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Awesome!

Dad used to have an old C50 like this, used it on the farm to haul grain in to Farmers' Co-Op in Frederick back when we were in the grain business:
http://www.fastline.com/flimages/int.../3045774_1.jpg

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This landscaper in Michigan rebuilts old Chevy dump trucks and uses them in business. Not much info on the trucks, but neat pictures (best two are attached to this thread): http://www.litzenburgerlandscape.com/antique-trucks/

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Good attention getter, easy maintenance, low operating cost.

...pretty smart business move.

Bill

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I always ran a small fleet of 67-72 trucks when business was good...since the early '80s. In the '80s I ran Medium Olive Poly. In '89 I bought a Medium Gold Poly '70 C/30 and an '84 K35 diesel,so I went to gold. It was definitely an attention getter for my business. I'm trying to get back to that,but capital is nil these days.

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I ran a tree spade for about 20 years but they were not near as nice as this one.

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[QUOTE=jus2qwk;5617653]just our ole plain jane dumper

That sure is a nice looking dump truck!

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Yeah,I agree! That's one sharp plain ole dumper!!

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Originally Posted by badpeanut (Post 5617036)

I emailed them and they sent me a copy of an article from a antique truck magazine from 2007. The problem is it's a 6 page pdf and it'll take me a while to cut and paste each picture.

My mom lives up there and the next time I'm up there I plan on visiting him and his shop. What details would anyone like?

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Thanks much for you interest in our trucks !! We run about 35 old Chevrolet, GMC and two Macks. I’ve attached a magazine article from Wheels of Time Magazine from October, 2007 with many of our trucks photographed. Since this article we have added three more to our fleet, one of which is the tree spade that is shown in your thread.

Please feel free to stop by anytime you are in Northern Michigan.

Take Care !
Gow Litzenburger
Litzenburger Landscape

Gow Litzenburger is known around Harbor Springs, Michigan, for being a friendly, kind, laid-back sort of fellow, but gosh, is he ever serious about recycling! His landscaping business is located in one of the most progressive recycling areas in the state.
They recycle plastic pots and cardboard, and even the company stationery is printed on recycled paper. But Litzenburger carries the recycling concept a step further. The trucks in his landscaping fleet are antiques, albeit updated and modernized.
Litzenburger grew up in Harbor Springs, a bucolic resort town in northern Michigan, situated on Little Traverse Bay on Lake Michigan. He went into landscaping “just by chance,” he said, taking summer jobs as a teenager maintaining the grounds of the old cottages owned by out-of-towners from Chicago and Detroit.
As a teenager, Litzenburger also restored his first truck in his high school shop class. The truck was a 1939 Chevrolet owned by his best friend’s father, and he nicknamed it “The Mule.” (The truck is now a part of the company fleet.)
When Litzenburger graduated from Michigan State University in 1985, he returned to Harbor Springs to start his own landscaping business. Because the area has more landscaping businesses, per capita, than any other part of the state, Litzenburger had to do something to stand out.
“We started using antique trucks just for the novelty of it,” said the 42-year-old ATHS member. “Gosh, it’s just a lot of fun.”
All but two of the 31 trucks currently in the fleet are Chevrolet and GM; Litzenburger has a couple of Macks simply because he likes how they look. The oldest truck in the fleet is a 1934 Chevy 1-ton; the newest a 1998 GMC Sonoma.
“We have trucks representing every decade from the 1930s to the 1990s, and representing many different body styles,” Litzenburger said. All are painted in the same color scheme: GM Jade Green and GM Frost White.
“We use DuPont paint, and I am always impressed by their field representative, Karl Krumrey, who on his own accord pays us a visit each year just to see if we need any advice or assistance refinishing our old trucks,” he added.
Litzenburger mechanics Roger Gregory, Sean Rafertey, and Darryl Grosse and body man Jeremiah Bennett work on the restorations during the winter. They are currenting restoring a 1953 GMC fire truck that came from Royal Oak, Mich. Litzenburger also is on the lookout for a Maple Leaf, any year or condition, and a GMC or Chevrolet 2-ton or larger conventional cab from 1932 to 1940.
While most fleet trucks are numbered, Litzenburger gives his trucks names, such as Pixie (the ’34 stakebed) and Pinocchio (a 1949 GMC longnose, of course). Dennis Wood, the company’s landscape designer,
creates a cartoon image for each truck that is painted on the front fenders.
Although his trucks look like show pieces, Litzenburger said they are worked every day. Now that’s recycling!

