Pretty cool George! I haven't seen any sort of "cattle rack" on a pickup in a heck-of-a-lot of years! Back... waaaaay back, when I was in high school in the early to mid 70's, my dad bought a brand new Ford F100 half ton 4WD. Four speed, no power steering. He gotten one of those slide-in cattle racks for it. Back then, no one around here had stock trailers. When you went to the local sale barn, the parking lot was full of pickups with cattle racks on them. That's what I used to haul my FFA show steer, and three show pigs to the state fair all four years of high school. Dad rigged up some angle irons in the center on the inside running vertically on the front and back to create a channel on the front and back. I would load my show steer off to the drivers side, then we would slide a sheet of 3/4" plywood that was cut to the length of the inside of the rack, down into those channels and put one bolt through on the front, and one on back, to hold the plywood in place. Then, I would load my three show pigs on the passenger side half of the pickup, and off to the state fair! 126 miles one way. No power steering! And dad never worried about me. He was always confident I would make it. No cell phones way back in the dark ages, so once I got there, I had to stop at the fair office, call the "operator", and make a "collect call" to my mom back home and tell her I made it ok. Then, go wait in line to unload my animals, as they only had two loading/unloading chutes. Then, after a week, on the following Sunday afternoon, it was time to wait in line again to get loaded out. When I was loaded, I would stop at the fair office on the eay out, and make that "collect call" home to let my mom and dad know I was leaving the fair. Then head home. Awww the good ol" days and fun times, spending a week at the state fair, showing livestock, sleeping on fresh straw in the beef barn every night. What I wouldn't give to relive those days.
A few years older, but still get's the job done, 86 K-20 from WA state, 6.2 diesel, latest square Chevy, had @ least a dozen over the years. Wouldn't run good enough to load, had to winch it, figured needed an engine. Sat for a couple years in the back @ the shop in WI, got to be time for a new plow truck, engine compression proved to be good, had the injection pump re-freshed, changed the oil and upgraded the fuel filtering/pre-heat. Ran better than perfect, sold the rust free box, sourced a new 7'flatbed, plow and salter installed it's quite the work horse. Last summer it towed one of the race car trailers 100 miles round trip no problem. I abide old trucks, however time has proven that the Fords are just a little bit tougher. Have a couple of them too. Enjoy your content.
My favorite year truck, 2000 old style. Had 2 them and 1 HD 3 ton 5 speed for when had my landscaping busines. Sold the dump to my tree guy, still running great .... never seen salt ,only thing he did clutch and re-build transmission. Merry Christmas. Happy, healthy, prosperous, blessed and wonderful New Year.
I haven’t seen racks on a pickup in a long time. Spent my childhood first riding in a late 60’s one ton dump and later a C60 with a 16’ box with racks hauling hogs 2 1/2 hours to Louisville every other week. We eventually moved to gooseneck trailers for everything in the very early 90’s and then finally got out of the farrow to finish business when hogs were cheaper to kill than they were to feed and just stuck to beef.
Thanks for the video, George. We had a '71 C20 Chevy, two wheel drive, auto, 350 engine. No positive traction, if you got off the pavement, you were spinning.
That truck is in excellent condition, way cleaner than some of the farm trucks running around in our area. Dad had a 77 Cheyenne Red and White 2 tone 4x4 automatic before his current 96' F-250. That Chevy would run circles around the Ford in situations where you were using 4x4. Between my Mom and Uncles there are 5 of the New Body Style Chevy's in my family. All are 1/2 ton's 5.3L besides one is a 2500 Duramax. All have been excellent trucks, the Duramax has over 300,000 miles on it. The fuel gauge in Mom's also doesn't work, the sending unit and pump in the tank was replaced a few years back and it worked for a while after but stopped working again. Sounds like a common problem in that year range of truck. I didn't know the Old Body Style was still available as a 2000 model year.
For what they get for a new truck I don’t blame you at all for wanting to run that one as long as you can. Not very often I find someone with a truck older than mine, I have a 2001 Ford f-150 supercrew, just turned 120,000 and not a bit of rust on it.
Great shape for a '99 truck. I have a 1984 GMC 3/4 ton, 2wd, basically similar to your old '74. Yes the kids all want my old squarebody truck lol. Right the squarebody beds are slightly different than those newer trucks. I got a "headache" rack from one of those late 90s Chevy's and it was a tad narrower than my 84 bed. I was able to adapt it to fit. makes it nice to haul ladders or long pipe, etc. Nothing wrong with keeping an old truck going as long as you can.
