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It's called dreams :whistle: if not love :wink: Would love to come along or change places with you on the trip from Anchorage to Barrow. :driver: Since working for 6 months along the Alaska Highway, I am hooked and still want to go back and travel there again. Was there early February through...

My two brothers and me all got model trains when kids. HO Marklin. My eldest brother did not have room for HO so he went to N-scale trains. My other brother was not interested so I bought both out. Although not active with it since I was a student, I took all stuff with me to the Czech Republic...

Presumably the original bolting holes and/or side rails for the fifth wheel are still useable? If not, I made my own conversion maybe it can help

Pagan, thanks for the help. Unfortunately, being in the Czech Republic, Europe makes it difficult to get US help here, but who knows, maybe they can help in different ways. Little small-gauge locomotives (engines) and other stuff is still possible to get around here. Biggest problem is the...

I am in favor! We already have one restored and 24 unrestored wagons, an old loc depot at the end of our own private railway dam of 6 m wide and 3 miles long and a lot of dreams. It used to be a small-gauge rail road for transporting peat from the digging area to the main railway...

Compared to what? I would say the M51 can easily get lost being parked on the back of that beast. Fuel consumption. I was shocked to learn that one of my next favoriets (see below) uses 1:1, this is even worse. Daf YB 616, continental red seal engine R6602/183 The link actually goes to the...

No problem in the Czech Republic either.

The UAZ 469 and its predecessor the Gaz 69 are still driving around here, both as hobby cars and as working horses. You can buy both here quite easy. Unfortunately, many people believe that since the revolution and us being part of the EU, every old car is automatically a veteran (true) with a...

My truck had been parked with a farmer for the last two years. Last year in the north of the Netherlands, it was very dry until early summer, than it did not stop rain. One way ro the other, it id not do much good the haying fields. This year summer it switches like crazy: few days heavy and...

The M51 sub-frame has the same dimensions as the main frame; it looks that yours is heavier and higher than the main frame. They probably did not installl the original subframe just for fun or housing the pump and tank. As to rolling over, just drive veeeerrryyy slow in corners :wink:

Don't know about the 900 series, but the M51 has a special dump sub-frame. The pump and the tank for the hydraulics and the cylinders themselves are mounted inside the sub-frame, space enough.

Nice truck. Is that a Volvo PV444 behind the truck?

That is a great truck, were they ever in Europe? I want one.

If I might add: yes but...sometimes it does not

Good call on getting the belts in. We are thinking to transport people in the back of our 5-ton as well. This would be driving through our little town and to the Iron Curtain - Cold War exhibition along the former Iron Curtain only half a mile out of town. For passenger safety (most important)...

Most older European trucks used to have a simple receiver with a holding pin in the front bumper, not really sticking out like a pintle hook. When I was driving trucks as student to earn a bit of extra money, we were driving container trucks with trailers in night shift. Backing them up to the...

I am no bobber, but this is a modification I might look into. Did anybody ever did this with a 5-ton M39 series?

Just came across this old thread trying to find my own thread back quickly. Was not with Reomie this year, but last year they still had enough stuff and prices for scrap or driving trucks were still high enough for me to swallow and walk away. Most of this stuff goes out to Africa. They...

Just found this thread back, showing some of their stuff and a remark of them sending stuff.

Try Reomie in the Netherlands, just across the water. For whatever reason, their site is off the air for me just now, but I know they ship goods all over the world. I got all my filters there. Don't have the bills here so can't check the prices, but they were not bad compared with what I heard...