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Greetings gang. Some of you may have heard of Bjorn Brandstedt. He writes a lot of articles in MV Magazine and has an M49 without the tank but has a Hiab knuckle boom on the truck. He paid me a visit yesterday. Drove the truck all the way from SW Virginia to Wayne Harris' place in SE Georgia then to my place in S Florida. While he was at Wayne's he picked up my 10KW parts genset, a rear door for my semi trailer and a steel topper for my pickup. Wanna talk about a useful tool! That K boom is it! Not only did he offload my stuff without lifting anything more than a chain, he also loaded a 6.2 diesel and placed it right on a dime in the back of his truck. He got an M105 from me and it had one 11:00x20 and the other a 9:00. He offloaded his spare with the crane then picked of the side of the trailer and we swapped the tire. Generally the crane can do anything. There was a Data plate on the crane indicating it's use for the M35 trucks. I'm telling you guys, the military missed the target big time by not having these things on the trucks. Its totally useful. Attached find a photo of the crane fully extended. Also in sight is my M275A2 tractor, M447 semi trailer and M887 contact maintenance truck. Also visible off to the left is the semi trailer door, steel topper and genset.