Watching this video has brought back memories of my childhood. The only differences was ours was a 75 Chevy C-65 with a longer bed on it. The one thing that surprises me watching the video was the sounds of the truck. Yours being a Ford and ours was a Chevy i couldn't believe how they sounded identical to each other. The Transmission whine, the gas engine idle, everything sounded like our old Chevy. I could tell what gear you were in by the sound of the truck. That's what really brought back the memories for me.
Way back when, many vehicles were component based with many parts that would interchange; maybe not always between brands, but within a brand many parts were the same.
Luckily I have neighbors who are farmers. One is a very small one an 3 others are very big. When it's harvest time I drive around until they see me. Hoping they ask me to help them. God I love helping 😊
360 bushels on that truck, right? when you get time give me a camera shot of the leaf springs on the rear axle, thanks. I enjoyed the video and you seem to be enjoying the truck.
Your red ford grain truck needs new door hinges & pins easy to do, can get at auto parts store. Hold door with floor jack, do 1 hinge at a time & adjust stud for latch.
Definitely a 40's cadence...whatever, he sure likes the sound of his own voice, doesn't he ? Kinda reminds me of Tom Joad ( Henry Fonda) in The Grapes of Wrath or Gary Sinise as George in 'Of Mice and Men'.John Steinbeck would relate.
Nice Video work. A question for you on your 2 speed Rear End Shifting. I noticed on the last episode that you only shifted to high range one time and that is when you were rolling down the road in your top gear. Do you split each gear as you go? It was hard to tell on this one. Oh and 2 Thumbs up.
Just have to laugh how these elevators spend $30,000 grand on a stupid automated probe sampler instead of just hiring Pedro at $8 an hour for the harvest season to pull samples with the hand probe LOL:) Elevator in town the BIL sells to has a staircase and scaffold beside the scale-- the guy starts the scale, runs out with a little bucket he hangs on a piece of plastic rain gutter attached to the handrail, grabs the probe as he runs up the stairs and sticks the truck load, then dumps the grain into the gutter as he goes back down the stairs and puts the probe in its holder, the grain slides down the gutter into the bucket, he grabs the bucket and goes back inside and dumps it in the tester as he prints the weight ticket from the scale, then signals you which bin unload to drive to and rings the bell to leave the scale when it's all done... easy peasy quick-n-easy... Meanwhile the "family farm" we deliver the Plenish soybeans to has a robot probe and farts around trying to get it to work and figuring out where to stick the load from a little fisheye camera on the side of the probe... and I've heard of some idgits punching holes through the truck or trailer floor with the stupid robot probe LOL:) Another $500 solution to a $5 problem ROFL... Later! OL J R :)
Toxic Try hard tommy 21’ grain box will hold every bit of 800 bushel. Not sure how big that box is I’m assuming it’s not 21’ but easy to put an extra hundred or two bushels heaped on top.
Toxic Try hard tommy yea I commented obviously before finishing video. Semi can hold 1000 bushel “ legally “ far as weight goes but have capacity for much more.
Well it all depends on height and width of it also a 20’ x60”x96” will only hold about 650 bushels of corn and sometimes you can’t heap it at the top if you have to take it very far.
Toxic Try hard tommy 21’ 60” sides will hold 800 all day. If you heap it it’ll hold more. Bushels of beans n corn are two different things. Yes 800 was a bit abstract tho not out of the question. Typical box is 96” or 102” wide n the rest is simple volume n weight.
Here, the standard issue license is "class D". I am not sure what "C" covers, but B is school buses and non-trailered air break vehicles. Class A is trailered vehicles. Number of axles doesn't matter. Anything about class D is considered a CDL.
It has hurt the guys selling beans and a number of other goods. It needs to stop and get better. Get a deal with China and get it over with. We did get a check to help with the loss from the tariffs
