Handy yard truck

[Dodgeb4ya]

This what-cha-ma-call-it old Dodge is quite the dodge work of art! Could come in handy for moving our old junk around!

Bob

[PatS....]

That's the funniest thing I've ever seen!! I love it!

[grey beard]

Methinkis them folk in the Great Northwest ain't got enough to do with all their time. Neat, though. I like it!

[Merle Coggins]

Now that's what I call "Recycling". Too cool.

[Reg Evans]

OK!....now chop the top and add flames on this one.

[pflaming]

Dad reversed a 47 Ford truck to make a hay buck. With that V8 it really went accross the hay meadow. Here in CA we have large diesel trucks like that with hay bale squeeze on the front so they can load a block of hay bales on a semi. They run down the highway at 70 MPH. An old truck set up like this with the weight on the rear wheels really make a handy farm utility vehical.

[Big50Dodge]

Neat Rig. I see the pedals were moved with the cab. Not sure I'm seeing the steering wheel on the 'correct' side - looks like it's facing backwards with the cab. Must have been a nightmare to get the steering and pedals working from the 'wrong' side.

[Merle Coggins]

I have a feeling that it is a Dodge truck cab and front clip (now a rear clip) mounted on an existing lift truck chassis.

Merle

[MBF]

I think Merle is right. It looks like a Pettibone forklift. Mike

[pflaming]

Merlel, your correct. All a farmer had to do with an old truck was flip the rear axle, fab steering and pedal arrangements and he could then mount all sorts of devises on that. The resultant machine was much cheaper than a tractor and would do what the farmer needed to do. Farmers made 'fork lifts', 'snow plows', ' hay bucks', ' manure scoups', etc out of the setup. With the weight on the rear wheels and rear turning wheels they were very useful.