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Anyone going to the military stuff sale and display at Olympic Flight Musuem on Saturday?

Here are a couple of pictures of the new M1102 with mortar attachments. I got these on base with some troops that were in training on the new system. Neat stuff. I have more pics but downloading them in manage attachments in not working well for me for some reason. It is odd that they would...

Time to get this back on the radar. It is next Saturday. So far we have 4 vehicles declared to be there. Bring your rig and put it on display. They are saving the front parking lot for us and you get free admission for bringing your rig. They want us to stay out of the parking lot till...

Welcome back. I am still up for meeting for hamburgers if we can find a good time. The 1st Sgt. and I went to Camp Rilea last weekend and acted as troop transport. that brought some life back into this for me as well. The 923 is a pleasure to drive.

Precisely what we paid for. Well said. Thank you for sharing this information. I am currently dealing with parts of a 5.7 mil. grant called Camo to Commerce. It is designed to help service people that are leaving the service, get some help to find good careers in civilian life. The grant...

So whatever pittance we would have gotten out of that equipment, as a taxpayer, is now eaten up in transportation cost, so the only one getting a return is the sales contractor. What a deal.

You sort of do when you get the SF 97. There was another sheet with mine showing a company paying sales tax on so much, which I think was about 1250 on the purchase price, then it was sold to me for something over 3000 and I paid a buyers premium and sales tax on it. So for an example...

They are sure cranking a lot out by Barstow and Fontana. GL JBLM has been boring lately. Maybe they should try a few more at yakima. The last couple of batches over there was a new thing for them and they were being managed out of JBLM.

Way to go team? Definitely look at why it was stuck, when you have them out. If it was a tight fit issue, a little candle wax on the verticles where they go in the stake pocket can make a big difference.

You can also bridge the bottom slat with a piece of wood to distribute the load, so you don't damage the slat, stick a high lift jack in there and jack it out. If the stake pocket is fairly clean, take some candle wax and lube up the posts and put them in and take them out a few times and you...

Think I will be at Camp Rilea, hauling troops with the 923. How about March 2?

You can also loosen the nuts and bolts that hold the slats to the verticals. Let it flex a little bit and with the above tip of getting a little wood under them, they should come right out. When you go to reinstall, leave them loose, and find a good neutral position on them, where they slide...

SRO how about picking a day without snow on the ground. :) Or monsoons. Do you have a tarp? Hope you guys got something good accomplished. What size stencils did you make?

Thank you for posting this. It is good to see what others on doing on similar situations. As has been alluded to here a few times, it comes down to who has the money. You are entangled with a bureaucracy of job for life folks that are insulated from us by our elected officials. I have been...

Thank you for the tip on the wood. Here in the NW, exposed to rain is a given. I am still hoping to find that stripped M113 hull behind someone's barn. Papabear, did you use 1/8th in. steel for this project? I don't think weight is too much of an issue, unless we make it removable. these...

There is one M35 out here with a quad 50 in the back, but it isn't really done up as a gun truck. After reading your thread and a few others, I was getting the idea to find a Guntruck Vet. One of the guys in our group was a truck driver running supplies in 65-66 and he told me his unit was the...

There are several threads that pertain to this with very good explanations. The key work to all these discussions is "Commercial". Are you using the vehicle for a commercial use? If the answer is no, as Stumpjumper replied, you have a private vehicle and are not subject to the CDL...

I had a damaged front crank, before it got fixed. So used a high lift jack to get it off the truck, with no blocking on the wheels and a small incline. Recommendation, use tire chocks if there is any question. These are really nice trailers and a lot heavier than the 1/4 ton jeep trailers...

Thank you for the tip on that. I fixed one with Bulldog replacement parts and the gears they sent were smaller than the originals, so i used the handle with the existing gears and had to bore out the gear and bushings a little bit. Works like a champ again. Was also looking to install a...

Angus when you were talking about the front mounting leg, did you mean the pivoting hand crank like on the M1101, or an actual pivoting leg with no crank like on the M101 trailers? Thank you for the tip on this.