m-135 feed truck

[madmachinistm1a1]

Took some pics of Dad's feed truck over the weekend. '51 Jimmy with a John Deere chuck wagon, fuel injected chevy 350. Four speed with a 3 speed brownlite behind that. Been feedin cattle every winter since 1980. Had several upgrade's over the year's, new moter, complete brake overhaul, and deep lug 9.00-20's. A couple of week's ago he put on a brake booster for power brake's. Thought it would be neat to post pic's of a hard workin MV

 

[cornrichard]

Looks like that should get the job done. If that had been pushed out into the woods in the eighties it would be rust by now.

 

[USAFSS-ColdWarrior]

Thanks for your family giving that old GI a new life.

 

[clinto]

That's neat.

What's a brownlite?

 

[dragonwagon]

I seen one of these sitting in a field locally 2 days ago , same cab fenders . Those are a GMC truck ? Gas power id imagine ?

I was working so i couldnt take time to check it out .

 

[Gunfreak25]

There's still so many of these old girls doing odd jobs all around the country. One member here picked one up fresh from liquidation here in Arizona, was in active service until 2007! Most are potato and grain trucks now a days though. Still, I think most would agree that a modified G749 still doing it's job today is better than an original G749 thats been rusting away in some woods for over 30 years.

What kind of booster did your father go with? Bet it was a Hydravac. Not many people want to go through the trouble of fabricating the original compressor onto a civilian engine, though I have seen some (including mine). A Hydravac is the easiest option, and by no means a bad one either!