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I would like to nominate Swiss' M62 as truck of the month, as symbol of and in appreciation for his work for the GA bill and our hobby. I am waiting for the pic of that truck from Swiss (or somebody else who has it); could not find it on the site. And its time for me to go to bed, its getting...

After the fact, yes. Maybe the man did really do something without thinking because after the snow comes spring rains and run-off (mostly more quiet though). Then again, who takes three weeks of constant rain into his equation when the average for that period is solid snow and ice? Another...

Just finished a rough and dirty job like that myself, now I am waiting to see how an expert does it.

Whit these continuing rains, mudslides are not so uncommon, nearby Austria has a fair amount of them but we locally not (too flat here). Sometimes its really cutting trees or too long rain periods, or weird combination of factors. Sometimes its just as my uncle in BC would say about falling...

Good you came after the fact, anybody in that tunnel at the time it happened? Amazing how much an on first sight not so big mudslide can do for damage. Surprising though that the heavy stuff went so deep into the tunnel.

No. During my CDL courses in the 1980s all brake systems were extensive explained: simple hydraulic, vacuum-assisted hydraulic, air-assisted hydraulic (on our MVs), air-actuated hydraulics and full-air. Still have that book and when checking for my refresher course just now and for the work on...

I really searched, some answers came close, but never really found a satisfactory THEORY answer I could understand. How does an old air-assisted hydraulic braked truck regulate the brake power of a modern trailer with air brakes? :shock...

I did not had any serious issues with them when I tried to legalize my 1973 M51A2. To be honest (but keep that under your head please) they probably should never have let me through. What helped was that I promised that the truck would leave the Netherlands as soon as I had the papers. Besides...

I tried to find out who is in my nick of the woods, but there are several member locations that seem to use wrong or unused member names. When I copy the user name in the advanced search under user name: I get a sorry no match reply. Using the normal search with that user name, I got a...

My M51A2 has a short wheelbase like the M52. I was not really thinking about doing a really wrecker conversion but was fascinated by the possibilities that set-up has. Never saw a fifth-wheel assembly as anything other than for towing trucks, but I now start seeing more options.

Book-marked the link; looks like an interesting concept that we can make here ourselves.

These smaller ones are 1 1/4 tons?

Looking at the truck, I vote for pink; if that is off color Tan its somewhere off on the next planet

nopics Any pics of the type your looking for?

Probably that winter is coming back with a vengeance

Haven't read all posts in this thread yet (too tired to do it now) but I know that in the 70s in the Netherlands it was quite easy and cheap to buy US army surplus. The local story goes that each unit sent over brought its own equipment but when returning to the USA would leave the equipment...

Somehow that time frame did not click in my head before even after reading most post. Are you guys seriously saying that early March these guys go into hibernation and don't come back until 2015 as to passing laws comes heaven or high water? What the @@#$# are these people doing in between?

Looking into the background of a totally different thread, I ran into these pictures of a Russian MV model builder, thought they were neat.

From my memory, its too big to be a Deuce, must be a 5-ton or similar.

The truck was not that long, and from the original picture, it looks that the fuel tank and the middle axle are close together, so more a standard cargo wheelbase. The box on top was also as far as I remember just a simple box used as office-working space; it was not an expansible van. Don't...