Looks great!! Our farm truck ('64 Chevy 20) had a box we made for it. It was a great truck that I was proud to drive to college with. All of us farm kids drove our farm trucks to college kinda like hand me downs.
Good information here. Thanks for bringing us along. We had racks similar for my dads pickup. We used them for hauling both feeder and market hogs. We made them out of OSB and 2x4's. I remember it took about 3 coats of paint to make them look decent! Also I remember my dad looking at a new mid 70's 2wd , 3/4 ton GMC. He didn't buy it however. Price was I believe $3,500!
My Dad bought a new 1973 C10 with a 250 cid straight 6, three on the tree, paid 2800. Last truck he bought. Drove it till there was nothing left but rust, never made 100,000 miles. I tried talking him into one of those new fangled 4 wheel drives. NOPE! So I spent the next 25 plus years pulling him out of snow drifts and mud.
My dad bought a used pickup in 1980 I was few month old. Saw it on private seller, it was a 1976 Chevy custom 20 4X4 3 speed manual 8ft bed, regular cabOver the years the farm truck had some custom stuff put on like Baja wheels , roll bar in back with lights, bulllit grill, fender flares, gt steering wheel, bucket seats, rear sliding window. Bedliner . My older brother took it to high school put a glass pack on it that did last long . But years later dad put a straight pipe with a glass pack 😂. An we also had boards with stakes on when we got piglets. But couple years ago dad got rid of it. The fuel tank started leaking an bunch of other parts underneath were rusting out bad.
The Chevy truck is beautiful. I had a new reg cab loaded Silverado in 1998. Awesome truck. Today I a have a 2014 Silverado, 120,000km, the frame from the cab back is frigged. Out being reconstructed now. Body is in awesome shape, just the frame went bad. Happy holidays to you and your families.
The only thing that I can say is WOW! you're talking about 25 years ago . A quarter of a century a go. This truck is amazing. Holy shit!! I'm speechless!!! I'm done!@
Had regular cab version on my farm between the antifreeze eating the intake manifold gaskets and people not pushing on brake pedal before trying to shift out of park .
George I said in a previous video that is a classic truck you can get OEM fenders for it have a body shop you use paint them and you boys can bolt them on . Great video
For a farm truck that thing's in very very good condition and I would keep it that way that's fast becoming a classic or is one it might be some cash down the road or if you keep it until it dies but if you keep it maintained it'll probably outlive you and your son will be driving it around the farm. Yeah I like the looks of them trucks back then but I've also really like the looks of the forge back then too.
My dad hauled calves to Sparta from Taylor. He had racks on a pickup and he had it so he could put a canvas on I bad weather. Made the trip to Sparta and like 500ft from equity he met a semi and it sucked the racks right off the truck. Racks ended up in the ditch . So what to do, he n just kept going as long the calves weren't jumping out or anything. He pulled in to the stock yard and the guys there thought he was some real dumbass hauling calves like that, but he made it. He then went see what kinda mess the racks were in,he was thinking kindling. But only one board cracked.After that he drill holes in the pickup stack pockets so he could put a nail to keep it from flying away ever again
Last year, my boss bought a service body truck. Put the 100 gallon diesel tank in it, but added a 25' hose reel. Also pot a compressor/generator, with a hose reel for the air line in a compartment. You never really know how much you will use something until you have it! Y'all are getting something that works for you, and you will wonder how you got along without it! Merry Christmas to all y'all!
Having lived near the ocean for a numbers of years, I struggled with rust on my van. I learned that spraying WD-40 on those rusts spots would totally prevent the rust from spreading.
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The Yosemite Sam "Back Off" mudflaps are classics.
Pretty cool George! I haven't seen any sort of "cattle rack" on a pickup in a heck-of-a-lot of years! Back... waaaaay back, when I was in high school in the early to mid 70's, my dad bought a brand new Ford F100 half ton 4WD. Four speed, no power steering. He gotten one of those slide-in cattle racks for it. Back then, no one around here had stock trailers. When you went to the local sale barn, the parking lot was full of pickups with cattle racks on them. That's what I used to haul my FFA show steer, and three show pigs to the state fair all four years of high school. Dad rigged up some angle irons in the center on the inside running vertically on the front and back to create a channel on the front and back. I would load my show steer off to the drivers side, then we would slide a sheet of 3/4" plywood that was cut to the length of the inside of the rack, down into those channels and put one bolt through on the front, and one on back, to hold the plywood in place. Then, I would load my three show pigs on the passenger side half of the pickup, and off to the state fair! 126 miles one way. No power steering! And dad never worried about me. He was always confident I would make it. No cell phones way back in the dark ages, so once I got there, I had to stop at the fair office, call the "operator", and make a "collect call" to my mom back home and tell her I made it ok. Then, go wait in line to unload my animals, as they only had two loading/unloading chutes. Then, after a week, on the following Sunday afternoon, it was time to wait in line again to get loaded out. When I was loaded, I would stop at the fair office on the eay out, and make that "collect call" home to let my mom and dad know I was leaving the fair. Then head home. Awww the good ol" days and fun times, spending a week at the state fair, showing livestock, sleeping on fresh straw in the beef barn every night. What I wouldn't give to relive those days.
