My New M35 tractor and trailer

[Burgerboy13]

I vote adding a cummins 5.9. Those hills will get old while hauling a trailer with the multifuel

 

[wreckerman893]

In response to the comment about the attraction of tractors.....I have a little deuce M275 tractor and I love it. I saved it frome the clutches of a logger who had designs of using it to pull loaded log trailers out of the woods.

You can pull all types of trailers with it, flat, lowboy, dump (have to put a wet kit on), van....the possibilities are awesome.

In reference to having a lowboy ........if you take the expando body off it's trailer you can put a beaver tail on it and make a neat little lowboy out of it.

 

[robr]

I vote adding a cummins 5.9. Those hills will get old while hauling a trailer with the multifuel

I have a 5.9 scoped out so a repower maybe in the cards for this truck

 

[robr]

In response to the comment about the attraction of tractors.....I have a little deuce M275 tractor and I love it. I saved it frome the clutches of a logger who had designs of using it to pull loaded log trailers out of the woods.

You can pull all types of trailers with it, flat, lowboy, dump (have to put a wet kit on), van....the possibilities are awesome.

In reference to having a lowboy ........if you take the expando body off it's trailer you can put a beaver tail on it and make a neat little lowboy out of it.

I have been playing with getting a lowboy to pull my bobbed Deuce
I think it would look pretty cool

 

[rwbrown72]

I have been playing with getting a lowboy to pull my bobbed Deuce
I think it would look pretty cool

Any ideas on wheel/tire combo on the tractor? Super singles might make it too tall for some of the smaller trailer. Any other ideas? Small radials?

 

[jwaller]

I have been playing with getting a lowboy to pull my bobbed Deuce
I think it would look pretty cool

it would be except you would be at mgvw when empty.

 

[rwbrown72]

Did the M48's have a higher towing weight than a standard deuce?

 

[rwbrown72]

What I mean is can they tow more weight with the 5th wheel vs. the pintle?

 

[robr]

it would be except you would be at mgvw when empty.

how would you be at Max empty

 

[rwbrown72]

how would you be at Max empty

Maybe he is talking about the deuce having a max towing load of 10k.

 

[robr]

yes the data plate says 10k but the Military Flat tows deuces with a Deuce and so do most members and that is without trailer brakes or a 5th plate.
and that exceeds the 10K towed load shown on the data plate it is had to believe that a Deuce could not pull my H2 hummer on a trailer it also would be over max
and anyway Im not talking long trips or Highway speeds just taking it to local car shows and things like that

 

[rwbrown72]

yes the data plate says 10k but the Military Flat tows deuces with a Deuce and so do most members and that is without trailer brakes or a 5th plate.
and that exceeds the 10K towed load shown on the data plate it is had to believe that a Deuce could not pull my H2 hummer on a trailer it also would be over max
and anyway Im not talking long trips or Highway speeds just taking it to local car shows and things like that

I'm with you on the deuce being able to pull it. I was just thinking about what the other guy was saying. I would love to have a deuce tractor. I have an idea of converting an m35 to a tractor later this summer. Who knows, I might even grow some watermelons on the farm this year.... I'm feeling a little crazy!

 

[jwaller]

Maybe he is talking about the deuce having a max towing load of 10k.

ya. 10k load in the bed or on a pintle. my flatbed weights 18k empty so that combined with the deuce brakes being marginal when in 100% working condition it sounds to me like a idea best left to the drawing board.

I do like a deuce tractor but their usefulness is so limited it's almost pointless.

I wanted to do a bobbed tractor kinda like a day cab single axle but you couldn't hardly tow a dolly without being beyond its capability.

Remember that when you get stopped by the Dot and they start to look at what you have built it all comes back to what that dataplate shows. it's got nothing to do with what you have built and what you think it can do.

this might be the only legal thing you can tow with it

 

[rwbrown72]

ya. 10k load in the bed or on a pintle. my flatbed weights 18k empty so that combined with the deuce brakes being marginal when in 100% working condition it sounds to me like a idea best left to the drawing board.

I do like a deuce tractor but their usefulness is so limited it's almost pointless.

I wanted to do a bobbed tractor kinda like a day cab single axle but you couldn't hardly tow a dolly without being beyond its capability.

Remember that when you get stopped by the Dot and they start to look at what you have built it all comes back to what that dataplate shows. it's got nothing to do with what you have built and what you think it can do.

this might be the only legal thing you can tow with it

I'm good with a small van. I just won one at Redstone. A small single axle flatbed to haul parts and stuff for the farm would be cool as well. Who knows, I might even go and get my CDL. Stranger things have happened.

 

[bassetdeuce]

this might be the only legal thing you can tow with it

THAT is the exact trailer we have. Even the color.

 

[rwbrown72]

TM 9-8022, page 60, 1954 printing, says that both the M48 and M275 can tow 17000 off road and 36000 on highway. Using the fifth wheel. The pintle towing is the same weight as the M35s etc.

Cool.... Thanks.