Found this at the old El Toro Base..

[mhb285]

Walt (Keylargo) found a 10 ton tractor the landscaping company is using to salvage trees at the old El Toro MCAS. Heres some pix....
Enjoy.
Mike

 

[WillWagner]

They are just using it to pull trees?? What are they gonna do with it after all the trees are gone? I want it!

 

[mhb285]

I know it needs some tires.
I bet they dump it when their done with it in a couple of years.....
Its a big base and a lot of trees.

 

[kcimb]

Thats a big truck.

 

[WillWagner]

Mike, how'd you get out there?

 

[mhb285]

Walt stores his truck on the Base storage lot... City of Irvine PD is the base security.
So we didn't touch anything. Just Pix.

 

[KaiserM109]

We had one of those in the 15th CEB in Vietnam. Once I was helping take the bull blade off of a D8 and we were all watching up front when the D8 operator backed it up. We heard a “Puff, Puff, Chug, Chug” and looked around to see the 10 ton heading for a row of M151s all by itself.

One of the guys near the back ran after it and got it stopped before it climbed up and walked down the row. The driver had pushed the stop back in and it started when we bumped it with the dozer.

We had one in the 244 Engr. Bn, Army Reserves, in Boulder, CO in ’73 and I was ordered to take it out and put 20 miles on it. I took it down one country road and clipped mailboxes on both sides at the same time.

Judging by the taillights, that truck is mid ’60s or older. It has a V8 diesel. That specific truck is missing the fold out step ladder in the center of the bumper. To do daily maintenance on it you had to fold down the ladder to get up to lift the hood.

Does anyone know the model number on it?

 

[jh1990]

M123?

 

[AMGeneral]

M123A1C built by CONDEC according to the data plate,shame it's so far away.wonder what it would cost to drive a 10 ton across the US?

 

[maddawg308]

About $6,000 in fuel.

 

[KaiserM109]

I googled M123A1 and got this:

http://www.steelsoldiers.com/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=15315

 

[DMgunn]

Every time I see a pic of a 10-ton, I let out the same embarrassingly-feminine-sounding combination of squeal and sigh - so excited to see one that I can't contain it, but sad that I will never own one.

Sure hope my wife didn't hear me....

 

[redass73]

that thing would look great parked next to the wrecker... some day I hope a 10 ton follows me home.
rick

 

[Polverone]

Lube Oil Capacity.........35 quarts. That's a lotta Rotella!!

 

[n1vbn]

Standard oil capacity on any Detroit, Cummins, Mack, Cat is 11 gallons aka 44 quarts.

The Army always seems to undersize em.

Jim