[AT] What was that salvage tractor?

[James Peck]

Some of the equipment hauling low boys come apart at the goose neck. A hydraulic power unit on the goose neck runs the hydraulics to un/couple it back up. They uncouple and drive the equipment onto the uncoupled end. Once loaded they couple back up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruehauf_Trailer_Corporation
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Fruehauf Trailer Corporation - Wikipedia<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruehauf_Trailer_Corporation>
Fruehauf Trailer Corporation, previously Fruehauf Trailer Company (1918–1963) and Fruehauf Corporation (1963–1989), was an American company engaged in the manufacture and sale of truck trailers, and other machinery and equipment, with headquarters located in Detroit, Michigan.It was founded in 1918 in Detroit, after August Fruehauf created the semi-trailer and launched a new industry.
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When I built my house, we bulldozed what was left of a home built low
deck trailer. It had a truck front end (modified) and was otherwise wood
(family had a sawmill). It was built for moving harrows prior to
hydraulic lift, and section harrows. Dad hauled a section harrow once on
a taller trailer (deck over wheels) When he drug it off the side a spike
went through the sidewall of the trailer tire.

I like old stuff, but certainly glad I grew up with live hydraulics and PTO.

John Hall



On 3/1/2020 10:39 AM, Indiana Robinson wrote:
> When I read the first information my mind just assumed that they would
> have hauled the salvage tractor on one of the trucks since about all
> of the stuff I know of from before rubber tires had a top speed of
> about 4 MPH.
> ***** Rambling from this point on.
> One of the reasons that my father traded the McCormick 10-20 for a car
> when we moved to this farm was because it was so slow (4 MPH).
> It had become a bit redundant on the farm as by then (1951)  it had
> become tractor number 3, behind the 9N and the new Ferguson TO-20. Dad
> said that he didn't want to pay someone to haul it, he didn't want to
> drive it on the main highway (it was on rubber) or through town (about
> 3 miles of it) and if he drove the secondary roads it would have been
> over 20 miles of driving it at 4 MPH. It also didn't have much of a
> brake and lacked any turning brakes.
> That 10-20 was not a convenient tractor to use for odd jobs, no
> electric start, slow (he was farming 3 other small farms all at least
> a mile away) and it just wasn't the sort of thing you would choose to
> use to pull a small trailer with or even carry a few bags of feed or seed.
> By that time we had acquired a little Model A Ford truck (that I
> learned to drive in) and it had taken over the primary odd chore
> duties. He had put it on wider rubber and had a set of 16" knobbies on
> the back. It had a good hitch and did surprisingly well at pulling
> wagons. Of course we didn't have any big wagons yet. I said it pulled
> them well, I didn't say it stopped them well...  :-)
> And... he was needing to replace the car.  :-)
> Thinking back as I wrote this it occurred to me that virtually no
> farmers I knew about in those days had a way to haul a tractor... Only
> a handful even had a way to haul implements like a disk etc. Pulling a
> trailing disk down the roads was the worst. We did get a 3 point disk
> about then and finally about 1954 a new Dunham wheel disk.
> As I remember back I am constantly a little jolted by just how
> backward so many little farms in this Central Indiana area were until
> the mid 1950's or so... Of course many were tiny by today's scale.
> Many 50 acres or less, a lot even 10 acres or less... Today they call
> those "lawns".  :-)
>
>
> .
>

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