A friend of a friend called me this morning asking if I knew anyone who wanted a dump bed he wanted to get rid of. He said he'd like to have someone take instead of taking it to the scrapper. He sent me pictures. He said he got if from a cousin who has a farm and someone some time back cut a truck in half and made the dump trailer to pick rocks. It's interesting how the farmer rigged up the dump mechanism. It ran off a PTO but they installed a truck transmission between the mechanism and the shaft that would have been hooked up in the back of the tractor.





And yes, the one wheel on the passenger side is a WM, the other side I don't think so. Also, it's located in SE if anyone is interested. I'd guess it's late '30s vintage.

 

Ingenious, but kinda scary. That gear is under a lot of stress when dumping a load.

 

That's one big tree in the background in this picture...

 

You find the best rat rod stuff! Man I would build a truck around that thing.

 

Ross, this is typical farming engineering, at least around here. I've seen stuff like this at every farm auction I have went to in the last 30+ years. I've also seen some really dicey things my in-laws did while operating they farm. Their excuse was always, "We're just poor farmers". But when something went wrong they ended up spending a lot more to repair the damage than if they would have done it the right way to begin with.