O/T My Old Workhorse.........

I bought this old crate off of a neighbor 12 years ago for $400. I put the plow and light bar on. I don't know how many times over the years I've gotten my money's worth.

I don't even bother to put plates or insurance on it anymore. Just use it off-road for plowing snow, cutting firewood, and deer hunting.

You can call me anything you want, you could kick my dog if I had one, but speak ill of this old gal and I'll call you out.

You damn right. I'll bet you can work with the best of them with that old girl.

Goose, don't you get a little uneasy without the security of Onstar in your pickup? How can you stay comfortable without heated leather seats? Isn't it kinda boring without the six CD changer surround sound?

Yesterday, when the radio was advising no travel, my son, his wife and two daughters piled in my old 79 Dodge 3/4 ton and bucked the drifts for thirty miles to get to our house for Christmas. He said he hit one drift so hard the dog flew off my daughter-in-law's lap. It didn't faze the 'ol Dodge a bit. A new pickup would have ended up with a broken plastic front end. The big drift was only a half mile from here, otherwise he wouldn't have tried hitting it.Jim

I just finished plowing our 5 inch snow with my 62 Scout,no ins. or plates,just do my lane,works great!

Moneys worth, like you said many times over, ugly for sure. We had one just like it ran and drove great, but for a couple of years we had a sander on it, spill over between cab and bed, it rotted the frame in half.

It's amazing the kind of vehicles we had when I was a kid...and the number of people we would fit in when we had to. It's amazing the hardships we had to endure with that antique technology ;>)!

Christopher

We have my Grand dad's 1950 WD in town. Dad thought we should remove the battery when parked, so no one can even crank it. I teased him that we would have to reset the computer and radio everytime...! Greg

2 years ago I stopped by a customer to pick up a truck for repairs. The keys for compound where next door at an auto shop. I have talked to these guys for the last 10 years on and off. i always saw this green chev in the yard with a western plow on it. This day the guy asks me if I want to buy a plow truck.Asked how much and he said make me an offer.I had just gotten $500.oo out of the bank and pulled it out of my pocket.i didn't have it all the way out and it was in his hands.I figured OK this is going to hurt.He told me it would need a clutch because it was grabbing when you let it out to start off.Told him I pickup the truck in a couple of days.He said fine ,but he had the sold the business and had to move everything out soon.Went over to look at the truck for the first time.The truck is 1979 chev heavy 1/2 ton with a 350 four speed 4X4 long box,79,000kms on it,clean and all there. the plow was a 7 1/2 ft western with full hydraulics and straight, the interior was clean the only things wrong that i could see quickly was it needed a rocker panel.Started right up ran like a top. I drove the truck over to the shop got my dealer plate and said I'll be back for the other truck later.There was no way I was leaving that truck there.I had to put a set of front brake pads on the first year. replace the clutch after two years of plowing.I plow 47 country estate driveways and 5 kms of private road. Nothing like a good old chevy for doing hard work.I have two other 4x4 that I use but this one is my favorite,

A question from someone who's never seen a truck with a plow ..is the plow hyd. or electric operated...if hyd. where & how is the pump mounted ?...take care ...Kent

It's a combination of electric and hydraulic. A unit sits behind the blade on the bracket. A 12 volt motor about the size of a starter motor drives a built-in hydraulic pump. There are hydraulic cylinders that lift the blade and angle it. A T handle "joy stick" in the cab controls the lift and the blade angle through armored cables similar to shift and throttle controls on a boat.

A micro switch in the controller applies power to the unit and runs the motor only when hydraulic pressure is called for.

Make sense? I once had a unit that was pure hydraulic and used a Chrysler power steering pump for a hydraulic pump. Which required a bracket for the pump and another belt off the crank pulley to run it.

If I can explain it better, holler.

I understand...thanks for the reply...I'll let ya'll keep the snow...if it gets below +40 I freeze...take care ...Kent

Oh, YEA! That is what I am talkn' about! That was back when Detroit built them to last!!

Nothing wrong with that old workhorse.

Brother bought a '03 F350 a few years ago from a bank repo. Then found a demo plow for less than 1/2 of new. He already had a business removing snow from city residential driveways. He picked the right time to buy the plow because that year we got a near record snowfall. He managed to pick up some commercial business too and had both the truck and plow paid for that winter...

Donovan from Wisconsin