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..and I have no idea why I bought it. It's a completely useless heavy thing. I have no idea what to do with it.
I guess I'll just have to get the front half....
I guess I'll just have to get the front half....
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it isn't really a trailer....
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Makes for a big converter dolly! lol
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Hopefully you got it cheap
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That's what I was thinking... the mother of all semi dollies 
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Except that even without a trailer it reaches the max rated tow weight for the M939series cargo trucks, lol.
. Except that even without a trailer it reaches the max rated tow weight for the M939series cargo trucks, lol.
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But who else on the block has one
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What is meant to tow it ? A HET ? Or something bigger ?
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It isn't really a trailer. Note the diffs on the axles - they're powered (and have lockers even). This is the back half of a mk48/16, like a hemtt that hinges in the middle. The driveshaft is in the bed of my 5ton. The drawbar is a cobbled together piece to allow it to be towed by a truck, but the brake and electrical and hydraulics are plumbed like a truck, not like a trailer.
I've convinced myself I want a mk48 to make it complete.... i giggle every time I see the warning sticker on the back that says not to exceed 100,000 lbs on the pintle hitch. ..
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Now that you have the largest semi dolly on the block, you have to get an MK-48 to complete it. They were selling the rear ends of an MK-48 in this area several months ago, but it had the knuckle boom crane instead of the 5th wheel. They went cheap as no one had a way to move them apparently, there was no tow hitch, just a bolt on frame attachment(plus the driveshaft) where it bolts to the MK-48 like yours does! Carry on!
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BBF has a few powered units that might be available.
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A few FPU got out intact, but the vast majority required mutilation.
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It sure is cool.
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IIRC, because the rear-end was interchangeable with the front power unit, three were several times more rear-ends than front.
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I am not a doctor but my diagnosis is one you have the Mean Green Disease ( have to buy everything olive drab) and invertitas. ( post pictures upside down). There is no cure for MGD but to go bankrupt and for the invertitas ask a friend to put a arrow on your pics as to North.
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We shipped a good 20 out of FL. a few years ago, some were a complete mk48/what ever RPU, some just the FPU, there are 5 trailers(RPU) that can be interchanged to hook to the FPU, SO I am guessing what we are seeing now are the extra RPUs. Also the complete MK48/RPU was designed to pull a second RPU as a trailer (drive shaft dropped), If the puller was MK48/MK15, it could supply hyds to the towed RPU for crane, winch, container/ribbon bridge lift.
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