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Posted by D Sherman [216.18.131.97] on Monday, March 29, 2010 at 12:58:23 :
In Reply to: Old car brochures posted by Leonard [138.163.106.71] on Monday, March 29, 2010 at 10:25:34 :
I learned several things:
There was a factory hydraulic setup (pump attached to crankshaft pulley?).
They were really promoting the truck as a farm tractor, maybe because it cost as much as a regular farm truck plus a regular tractor combined.
Their one example of the use of the belt pulley was to run a firewood buzz saw, which seems to still be about the only thing anyone has figured out to do with it.
The 3-point post hole digger is pretty interesting, but it's not at all clear what powers it. Is there a non belt pulley rear PTO? I don't even see a drive shaft in the picture. The scoop and grader blade attachments are pretty interesting too. I wonder if there is even one example of any of the three still in existence.
The guy spraying lead arsenate on his orchard should be wearing a respirator.
Their version of the telephone pole setting truck doesn't have the little window on top of the cab.
Oil searching tower's another pretty interesting contraption. Paint it green and it would be a portable deer blind.
The firefighting brush truck looks like it's seen some real service. Must be a low budget fire department since they couldn't even afford a hose reel.
I love the happy children waving out the window of the short bus.
I wonder what "cycle bond brake lining" means.
If the PW seat is a "3-man seat", men must have been smaller or friendlier back then.
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