Steel Soldiers MV of the month 2025 - January VOTE HERE!

[patracy]

Welcome to the MV of the month poll sponsored by Consolidated Press. If you need decals, magnets, stencils, or anything printing related, please give them a call!

Now, onto the vote! Please vote for MV of the month! Feel free to campaign in this thread, but please keep it here and not via PM.

1. Weldman

2. Lawdog734

3. Blaines2399

4. muthkw25

5. sigo

6. Dieselfitter

 

[muthkw25]

I just got done putting a turbo on the truck. Here's a clip of the truck running.

 

[USAFSS-ColdWarrior]

Tough to pick in this first month of the New Year.

Gonna need some campaign persuasion to sway my voter.

Talk me into voting for YOUR MV!




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[Weldman]

Story goes I went to an auction in Nebraska 1k miles away in the middle of nowhere held in a corn field to look at the rig before bidding. Went through the usual inspection found that injection pump shut off was sticking and not allowing it to return when ignition is turned on without reaching up there and moving it so it would start.
Welp I put it back as I found it and no one hardly bid on it, went for $9k which included a 2600 gallon water tank on the back I could use and was worth almost the price I paid for the truck.
Bought the truck and drove it 1k miles doing 50 mph all the way home, last 30 miles it blew the air dryer purge valve that I ended up shoving whatever to plug it and bled the lines off so it wouldn't have to purge.
Been a work horse for me since day one getting stuff here that a pick up couldn't do nor a semi. Need to invest in a M920 to convert to a dump truck or try to get lucky and find a M917, need articulating axles up here.
Has been a help to the community here for when they get stuck or the county grader gets stuck in the snow.

What a lot of people don't realize is those windows on the back of that truck are worth $30k plus that I entrusted this 5 ton to carry 35 miles down gravel/mud roads and up 3 miles of ridge to get to my home.

If work is needed done, this truck has been there through thick and thin.

 

[SCM35A2]

Voted, best of luck to you all!!

 

[Guyfang]

Yep. I put my X down in the RIGHT block!!

 

[Weldman]

Another rescue I did with mine.

This is why most semis won't make it up here, add in a foot of snow you already crippled a semi, add in grades that most roads don't have and we are having problems. Articulating axles here or you are going to snap differentials and drive line components.

 

[Weldman]

The story behind the blocks on the back of the rig in my campaign picture is not for traction. There is 6 back there at 3300 lbs at piece @ 19,800 lbs on the back. That truck hauled 73 back here weighing in around 240,900 lbs worth of concrete in a month time frame, pick up 6 drive home from work, off load them and go again. They are to build up a ridge where my house is going overlooking thousands of acres seeing from Montana to Wyoming.

I also use mine to haul water back to my home from a well I personally dug all 1500 gallons at time over rough terrain to the point over 5 mph will cause tank to slide side to side.

 

[Blaines2399]

February of last year I picked this truck up from a field in Iowa and drove her home 300 miles! I've done a ton of work to it since then. Here's some of my favorite photos of it in chronological order of the work done.

 

[Migginsbros]

Great campaigning, we are curious to see more from the participants, this month.

 

[Weldman]

This is how it’s done…

 

[Migginsbros]

Oh, oh..............we have a tie. Blaines2399 and muthkw25 got 9 voters, each.
Perhaps we can get a speed poll for aprox 3-5 days to decide which lovely MV make it on the January calendar sheed 2026
, if @patracy find the time.

 

[DeMilitarized]

I vote @muthkw25

 

[patracy]

Oh, oh..............we have a tie. Blaines2399 and muthkw25 got 9 voters, each.
Perhaps we can get a speed poll for aprox 3-5 days to decide which lovely MV make it on the January calendar sheed 2026
, if @patracy find the time.

Opened it back up. I will close it Monday afternoon.

 

[patracy]

1 hour left to vote.

 

[M813rc]

A tie at the end of regulation play, a tie at the end of overtime!

Cheers

 

[DeMilitarized]

What is double overtime rules?

 

[patracy]

With how polls work on this software, I can't just end it when I want to. The lowest interval is 1hr. So another hour to vote. Someone break the tie!

 

[patracy]

We need a vote!!!!

 

[Migginsbros]

I will got back to my first choice