Is this a trailer queen?
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Seth Swoboda
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Nice work!
JM 35 Sedan
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Cecil, that looks like what I would call a "big mean hauln' machine" 
. I think it does normally spend a lot of time in a garage or shed though 
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. I think it does normally spend a lot of time in a garage or shed though .
Kube
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That's cool! Good for you! I have long toyed with the idea of buying a decent old '40COE as we haul a lot of hay (11 horses) but have yet to find one with the "cool patina" of yours. I keep looking...
B-O-B
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Not much of a load for that heavy duty job. I'm sure it will handle lots more. I hauled many loads of 18,000 lbs of gravel with this poor little F-500. This one was built for the US army & the P O requested heavy duty frame & suspension. No pics of the loads tho,but they were heaped way over the sideboards. Round trip was 50 miles. It just had 223 in it with a 4 speed & saddle tank. They are sure workhorses. Nice truck . What engine & ****** does it have?
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JM 35 Sedan
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Cecil, here's my fully loaded trailer/garage queen 
ps....does that transmission on the front of the trailer between the two blocks look familiar?
ps....does that transmission on the front of the trailer between the two blocks look familiar?
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Flowmeister
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The only thing I like better than trucks,
is trucks that do work!
is trucks that do work!
Cecil/WV
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Kube, My son met a guy in PA, near Harrisburg, that has a '41 CEO that is supposed to be in decent shape that he hauled from WIS., I think, and he wants to sell it or he may junk it.
Cecil/WV
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It has the 279 Cu in OHV with a 5 speed OD trans. A former pumper truck for a fire dept. It's pretty slow until you get it wound up on the hihgway. 45 mph is about tops unlee its in 5th over.
jerry grayson
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Is it a Cadillac??Cecil, here's my fully loaded trailer/garage queen
ps....does that transmission on the front of the trailer between the two blocks look familiar?
Cecil/WV
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Lookin' good there Cecil, I could have used some of that crushed stone... Maybe if you leave now, with a full load, you could make it to my place in time for the 2014 Barner's Bash"...
I might, but it would iffy!
41panelmark
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I don't thinks so, can't wait to use my big truck like that also.
68HILLBILLY
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Glad to see it working.
B-O-B
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Cecil/WV
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I met a man from Lenardtown, Md at the Tri State Truck show in Winchester, Va in Oct. that had a '51 F-7 that he had installed a 332 cu in engine and added a 2 speed axle. I think it would really haul a load. The 5th gear OD that mine has, has too much gap between 3rd and 4th gear to gain much speed, unless it is going down hill. It will truck along in 4th pretty good at 30 mph and 45 is about tops for 4th. It also has a lot of spread between 2nd and 3rd. Makes it hard to get up to speed. I wouldn't want to depend on it if my house was on fire, the ashes would be cold before it got there.
