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[40plyrod]

Thought some of you would enjoy seeing some pictures of our old sawdust truck and while I was taking pictures decided to include some of our mill too. The truck is a 1947 fargo and is where my interest in flat sixes comes from (that motor is indestructable, last old change was probably in the 60's it's had the block welded at least twice due to forgetting to drain the water in the winter) it always starts. The sawmill is my Dad's second and was built in the 70's the first version ran a t-120 chrysler six but was upgraded to a gm diesel six out of a grader. We run the mill every winter and all the buildings on the farm were built using our own lumber. We also have a circa 20's marathon planer run by a six cylinder cummins that we use to size the lumber but I forgot to take pictures of it.

[40plyrod]

Here's a couple more. Hope you enjoy.

[RobertKB]

Very interesting. Thanks for posting. The truck is a keeper!

Edited December 21, 2010 by RobertKB
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[Young Ed]

Thats awesome. I'm forwarding this thread to the 39-47 mopar truck group.

[T120]

..Good photos,thanks for posting

[Greenbomb]

Great pics! The truck really shows a "personality", if that makes sense. Why do you run only in the winter and where do you get the timber to feed that thing? It looks like a great place to be able to work.

[Niel Hoback]

Great pictures! I can almost smell that cut wood. MMMM MMMMM

[40plyrod]

Great pics! The truck really shows a "personality", if that makes sense. Why do you run only in the winter and where do you get the timber to feed that thing? It looks like a great place to be able to work.

We only run the mill in winter because we run a 150 head dairy farm on 600+ acres 250 of which is fields so in spring we're busy planting, we crop all sumer and in the fall repair the equipment and put it away, winter is our quiet time. The timber for the mill comes from the 350 or so treed land. Every year we try to log a little of the forest mainly taking out the blow downs, snags and overcrowded areas. As for the fargo's personality, it's been lovingly refered to as "fudd" for as long as I can remember.

[thrashingcows]

Great pics...thanks so much for sharing those with us!!

I love that pic of the the big saw blade! My grandfather had a big blade like that on a portable cutter that ran off a belt between the saw and the PTO on the old 40's Farmall McCormick tractor.

[Charlie Olson]

This thread really touched my heart. I purchased PLYWOOD from a wood working Tinker Man, in Oregon City, Oregon. He actually cut down some Fir trees on his own farm and milled them in a smaller version mill, than the one in these photos, and put that same wood on the sides of PLYWOOD. His auld tyme mill was driven by a belt drive off of a Model T engine. Amazingly, his last name is Wood; so I basically have an actual original Wood Plymouth (thus PLYWOOD), for all of you purists, to ponder.

[Cpt.Fred]

great truck, wow!

thanks for sharing these,

i remember an old thread were you told us about the truck -

now i finally know what it looks like!

fred

[Frank Elder]

Great work truck, still pluggin' away. Love the smell of freshly cut wood.....only smell better is in the tire store to get new tires!

Edited December 22, 2010 by FRANKIE47

[Greenbomb]

Fudd! Ha! That's priceless!!