Mobile Shop Trailer Recovery

[Andy1234]

On 10 November this year, I won a GL auction for a mobile shop trailer (SGPRSMD) in Ft Leonard Wood, MO. Payment was made, EUC cleared, blah blah blah..

Anyway, Friday, 16 Dec, a friend (Hairba11) and I drove down to pick it up. I took one on my M915's to get it.

All in all, it was a smooth recovery, aside from a loose battery cable on the 915 and 8 low tires on the trailer.

By the way, Dave (the GL rep) was FANTASTIC! He was pleasant to deal with and was more then willing to let Hairba11 and I get the trailer ready to go.

Anyway, the drive home was uneventful, aside from using every one of the M915's 400 horsepower going up the hills on I-44.

Pics show the rest.

Andy

 

[lordkevork]

On 10 November this year, I won a GL auction for a mobile shop trailer (SGPRSMD) in Ft Leonard Wood, MO. Payment was made, EUC cleared, blah blah blah..

Anyway, Friday, 16 Dec, a friend (Hairba11) and I drove down to pick it up. I took one on my M915's to get it.

All in all, it was a smooth recovery, aside from a loose battery cable on the 915 and 8 low tires on the trailer.

By the way, Dave (the GL rep) was FANTASTIC! He was pleasant to deal with and was more then willing to let Hairba11 and I get the trailer ready to go.

Anyway, the drive home was uneventful, aside from using every one of the M915's 400 horsepower going up the hills on I-44.

Pics show the rest.

Andy

That is awesome! Good luck with it

 

[lavarok]

Wow, those trailers are so cool. I'd need a 5ton to drag it around if I bought one...hmm...

 

[sigo]

Looks like it has a ton of good stuff inside. Nice trailer, what a score! What are the plans for it?

 

[wsucougarx]

Beautiful!

 

[axlr8]

I want a Shop truck!

 

[RetiredNavy]

Isnt it nice to take care and repair your own gear? Looks like a good score.

 

[greg burns]

Shop Van

Christmas isn't supposed to be until the 25th!

 

[3dAngus]

I love those things. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind I would have one by now if I had more space. Congrats!

 

[islandguydon]

You got to love a well made piece of equipment. I think we were bidding against each other. Well deeper pockets won. Congrats on a smooth recovery.

 

[wreckerman893]

I......can't........have.......NOTHIN!!!!!!!!

 

[3dAngus]

Huh? I thought you were buying a tank?

 

[firefirefire90]

your truck has 400hp/1450ft lbs, no? I would think it would be an ease for your truck to haul it up the hills.

nice truck and trailer!

 

[Andy1234]

your truck has 400hp/1450ft lbs, no? I would think it would be an ease for your truck to haul it up the hills.

nice truck and trailer!

Up a 3% grade over a distance of 2 miles? It's easy compared to what an M818 would be like (20mph, or less), but 500 hp/1800 ft lbs would be better.

Andy

 

[harleyhouse]

Nice trailer, but I like the Yellow FORD COE better!

 

[M35A2-AZ]

Great looking shop trailer!!!

 

[kurtkds]

That's the thing that I'm missing on my shop trailer, the original generator. Looks like you got a lot of goodies too.

 

[NEIOWA]

Nice trailer, but I like the Yellow FORD COE better!

They aren't done until rippen and turn red. THEN it's a real fire truck.

 

[54reo]

Andy,

Looks like a good one, seems to be fairly full of tooling too.

As I have mentioned before, please inspect the large side door "hinges" before opening them up too many times. The hinge consists of a thin piece of rubber belting that will, once deteriorated, fail; dropping the side door onto the ground (and anyone/anything next to the trailer).
Ask me how I know...

Oh, and have fun they are cool trailers!