That my friend is a nice truck. Had a 1500 just like it (2 door) and loved it. Really cool video and you are a very smart guy. Thanks for the ride.
Merry Christmas to you and your family!!
A few years older, but still get's the job done, 86 K-20 from WA state, 6.2 diesel, latest square Chevy, had @ least a dozen over the years. Wouldn't run good enough to load, had to winch it, figured needed an engine. Sat for a couple years in the back @ the shop in WI, got to be time for a new plow truck, engine compression proved to be good, had the injection pump re-freshed, changed the oil and upgraded the fuel filtering/pre-heat. Ran better than perfect, sold the rust free box, sourced a new 7'flatbed, plow and salter installed it's quite the work horse. Last summer it towed one of the race car trailers 100 miles round trip no problem. I abide old trucks, however time has proven that the Fords are just a little bit tougher. Have a couple of them too.
Enjoy your content.
Very nice looking setup that still works and looks good
My favorite year truck, 2000 old style.
Had 2 them and 1 HD 3 ton 5 speed for when had my landscaping busines.
Sold the dump to my tree guy, still running great .... never seen salt ,only thing he did clutch and re-build transmission.
Merry Christmas. Happy, healthy, prosperous, blessed and wonderful New Year.
I haven’t seen racks on a pickup in a long time. Spent my childhood first riding in a late 60’s one ton dump and later a C60 with a 16’ box with racks hauling hogs 2 1/2 hours to Louisville every other week. We eventually moved to gooseneck trailers for everything in the very early 90’s and then finally got out of the farrow to finish business when hogs were cheaper to kill than they were to feed and just stuck to beef.
Nice thanks for the video..truck is a classic
Really handy work there for that truck. Beautiful.
Thanks for the video, George. We had a '71 C20 Chevy, two wheel drive, auto, 350 engine. No positive traction, if you got off the pavement, you were spinning.
That truck is in excellent condition, way cleaner than some of the farm trucks running around in our area. Dad had a 77 Cheyenne Red and White 2 tone 4x4 automatic before his current 96' F-250. That Chevy would run circles around the Ford in situations where you were using 4x4. Between my Mom and Uncles there are 5 of the New Body Style Chevy's in my family. All are 1/2 ton's 5.3L besides one is a 2500 Duramax. All have been excellent trucks, the Duramax has over 300,000 miles on it. The fuel gauge in Mom's also doesn't work, the sending unit and pump in the tank was replaced a few years back and it worked for a while after but stopped working again. Sounds like a common problem in that year range of truck. I didn't know the Old Body Style was still available as a 2000 model year.
For what they get for a new truck I don’t blame you at all for wanting to run that one as long as you can. Not very often I find someone with a truck older than mine, I have a 2001 Ford f-150 supercrew, just turned 120,000 and not a bit of rust on it.
Good looking farm truck, looks like it could go another 20 years.
A beautiful truck you have sir, Merry Christmas to the Gierok family.
Thanks for posting
Just pure ingenuity on the rack set up and I like the hide a ball. Very nice work !!
Great shape for a '99 truck. I have a 1984 GMC 3/4 ton, 2wd, basically similar to your old '74. Yes the kids all want my old squarebody truck lol. Right the squarebody beds are slightly different than those newer trucks. I got a "headache" rack from one of those late 90s Chevy's and it was a tad narrower than my 84 bed. I was able to adapt it to fit. makes it nice to haul ladders or long pipe, etc. Nothing wrong with keeping an old truck going as long as you can.
Looks great!! Our farm truck ('64 Chevy 20) had a box we made for it. It was a great truck that I was proud to drive to college with. All of us farm kids drove our farm trucks to college kinda like hand me downs.
A good farm truck is an invaluable piece of equipment on the farm. Merry Christmas from Iowa.
