Looking for advice and suggestions

[Grant Bowker]

Originally Posted by Pedro Bedard

Now, does anyone have plans for a wooden Type 2A1 body?

I don't have plans for the 2A1 body (or the later ones, except what's in the AEDB Design record and that really isn't enough to build a body from) but would like to suggest that you consider a slightly newer pattern body. I don't remember seeing photos of the 2A1 body with a cab 13. I am sure I have seen photos of the 2B1 body on a Cab13 and of course the later bodies too. You said something that makes me think you aren't afraid of metal fabrication so you shouldn't be scared of the 2B1 or later bodies unless the problem lies in getting panels bent as opposed to welding channel/angle for the frame of the 2A1. Keep your eyes open, we recently came across a 2C1 in the Ottawa area. Too far to ship but proof they still appear sometimes.

[Pedro Bedard]

Originally Posted by Grant Bowker

I don't have plans for the 2A1 body (or the later ones, except what's in the AEDB Design record and that really isn't enough to build a body from) but would like to suggest that you consider a slightly newer pattern body. I don't remember seeing photos of the 2A1 body with a cab 13. I am sure I have seen photos of the 2B1 body on a Cab13 and of course the later bodies too. You said something that makes me think you aren't afraid of metal fabrication so you shouldn't be scared of the 2B1 or later bodies unless the problem lies in getting panels bent as opposed to welding channel/angle for the frame of the 2A1. Keep your eyes open, we recently came across a 2C1 in the Ottawa area. Too far to ship but proof they still appear sometimes.

So, plans exist for a 2B1 then? You're right I'm not afraid of metal fabrication (did it for years) and I sideline as a Blacksmith as well so it's not new to me.
Plans though are what I would need to get started on the box (first things first, a general cleaning and engine servicing)

[Grant Bowker]

Sorry if I misled you. I don't know of plans with enough detail to build any of the Canadian boxes from scratch. Sketches with overall dimensions are in the AEDB Records but they aren't really enough to use for fabrication. Bob Carriere has been measuring some 2B1 relics that he has with a view to using them as partial donors or patterns for reproduction. He's likely to share his sketches if asked. If you can find a body to measure, even if it's beaten up, it sounds like you may be able to take enough measurements to replace missing or damaged parts. Some of the Manitoba and Saskatchewan members of the group may be able to let you measure original boxes or have leads to boxes that may be available.
The front bumper was a standard stuctural channel so can be easily replicated, particularly if you can measure the hole layout from an original.

[cletrac (RIP)]

I made a 2A1 for my 1940 cab 11 C15 but they weren't used with the cab 12 or 13 trucks. The 2B1 was used on the cab 13s in 1942 but that was it. Your truck has the round gauges so it's a 1944 or 1945 model and would have used the all metal 2C1 or the wood and metal 2H1.

[Dennis Gelean (RIP)]

Recoup some of your money by selling the snow blower.
should be worth a grand try Ebay
My snow plow was 3X that worked like a always breaking