws attention whenever I take it out.

Wayne, what are those two white circles on the passenger side lower cowl?

Drove to work today to a close in rural area - Just 9 miles outside the ATL city limits

That is a pair of reflectors that fill the holes an antenna would normally be attached to. Or so I was told