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It was built in ‘74 in Minnesota to haul a dozer around the Great Lakes building roads. Then a Puget Sound freighter, then an Alaskan fish tender w/crane, then I built a wood shop on it about 12 years ago. I think it was a custom build for a construction company.

I’m getting my money’s worth 😁

My LOA was 87 feet.

Thanks Man. I boxed myself in with that landing craft and didn't have much choice. Hull got too weak to lift out in slings (plus it'd cost me a fortune in boatyard fees to fix it there) and it was way too leaky to leave in the water for another winter of storms. So the trailer was the only...

A very quick and dirty (a few hours) turbo install that I'm really glad I did before this load. Just 10 lbs of boost to keep the EGTs cool when I give her more fuel. Edit: I wouldn't recommend doing this in general. That's a 45k trailer with absolutely rearset trailer tandem on a pintle...

The 5 ton handled the trailer great in the frosty wet field with just the intermediate shaft installed. There wasn't a lot of weight on the front axle so I didn't bother. The 395s left great tread marks in the surface with no wheel slip. Really happy with the set up. I would never haul with this...

If I post any videos to youtube, I'll put links here. My wife got some pretty good footage of me going through town past the bars and down the interstate, etc.

Truck/trailer worked great. I scaled at 65k so the trailer/load came out to about 45k towed on the pintle (I have a lightweight wooden bed on my M820 chassis). It's about a 20k tongue weight so you obviously know it's back there. 250 ran great with a little boost and rail pressure bump. I...

Nothing against an 8.3, but this kind of work (and that heavy a crankshaft/flywheel) is exactly why I wanted a full size, long haul "big rig" 855. This is the first time I actually worked it in the neighborhood of it's designed load. It seemed to love it. Puffed just a touch of black smoke...

They sure do. I tried to be gentle once the boat was attached to the trailer but if I was heavy handed it would just rear up and snatch that 25 tons up the ramp like it almost wasn't there.

Started loading my landing craft onto that trailer I built. First step is to drag that boat/trailer combo as far as I can up the ramp to keep my "in water" work to a minimum during the final stages of loading and securing. Boat ramp is not designed for 65' trailers so my tandem was 20 ft...

This is Thor about 12 years ago. A lot rougher looking now. I’m removing the wheelhouse and lowering the main structure about 2 1/2 ft. It’ll be 12 ft tall at that point. Wooden superstructure, steel hull, Detroit 6-71, Twindisk transmission. 40 ft long x 13 ft wide. I’m cutting the side...

I’ll post one up!

That is not something I had even thought of….

That sounds like a great story!

Trailer‘s about done. Wiring needs finished. Air brakes are done. I have a good test drive video but not sure if I can upload that. Maybe YouTube…

Good experience or bad, it's bound to be an adventure and I'll post results!

The pintle tow rating is doubled to 30K for road use. The M818 is 55K "on the 5th wheel", highway. Those aren't vertical hitch loads. I'm pretty confident the 30K rating is fairly conservative, since they spec'd a pintle hitch that's rated to 100,000 lbs. The tandem has 7" wide drum air...