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Agreed. I’m not complaining about the cost, I know full well what things like this cost to get operational and maintain. I’m just posting the cost so if somebody wants to buy one, they know what they are getting into.

Pulling 12v off of one battery will shorten the life of your batteries, it's proven science, and any battery manufacturer will tell you this. How long it shortens the life depends on the 12v load. Two or more batteries in parallel will balance themselves out, two batteries in series won't...

I've also looked into replacing the APU seal. According to the Kubota manual, you've got to remove the whole case side to replace the seal. I've thought about some field mods to fix it though. One is to drill through the boss around the shaft, in order to be able to drive out the pin where the...

Spent $1,000 in hoses today, got enough to replace 1/3 of them. Fixing to spend another $1,000 on tires. I'd suspect I'll spend another couple $1,000 before it's ready to go to work. All these expenses were figured in the purchase price, but I couldn't imagine a hobbyist owning one of these...

Well, I reached out to DRS about parts and this is the response I got. "Unfortunately we don't carry or sell spares to the general public. The spares we do sell are in large quantities to DLA, and manufacture them only after being contracted to do so. We are contract defense manufacturers...

It's a fact, the government has requested stuff back before, mainly due to a demil code change or something they weren't supposed to sell in the first place. Of the instances I know of, the people complied, so I don't know what would happen if you refused. I think they even requested some deuces...

The pros are, it will save on frontend wear, tire wear and fuel mileage (providing you have a air-shift t-case). The cons are mainly price, and if you have a sprag case it will cause your t-case to be engaged all the time. In my opinion, unless you are driving a bunch of miles and have a air...

The air t-case came around sometime around 1970. I don't think the air steering came around as standard equipment until maybe the late '80s A2 or A3.

I was in serious talks with China Heavy Lift about a Goldhofer knockoff, but wasn't comfortable sending most of the money to china ahead of time before the trailer got here. I was also worried about the quality. From what I can tell, they are built exactly like the Goldhofer, and the Chinese...

G, I seem to remember one time that you mentioned to me about somebody connecting 2-M1000s together. Is that correct? I’ve been toying with the idea in my head, but can’t seem to figure out how. Looks like to me it would take a complete steering redesign. Not that I’m going to do anything like...

The gold standard in platform trailers, Goldhofer, uses 215s on their road trailers. They have a trailer rated at 28mt per axle line running 215s. Granted, that weight rating is only at 5kmph, but the 215s seem to hold up, if you don’t go too fast.

Spent a good part of the day going over the trailer. Got the apu started and ran what hyd I could. The apu fired right up, but after running it for 5 minutes or so, it started blowing oil out of the crankshaft seal. It wasn’t just running out, it was shooting out about 10’. I dont know what is...

Thanks. I may try to get up to Cookeville next week. I'm also going to try to put some air in the tires tomorrow and see how many I'll need. Yep, that's them.

Also, there are a couple of things I learned about RRAD. A lot of the surplus is out in what amounts to a field, if it rains in can turn into a mud bog. Ricky with Red River Wrecker was great, but told me something that made me a little nervous. When Dad called him to confirm the load out...

Unloaded the trailer this afternoon at my place. No pics because it was dark. Just a quick look over in the dark shows the trailer is in fairly good shape, it has a couple of customary forklift marks on it though.You can clearly see where two forks went under the trailer on the drivers side...

By far, the best paint I’ve found for painting mvs is the Rapco paint. Can be bad in rattle cans or gallons.

Got the EUC back for my trailer this week. I’ve got Red River Wrecker Servisce lined up to load it, and my Dad and a friend of mine are going down there to pick it up. I would like to have went, but I’ve got a big project going on and can’t make it. Its just tough to get Eddy (the GP rep)...

Looks like you may need to keep most of the body, but for future reference, you don’t have to cut it up to scrap. I know, if you can get it loaded on a trailer, the scrap yards around here will take it as-is. If you want the best price though, you’ll want to remove any other metals. Sometimes...

I'll try to get a loading/unloading video. The shelter is currently sitting in the deuce, I need to unload it in the near future anyway. So far I've used the bed winch for all kinds of stuff. When needing to winch something, It's a lot easier to use the hyd winch in the bed than it is to use...

Anywhere I’ve been, if I have cell service outside, I’ll still have it inside. Maybe a little weaker but still usable. when I got mine, it had a huge rectangular hole in the side, where the military A/C was installed. I put a window unit in the top part of the hole, and made a plexiglass window...