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Jeeps on the farm .....

Crazy Horse

Crazy Horse

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I'm sure most of us have read about Jeeps on the farm after WW2, actually it started during WW2. This little article is pretty good reading even if you already know about the farm Jeep. Maybe some of us here have seen one of these little vehicles in working farm attire?
Jeeps on the farm .....
 
Modern use for the Jeep on the farm, is a vehicle for mama to bring lunch to the field
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Maybe they foresaw all the war surplus Jeeps that could eventually flood onto the market after the war and they needed to develop some new reasons to buy a brand new Jeep.

I remember hundreds of aftermarket products for Jeeps of all ages.
 
quote="ss55"](quoted from post at 20:11:38 08/02/22) Maybe they foresaw all the war surplus Jeeps that could eventually flood onto the market after the war and they needed to develop some new reasons to buy a brand new Jeep.

I remember hundreds of aftermarket products for Jeeps of all ages.[/quote]

Willys did not want the government bringing back any Jeeps deployed outside north America.
Almost every "surplus" Jeep was those units not yet shipped overseas before Sept. of '45.
The U.S. still used the WWII Willys into the Korean war remanufacturing them into the M38MC.
The last WWII flat fender Jeeps built from scratch were 2300
M38-CDN for Canadian armed forces in 1952.
 
Bruce,

I think that your wife and mine are long-lost cousins. My wife loves Jeeps. She has had four of them in the past 20 or so years. Now, granted, hers are always Grand Cherokees and none of them has ever gotten off the road, but the sentiment is the same.

Tom in TN
 
Our Neighbour had as per picture ..I was too young to remember it...pic is off Internet.

Bob. North Western Alberta Canada..
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I restored a M38a1 military jeep about 15 years ago. I used it to rake hay and pull wagons lots of times, even sowed wheat with it once. It wouldn't be good on a heavy job, but did OK for what I did.
 
When your in the struggle to survive and make ends meet ,you do what have to . Use what you got , I would . I dont see any better options.
In fact the doodle bugs another great examples.
 
FIL got as far as Leyte in 1945 and stuck there when the war ended. He said when they finally did leave, they either pushed the jeeps and trucks off a cliff into the ocean,or dug a pit and buried them. I
can't remember which. His reasoning was that the Army thought it too expensive to move the stuff back to the US.

Tm
 
Yes, the Scout was available with a 3-point hitch and rear PTO shaft. These attachments were produced by a 3rd party company called UTEMCO which was based in Ft. Wayne but I don't know to what level, if any, they were integrated into the factory build system. The early Scout and the Willys Jeep shared the same Spicer 18 transfer case which had full-torque PTO at the back that was in-line with the input shaft. Both trucks required a two-gear gearbox at the rear bumper to flip the direction of rotation to make the PTO shaft run the right way. Being that the PTO was run off the transfer case also meant that its speed and direction were dependent on which transmission gear was engaged so it only ran at 540 rpm when the truck was in first gear (assuming the base 3-speed, not the later granny low 4-speed). This trait makes the PTO great for powering a winch (like the one on my '61 Scout does) but less ideal for mobile implements.
 
My dad and grandfather bought 2 AC B tractors at the end of WWII to farm with to replace the horses,probably would have been better to have horses than a Jeep.Try cultivating with a Jeep.
 
Thats the first baler I remember as a kid. They baled for all the neighbors. We had another neighbor that had a Jeep, they used it to rake as I remember. Dad had one of the first Jeep pickups, early fifties, first for wheel drive around. I remember going to the pea vine stack at the viner down the road in the winter and pitching it full then going home and pitching it out to the cows, very distinctive smell, I always liked it, most hated it.
 
Many years gone by, we had a neighbor with a jeep truck with a PTO that he hauled manure with in the winter. My Uncle Floyd put a Thunderbird V8 in it so it had plenty of power. Later he gave it to my brother and me. It had no box on it and the driver's side door had to be wired shut. In the winter even at 0* F you had to strip down to a T-shirt because it got so hot in the cab. Eventually it went for scrap.
 
We farmed with a Jeep in the 50's. My Dad built a horse neck yoke across the fender wells and we used horse drawn equipment, plows, mower, and rake. Makes me weep to think about how hard he worked. He has been gone for 35 years and I still think of him every day.
 
My uncle was a plumber - a trade he learned in the army shortly before the Korean conflict. He got out of the army and bought a surplus jeep with a trencher mounted on the back. I remember my dad saying that the jeep also doubled as his family car and he drove it everywhere - including his wedding. People joked it was like a dog with its tail wagging behind him because he never removed the trencher as he was in constant demand for installing plumbing from wells to houses and remote hydrants on farms. Eventually he wore that thing out between trenching and over the road use.
 
That picture brings back memories. We had a custom balerman come to the farm and he showed up with a rig about like that. I was about 7 or 8 years old so I don't know the make or model of the baler , but it had a motor, and he pulled it with a Jeep.
But it was hilly so I think they dropped the bales on the ground. Long ago.
 
Dad had a Korean war jeep on the farm.
That was the first thing I learned to drive.
To this day, I don't like jeeps..

The closest thing to a jeep is my 4010 Kawasaki mule which I do like. Do you have a jeep??
 
I do have a Jeep .... '91 YJ, just in the summer, I park it in the winter. Paid $2500 for it six years ago and it's been pretty much bulletproof. I mostly use it for trips to and from our club's farmsite, it carries a LOT of tools which are very handy when working on old crappy equipment ... ha!
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Yes.....besides Willys Jeeps being used on the farm, there is a whole other Willys chapter in the Empire Tractor Co. After the war, lots of companies that built things to supply the war effort, were looking for something to keep the factories going. The Empire people decided to build a small tractor using the Willys Jeep drivetrain. Lots of them went to South America and the company ran into lots of problems including not getting paid for tractors sent out of the country.

I have an original running Empire tractor and a basket case project Empire also. I may need some Floldford advice if and when I ever get to the project !
 
Yes.....Great article, Lots of history of Willys trying to make the Jeep a viable farm power source. I have a 1953 CJ3B Willys with a PTO and a belt pulley final drive. I really wish I could find one of the 3pt. hitch setups that were built by several companies to allow usage of a pretty full range of implements
 
When I was much younger possibly 7 to10 seems as Popular Mechanics advertized 50 dollar surplus jeeps in a crate. Anyone recall those adverstiments???
 
Try Ted Jordan at 860-428-3264. Tell him I gave you his number. He is a honest reputable guy who deals in ag keep stuff.

Vito
 
Jeeps have been in my life forever. My folks brought me home from the hospital in 1947 when I was born in a Jeep. Owned quite a few over the years. I have a 2014 Wrangler with 140000 miles on it. Still running great. I bought one of the last lifetime warranties offered by Chrysler. No year or milage limit. I'll be keeping it until I die.
 
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