Very nostalgic for me. Those dump control levers took me back to an old Jimmy I drove as a teen. If you revved to high while dumping the PTO driveshaft would fly apart and would take an hour to repair. The old oshkosh is a beast!
I love the shifty eyes thinking about lunch first. The off-hand manner and simple humor of his channel makes it the best. I hope to see this truck in the future (dare say see it run?)
Thursday ,With Low Buck garage ,still in the north east guaranteed fun times while learning things ,The More you know . I found your channel by accident ,and now I wouldn't miss it ,I love the setting reminds me when I was a kid living on the farm driving junkers through the woods What great fun that was
There was a comment I read once on Musties channel that was posted by a fella from the UK and I will never forget it….”must be nice having all that land! Only way I’d ever get a couple acres is if someone kicked me in the nuts!” Hahahaha
I was wondering how much land your father has up there ? It appears with all the vehicles and equipment he has looks like at least 15 or 20. Secondly you must have a very very special and supportive spouse you are indeed blessed!
That Osh is awesome! Such a rugged Beast. I love that truck. My father worked for the state of CT for 29 years as a field clerk. He may have actually ridden in this truck!
Me and 4of my friend's one winter went to gether and gave 500 for a truck just like that one we fix it up and we hauled hay on it in the summer it's still setting at one of my friend's house man we had some good times and made some money we would haul at night when it was cool we would take turns one would driver and one would pick up up and one would stack and one would hold the light
Giday mate , love your vids and humor , thanks for the giggles . it's much easier to move things sideways if you attach the chain as high and short as you can on thee tow truck and as low as possible on the ruined truck , it will lift as you pull and you won't damage rims and tyres .😎
That was fun. Can you give us a tour of the old GMC that you passed by around 18:30 minutes? Also, those 1954 Chevys are very desirable because the grill is unique to that year.
I really like that 6400 truck. It's purty and has almost no dents! Weird how it rusted under the hood that way. There are a lot of facts in your videos - always something to learn, like the location of the valve cover bolts and the pressurized oil system.
Oh man I could listen to that Cummins work under load for hours!! What a cool truck that Oshkosh is I would literally watch you drag a rock in circles with that Cummins or any old engine under load for that matter 😂😂 The mutt truck sounds great too! Maybe even better
What you need for extra maneuvering of your stuff around by yourself is one a those $300 13,500lb winches off Amazon with the wireless remotes, along with a couple snatch blocks. It on the front of my little jeep here has made life so much easier, and my boneyard much tidier to boot.
great video! I wish there was more old iron here not in the junk yards.. 5 old c 60s went by my house last week on the way to the junk yard.. what a shame. Stove bolts were a great engine.. lots of good parts on that truck yet.
i have a '54 6400 ex-grain truck that i cab swapped with a '94 1500. i love those 5 window cab trucks, but rear wheel cylinders are unobtainium for the big trucks, so it went from a ramp truck project to a cab swap project. luckily, the cab is the same no matter what size in that series.
I was struck between the similarities between that Chev 6400 and a TJ Bedford. Some styling differences in the front end, but the cab interiors felt very similar. Been many years since I've been inside one though so could be wrong. I think late 50's Bedfords found their way back to the GM parts bin through Vauxhall? Maybe I'm mile off and my memory playing tricks. A common mod for those Bedfords in AUS when they were relegated to "farm truck" duty was to drop a Holden (GM) 308 V8 in them. Plenty of them lying around.
I seen guys use the front plow lift to lift cars and trucks off the ground. Just the front or rear. My dad used a western plow lift to pull a boulder out of a hole.
I feel a bit sad that the old 54 model chevy truck is not worth fixing. I so did love the look of them. Its also the look of the very first 55 model trucks as their new bodies were not ready for production and so they used the 54 cab on the 55 for a few months. It made that model cab worth some very serious coin. I ain't sure of much in life but maybe someone whom is moderately moneyed up would enjoy bringing it back to life. That is not your style, you either fix or use to fix others rightfully so
I'm not giving up on it! I didn't bother trying to start it because I knew the motor was bad, but that it not too big of an issue. I'm not sure yet exactly how it will happen, but that cab will drive again, either with an engine upgrade or on a new chassis.
Hi I grew up in the ct. panhandle but also lived around the wilimantic area. Did I hear once Pratt and Whitney and did u work there? Hard to believe there is still rural parts of the state.
Hope you can still get big-end shells for that thing. I suspect some time spent unlocking the rear brakes might have paid dividends - unless it was the trans that was locking the rear wheels.
Love watching your projects, your work and the way you do it reminds me much of myself,lol. What about that TriMoto three -wheeler,I’d sure love to have that if you ever get ready to part with it. Keep up the good work and keep having fun cause when you’re having fun working I’m having fun watching.
Should the “bigger” extra dump bed be on the Oshkosh instead of the older tiny one? Seems there has to be a center diff lock on that transfer case to get all the power to the back wheels. Could that dashboard “diff lock” be for the rear axle only since it’s a street truck? That’s for sharing the fun!
the rearwheels of the old chevy seem to turn a bit! that means the blockage is in the gear box or maybe there is a hand brake on the the gearbox output/ so if you unbolt hte driveshaft to the rear axle maybe it would roll!?
Wondering why you didn't pull the axle half shafts? I have had good luck with getting old drum brakes to allow the wheels to turn while disk brakes were often seized solid.
