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I know you are lying now...you dont have the armstrength to wheel that 5ton....LOL
ttahara
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I think i saw that parked in front of the Bumper to Bumper on Rivers?
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You should have seen the gearbox on that thing. Almost as big as your belly.
I drove one for a few years when I was in Europe during cold war...dueces and 5 tons....and the first Hummers in 80s.
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So you are saying that is how big they are suppose to be? What purpose do they serve in the military?
carrying troops and equipment....
the Deuce and half (2.5ton) version is smaller of course. Could carry like 5000 lbs over extreme terrain. Called it the M35A2 in the day and were more for tactical units at the time. I am sure you can look it up.
Some were for carrying troops...some had containers on back to make them mobile command posts, or whatever was needed. If you need to get a unit somewhere in rough terrain...you can either get 4-6 Hummers...or one big rig. They also were used for towing the huge generators, artillery, some were setup as recovery vehicles.....pretty much anything you wanted to do with them or tow/haul as all of them had pintle hook ups. They had manual steering and manual gearboxes....were a hand full offroad with that big bus steering wheel as your only way to turn the beast.
then in 80s we also got M939 5Ton big brother of the Deuce and a Halp (M35). This one was more of a support role than tactical....and had auto tranny and power steering...but also had huge ground clearance which made them top heavy and quite a few soldiers were made into pink spots in the field as they were hard to see anything next to and would run over whatever got in their way...without a bump felt.
the Deuce and half (2.5ton) version is smaller of course. Could carry like 5000 lbs over extreme terrain. Called it the M35A2 in the day and were more for tactical units at the time. I am sure you can look it up.
Some were for carrying troops...some had containers on back to make them mobile command posts, or whatever was needed. If you need to get a unit somewhere in rough terrain...you can either get 4-6 Hummers...or one big rig. They also were used for towing the huge generators, artillery, some were setup as recovery vehicles.....pretty much anything you wanted to do with them or tow/haul as all of them had pintle hook ups. They had manual steering and manual gearboxes....were a hand full offroad with that big bus steering wheel as your only way to turn the beast.
then in 80s we also got M939 5Ton big brother of the Deuce and a Halp (M35). This one was more of a support role than tactical....and had auto tranny and power steering...but also had huge ground clearance which made them top heavy and quite a few soldiers were made into pink spots in the field as they were hard to see anything next to and would run over whatever got in their way...without a bump felt.
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I saw that going down 17 the other day
BenMara
Asian Redneck
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Cool. Thanks Ben.
I don't think they make a hi-lift big enough for that truck. What did you do to change flats Brock? or do they not ever get flats 
yeah they get flats....you can do it with a 3/4 inch drive T-bar and 4' cheater pipe but most smart people wait for the huge impact wrenches and there is a recovery tool that cradles entire rear tire set to pull it off. Only got flat once and called motorpool and let them handle it. I would drive it with flat tire rather than change one...those things are massive and the rim is like 3/8" steel....and need like a 10ton jack to lift the damn thing up and a 6 ton jack stand to hold it up.
no thanks....
no thanks....
SHERMAN FJ62
Charlestons' King of Cruisers
There is a service that will convert the 6x6 truck down into what you see her a smaller 4x4 version.
I think Tonka does smaller versions. 