Farm trucks over the years

Thought I would put some pictures of the farm trucks that my Grandparents and also the ones we have used over the years. Feel free to post pictures of yours also. Hope I am not boring you with all these pictures, I have a little free time this time of year and wanted to get some of the old pictures backed up. My Aunt had a house fire a few years back and lost all of my paternal grandparents photos, fortunately we had scanned some of them before then.

My maternal grandparents three trucks: unknown model, 48? converted school bus, 51 International used in the 50's through the 70's.










My paternal grandparents had 47 chevy truck but I have no picture of that and a 55 chevy truck used through the 80's.





The three trucks I grew up runnning, 55 chevy 65gmc and 67 chevy used from the 70's through the 90's








Picked up this ford cabover in the 90's and used it for a while.










We currently use a 74 chevy c65 and 74 ford louisville, both good trucks.










My uncles 65 ford he used from the 60's through the 90's




Neighbors K6? international he used from the 50's through the 90's, neat old truck with 16' box.




I know its a combine forum, but I figure if you got harvest equipment you need the equipment to haul it away.

They had a lot of trucks over the years. Dad had a green binder like the one pictured...I replaced the rear axles a couple times. Overloaded and Dad would pop the clutch to get it moving would snap rear axles. Got pretty good at making a wire loop to get the stub out without taking the rear end apart.

Why was the drivers door off the 55?

(reply to post at 19:36:09 01/17/21)

Click to expand...

Love the pics
Thanks for sharing
Dugger
Illinois

Those are great pictures. I like the converted school bus . Thank you for posting this.

By the 90's truck cab was completely rusted out where the door hinges are, we just used it for close fields during harvest and hauled to the elavator with the other trucks.

We had a Ford cabover like that one for about 30 years. It was a crazy truck... all that shift linkage made it feel like you could find 4 gears just in reverse! And with no seatbelts, if you were ever in an accident, you'd know you'd be the first one there... first time passengers were always a little alarmed at their proximity to the road.

I remember the first cabover I drove, took some getting used to because you sit on the steer axle. I never did care for it, but some people I know love them.

Thanks for posting! I really like your grandparents 55 Chevy and your neighbors K6.

I drove school busses known as "flat noses" where the driver's seat is right next to the left side of the engine. That places the driver farther left than on a "conventional" cab and the view ahead is somewhat altered. Takes some getting used to. They had Cummins engines and air brakes.

I rode shotgun in all kinds of tilt cab semi-tractors as a kid, rode with Dad hauling livestock. CO-190 I-H's, couple Emeryville's, couple GMC L-series steel square boxy tilt-cabs, and a B-series Chevy C-80 short nose conventional with a Toroflow diesel.
But when I started driving I tried to avoid them like the plague, but some days I had to drive them or not buy groceries the next week. Drove TRANS-STAR I-H-s, and our only CL-9000 "two story" Ford. I ignorred the bunk entirely, the Ford wasn't a bad truck to drive but we dropped and hooked to 6-8 different trailers a day, plus loading and unloading, so many trips up & down the steps & ladders into the cab, and the Ford not only looked higher but WAS one step higher than every other tilt-cab. My normal truck was a '79 White RoadBoss 2, 2 steps up and third step was inside the cab ready to sit down. I had a spell, about 2 months, where I pulled my normal 3-4 trailers a day plus I swapped in six empty trailers and pulled 6 loaded trailers out of B.F.Goodrich's Franklin Park, Illinois warehouse. If I tried to move those trailers at 3-4 PM like they wanted It would take 4 hours minimum, but if I waited till after 5 PM I could swap all 6 in and all 6 out in a bit over an hour, depending if I had to wait to get in or out of the Milwakee rail yards and if I could find 45 ft trailers.
Yep, not a fan of tiltcab semi-tractors. Ohh, about the time I started driving semi, I was hauling in potatoes from harvest in the field for my best buddy in HS, three trucks, two '67 C-65 Chevys and an N-750 Ford short nose conventional with a 6V-53 Detroit, Left frt tire blew out on me running empty back to the field. I heard the POP, grabbed the steering wheel tight, it picked me up out of the seat and stuck my butt out the driver's side door window. I slowed down, pulled onto the roadbank. Changed the tire and went on!

It's always either the driver's side steer tire or an inside dual that goes, at least that's always been my luck when I had one pop.

Moline_guy, I really enjoy all of your pictures. Thanks for sharing!

Gramps had a '53 160 Binder like that green one, and a pair of 56 S160s that he drug home from the dealership as he was running milk routes at the time, sold one and put a dump on the other when he bought a 61 Dodge 500 that would blast through snowdrifts and replaced both S160s on milk. The 53 rolled and tweaked it's frame, and was replaced with a 60 B160. He also had a 53 Chebbie ton truck with a 10' bed with both short and tall sideboards that filled in on grain/ beans, and delivered coal in the winter. On days when everyone was combining and the mill was backed up, the Loadstar 1800 and R190 10 whl dump trucks would be pressed into service so the combines didn't have to stop, with the lime spreaders in deep reserve- didn't hold much grain, but again better than stopping. More than once I got left at the mill with a couple sandwiches and a jug of water to pull our trucks up in line, wasn't uncommon to have 4 or more at the mill and others shuttling

Thanks for the story, trucks got used for anything and everything here too. From hauling grain, dirt, manure, cattle and even equipment.