trailer with tracks?

[steelsoldiers]

I was looking online tonight at the Clark Truck website. The have a trailer for sale with tracks over the tires! What the heck is going on there? Are they there to increase the footprint to keep it from sinking? Was it towed behind a tracked vehicle? Are they motorized? Anyone?

 

[ARMYMAN30YearsPlus]

This was almost surely part of the 101st Airborne or a very similar unit. They had tracks like that for the duece and 900 series trucks it does a great job at lowering the ground pressure. I saw them in the field at Fort Campbell, KY

 

[ems4ty]

Wow! That looks awesome. Can't say I've ever seen that before. But, honestly don't know anything about that setup. If anyone else knows, please feel free to chime in.

Is that street legal? What keeps the tracks in place on the tires? Can't really see any grooves or guides on them.

Would look wicked behind the Duece...

Cool!

 

[steelsoldiers]

Is that street legal? What keeps the tracks in place on the tires? Can't really see any grooves or guides on them.

Cool!

It looks to me like each side has 4 wheels (bogies) and the treads have a raised ridge on the inside that rides between the tires.

 

[ARMYMAN30YearsPlus]

Not really Chris, those are inner lugs that go between the dual wheels. They ran them on dueces too it was so cool to watch them in the field.

 

[steelsoldiers]

Umm, yeah, that's what I was trying to say. I know they aren't really bogies, but that's how they function. The trailer on top has single wheels of a different off-set. I would love to see a deuce running those in the sand!

 

[rmgill]

Those trailers can be pulled behind a M113 to carry a MICLIC forwards. Lower ground pressure helps get the lone charge forwards when towed behind an engineer track for a breeching operation.

 

[nf6x]

Sorry to hijack the thread, but are the blue things in this picture dummy MICLIC rockets? I saw them at the Fontana MV boneyard trip, and wondered what they were.

 

[papercu]

trailer

They are in TM 9-2330-389-14&P it's a M200A1 trailers with the Tracked Suspension and then they use whatever body is needed. I have a friend in Brunswick Ga that has one with a cargo body. Wayne

 

[redass73]

RE: trailer

neat set-up

 

[devilman96]

RE: trailer

You use to see a lot belted trailers on GL up untill about 2 years ago... Several went out of the GA locations and a few elsewhere that I noted from time to time... Neat set up!

 

[steelsoldiers]

Sorry to hijack the thread, but are the blue things in this picture dummy MICLIC rockets? I saw them at the Fontana MV boneyard trip, and wondered what they were.

Sure looks like it. The pic shows a MICLIC and a tracked trailer.

 

[Chief_919]

Sorry to hijack the thread, but are the blue things in this picture dummy MICLIC rockets? I saw them at the Fontana MV boneyard trip, and wondered what they were.

Sorry to bringa topic back from the dead, but yes those are inert MICLIC rockets, and do you know if they are still there? I need a couple for a project.

 

[Wrench Wench]

GL sold a 1061 with those on it a month ago.

 

[Chief_919]

More than likely and from looking at the mud on the sidewalls of the tires the tracks help to keep the trailer from getting stuck in the mud... kind of like snowshoes.

They came about after Engineers had difficulty towing the MICLIC in the sand behind the M113's in Desert Storm. We never used them in wheeled Engineer units, our MICLICs where on regular M200A1 trailers, but the mech engineers had them.