Thread: Tumbled across a 48 IH today

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Before they were cool. That's before every one had to have one, needed or not. It managed to drive the prices up & up. I have restored several over the past years and like the earlier cars the parts for the trucks are getting easier to come by. The thing about it is a pickup was a tool now its a fancy mode of transportation, Lincolns Cadilacs and others jump on the wagon, and people buy them. A contractor has to order a truck with out all the B/S on them. It would be hard to buy one with out all the extras.
Guess my rant is done sorry for the interruption. A lover of all trucks.

Originally Posted by cffisher

Before they were cool. That's before every one had to have one, needed or not.

My grandpa farmed and had livestock from the 30's until he retired in the 70's, he never did own a pickup. One story was he went to town one day and bought a new utility pole. The guy at the lumber yard asked " Oscar, how do you think your going to get that back home" he said " Like this" then tied a chain around the pole and then to the bumper of his Chevy and off he went

Like this" then tied a chain around the pole and then to the bumper of his Chevy and off he went [/QUOTE]
I did the same thing here 25 years ago for a yard light pole drug it 3 miles to get it home to long for truck bed
lol

Originally Posted by cffisher

Like this" then tied a chain around the pole and then to the bumper of his Chevy and off he went

I did the same thing here 25 years ago for a yard light pole drug it 3 miles to get it home to long for truck bed
lol[/QUOTE]

Reminds me of the time I went over to help my folks move from a rented house they'd been in up the blacktop road about a mile or so to the place they'd bought. Dad had a little shed that he'd built on 4x4 sleepers, sloped front & back to help positioning it, like runners. He'd asked a neighbor to bring his big IH tractor down to just drag it up the road, into the back yard but he didn't count on the 1/2" of ice that we got during the night, with temps headed up into the mid-30's that morning. Not to go back on a promise, here came the farmer on the tractor, and they looped a long, strong nylon tow rope around the shed (maybe 8x16) and dropped the tractor into 4 wheel drive. He took off, stretching that rope and the shed broke loose from the ice and shot forward. Away he went up the icy road, shed swinging side to side behind him. He slid it into place without hardly messing up the grass! Sometimes Mother Nature helps us out!!

Sorry for the Hijack!