The Ford Barn

GB SISSON · 12-14-2022, 09:13 PM

I daily drove and hauled with a 38 tonner with cable brakes as my company work vehicle for eleven years. We have a huge deer problem here so on 3 different occasions I locked up all four wheels on dry pavement with 7.50 x 17 tires. Never had to add any fluid the whole time!

cas3 · 12-14-2022, 09:25 PM

Just my opinion, but I think Henry was experiencing "peer pressure" at the time as most of the industry had gone to hydraulics, and used it as a selling point. As stated many times in this thread, the old mechanicals really work pretty darn good when everything is maintained and in good shape. Model A brakes excluded, the steel drums were a bad idea, but the industry was progressing at the time

12-14-2022, 09:13 PM	#41
GB SISSON Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Orcas Island Washington Posts: 5,173	Re: the original mechanical brakes I daily drove and hauled with a 38 tonner with cable brakes as my company work vehicle for eleven years. We have a huge deer problem here so on 3 different occasions I locked up all four wheels on dry pavement with 7.50 x 17 tires. Never had to add any fluid the whole time! __________________ Owner/Operator of 'Jailbar Ranch' on the side of Mt. Pickett. Current stable consists of 1946 1/2 ton pickup turned woodie wagon with FH V8, 1946 Tonner Pickup with 226 H six, 1979 Toyota landcruiser wagon, now wearing 1947 Ford Jailbar sheet metal. 'Rusty ol' floorboards, hot on their feet' (Alan Jackson)

12-14-2022, 09:25 PM	#42
cas3 Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: sw minnesota Posts: 4,619	Re: the original mechanical brakes Just my opinion, but I think Henry was experiencing "peer pressure" at the time as most of the industry had gone to hydraulics, and used it as a selling point. As stated many times in this thread, the old mechanicals really work pretty darn good when everything is maintained and in good shape. Model A brakes excluded, the steel drums were a bad idea, but the industry was progressing at the time