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A must have, or at least that is what I told my wife. Little Rock Air Force Base is about three hours from me and sometimes interesting things come up for auction. I had been watching for a safe way for a 61 year old to work above shoulder height. And these maintenance platforms would come...
I would rather dig out the dock so I could just drive onto the trailer, but where I want to put them is not on a slope so draining them would be a problem, so I will build the ramp type, using the cross ties to shore up the ramp for the trailers to back up to.
As soon as I get my backhoe working again I am going to have a dock! That ramp stuff is for the birds, if you get a set large enough for confidence using them, you can't lift them!
The transfer case PTO has a habit of easing out of gear? It is hard to get into gear then it will slip out of engagement, sometimes. The truck is right out of rebuild. The auto throttle control does not engage either. Anyone familiar with this issue?
Picked up the trailer yesterday, unissued condition except for the six or eight dings from the indifferent, apathetic and ignorant lift truck driver who was too lazy to git off the lift truck and spread the tongs to avoid dinging up the trailer and then instead of having a tire or something...
I would love to have it but that's a thousand mile tow for me, it would be nice to have two of them! And I know people give the engine a hard time but I have five of them and they are not race cars but they always get you where you are going and its like riding in a parade all the time...
Headed to Texarkana tomorrow to pickup a M105A3 from Government Planet for the first time. No going on the base so no paperwork hassle at least. Picking up at Tatum Excavation, see how this sub-contractor pickup works! They are only open Mon.- Wed. 9AM to 2:30? Since I am towing mine out...
Under 2 minutes yesterday when I called to pay for a M105A3, first time purchase from them, you would think they would have the on line pay up and running by now???
I had that type trailer pick up my 936 at Fort Riley, the air bags do help on the height and the dovetail is a real help! Even with the reduced height from the deflated air bags it was still a little scary driving the wrecker up onto the trailer(no dovetail and tiny ramps)!
I have a M270 now so I just need to update the current air brakes system, a lower deck would be a help, currently I am building a dock on each property so transferring stuff will be easier since I have a couple of 127s and a 128 as well.
Who would be a good resource for the conversion, I like the spring brake addition, it is hilly here! Would the brake manufacturer or would NAPA have a resource as to what would fit/work?