Ag Jeeps

Some time ago I read an article on Ag Jeeps. that was the ones that had a PTO out the rear of the jeep. When I was a kid a guy baled our wheat straw with one. I thought is was in the Antique Power Magazine. I would like to find which issue it was in. I E-mailed them but no word back. Any one know. Might have to just start looking through each issue. thanks.

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found one for you,,,
farm jeep?

heres a video
video of jeep plowing soil

Wheatfarmer I don't know where you live in Kansas but six or seven years ago I saw a farm Jeep for sale in Dighton. It was on the main road just south of the elevator.

My friend does have a farm Jeep. It's been awhile since I've seen it but he did get an authentic three point hitch to put on it and I think it already had the PTO. Big JT, where are you? Maybe you can refresh me.

more jeeps?
more jeeps?

if you go to the Half Century of Progress show at Rantoul there is a tent set up with all the ag related Jeep stuff , pretty neat display.

Jan/Feb 2004 volume 16 Issue 2 and also Nov/Dec 2009 Volume 22 Issue 1. I bought parts of a Monroe 3 point hitch from a gentleman and he was kind enough to give me the magazines.He also liked old tractors.

HTH

Vito

Years ago a neighbor had one, and he wanted to put up hay with us on shares, contributing his jeep and his labor for his part. His jeep had the pto on it.
We cut with a sickle bar, and used a NH 404 hay crimper to help dry the hay. He thought that he could run the crimper with his jeep.
Problems were that the Jeep was too low, hay kept wrapping around the PTO shaft. He had poor visibility while driving it around, and it was was hard to see out the back with the tailgate in place. Couldn't leave the tailgate down, it would hit the crimper on turns. But worst of all, the Jeep had no governor, so it was a real pain trying to keep the RPM's right. The crimper had shear bolts on the drive head, and it was pretty easy to shear them if you hit a heavy slug of grass. The inability to hold the RPMs constant meant that it was shearing the bolts right and left. I was about 15 at the time, and a pretty seasoned hand at running all of the equipment, but after one round of the field, I thought it was the most useless thing I had ever seen. Dad thought so too, told him to take the darned thing home and get it out of our way. He was welcome to stay and help, but the Jeep wasn't.
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Thanks. So much info I have to go buy a new hat. LOL. Will let you all know what we have.

I remeber that the article was in Antique Power. I bet it was a good three years ago.

My son-law has a farm jeep. Was his grandpa's. It has governors,and a Hyd system. From the looks of the hitch has been used a lot. To rake hay they wired a sheet of roofing under it.

Local area farmer we used to fill silo for in the early 1950's had one of those farm jeeps, CJ-5, I think it was. He tried to pull loaded chopper wagons from the field down the lane to the blower at the silo...poor jeep just spun and spun all 4 wheels, so we filled 5 big 2 bushel plus grain bags with wheat and put them in the rear seating area of the Jeep...it pulled good then...just as good as his Case SC tractor. "Little bugger" was pretty good really...

I have a 1953 Jeep CJ-3 "high hood" flat fender Jeep. I just got it last summer off a ranch in Wyoming. I am installing a rear PTO set-up with an optional right angle adapter and drum belt pulley.

I would love to some day find a 3-point conversion for it. I also have some of the agricultural Jeep info and brochures it you want some copies.

A GREAT resource is www.ewillys.com

Was one for sale in Sacramentwner wouldn't ship.He probably still has it. Monroe that was complete he was at 1K which is a good price.I had one on a 1949 CJ3A I was building.Had no time to get anything done so I sold the whole project and bought a real straight 1957 CJ5 that I will be putting in a Warn overdrive,rear pto and Novi governor once the weather improves.I have all the parts already. If you want that guys info email is open.

Vito