Help Me identify what this is i purchased ?

[WILLYSOVERLAND]

purchased this at a public auction. They had one bad photo and I couldn't tell what it was but i bid on it anyway. It says cable reeling machine on the tag. it does not have a nsn number tag on it. 2 cylinder continental engine. fuel smells like turpentine. looks like new/unused. engine turns over. I know it reels in cable, but what kind/type cable? phone wire? service power cable? fiber optic cable? catv cable? does anybody have any experience using one of these? Does it have any other uses? any info would be great. thanks in advance.

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[dmetalmiki]

Saves you having lady soldier 2 holding the 'twine' while you darn!???

 

[Coug]

The RL-207(*)/G is an engine-driven reel unit used with the 1¼ ton, 4X4 Cargo Truck M880/M-1008 or any larger vehicle to pay out or recover field wire or spiral-four cable. As many as four separate field wires may be recovered at the same time: two field wire lines from Wire Reels RL-159/U, or two spiral-four cables from Reels DR-15-B or DR-5.

https://www.liberatedmanuals.com/TM-11-3895-209-14.pdf

 

[WILLYSOVERLAND]

The RL-207(*)/G is an engine-driven reel unit used with the 1¼ ton, 4X4 Cargo Truck M880/M-1008 or any larger vehicle to pay out or recover field wire or spiral-four cable. As many as four separate field wires may be recovered at the same time: two field wire lines from Wire Reels RL-159/U, or two spiral-four cables from Reels DR-15-B or DR-5.

https://www.liberatedmanuals.com/TM-11-3895-209-14.pdf

Thank you very much. if I can ever do anything for you let me know. i have info on welders and welding equipment.

 

[Coug]

Thank you very much. if I can ever do anything for you let me know. i have info on welders and welding equipment.

no worries. I was lucky and found it with a quick search of the model number. Often times nothing comes up with just the model number, or lots of unrelated things, but this time was good.

 

[Guyfang]

Coug,

Next time put them in the TM upload forum, for all to see. Or go ahead and do it anyway.

 

[Coug]

Coug,

Next time put them in the TM upload forum, for all to see. Or go ahead and do it anyway.

I found it through a web search; never downloaded it myself.

 

[Guyfang]

Having spent countless hours hand cranking an RL-31, I sure would have been glad to see one of these things. Every HAWK AFP had 4-5 of them, and everyone got to crank on them.

 

[SCSG-G4]

I've got half a dozen RL-31's, and 20 plus miles of WD-1A (2 full 33,500 foot reels, 2 that are half full, and a number of one mile reels).

 

[Guyfang]

We used them to roll up Power and Data cables. I think the Power cable reel was 260-280 pounds and the Data a bit less. It was a Two Men and a Boy lift.