Another New WA Member

[VertigoPilot]

Hi, all!

I'm another new member out in the NW corner of the Pacific Northwest, located on Whidbey Island. My wife took off for the holidays to visit with our daughter in Hawaii, so shopped for my own Christmas present this year... and bought a nice 1994 M1079 sans radio box. My business is designing and fabricating modern modular cabins and small homes for remote locations, so this truck will provide a fun experimental platform for developing a line of small movable self-contained and self-unloading cabins for use on remote recreational properties, starting with a little yoga studio/sauna cabin to go into the wilderness near Twisp, WA.

If the initial experiment goes well, perhaps I'll be looking for an M1085 to follow in the coming Spring or Summer.

I very much look forward to learning from the wisdom and experience assembled here!

(Can't wait to see the look on the missus' face when she gets home next month...)

 

[BinderDriver68]

Hello I'm new here too looks like a great site, I bet your wife will be surprised when she gets home. My wife has an aunt and uncle from your area they lived out where they had to take a boat to get to their home. Good luck with your new truck i really like those.

BD68

 

[Bill Nutting]

Welcome to both of you. You will find this site is a great place to spend some down time hanging out with some really nice folks.
BTW, please post pictures of your vehicle.

 

[VertigoPilot]

Welcome to both of you. You will find this site is a great place to spend some down time hanging out with some really nice folks.
BTW, please post pictures of your vehicle.

Thank you for the hospitality. I'll post pics of our new truck as soon as it arrives. In the meantime, here's a pic of our latest boat.

 

[Recovry4x4]

Welcome aboard to both of you. Enjoy the ride.

 

[steelsoldiers]

Hi, all!

I'm another new member out in the NW corner of the Pacific Northwest, located on Whidbey Island. My wife took off for the holidays to visit with our daughter in Hawaii, so shopped for my own Christmas present this year... and bought a nice 1994 M1079 sans radio box. My business is designing and fabricating modern modular cabins and small homes for remote locations, so this truck will provide a fun experimental platform for developing a line of small movable self-contained and self-unloading cabins for use on remote recreational properties, starting with a little yoga studio/sauna cabin to go into the wilderness near Twisp, WA.

If the initial experiment goes well, perhaps I'll be looking for an M1085 to follow in the coming Spring or Summer.

I very much look forward to learning from the wisdom and experience assembled here!

(Can't wait to see the look on the missus' face when she gets home next month...)

Welcome to Steel Soldiers!

 

[rcamacho]

Welcome!
I’m also WA based and own an M998 and MEP-802.

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[Mullaney]

Wow! Welcome to all three of you...
Pretty neat that y'all showed up at the same time!

Welcome to the group and thanks for the pictures.
.

 

[US6x4]

There are a few hard core collectors around Twisp and I don't think they're on this forum. The guy I know has had the following:
M151, M35A3, V-100, M548, M818, M1123?, and a helicopter. I'm sure he's owned many more than those during his time.

 

[SCM35A2]

Welcome to the site!

 

[Ronmar]

How did the wife like your Christmas present?

 

[VertigoPilot]

How did the wife like your Christmas present?

She wasn't nearly surprised enough, so now I'm looking for a good 1083.

 

[Bill Nutting]

She wasn't nearly surprised enough, so now I'm looking for a good 1083.

Oh, the force is strong with this one...

 

[dmetalmiki]

Thank you for the hospitality. I'll post pics of our new truck as soon as it arrives. In the meantime, here's a pic of our latest boat.

Now that's a fine looking 'SHIP'!.
it looks almost military?, Naval?.
And welcome to the site and the hobby.

 

[VertigoPilot]

It's a "Navy" of sorts. I mounted a brass plaque at the helm reminding that "The Captain's Word is Law", but my wife reminds me that as Admiral she outranks me by a sizeable margin, and that I could be demoted at any time.

 

[ckouba]

Fun story...

I PM'd Jim (VertigoPilot) to say that I am up to visit a town near him from time to time and it might be interesting to get together. He explained that he's also to that town often as that's where his boat is moored.

I said, that's funny, I have a boat and it's moored there too... What marina? Turns out, it's the same one.

What slip you might ask? In a crazy coincidence, it was the one right next to mine. Small world, eh?

Mine on the left, Jim's on the right:

He is actually off to another marina at this point, but it was nice to meet him and be his neighbor- albeit only briefly.

Chris

 

[spankybear]

you know there are just too many LMTV owners in the Washington. Can't even go out with my LMTV without running into other LMTV owners (Like 3 others)...

 

[MrGoodwreck]

you know there are just too many LMTV owners in the Washington. Can't even go out with my LMTV without running into other LMTV owners (Like 3 others)...

Gotta admit, it made it a pretty cool day.

 

[VertigoPilot]

Fun story...

I PM'd Jim (VertigoPilot) to say that I am up to visit a town near him from time to time and it might be interesting to get together. He explained that he's also to that town often as that's where his boat is moored.

I said, that's funny, I have a boat and it's moored there too... What marina? Turns out, it's the same one.

What slip you might ask? In a crazy coincidence, it was the one right next to mine. Small world, eh?

Mine on the left, Jim's on the right:

He is actually off to another marina at this point, but it was nice to meet him and be his neighbor- albeit only briefly.

Chris

That's a damned fine vessel you have there! Looking forward to our next meeting, hopefully somewhere along the Inside Passage.