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This photo from the October 1954 issue of Kaiser Willys News got me thinking. Anyone know when the first jeep trenchers were manufactured?
Auburn made trenchers in the 1940’s. The earliest jeep-a-trench I’ve seen has been a ’53. I suspect there were earlier ones.
May be a dumb question, but in and 800′ ditch there are likely to be obstacles. Is there any capability to bend the line at all with a trencher like these?
Well I’ve seen them on ’46 Jeeps. The first ones had a manual wheel to lower and raise the boom. I suspect you could do a very gradual bend with them, but not much.
Thanks guys! It turns out I had the answer already. A 1947 Willys Overland industrial equipment book included a category for “Ditchers”, the only one of which was Auburn’s Jeep-A-Trench. So, I’m not sure why the article above made such a big deal out of the trencher? That photo appeared on the front page of the newspaper.