New Score!! Stackable Army Cots!!

[greensngravy]

Can't believe this...I've been looking for an army cot that would fit nicely over the wheel wells of my M101A2, and lo and behold I find a pair of stackable cots at a second hand home materials supply store that were folded and hidden behind a bunch of patio umbrellas.....and it was half-price day! Total damage for the two: $5 !!!!

 

[popz76]

Sweet find !!!

 

[combat32]

I'll take two!

 

[srodocker]

nice score!!!

i always check thrift stores and little odds and ends stores they sometimes have good scores.

 

[Evil Dr. Porkchop]

aren't those litters? I've never seen a cot with a seat belt.

 

[greensngravy]

Yes, they are litters. I need to find a way to secure them to the bottom of the trailer bed so they don't wear a hole in the bed. Any ideas?

 

[3dAngus]

They should fit lateral wise over the rails. Also, you should go back and buy them all, and sell them at your next rally. If I'm right, and they fit just right over the rails, you'll sell them all for double your money at that price. They are nice to have, and beats sleeping on the floor or a mat.

 

[greensngravy]

Dr. Evil, the straps are for securing the litters in their collapsed folded position.

 

[greensngravy]

These litters are really overdesigned too. Thick steel tubing. I am going to reinforce the corners with some leather, and maybe lengthen them with additional canvas for longer-legged folk.

 

[greensngravy]

Angus, I wish they had more! They only had two!!

 

[Darwin T]

aren't those litters? I've never seen a cot with a seat belt.

the seat belt is for those night you drink to much and the world will not stop spinning. that way you don't fall off the earth.

 

[maddawg308]

aren't those litters? I've never seen a cot with a seat belt.

That's pretty funny there! Perhaps they were the litters that were used on the early choppers, when the patients had to get strapped to the skids OUTSIDE the aircraft. Wounded or not, that would be one terrifying ride, laying on a litter on top of a skid, nothing beneath you but 5,000 feet of vomit-inducing space.

 

[Recovry4x4]

I see a civil defense logo. Good score.

 

[twa@ezdn.net]

That is cool....

 

[quickfarms]

Neat

 

[islandguydon]

I would think you could hang them off a 4 point chain set up in a S250.

Score..!

 

[Digger09]

Man I never find the good stuff. Nice find.

 

[wreckerman893]

I still have two of the Korean War litters (they were new in the crate) that I was selling at the GA Rally.

I'll be bringing them to the MVPA meet at the Battleship Mobile at the end of March.

They do fit between the rails of a M105 trailer.

 

[scranch18121]

Sucks being the guy on the bottom bunk!

 

[namedpipes]

They are nice to have, and beats sleeping on the floor or a mat.

I'm too old and creaky to sleep on the floor, so I cheat.

A twin size mattress fits perfectly between the wheel wells (on the M101) and forms natural " bays" forward of the wheels to stow clothes, sleeping bags and what not.

I have the canvas (pic in my avatar), which makes a better/tighter tent than I've ever had, plus it's already pitched when I arrive.

You do have to be a little athletic to climb in and out, unless you cheat and keep a step on hand...