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Bracket that bolts on to hub
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MaverickH1
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Rear wheels only?
Airlift attachment point.
Airlift attachment point.
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Can also be used to winch vehicle out of a jam if you know how to bend rebar.
Search is your friend. Topic with almost same title started less than 5 months ago.
Search is awesome
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Search is your friend. Topic with almost same title started less than 5 months ago.
Search is awesome
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Wow, thanks for the incredible suggestion. If only everyone were as adept as you at searching. You mind providing exact search criteria for people's questions in the future?
I was told:
The original idea of that was a railroad tie down. When shipping on rail cars they might put them on all four wheels. Then later someone came up to use it as an emergency winch which you should see from TOBASH's response. I was also told that in Reference to MaverickH1, that is was used as part of a platform airlift system(The rear tires were tighten down on the platform) and it would drop out the back of a C-130.
I have seen examples of all of these so I think it is probably all true. An interesting device.
The original idea of that was a railroad tie down. When shipping on rail cars they might put them on all four wheels. Then later someone came up to use it as an emergency winch which you should see from TOBASH's response. I was also told that in Reference to MaverickH1, that is was used as part of a platform airlift system(The rear tires were tighten down on the platform) and it would drop out the back of a C-130.
I have seen examples of all of these so I think it is probably all true. An interesting device.
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Always awesome to crack wise when people on a site are trying to help. :/Wow, thanks for the incredible suggestion. If only everyone were as adept as you at searching. You mind providing exact search criteria for people's questions in the future?
I searched the words "bracket rear hub"
On the first page not even 5 items down I got the following:
http://www.steelsoldiers.com/showthread.php?165300-Humvee-Wheel-quot-winch-quot-Self-Recovery.
It even has embedded videos for the more initiated.
I'm sure if I took more than 10 seconds I'd have found the information about rear hub tie down points for railroad shipping.
Just wanted to demonstrate how simple it is to search on this specific topic. Other topics can be more difficult.
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EDIT - I took the additional 10 seconds.
[EDIT - My point is not to act wise but to demonstrate that this is an older site and many people have asked and answered the same questions previously that you and I are asking now.]
http://www.steelsoldiers.com/showth...ing-two-things-aux-cables-Small-tube-on-wheel
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You are a true genius and an amazing asset to the internet. Thank you for your service. A few more guys like you sitting in your mom's basement could put google out of business. The thankless effort you and your kind do to train the rest of us and give you the opportunity to show off your blazing fast internet speed are the things legends are made of. You have shown us all that we have truly reached the end of the internet and there is no longer any reason to ask a single question because everything has been documented and we now must rely on the special intelligence of your kind to point us in the right direction. Again, thank you for your supernatural powers.
Interesting that it doesn't look like it was used as it was designed. I found this diagram and it doesn't show it attached and the pictures I have seen doesn't show it being attached to the platform.I was told:
The original idea of that was a railroad tie down. When shipping on rail cars they might put them on all four wheels. Then later someone came up to use it as an emergency winch which you should see from TOBASH's response. I was also told that in Reference to MaverickH1, that is was used as part of a platform airlift system(The rear tires were tighten down on the platform) and it would drop out the back of a C-130.
I have seen examples of all of these so I think it is probably all true. An interesting device.
http://blog.caranddriver.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Dropping-Democracy-inline3.jpg
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AND... Now your blocked.
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I've seen these things loaded (and extracted) using LAPES multiple times and I've never seen them strapped at the wheels. I don't recall those whatever-they-ares being installed on the humvees I drove in the late 80s/early 90s, and I never saw them in use. But I'm pretty sure they're not for LAPES.
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they were there I was a private back then working on them. a bumper d ring will fit in to them. I do believe the early 10 series tm's showed them as a tie down point for rail loading.
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Yeah, quite possible they were there--just the dumb XO's driver never noticed them We didn't ever rail load them in Europe, so them being there and my not knowing would make sense
We didn't ever rail load them in Europe, so them being there and my not knowing would make sense
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By coincidence, I stumbled across the airdrop FM today while looking for something else... humvee-airdrop-rigging.pdf
Since that prompted me to look around again, I also found this video of some humvees getting extracted...
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I can't guess at the altitude. Thought I'd share since it's pretty cool.
Since that prompted me to look around again, I also found this video of some humvees getting extracted...
video
I can't guess at the altitude. Thought I'd share since it's pretty cool.
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Wait, you mean new info can surface when an "old" topic is discussed anew?
Thanks for posting the rigging pdf. I flipped through it and noticed the on page 2-12 how they tape the headlights and turn signals. The USMC hood I picked up for my M966 had the lights taped just like that and I could not figure out why? I sure hope they did not unceremoniously drop my it out of a C130 - at least I hope the parachutes opened properly.
