Anyone on here play with old jeeps?

JOCCO · Jan 3, 2012

They used to have attachments to make a tractor out of them. Been wanting to ask for quite awhile.

dlplost · Jan 3, 2012

yes they did.
There was a PTO, and 3 pt hitch.
So, what's your question?
jeep on the farm

fixerupper · Jan 3, 2012

They made a civilain farm Jeep. Nebraska test #502 showed the Willy's Jeep as weighing 2714 lb, had a maximum drawbar pull of 2317 lb, 20.69 drawbar hp. and 35.23 belt hp. The fella I do military restos for has one. A few years ago I saw one for sale in Kansas. Jim

MichaelNEIowa · Jan 3, 2012

Yes! I have a 1953 Willys M38a1 USAF Jeep that needs to be restored.

The Dukester · Jan 3, 2012

In the early summer of 1951 my uncle that I worked for got a new Gehl field chopper, blower, and false endgate chopper wagons and we custom filled some silos in the area with haylage. One farmer we filled silo for had a new farm/civilian Jeep. His Case SC tractor had cultivators on when we filled silo for him so he wanted to try to pull the chopper wagons with the Jeep. He'd already mowed and windrowed the hay with the Jeep we were gonna chop and was pretty proud of it. Sadly, the Jeep had plenty of power but spun all 4 wheels a lot sometimes pulling a loaded chopper wagon and in a couple of situations couldn't pull the loaded wagons at all. So my uncle got the bright idea of "ballasting" the Jeep and we put 4 big "Seamless Bemis" grain bags full of wheat on the floor and seat in the back. Boy, that extra weight made that Jeep pull like a "little green horse". The farmer was tickled half to death, we got a dinner there fit for kings!

641Dave · Jan 3, 2012

Most of the farm implements came right after the war when Willys-Overland had to market the jeep to civilians. Marketing the jeep as an useful farm tool seemed to work pretty well.

I think some of you will enjoy this.

http://farmjeep.com/

http://farmjeep.com/implements.html

Dan in North Houston · Jan 3, 2012

About 1974 or so, a guy was going to help us put up some hay, taking a share in exchange for contributing labor and equipment. Well, his equipment was an old CJ Jeep with a PTO on the back. We had a hay crimper, he thought he could run that with his Jeep. Problem was keeping the PTO running steady. With no govenor, you had to run at high RPMs with the foot throttle all the time. The gears were not spaced very close together, so one gear at full throttle (to keep the PTO at the required speed) would be way too slow, and the next gear at full throttle would be way too fast. Also, the PTO was pretty close to the ground, so it was always picking up hay and wrapping it around the shaft. So after about 30 minutes of that, we demoted the Jeep to pulling the hay rake, the only other job that we thought it might be able to do. Problem with that was a lack of sufficient ground clearance. It tore up more windrows that it made. So after about 30 minutes of that, we told him to take the Jeep home and never bring it back.

wally_mi · Jan 3, 2012

i had some. just got rid of the last one. i restored two ford gp jeeps and one ford gpa that i just sold. its new home is in holland. wally

Paul from MI · Jan 3, 2012

I restored a 1956 M38a1 military Jeep about 6 yearss ago. I have put about 12,00 miles on it, it's my summer ride. I have used it to pull a trailer picking stones and a few other light jobs, but tractors do better.

Anonymous-0 · Jan 3, 2012

like this one?

ShadetreeRet · Jan 3, 2012

A few years ago my BIL was bitten by the Jeep "bug". I don't know how many he had at one time, but he had one that he had converted into a farm jeep. He found a complete conversion set up not too far away from where he lives. He has been showing it at all the local antique farm shows locally. He recently sold most of his stock, I don't know if he sold that one or not.

Anyone on here play with old jeeps?

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