RE: Heavy lifting Aberdeen
To the best of my knowledge (and I would love to be corrected on this...), niether Bjorn nor Brandon are bringing thier lifting equipment this year.
Bjorn informed me a while back that he had some issues that he had not yet gotten around to fixing on the cranetruck since he had been devoting time to the 8x8 and that with fuel being the way it is, that he would be driving his Mercedes sedan if he was able to make time for the trip. Brandon sold off his M816 to a neighbor and replaced it with a M62 that isn't quite ready for the trip either but will be driving up in a XM813 according to my conversation with him last week.
I assume that we can find some soul at Aberdeen who wants to demonstrate some heavy lift capability, or worse case, a bunch of us can do some grunting... It does put a damper on a possible engine sale I have on the way (got a guy in Richmond who has been thinking about getting one of my M37 takeout T245's...
So far, everything I have is "light"...