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This truck was equipped with a utility bed, roof mounted spotting hole, several extra winches, poles, frame gussets, and lots of PTO driven gear boxes. All of this equipment made this truck into a telephone pole setting truck. These trucks were so distinctive that AT&T made a model of them in the 80s.
It was found in 2003 in a scrapyard in MN. It was hauled back to WI, gotten running, and sold off to the current owner in ID. The story the scrapyard owner told was that the truck was used by a local farm equipment seller, and he used it for years to do things like lift the heads for combines, and other large parts around the yard. When the owner died the sons just dropped it off in front of the scrapyard as they wanted nothing to do with it. They preferred a forklift for the jobs the old Power Wagon used to do. Where the farm equipment company got it is unknown.
Two of the pictures of the truck are from where it was found, one with the boom all the way out, and the other with the boom in the process of being folded.
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