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See Xm211 excavator If anyone is going to the Tobyhanna Depo show, I am just 8 miles away. Right down 611. I would bring it to the show, but I have to rebuild the transmission first. Its slipping bad.

That Bantam was what this machine was supposed to replace. Then they went with Gradeall any way.

That has to be from the same program, its on an old ww2 style truck, what website is that on ? It must be the other one. I know the other M211 truck was destroyed so that has to be on of the other trucks they built.

She can did about 11 feet down from the back . She is faster than my Kubota, but harder to run, its the old 4 stick setup with the two foot pedals. You really get confused going from a moderrn machine to this one.

Its most likely the last of its kind, its going to be my best and longest restoration. Its really a part of history.

Well, we weighed her two years ago when we moved her on the low boy. Weight came in at 44,900 . Unless I am going down hill with a strong tail wind top speed on the flat is 45 MPH. Up hill 5 to 20, Unless I am going down hill or on a smooth flat I never get to use high range. This truck had some...

I sent a letter to the department of defense logistics department as part of a freedom of information act request. There was a nice female corporal who was very helpful in researching my truck and what history she could find. She did a lot of research, I sent a formal thank you letter to her...

Its cool and is a good eye catcher. People really have never seen one.

According to a letter I have somewhere here from the Department of the Army logistics center. There were 14. One was destroyed in Kansas. The idiot cut it off the truck and put it on a crane carrier. That one was mounted on a M45 10 went to Vietnam. That left three. One destroyed in a...

Many thanks to doghead who put these photos into one post. I will be searching my old computer for more photos to post in the future.

More photos of XM211 Excavator Here are more photos, please look under the other postings I did for more photos. This machine has one **** of a reach, we used it a lot. These were shot in late 2008 after we set some light poles using the truck.

Some More Photos XM211 Excavaor Here are some more photos I took back in 2008. These were next to some of our other vintage working equipment. He used this truck to set light poles, dig driveways and general excavation. What money I made with it went into restoring it. As you can see from the...

These were photos of XM211 Excavator the first day I got it back in 2008 . It had been parked at a friends house for nearly 10 years. I was there when he bought it and it was sitting up to its axles in a farm field where it had been most likely for over 15 years. I liked the truck the first day...