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    Dump Truck Rising

    Apr 25, 2022 5 minutes
    Story and photos by Bob Tomaine

    Matt Barker got an important break when he found his 1929 Model AA Ford in 2013, in that it held one piece of evidence to suggest how it had spent its working life.

    “The reason I knew it was a dump truck,” he explained, “is that it has a PTO mounted under the underdrive transmission. Usually they were hand-cranked dump bodies, and I’ve been told the PTO’s pretty rare by other AA truck owners. I assumed that.

    “We’re really thankful for the power-take-off. It runs off of the transmission, off the second transmission.”

    Finding the PTO was both important and even a little surprising, as little was left of the truck. It was, Barker recalled, not much more than a chassis, transmission, underdrive, the power-take-off and a rear end. The wheels were there, but

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