Dozer towing, with Jeep or tractor, WWII

[3930dave]

Tow rating 1000 lbs

Thanks, D.

 

[Renze]

Good gas is a big part of how we won the war. It made our vehicle's run better, our airplanes faster and fly higher, our boats quicker, ect. At the start of the war the fuel was awful but by the end that had all changed.

Its not always muscle and front line solider doing it. The nerds back in the lab can play just as big of a part.

Chris

hmmm.... good gas means nothing in a low compression Willys side valve engine which was designed to run on any gas available on the battlefield. And the Germans could make synthetic fuels (they had to because the Allies owned the fossil oil fields)


I hope i'm not getting all of you patriots over me, but it Germany was technologically leading the war in every aspect:
http://www.2worldwar2.com/german-secret-weapons.htm

The Germans had surface to surface missiles (V1 and V2 rockets) better tanks (though the allies had better and cheaper production methods so they vastly outnumbered the superior German tanks) If the war continued for a few extra months Germany would have time to produce squadrons of jet fighters, and Albert Einstein pressed the US government to develop an atomic bomb because they knew the Germans were working on it. In fact the entire German rocket team led by Werner von Braun was captured in the end of the war, kept as POW under house arrest in the USA, and when the American team failed to get to the moon, they finally allowed the German team to have their go at it, which was a success.
Wernher von Braun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

On the other hand, the Russians won the war in Russia thanks to Diesel fueled tanks, they had a far better action radius than German tanks, the Germans ran out of gas in Siberia so they became sitting ducks for the Russians... As a funny side note, after the war the worlds first space flight was made happen, also by a captured man:
Sergei Korolev - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

So, the allies didnt win by nerds in the lab, they won by superior battlefield logistics and industrial power (mass production)

 

[lhfarm]

I've read descriptions of the front wheel bearings in those Jeeps - definitely overbuilt - more like how we think of tractors today. Post-war, I believe there were light ag implements marketed to use with that era of Jeep.

That single axle trailer has me thinking..... :hypnodisk:

Rgds, D.

You can check out the web site in my signature for some history of the post-war jeep on the farm. Part of the pre-war planning for what would become the jeep involved the replacement of mules used by the Army. After the war, Willys marketed the jeep to the small farmers still using mules or horses and drawn implements. The 3 point hitches that made the jeep more comparable to the Ford 9N/2N/8N where developed by independent companies. Willys did quickly adopt these enhancements and offered them as options from the factory.

My thanks too to bcp for posting the site and pictures.

 

[3930dave]

You can check out the web site in my signature for some history of the post-war jeep on the farm. Part of the pre-war planning for what would become the jeep involved the replacement of mules used by the Army. After the war, Willys marketed the jeep to the small farmers still using mules or horses and drawn implements. The 3 point hitches that made the jeep more comparable to the Ford 9N/2N/8N where developed by independent companies. Willys did quickly adopt these enhancements and offered them as options from the factory.

My thanks too to bcp for posting the site and pictures.

Thanks for your link Barry. The range of implements offered was even wider than I thought !

Rgds, D.

 

[tcreeley]

We had an old jeep that we used for most anything- even pull a baler and snowplow. Here it is hooked to a rope off a block and tackle- hoisting a peace of blower pipe up the silo for the silage blower. My stepfather used it for snow plowing in the winter. I learned to drive standard on that jeep.

 

[3930dave]

We had an old jeep that we used for most anything- even pull a baler and snowplow. Here it is hooked to a rope off a block and tackle- hoisting a peace of blower pipe up the silo for the silage blower. My stepfather used it for snow plowing in the winter. I learned to drive standard on that jeep.

Thanks for sharing that. We don't see many Rubicon - Trail Rated ones put to work these days.

Rgds, D.

 

[slowzuki]

The rear axles in the ww2 jeeps weren't exactly the strongest! Designed for cheap and fast production. Luckily not much hp going through them.