GOT MY CHRISTMAS PRESENT TODAY!!! NOW with PICS!!!

[CPO TED]

I had to drive AAAAAAaaaaaaalllll the way down to Fort Gordon to get it ... about 200 miles each way.

And I had to weave my way, draggin it through going home rush hour traffic in Atlanta coming back. Bumper to bumper from just before Atlanta all the way to freakin' Canton.


The whole trip took about 10 hours, counting the paper work and hook up.


ITS FREAKIN' PERFECT.

I'll try to post some pictures tomorrow.

T

[zteknik]

ah Ft Gordon! went to school there!
cant wait to see it Cheif!!

[44rdv4rk]

the suspense is killin me!


new trailer? something cooler? what !?!?!?!

[RG Coburn]

How did you aquire it? Thru govt.liquidators?

[a-kmanator]

Merry Christmas Ted ;)
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[JohnFreeman]

SO WHAT IS IT?

A trailer?

A generator?

A U-boat?

[ambivolent]

Yea that Atlanta traffic will get you everytime unless you know the back ways lol

BTW Ted I haven't forgot about getting the picture of that Iver Johnson for you waiting for my brother in law to return the camera

[ronin]

He either got the truck or the trailer ... or both.

Pics Ted!!

[LuzRD]

I had to weave my way, draggin it
T


i hope it was the trailer :D

Ted on a scale of 1-10 (1 being easy breezy, and 10 being dealing with the government) how was it? (::edit:: referring to the gov liquidation process)

ive seen a few deals id like to pursue, but not knowing the details is another excuse to procrastinate. for the record im interested in the diesel generators i see with low hours

[jwag74]

ah Ft Gordon! went to school there!
cant wait to see it Cheif!!


Me too.

[bigwheel]

OK, it's tomorrow where your at and no pics, what gives? :rofl_smal :rofl_smal

[ronin]

+1 We want pics!!

[CPO TED]

i hope it was the trailer :D

Ted on a scale of 1-10 (1 being easy breezy, and 10 being dealing with the government) how was it? (::edit:: referring to the gov liquidation process)

ive seen a few deals id like to pursue, but not knowing the details is another excuse to procrastinate. for the record im interested in the diesel generators i see with low hours


NUMBER 1 G.I.!!!

This is what happens when the government gets the HELL outta the way ... and turns the whole thing over to a private business!!!

The LAND CRABS were even nice!!! I had a chance to speak with a couple of folks while I was waiting for the process to get done ...

To a man ... they were polite and helpful ... they had the information I was looking for ... and they didn't send me on any wild freakin' goose chases!!!

The ONLY hang up ... is the government stuff. Getting the End User Certificate took TWO MONTHS!!! I understnad ... once you have the first one its a LOT quicker.

But the first time out ... you are gonna wait!

anyoldway:

The sights are easy to figure out.

The registration and bidding are VERY similar to Ebay

SOME items you can even arrange to "preview" ... but 96% you are buying from pictures.

The good part ... there are always multiple CLEAR pictures of what you are bidding for ... and if you win ... when you go to buy it ... if it don't LOOK LIKE THE PICTURE ... like something is missing or broken that wasn't that way in the foto ... you get a refund.

It's almost like dealing with the CMP ... you bid, you wait ... you get a box ... AND ITS LIKE FREAKIN' CHRISTMAS!!!!

... in olive drab, of course!

T

[bill3542]

while your there i could use a couple more M-880 Power Wagons. :D

[CPO TED]

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Winning bid … $150.00
Premium…… $15.00
Tax ………….$11.55

Total … with TWO new tires (!!!):

$176.55


Now that I got it home and did my formal measurements.

Other then the 9 foot length of bed and 85" +/- total width; the wheel arches line up just about perfect to fit the Ford F series pickup.

This is as close to a bolt on as you can possibly get.

Negatives ... there are a couple of rusty spots ... but nothing that can't gets scraped, primed and painted GREEN!!!