Merry Christmas to you and your family
Good information here. Thanks for bringing us along. We had racks similar for my dads pickup. We used them for hauling both feeder and market hogs. We made them out of OSB and 2x4's. I remember it took about 3 coats of paint to make them look decent! Also I remember my dad looking at a new mid 70's 2wd , 3/4 ton GMC. He didn't buy it however. Price was I believe $3,500!
My Dad bought a new 1973 C10 with a 250 cid straight 6, three on the tree, paid 2800. Last truck he bought. Drove it till there was nothing left but rust, never made 100,000 miles. I tried talking him into one of those new fangled 4 wheel drives. NOPE! So I spent the next 25 plus years pulling him out of snow drifts and mud.
My dad bought a used pickup in 1980 I was few month old. Saw it on private seller, it was a 1976 Chevy custom 20 4X4 3 speed manual 8ft bed, regular cabOver the years the farm truck had some custom stuff put on like Baja wheels , roll bar in back with lights, bulllit grill, fender flares, gt steering wheel, bucket seats, rear sliding window. Bedliner . My older brother took it to high school put a glass pack on it that did last long . But years later dad put a straight pipe with a glass pack 😂. An we also had boards with stakes on when we got piglets. But couple years ago dad got rid of it. The fuel tank started leaking an bunch of other parts underneath were rusting out bad.
❤😊 THANKS DAD FOR SHARING WITH US ALL ❤😊
The Chevy truck is beautiful. I had a new reg cab loaded Silverado in 1998. Awesome truck. Today I a have a 2014 Silverado, 120,000km, the frame from the cab back is frigged. Out being reconstructed now. Body is in awesome shape, just the frame went bad. Happy holidays to you and your families.
The only thing that I can say is WOW! you're talking about 25 years ago . A quarter of a century a go. This truck is amazing. Holy shit!! I'm speechless!!! I'm done!@
Clean OBS. Amazing how well you've kept it for being a "farm" pickup. Back when pickups were still work vehicles and not glorified grocery haulers.
Had regular cab version on my farm between the antifreeze eating the intake manifold gaskets and people not pushing on brake pedal before trying to shift out of park .
Tell ya what, that truck is cleeeeeeaaaaan. Perfect farm truck.
Great video! What a nice to see the Cavs in there though you see how you load them! You got to try that one of these future videos!😮
I used to drink beer in traverse valley back in high school days
George I said in a previous video that is a classic truck you can get OEM fenders for it have a body shop you use paint them and you boys can bolt them on . Great video
For a farm truck that thing's in very very good condition and I would keep it that way that's fast becoming a classic or is one it might be some cash down the road or if you keep it until it dies but if you keep it maintained it'll probably outlive you and your son will be driving it around the farm. Yeah I like the looks of them trucks back then but I've also really like the looks of the forge back then too.
I wish they still made trucks like that
Merry Christmas,
i would bet that that truck would bring you back mot of what it cost new you take care of you,re stuff merry christmas
My dad hauled calves to Sparta from Taylor. He had racks on a pickup and he had it so he could put a canvas on I bad weather. Made the trip to Sparta and like 500ft from equity he met a semi and it sucked the racks right off the truck. Racks ended up in the ditch . So what to do, he n just kept going as long the calves weren't jumping out or anything. He pulled in to the stock yard and the guys there thought he was some real dumbass hauling calves like that, but he made it. He then went see what kinda mess the racks were in,he was thinking kindling. But only one board cracked.After that he drill holes in the pickup stack pockets so he could put a nail to keep it from flying away ever again
Nice truck…👍
How smart, 🌲
Nice old truck.
Makes me miss my k3500 cclb dually 😢
How come you don't just use the cattle trailer to haul calves? I don't find our truck uses much more fuel whether I'm towing the cattle trailer or not
Simple but genius. Ever have any issue with it lifting at highway speed?
Last year, my boss bought a service body truck. Put the 100 gallon diesel tank in it, but added a 25' hose reel. Also pot a compressor/generator, with a hose reel for the air line in a compartment. You never really know how much you will use something until you have it! Y'all are getting something that works for you, and you will wonder how you got along without it! Merry Christmas to all y'all!
Having lived near the ocean for a numbers of years, I struggled with rust on my van. I learned that spraying WD-40 on those rusts spots would totally prevent the rust from spreading.
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Video idea, George goes over to the farm he grew up on and shows us around and tells stories
Nice truck. Anyone else killing time because the Packers aren't playing today? Ugh.
Got 2 watch the bears 🐻 get smoked!
Hi good afternoon gierok farms from Indiana, have a merry Christmas and have a great new years to you, your family and friends
MERRY XMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU AND YOUR HARD WORKING FAMILY.