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Fab'd Wrecker Ground Spade Clamp Made a clamp for the M816 Wrecker ground spades to go on the front end of the boom. This is a weld on bracket that will be fitted in the spring then painted propper green. Clamped position ____________ 'Open' position...

Ditto that! and what did the Holmes gear come off of - that is exactly what I need for my project! Pics pics pics!!!!

Wonderful talent. Nice job. I'd like to temporarily hijack the thread a little - kind of related and didn't want to "waste" a new thread. I am looking for an 'artist' - hopefully the title may have appropriate 'visitors', who can draw a cartoon or characature of someones face (a film...

Actually "they" didn't go away from this rigging - it was done to ALL the M816s that the Aussie Army had - ironically, the operators didn't really like it so it was pretty redundant other than for hanging the hook on! I understand it was supposed to be for rigid (a single straight) bar or "A"...

Like this Jeff...? Te hee

I was kidding about the trade mark - but for all readers of this post we will know you were the first one with the cool idea!

You can gamble that driving by an 'open' weigh station will not result in "poking the sleeping beast" as you will probably be mistaken for a 'Regular' driving by, but if the long hair, beard, civi plate, beer belly or gray hairs get spotted they will chase you down and have you 'grabbing paint'...

Well it looks like we are too late, you have already mounted it! BUT, it does look like a secure, simple mod so 'well done'. Get your trade mark on it quick. The only comment I would add is not to put attatch hook directlyto the shackle, but add a 'weak link' - as per the original cable...

This may help.. A very helpful S/S member recently went to a big truck breakers for a '70s part I needed, then blamed me for costing him a bunch of beer tokens when he spotted 'had to have' work lights off of municipality plough/work truck - since they were also '70s, they were steel. (No...

Other than a little of everyone elses reasons, I think posts 48 and 50 hit the nail on the head for me.... and I was surprised it took so long to come up with that reason. When it's been your life, work, day in day out, chances are you want to go the other way for your recreation. Agreed, not...

No, otherway, Cooperstown direction.

Just South of where they have the band pagent then. We do that each year as well. Well that's a whole lot closer! Only 50 miles from me.

:-| Now I am a little confused!! (and that's not hard to do) nor am I trying to infer you are Amish or anything (travel by horse n buggy!) - but Binghamton Syracuse is about an hour, straight up I 81 (~70 miles)! You do not need to explain if you are trying to keep your location below the...

Welcome from 1Hr 45 NE of you!

Go to "Technical Manuals" under the Steel soldiers banner, Scroll down to "Misc TMs" Scroll down to "TMs for Towing" Got to FM 20-22. NB. This is a generic manual but should cover all the situations for your vehicle when read with your own vehicles -10 TM. Please read this thoroughly, then...

I think I may be speaking for many, but if you want to "Hot Rod" an M816 - your words, please do not come visit my state, of if you do, let me know when and I'll keep off the road. I know that is not what you meant - but it's what we 'read'. Yes, I too want to improve my 816, even fuel...

Factually Jeff, I quite agree with your statements.. However I like to look at it a little differently. Personally, I see the voluntary aquisition of a CDL as the striving to better ones self. Being held to a higher standard is the result or even reward of putting in a greater effort. Why...

Your symptoms sound very deja vu ... Had the same thing happen last summer (see thread "what have you done WITH your wrecker") but on my M816 which is all mechanical - no hydraulics (on the winches). Think you are safe to say it's shear pin - however I'll not be fixing mine 'till it gets back...

Moving crane hoist Time to rev this thread up again. New sub topic for argument. Recent pic in M62 thread got me thinking about moving the crane hoist to increase drum capacity. Moving the hoist winch back to the M62 location would increace the crane function beyond the floor ie., over a...

I wanted to add these pics of an Aussie M816 with a similar roof rack to the Canadian Deuce TM thread since the pics in the TM don't really show the whole truck - couldn't add it to the actual thread naturally. Part of this rack was used to carry an extra (not 'spare') 300' of 3/4" winch cable...