Re: Farmall M, Tires and Hauling

Posted by Hugh MacKay on May 16, 2005 at 17:08:21 from (209.226.247.174):

In Reply to: Re: Farmall M, Tires and Hauling posted by old on May 16, 2005 at 16:37:50:

old: Kind of thought I'd heard this trucking career item before. One thing about those old Chevy's and Ford's, you could beef them up to haul most anything. Couple of years ago was operating a blueberry harvester for a local farmer. You always had a young teen helper. When we were going to move I would take harvester and kid would follow with my pickup. Chevy C-20, full floating rear end, built up springs, 4 speed standard transmission, and 6.2 diesel. Now we all know that diesel was a Mickey Mouse affair. Didn't have the acceleration of a 350 gas but it would lug with them.

Day came for our first move, I said to the kid, " Think you can handle that old Chevy." "Sure", he said, " My dad has one just like it." After driving mt truck, he said, "Not much like my dad's 1/2 ton, kind of more like a highway tractor." I've found most of the pickup trucks built since 1990, don't have much ability to haul anymore. It would take a lot more than we did to those oldies to make a trailer hauler out of the new ones.

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