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  1. Capt Pat

    Tow rope?

    Recovery is right, and I'm not lecturing here, but there is a right way and an easy way, and as one who has worked rigging for cargo handling, marine towing and salvage and other things I'd rather not say as they were in my younger and more "invincible" days when watching the steam off a line...
  2. Capt Pat

    It looks like a 5 ton....

    I'd better not, the wife might rethink her idea of my hobby. I just had a 1982 Brigadiere fire truck, and a 1943 ex-Army class III ST tug follow me home. (they belong to the "Group" but as 'da Prez", I'm responsible for arranging for them to be donated and looking out for them till members take...
  3. Capt Pat

    Moving an M818

    u-ship usage Our collectors group just had a partial load of LARC-V parts moved from Gulfport Miss. to Bellevue, Ohio and the u-ship program provided us with a real choice of carriers and services. The carrier we chose was also interested in a vehicle we may soon have coming out of...
  4. Capt Pat

    XM757 in the snow

    Even better pictures than the ones you sent us Bjorn. We will be working on ours this week to see what the engine wants to do. We're still looking for a windshield for one of these. Anybody have any ideas.....
  5. Capt Pat

    M88's headed Home for Rebuild

    all in all, It would still be nice to have an 88, That's how I got my M-62, explained to the wife what towing the M-54 would cost. Though I'd settle for the old Sherman variant retriever sitting sinking into the ground at Winer Motors in Akron, Ohio. Me and a couple dozen others havn't been...
  6. Capt Pat

    Mrs. Earth rocks

    Definately keeps things interesting when the "Better Half" shares the hobby with you. Mine knows I don't care for Christmas, its her holiday though and I do things for her . Every year she asks what I want for Christmas, anoter truck, parts for the ones I have..... She just wants to get me...
  7. Capt Pat

    Mystery trailer??

    Jet Ske trailer?? Would have to be one serious ramp for launching, you'd have to back a long way in to get water deep enough. Might want to use a fording equipped vehicle eh.....
  8. Capt Pat

    Try Using U-Ship to Move MVs

    The u-ship program seems to work very well, we listed some parts the Navy donated for rebuilding a LARC-V for Sea Cadet use, and found six bidders almost overnight. The winning bidder is a broker, but the hauler is a reputable major company. The broker had contacted the depot in Gulfport...
  9. Capt Pat

    5 ton rpm

    The fuel system air leak sounds like a prime culprit, the lift pump second. I've a pair of 6B-5.9's in a govt. boat I run and a friend has one on a firepump on his boat. The cummins mechanic stated these are a great utility engine in forklifts and such, but that is about it, otherwise they...
  10. Capt Pat

    military P&H 4060 crane

    A friend bought a P&H 4060 crawler from DRMO in Puerto Rico, it was supposed to have the boom sections with it, but when it arrived, they were missing,( guess the guy who bought the other, from the island, took all the boom sections and got away with it. though it did come with a nice little...
  11. Capt Pat

    Need Parts from Gulfport moved to Ohio

    Our "Group" has some LARC-V parts being donated to us for repairing a unit for the local Sea Cadets unit. They are in Gulfport, Miss and need to be in Bellevue, Ohio. Anybody moving something this way or part of it have room on a load. We could use some help. (419) 626-6349 ask for Pat
  12. Capt Pat

    LAV-150 Gwinnett Sheriff SWAT

    the reason is called ATLANTA, GA. and unfortunately they do lose alot of law enforcement officers down there due to serious drug runners and more. Doraville, in that county is at the end of the transit system out of Atlanta and that department uses it to get potential problems out of their...
  13. Capt Pat

    Anyone else see that torpedo boat?

    Chances are one of the not for profits got their paperwork in for a transfer to the sea scouts or something just under the wire, and it had to be pulled. The Naval Sea Cadets have a converted torpedo weapons retriever in Michigan. Called "Greyfox", its got "issues" due to its being converted to...
  14. Capt Pat

    LAV-150 Gwinnett Sheriff SWAT

    and all courtesy to South Dave in Ripley, Ohio, from a cop in Sandusky, Ohio, but there are departments here who could use that kind of protection for its officers. It helps bring bad actors out alive, thus reducing "suicide by cop" events and other such things as well as like I said, allowing...
  15. Capt Pat

    LAV-150 Gwinnett Sheriff SWAT

    Looks like it will be a nice rig when done, and a little more practical that Doraville's swat wagon. But their APC is really nice too and having their own 'prime mover' to haul it helps. It had just been redone when I last saw it. I was down there from Ohio for some re-certifications on some...
  16. Capt Pat

    Anybody with a 4 door deuce??

    There is a guy in London Kentucky who has one, and I think he had it done by a friend of his, looks VERY professional, and according to him, its not real difficult at all if you have some simple sheet metal and bodywork skills. He had to shorten the cargo bed, and trim in the second cab tub just...
  17. Capt Pat

    WTH, Found a tank today.

    Roscoe, where in Spencerville are you? I've got relation there I visit 'occasionally' and havn't heard them talk much of any OD Green in the area, and they know I'm a collector.
  18. Capt Pat

    And the wife rolls her eyes again.

    You didn't specify, "another WHAT"??? I've told mine several times I'd pack her stuff for her, Lionel and all and she could go elsewhere, but it didn't work. Told her if she came home and found her christmas tree lashed to the top of her truck, well, it was time to move back to Michigan. 29...
  19. Capt Pat

    And the wife rolls her eyes again.

    Ya gotta have one like mine. She love's playing with OD green stuff more than I do as long as she doesn't have to get too dirty doing it. She still wants a tracked vehicle, (read her own tank or APC), but I told her she had to learn to put the track back on herself first. She tried helping...
  20. Capt Pat

    M1's don't float

    Think I saw something in a spoof on 'Tankers' about the "Adventures of Tank Mouse" where the idea was to remember the M-1 is not amphibious or something like that. If I can figure out how to do it, I'll get the whole "Tank Mouse" thing posted here. Its a riot, unless you're a real serious...
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