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  1. msgjd

    G749 preservation

    Brushhogs sure guarantee immediate results !! Any brushhogging I do is late-fall and winter, snow permitting.. A properly-adjusted and sharp sicklebar mows faster in grasses and weeds thus it at least gives you a chance of getting away unscathed if you spot them right when it happens, or if...
  2. msgjd

    G749 preservation

    your story sounds like something i could've done with a certain pack of kids, given the opportunity (and insect netting) .. ;) With the track record of one of the packs I hung with, we ALL woulda been stung to bits the very first time :ROFLMAO: The XM211 I had years ago ran out of gas in the...
  3. msgjd

    G749 preservation

    you never met my younger sisters and their friends ,, nor my GF ... All farm girls, all tomboys, and all into any kind of fun havoc and multiple mayhems including everything on your list.. (do firecrackers, M80's, and quarter-sticks (dynamite) suffice in leiu of pipe bombs?) :ROFLMAO: .. But...
  4. msgjd

    G749 preservation

    o_O never ever seen one on a US Army vehicle anywhere at any time in the last 50+ years, let alone any upon G749's
  5. msgjd

    G749 preservation

    Also had a penchant for getting into potential "exploratory trouble" , but never to harm anything or anyone .. It's easy for the combined IQ of a group of teenagers to reach negative digits, more-so when some alcohol is involved :LOL: other dumb moves I have a mixed feeling between regret and...
  6. msgjd

    G749 preservation

    i did pump and control contract work (among other things) for a long time at the quarries up and down the entire valley.. Many of these quarries for a couple reasons (ignorance and/or cost) jury-rigged portable NEMA-1 (indoor type, not raintite) fused disconnects on little stands made of...
  7. msgjd

    G749 preservation

    see ! trucks can get the hives whenever they feel lonely !! some are allergic to long-term inactivity :LOL: my least-busy M818 had last moved a trailer in may and now it was september.. i peeked under the front fenders for yellow-jacket nests (none) and then battled some expected wasps...
  8. msgjd

    G749 preservation

    30yrs ago i went to an estate auction involving a large junkyard which also had used truck sales out front .. Out back in the auction line were about a dozen G749's .. One tractor, one tanker, the rest cargo.. Of interest, one of them had a home-made hardtop made from a mid-60's civilian truck...
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