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That makes sense. :) Cheers

So....if that happened in Ohio, how/why did the truck end up in Texas? It is currently being stored behind a friend's business and I recently bought one of the 'porch' platform pieces off it from the current owner. Cheers

DaneGer, You are correct, they do not have to be plugged into a radio or anything else. As mentioned above, most are powered by a 9v battery. They are hands free for intercom use, no buttons to push, the microphones attached to the headsets are voice activated. Used in a vehicle, you will...

Amazing how much difference a little powerwashing makes. :) Cheers

Might as well put the details of the box on here too. The trailer was absolutely filthy when I picked it up, so it is pretty manky looking in the pictures. The guy I bought it from told me the whole trailer was aluminium. It turned out to be all steel except the wheel wells and the box! The...

I'd be interested to see how a Unimog cargo truck (rather than the much heavier radio truck) on tires the size of the ones on the DAF would have done. Or just the taller/wider tires on the radio truck. The DAFs may not be the most visually appealing vehicles (I like them, but then I like...

Probably so. I was something like 4 years ago when I did this, so may have 'fuzzy details" in the memory banks. :) That's why I take pictures as we go along. Cheers

Here is how I did mine on my M1028A2. The hitch itself came off a friend's junk M1008 (with his permission!) and was on it when he bought it at auction off Fort Hood. We basically copied what the military had done, but welded an additional plate to the hitch to add a tad more strength to the tow...

I'd accuse you of being cheap, but that wouldn't explain your propensity for shouldering me over onto some poor kid eating his dinner so you could get in front to grab the restaurant check.... ;) Cheers

As y'all are finding out, there have been a lot of variations in the support equipment over the years. Many of them came about simply because different contractors made their stuff differently. The nets themselves had a strict specification, but the rest of the support items just had to meet...

You mean this thread? ;) https://www.steelsoldiers.com/threads/joke-of-the-day.90532/page-308 Cheers

To keep information on these trailers in one thread, here are some pictures of the shelter mounting bracket. I imagine you could use one of the much more common straight ones, but this one has extensions that bolt around the rear frame (rather than just to the back of it) and to the frame...

Nice find! That is further proof of Laguna as the manufacturer. It also gives us a date. They did produce other military trailers, but between '4 of 7' and the T0006 on mine, maybe 7 was how many there are/were of this type. 2008 would put these near the end of Laguna's business life. Would...

If the one you mention that hit the overpass is tan, then I've been poking around that one. Such a shame, they reeeeally messed up the box and a bunch of other stuff on it. Look like it was in great shape before that happened. :( Cheers

I have one of those, it was built as a shelter carrier (S-788 and their kin) to be towed by Humvees. Military designation (if it ever had one) is unknown. It was made by Laguna Industries. That company had serious management problems at the end, and went defunct some years back after having...

These instructions, which come in the US convoy light kits, were saved from this site MANY years ago. Quality isn't fantastic, but hopefully they can help. Cheers

The bridge plate "back" usually stays on the vehicle when the military repaints it, so green numbers on a tan vehicle/plate is quite normal, and way more common than not. Cheers

The broken gauge makes me roll my eyes and shake my head. When I got my S788 shelter, it had been "demil'ed" by someone carefully punching the glass on all four gauges on the generator panel inside. I have never figured that requirement out, if it is one. Maybe someone just has a thing about...

Well, I'm late to the party as usual..... I was wondering what that orange dot meant, clicked on it and it brought up this thread! Looks like it's covered. Cheers

Oh, a tough one, no slags in the bunch. Reeeeeeally like Fuzzy's Seabee truck, but he has a good lead and I finally had to go with the M813. What can I say? Look at my name! :p Cheers