The Litzenburger Landscape fleet
1934 Chevy 1-ton stakebed (Pixie)
1938 Chevy ¾-ton utility (Buck Rogers)
1939 Chevy 1-ton (Mule)
1946 Chevy 1-ton stake (Wooly Mammoth)
1946 Chevy 1-ton utility (Chuck Williams)
1946 Mack LJ (NAME?????)
1949 Chevy 1½ ton (Yosemite)
1949 GMC 2-ton longnose (Pinocchio)
1951 Chevy 1½ ton stake (Penguin)
1952 GMC fat cab (NAME????)
1953 Mack Model A 1-ton (Flora)
1956 Chevy 1-ton utility (Cameron)
1956 GMC 2-ton stake (Tee Dee)
1959 Chevy ¾-ton utility (Sabastian)
1960 Chevy 1-ton utility (Elephant)
1961 Chevy 1-ton utility (Buck-A-Roo)
1965 Mack 2-ton stake (Bulldog)
1966 Chevy ¾-ton utility (Leprechaun)
1969 GMC 1-ton stake (Coyote)
1970 Chevy 1-ton stake (Peanut)
1971 Chevy 1-ton stake (Humpty Dumpty)
1972 Chevy ¾-ton stake (Tasmanian)
1972 Chevy ¾-ton utility (Cactus)
1972 GMC 1½ ton stake (Tom Cat)
1972 GMC 2-ton stake (Lady Liberty)
1974 GMC 2-ton stake (Bugs Bunny)
1976 GMC 2-ton stake (Red Ant)
1984 Chevy C-30 utility (Beaver)
1985 Chevy S-10 utility (Wiener Dog)
1989 Chevy pickup (Dualie)
1998 GMC Sonoma (Gator)

WHEELS OF TIME September/October 2007

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I've always been big on recycling,too. It just makes sense. It started with being in the aluminum siding business where our trash was worth bucks! It was just plain stupid not to recycle. Then the move towards recycling anything that could be came along in the '80s. Again,even if you didn't care about the environment,overflowing landfills,and depleting resources,you get charged tipping fees to dump in the landfill but they take recycling for free. So,most of my load got recycled and I paid nearly nothing for what little was recycled. There's even a place I take vinyl siding scrap now for cash.

But,I feel using these old trucks is a step above recycling. It's the next better thing and I'm even more into it. It's called "reuse". So any greenie who has anything to say about you using these dinosaurs can eat crow when you tell them your truck has outlasted the many manufacturing processes they drive known as econoboxes. Besides,new trucks are not any measurable amount more fuel efficient than these are. My diesel gets 13-15 and my '72 gets 12.5.

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Here's a nice dump truck I dded to my files:

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Originally Posted by Gokart Mozart (Post 5625251)

I emailed them and they sent me a copy of an article from a antique truck magazine from 2007. The problem is it's a 6 page pdf and it'll take me a while to cut and paste each picture.

Need any help posting this article?

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very impressive !
nices trucks and good idea

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Great article, great pictures, but they sure got some years and descriptions wrong.

Bill

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Thanks for posting the article.

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Does he run any dump trucks?

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Originally Posted by special-K (Post 6142593)

Does he run any dump trucks?

I'm sure most of the utilities have tilt beds. I haven't been well enough to make a run up to see them.

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...6&postcount=82

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Hi Gokartmozart, if you happen to look at this before leaving Northern Michigan, I forgot to give you a copy of the last article Wheels of Time did on our fleet in 2013 ... stop by I would like to give you a copy. Thanks for stopping by today, it was a pleasure to meet you and your wife!!

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Gow, I sure can appreciate your fleet of trucks. You are living the dream I've always wished I could. I've been up to three and down to one. I love to see guys with even just one vintage truck used for business with pride. I am an ATHS member and enjoyed seeing that article...a well deserved boost

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Hi Gow, It was great that you didn't work on Saturday, ;) I wasn't online over the weekend and I'm home now. My mom will stop by some time this week and pick up the article and maybe Simon will talk with you, not sure if he's up to the task. If not, my brother will be up in September and he will.

http://s214.photobucket.com/user/gok...erger%20trucks

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Hi Dan, It was great talking with you and Jill, I hope you have a great week! Thank you for taking the time to visit our company!! Mary has the magazine up in her office for you, or we can always mail it to you if you'd like ...just give Mary a call.

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Just put up a video in another thread and saw this one I thought I'd share here. Since we have other than 67-72s in here and we're on the topic of classic fleets,here's a very special truck a quarry owner built in his company colors:

http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z...pse708f54c.jpg

http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z...ps1598d0d1.jpg