The wire harness is completely shot. The insulation has dried out and is falling off the wire. I wasn't going to use it anyway ... but it IS something to keep in mind if you want one.

Like I said it has new tires ... I haven't pulled the wheels to check the brakes and bearings ... but that don't really matter much to me.

Down the road I might pull the military axle, brakes wheels and tires off ... and bolt a junkyard Ford Pickup differential (with brakes and tires) to the frame ... and mount my old pickup bed on it. This would give me a utility trailer at HUMAN height to haul fire wood and shit. Maybe I could sell these Mil tires for a couple bucks.

T

[CPO TED]

BTW ... the "clip on" tail lights on the trailer?

They are the old tail light units AND harness from my old Ford. I just had to add a little length to the harness ... and bungee them on.

The duct tape is there ... just because.

I took the tarp off after I found the amount of drag it was creating on the ride home. When I took the tarp off ... and dropped the tailgate ... it was like adding 100 horsepower to the old gal!

T

[bigwheel]

Nice Ted! You can buy an axle cheap enough from Northern Equip or the like
with the hub size you need to match your truck. You may even be able to just
swap out the hubs, mount that axle over the leafs and be done. With smaller
wheels and tires it'll drop it a bunch.


http://www.lowcosttrailersupplies.com/

http://www.trailerpart.com/

http://www.easternmarine.com/

[ambivolent]

hey i recognize that driveway and that truck lol nice to see you got it home safe definantly needs a shot of OD on the thing

[CPO TED]

SO WHAT IS IT?

A trailer?

A generator?

A U-boat?

By the looks at what was down at Fort Gordon it could have been ANY of those things.

When I got to the lot where this stuff was stored ...

I almost passed out ... the pleasure was far too much for my feeble brain to take all at once.

Trucks, trailers of all shapes and sizes, rows of gen sets, lathes, mills, drill presses, saws, equipment of almost every size and description ...

A cornucopia of wasteful government spending and excess.

It was like being back at Philly Navy Yard ...

except they wouldn't let me touch NOTHING!!!

You cannot "PREVIEW" anything that is up for auction ... unless the item specifies that you can.

But they can't stop you from drooling!

T

[CPO TED]

ah Ft Gordon! went to school there!
cant wait to see it Cheif!!

BTW ... I expected to see a LOT of G.I.'s at FG.

I saw exactly ONE guy in uniform ...

TONS of civilians ... hundreds of them.

But where I was ... its like the US Army ain't home!

Where I was the streets were all named by number (i.e., 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)

and were either "Street" or "Avenue".

You can stand on the corner of 13 Street and 13 Avenue for instance!

In a couple of spots some "person" could not resist the temptation to give the sign posts a quarter turn ... creating TONS OF FUN ... FOR EVERYONE!

T

[zteknik]

BTW ... I expected to see a LOT of G.I.'s at FG.

I saw exactly ONE guy in uniform ...

TONS of civilians ... hundreds of them.

But where I was ... its like the US Army ain't home!

Where I was the streets were all named by number (i.e., 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)

and were either "Street" or "Avenue".

You can stand on the corner of 13 Street and 13 Avenue for instance!

In a couple of spots some "person" could not resist the temptation to give the sign posts a quarter turn ... creating TONS OF FUN ... FOR EVERYONE!

T
sweetness Cheif!!
looks like it came from the engineers according to the back numbers
yea when i was a drunk younger fool we did just that
pissed off a lot of new officers looking for their building :small_gri
never knew what hit em!! :evil:

[tedbo]

Now all ya gotta do is get that car out of the garage so you have a place to work on it! :laugh_sma :laugh_sma (Like Mrs. Chief will allow THAT to happen!) :rofl_smal :rofl_smal

[CPO TED]

Now all ya gotta do is get that car out of the garage so you have a place to work on it! :laugh_sma :laugh_sma (Like Mrs. Chief will allow THAT to happen!) :rofl_smal :rofl_smal

*sigh*

Ain't it the truth brother!!!

The white thing in the left bay is Mrs Chief's 500SL.

