old Jeep ad

Greg K · Jan 4, 2012

Tried to post this yesterday and here I am trying again.

ShadetreeRet · Jan 4, 2012

Congratulations, you were successful! Do you know what year that was? I never could tell them apart. When Dad bought a small farm in 1950, our next door neighbor had an agricultural model. It did a fair job but didn't have proper traction even with 4wd. I think the main drawback was not having large ag tires on the rear like a regular tractor.

oldtanker · Jan 4, 2012

From what I understand the big problem was weight. Just too lite.

Rick

Greg K · Jan 4, 2012

It is out of a 1950 Successful Farming magazine. Very interesting looking back on some of these ads, like this chainsaw one for example.

fixerupper · Jan 4, 2012

They were rated at 1/4 ton if I remember right. When I did a resto on a 1941 GPW Ford jeep (Willys was MB)I carried the entire frame across the yard alone without grunting very hard. Jim

Stephen Newell · Jan 4, 2012

Thats what I thought when the discusion went around about using a jeep for a tractor. I have a 75 cj-5 with light truck tires on it. It's so light that the air pressure in the tires have to get down to less than 10 psi before they start looking low.

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