I saw this old truck in my travels yesterday. I do foundation work and i'm in different areas of southeastern michigan every day. When I looked at this old beautiful truck sitting out in the rain and had to snap a photo to share. Does anyone know what it is? Maybe an International?
Yeah it's shiny and fresh. Looks like it had new glass too. Wierd that it's just sitting out in the rain like that.
Hi. Early to mid 50's IH. One summer when in high school, likely 1955 - 56 I drove one like that with stake sides. Me and a buddy hired on hauling bricks from rail car spur to construction sites. Back up to box car with a 12 brick tong in each hand and walk out and stack them on truck bead on pallets. Sometimes the construction site had a fork truck & we got lucky. Most of the time we had to hand off load them. Both me and buddy were around six foot tall and around 130 pounds. When the summer ended we were both hard as steel from that hard, hot work. Swore I would NEVER need money hard enough to do that again. Jimmie
In the 60's we had an old neighbor man that made his living on a little farm up the road from us. He had an old Farmall M and a IH pickup. truck about the same year as the one in the picture. At the time all the local farmers were paying a buck an hour to us kids to put in hay plus a good dinner and supper provided.. The old IH guy stopped me and my buddy one day and asked if we wanted help in the hay the next day. We said sure , he said come up about 10am, make sure you eat a good breakfast at home. We worked our asses off, he bailed and his wife drove the pickup while we loaded and unloaded in the hot old barn. about 7pm the wife gave us each a ham sandwich and a warm Coke and back to work until it was too dark to see. We were beat! the old man came to the barn and gave us each a 5 dollar bill! I told him the going rate was a buck an hour so he owed us each $11. He told us his rate was 50 cents an hour and he took off for out supper! I hated that old SOB til the day he died and it left a bad feeling for IH binders too. The next farmer I worked for was asked the first thing what the pay was
yep, I got cheated out of 40 cents as a young kid picking strawberries...2 cents per basket. I recalled it every day, when going past his place in the early 60s International grade school bus. I was way to young and shy to take a stand. Who would swindle a little kid trying to earn 2 dollars for an AMT model car kit? a sad event . To this day, I despise greed, and greedy people. .
That’s kinda like hauling hay, I started hauling hay, commercialy everyday of the Summer after I turned sixteen. I didn’t have an International, I had a 1937 Ford ton and a half. We hauled 1000 bales of hay a day at 10 cents a bale, pertty good money back in 1967. But I had expenses! Lol. I too was six foot buck and a quarter, solid. I’m twice the man now than back then at 250! Lol Bones
Grandpa paid us 50 cents an hour, to throw bales from daylight till dark, but he was right up front about it, 'cuz he thought it was too much He paid by check, by the way. Every day, people would stop, looking for work, and then drive off shaking their heads.
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