Witch broom...lol

 

....And its a Mercury. ......

 

looks like they had to raise the bed to clear the rear wheels, nice looking truck,

 

The truck likely has a hoist to tilt the box. This would explain the raised box.

 

Interesting Mercury. Whats with the 6 lug wheels on the front??
I don't think I've seen that before


Bobby

 

SRW one ton with 9' bed. Stu

 

 

Here's a couple;

 

I always find it humorous when I talk to someone who is restoring one of these old trucks and is doing a concourse restoration. They post here asking "what color was this bolt painted?" or "the gap around my doors isn't even, how do I make the gap perfect?". I then see these pictures of these trucks in their natural, original era environment and see them being worked hard and in full of dirt and dings. I realize many of use what the best truck possible but everyone should realize these trucks were just tools, to be used, abuse and tossed out. I like a really nicely restored truck but I really love seeing them being used as they were meant to be use, doing hard dirty work with all the scars. Even though these trucks made their owners' and the people who used them work easier they weren't as efficient and labor saving as what we have today. Our fathers and grandfathers were really hard working people, worked a lot harder than most of us would be willing to work today. These old pictures really make me appreciate what the earlier generations went through.

 

Amen to that.

 

Well this was a fairly spontaneous trip to pick up some pavers from Menard's for a home project. We got 81 of these at 40 pounds a piece. Thats 3240 pounds in the box!




And the results of all this weight. I was actually surprised that it handled it this well!

 

^^^I LOVE that.

It is a ¾-ton! Funny part is, if it was 1955, that truck probably would have had another 40 pavers thrown in. Their attitudes were, "...At 11¢ a gallon, we'd better get our trips worth! LOAD 'ER DOWN, BOYS!"

The worst I managed with my ½-ton was 13 bags of the 80lbs. cement. A mere 1040lbs, but not bad for a truck with 5000lbs GVWR.

OT---That truck must top out at 40mph! (We have a '56 ¾-ton[4.88:1] as well as my F100)

 

I'm sure she could have handled more. The tires were the first to start to give, actually. We had to add some more air before we left the parking lot. I was most worried about the clutch going out since I've had a few issues with it so far already. Also, I replaced the stock (4.86:1) rear end with a Dana 60 (4.56:1) from a 61 F250 and I have hit about 63, quite wound up, mind you, but I plan on changing to a 3:73 at some point. All this and more is in my build thread in my signature if you wanted to check it out! I'm a lot slower and less interesting than some of the guys here, but I do what I have time to do!

 

Your signature is MIA. Don't tease like that

 

Made a trip up to Wilsonia, a privately owned community within Kings Canyon National Park. Friends of the family own a cabin up there and asked if I would drive my truck in the 4th of July parade. So of course I said yes. What I did not know was that they had just purchased 2 cords of firewood but their truck was suffering from brake issues, something very critical in the mountains. So old blue did the job instead of the 3/4 ton Cheby.