Old school farming pic

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Eric in IL

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• Mar 10, 2013

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I found this picture on the internet. I couldn't help but wonder what the mechanic was doing. My guess is setting the timing by ear.

If you look close you can see the outline of a plow moldboard between the rear tire and fender. Seems to me the wheels are set too wide for plowing though.

Is that an International pickup ?

 

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Animal

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• Mar 10, 2013

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No, its a 39 chev.

 

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Rick Kr

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• Mar 10, 2013

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I am not lazy, but I would have driven the truck a lot closer and left the toolbox on the tailgate.

But..... that wouldn't have made a good advertising pic, which is what the pic looks like to me.

Like the different tread on the rear.

Rick

 

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notjustair

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• Mar 10, 2013

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Front mount distributor - he wouldn't be adjusting timing. I'm guessing he's working on the carb. It must have been totally promotional because that's definately something the farmer could have done on his own. Can you imagine calling a mechanic out when you needed to tinker with a carb? They would have to move in next door!

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Mar 10, 2013

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The pickup has a US Forest Service emblem on the door.

 

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Greg K

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• Mar 10, 2013

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I agree, probably for promotion. But it is really pretty accurate, someone looking over the shoulder of the person actually doing the work and probably telling him how to do it! I like the tread on the rear wheels also, and all the dust blowing in the wind in the background.

 

dcarp

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• Mar 10, 2013

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Ditto on the pic being an ad. Love the truck.
I may not be the best mechanic but I don't need to open every drawer in my toolbox to find a screwdriver. One drawer will do it.

 

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Richard G.

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• Mar 10, 2013

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Hate to disagree, but the truck has a 2 piece windshield. That makes it a 40 Chevy.
Had one.
Richard

 

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Richard G.

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• Mar 10, 2013

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You are correct. It is a 39 as it does not have the little lights on the fender. And the 39's did have 2 piece windshields.
I am wrong again. Seems to happen more these days.
Richard

 

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GVSII

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• Mar 10, 2013

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Generator is on the right side so the distributer is on the front. Looks to be a screwdriver in one hand pointing to the carb. The pick up is GM(I think).

 

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LA in WI

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• Mar 10, 2013

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That mechanic was a strong dude...who can carry such a heavy toolbox?!

I know what he was doing, he was adjusting the thinguva doohicky. Or the whatdoyacallit.
LA in WI

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Mar 10, 2013

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wheels are set wide for when he starts plowing that hillside in the background lol

 

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Straw Boss

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• Mar 10, 2013

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The decal on the pickup door looks like Phillips 66 to me???
A couple interesting things about the tractor.
First would be the rear tire tread pattern. Don't see those anymore.
Second, there looks to be inside front wheel weights.???
Third thing that pops out at me is the tall straight up exhaust with no visible means of support.
Fourth has got to be the straight grill. All the little Fords I've seen are bashed in from runnings into things. Never been on one of these Fords that had any brakes.

 

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Dave Sherburne NY

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• Mar 10, 2013

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I think it's a posed picture, I don't know anyone who would carry a tool box that size that far from the truck.

 

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Lumpy

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• Mar 10, 2013

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The wheel weights were an option... wish I had a pair for my 2n. You can buy NEW tires with that tread pattern... A little more $$ than your typical tread on todays tractors.

 

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Leroy

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• Mar 10, 2013

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That tractor would be a very late 1939 to mid 1942 and is a 9N and that tread was the standard at that time, the bars hooked together helped keep the tread bars from breaking off under load as the tire making prossess was just in the infancy. Looking at the picture again it would be from sometime in 1940 or 41 as it has the 10 X 28" tire on and not the 8 X 32" the earlier ones had. And at that time a lot of the farmers had just gotten the first tractor and had not yet learned to work on them, even enough to be able to change the oil as they only knew the horse. And do you think that truck would have made it off the drive it is on and across that roughness that is showing on the left side of the tractor to have gotten the toolbox close? That actually to me looks like a ditch and the front wheels seeting on a bridge.

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Mar 10, 2013

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I carried a toolbox that size everyday going to tech school and working after school 1994-96 and my books also. chris

 

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Dr. Walt

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• Mar 10, 2013

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Dave:

When I worked in the Mines as a Top Millwright / Mine Maintenance Mechanic I carried a tool-box that size that weighed over 85 pounds from my tool locker to our #1 underground Maintenance Shop & back again at the end of shift - a distance of about 350 feet each way; and I did it every day for many, many years.

Doc

 

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Dr. Walt

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• Mar 10, 2013

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That whine he's hearing are the Muffler Bearings spinning.

 

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Bret4207

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• Mar 10, 2013

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(quoted from post at 07:56:20 03/10/13) Ditto on the pic being an ad. Love the truck.
I may not be the best mechanic but I don't need to open every drawer in my toolbox to find a screwdriver. One drawer will do it.

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Nah, anyone whose ever carried one of those toolboxes knows thats what happens when the little latch lets go and the whole shebang flops open! It hits the ground and all the drawers fling open.