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This is a continuation of a previous listed post, so I have added the link to it...
http://www.steelsoldiers.com/trailers/40466-my-first-military-vehicle.html
I originally thought it would take about a week or two to get on the road and recovery my "baby" (M105 trailer), but with an unexpected job change and all those "need to get done" projects before the snow flies it took two months to get this recovery done! I borrowed a friends expedition to get the job done. Dad borrowed the trailer light setup and the pinnacle hook from SGTStewart. THANK YOU!!!!! Picked them up from his place on the way up to pick up the trailer. Fun to meet up with another enthusiast in the area!
The recovery it's self went pretty smooth. Got up to where we were picking it up and got hooked up and put the trailer lights on. Everything worked smooth and on our way we were! DIDN'T EVEN MAKE IT A MILE AND WE ENDED UP WITH FLASHING CHERRIES BEHIND US!!! Yep got pulled over for the rear end of the trailer being to high in the air! We were thinking this is not a good start to the trip home. The officer was more informative than anything else though. Let us know the laws here in Minnesota and why they were set up that way. Told us that sometimes us "military types" scare him. I guess he had pulled over a Willy's jeep a few weeks earlier with a 50 cal mounted on her. It turned out to be a dummy, but he said you can never be to careful these days! Sense we were heading 150 miles south from his jurisdiction he basically said he understood we had to get it home, but he didn't want to see us using it as a daily trailer...get out of my county! We told him we had the appropriate vehicle at home to pull it...the deuce! He said he wished he could have seen that! He also let us know the state troopers might not be so nice...But we only got a verbal warning!!!
Started making me thing I might be writing about the X amount of times I was pulled over on the way home though. But that was the only time. Otherwise she pulled strait and true!!!
Thanks dad for the trailer and coming to get it with me!!!! Also thanks for such a flashy thread name
!
Now I bet some people around here want some pictures....![Rolling Eyes :roll: :roll:](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/images/smilies/icon_rolleyes.gif)
![Very Happy :grin: :grin:](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
http://www.steelsoldiers.com/trailers/40466-my-first-military-vehicle.html
I originally thought it would take about a week or two to get on the road and recovery my "baby" (M105 trailer), but with an unexpected job change and all those "need to get done" projects before the snow flies it took two months to get this recovery done! I borrowed a friends expedition to get the job done. Dad borrowed the trailer light setup and the pinnacle hook from SGTStewart. THANK YOU!!!!! Picked them up from his place on the way up to pick up the trailer. Fun to meet up with another enthusiast in the area!
The recovery it's self went pretty smooth. Got up to where we were picking it up and got hooked up and put the trailer lights on. Everything worked smooth and on our way we were! DIDN'T EVEN MAKE IT A MILE AND WE ENDED UP WITH FLASHING CHERRIES BEHIND US!!! Yep got pulled over for the rear end of the trailer being to high in the air! We were thinking this is not a good start to the trip home. The officer was more informative than anything else though. Let us know the laws here in Minnesota and why they were set up that way. Told us that sometimes us "military types" scare him. I guess he had pulled over a Willy's jeep a few weeks earlier with a 50 cal mounted on her. It turned out to be a dummy, but he said you can never be to careful these days! Sense we were heading 150 miles south from his jurisdiction he basically said he understood we had to get it home, but he didn't want to see us using it as a daily trailer...get out of my county! We told him we had the appropriate vehicle at home to pull it...the deuce! He said he wished he could have seen that! He also let us know the state troopers might not be so nice...But we only got a verbal warning!!!
![Very Happy :-D :-D](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
Thanks dad for the trailer and coming to get it with me!!!! Also thanks for such a flashy thread name
![Wink :wink: :wink:](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif)
Now I bet some people around here want some pictures....
![Rolling Eyes :roll: :roll:](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/images/smilies/icon_rolleyes.gif)
![Very Happy :grin: :grin:](https://www.steelsoldiers.com/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
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