Page started 1-21-1999

SHOP & IMPLEMENTS

This is one of those catch-all pages, just have a look. :-)

Please note : Early stages of construction.

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This item we call simply a "push - pull". We use it when we need to move a non running car, truck or tractor into the shop. All of our vehicles have trailer hitches. It it like a wagon tongue with a hitch on both ends. - A quick tip - if you use pipe, either weld the ends shut or fill the ends with foam-in-place insulation to keep wasp out.

This wagon gear was built by my father during the late 1940's from Model "A" Ford parts. Model "A"s were as common then as hernias at a pyramid raising. - The hopper bed was given to me by a friend who didn't need it and wanted to build a flat bed hay wagon on his gear. - Notice the wide steps I like to build on all my wagons. The guys at the grain elevators love them. This wagon is used as an over-flow wagon and we don't load it as heavy as the newer ones. I think it needs a new coat of wax. :-)

Ever do do something temporary ? I made this truck bed in a few hours for this shortened truck that I use to pull my 16' deck tandem trailer in 1992. I mounted full length tool boxes on each side which also serve as sides. It is still on the truck, I didn't say how temporary. :-)

My father worked for Allison Engineering setting up and test running aircraft engines for several years during WWII. This was 12 hours a day, seven days a week except for one day in 1942. He was also farming full time. This is the front page of a Snap-On catalog which was put out just for Allison employees. - Check out those prices.

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I have one of these that my father aquired from a good friend that had owned a service station in the 1930's