ft riley, KS m101 3/4 ton

[Girlslovedirt]

http://www.govliquidation.com/list/c7588/lna/3.html
consiedering how many prolly pretty cheap

 

[alpinestar_01]

I was watching one of these a few months back, no bids until 24 hours until the auction was over and then it was a flury, I has my eye on a 1009 in montana somewhere that used to be motorpool vehicle, it went for 5 or 6 grand.

 

[BMAN]

He's prolly right though. The 3/4 ton trailers don't end up fetching as much as the 1/4 tonners normally anyway. I watched a 1/4 ton auction a few months ago with 20plus trailers and not one under $1k. Too many people know about GovLiquidators. It's like surplus's answer to EBAY.

 

[Mark W]

The link posted is to M105s. 1.5 ton payload. Off road payload that is, usually about twice that on road and severely underrated either way... I figure that rating is based on the rig being driven off road by a scared 19 year old recuit who's being shot at...

Those are BIG trailers. look at this photo showing a Duece and a half and a pickup in the background,

http://www.govliquidation.com/aucimg/photos/746/745002.jpg

You don't want to try to pull one of thoise behind a Cruiser 2750 LBS EMPTY and air brakes to boot.

 

[alpinestar_01]

the 1.5 ton rateing is arrived at by the maximum amount of weight the vehicle can carry cross country at 35 MPH. what " cross country" actually means I have no Idea.

 

[Mark W]

Cross country means pretty much just that... No road or trail, over field and dale.

Driven by a scared 19 year old kid intent on getting the hell outa dodge

While that is obviously not in the army specs, I am more than halfway serious. Load any US military vehicle to the official rating and then beat the snot out of it. It'll laugh at you.

I have loaded my M416 (1/4 ton rated) to about or maybe a bit more than 1100 LBS and towed it cross country for several days a few times. It shrugs it off completely.


Mark...

 

[alpinestar_01]

I was a 63S, Heavy Wheel Mech for 4+ years before I reclassed. It was a blast...I was H8 qual so I was a wrecker and M88 operator the whole time. I have been jonsen to buy a M816since the first time I drove one. Unbelieveable truck...5 speed manual, 240 non turbo cummins, 6:72 rockwells
80K rear winch and 20K front winch, I am not sure what the transfer ratio was but the only thing that would stop forward motion up hill was me. They are rated at 5ton but I had no problem lifting and towing fully loaded 20 ton Int. dump trucks or Hemmet fulers. The only thing I ever broke on it was the driver side front leaf spring, busted it off right at the eyelet. That is to be expected when you hit a 4 foot deep 5 foot wide ditch buried in the grass(cross country?)at 60MPH. Normally I didnt t normally drive like a moron but this situation kind of called for it...bad guys with guns and all, but I actuall didnt know I broke the leaf until I got all the way back to the Mogue and had to make my first left turn....out of luck.

 

[Mark W]

... They are rated at 5ton but I had no problem lifting and towing fully loaded 20 ton Int. dump trucks or Hemmet fulers. The only thing I ever broke on it was the driver side front leaf spring, busted it off right at the eyelet. That is to be expected when you hit a 4 foot deep 5 foot wide ditch buried in the grass(cross country?)at 60MPH. Normally I didnt t normally drive like a moron but this situation kind of called for it...bad guys with guns and all, but I actuall didnt know I broke the leaf until I got all the way back to the Mogue and had to make my first left turn....out of luck.

That only leaves one question to prove my theory... How close were you to 19 at the time.

(Oh yeah, glad as hell to here that the rig got you where you needed to be!)


Mark...