She would make ME sleep out in the rain before she let the car spend a night out side.

To be truthful ... what you can't see ... is MY MGB-GT in the other bay.

T

[CPO TED]

I was not the only guy picking up his Christmas present at Fort Gordon yesterday.

As I was pulling into the lot ... I saw a couple of guys leaving with their DEUCE AND A HALF.

All smiles and PROUD.

The best part?

They were pulling the damn thing behind some kinda late model pickup truck.

They were flat towing it with some kinda heavy duty tow strap!!!

I've done a LOT of crazy things in my life ...

I'm going to be watching the Darwin Award site to see how it all worked out for them.

T

[The_EE]

How do you plan on leveling out the trailer Ted? Raise the truck? :D

[ronin]

How do you plan on leveling out the trailer Ted? Raise the truck? :D$5 says his next step is to buy a deuce and a half!! "But honey, look how short my truck is compared to the trailer" :-)

[The_EE]

$5 says his next step is to buy a deuce and a half!! "But honey, look how short my truck is compared to the trailer" :-)

Haha could you blame him for trying? I know I would do that.

[CPO TED]

How do you plan on leveling out the trailer Ted? Raise the truck? :D

Even when it was on its "landing gear" and setting level I almost couldn't get my (old, fat) ass up into the damn thing.

These trailers are WWWwwwaaaayyyy off the ground.

You gotta be TALL to be a GI these days!
:laugh_sma

That having been said ... I KNOW I've ridden in the back of about a bazillion deuce and a halfs.

AS I sit here ... I wonder how the hell I ever got up in there.

T

[Dirt Diver]

Aint's trailers great to have. Yours if freakin' huge.

Just had this delivered, except mine is champaign colored. I just filled it up with my garage contents so I can store my truck in the garage for the winter. I also got the A/C power option. So happy with mine too.

http://pictures.dealer.com/t/terrystrailerservicetc/1522/0c290a600a0a0065012ab74fdb9e5008.jpg

[CPO TED]

Dang.

That's pretty enough to live in.

I'm a little too ... scruffy for something THAT pretty.

T

[ambivolent]

I almost bought a Duce and a half last year there's a guy near me that has about 6 of em ready to go 3-4k each

[CPO TED]

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This has been done before.

I found this a couple of days ago.

That one is a smaller trailer ... probably an M 101 or 103?

Mine is a foot longer ... and will be a bit wider then the cab.

Try to picture tool boxes in the spaces below the bed, ahead and behind the rear tire. To fill in that dark ugly void where you can see the chassis.


T

[CPO TED]

Merry Christmas Ted ;)
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I LOVE that idea ... but to my eye, the proportions are kinda off. The back of the hood is a bit too narrow to suit the width of the cab.


Also ... I would like to set the headlamps IN the "grill" and set the blackout lights and directional, park lamps on the fender tops.

Maybe something like this:

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Which, by the way, is a HOT looking truck!!!

T

[CPO TED]

Bump ...

Just how many times do you get to look at an Austin Gypsy?

T

[77patriots]

congrats awesome!!!!! :small_gri

[CPO TED]

$5 says his next step is to buy a deuce and a half!! "But honey, look how short my truck is compared to the trailer" :-)


*sigh*


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H7U71KZEJw&feature=related

All it takes is a dollar ... and a dream.

T

[bill3542]

Ted i'm still waiting on a M-880 Power Wagon, my son wants to take mine.

[a-kmanator]

*sigh*


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H7U71KZEJw&feature=related

All it takes is a dollar ... and a dream.

T
Cool video Ted,I spied some of those at the redball military vehicle collector show in Gilbert PA.
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[CPO TED]

Gun Trucks!

Why has nobody made a movie around one of these things ... fightin' to keep Route One in Vietnam open and cleared of communist scum? Exhaust stacks belching smoke and fury ... guns spitting fire and lead. GUN TRUCKS racin' against time and distance to protect vital convoys of material and men and keep them movin' to VICTORY.

GET SOME, MUTHERFUXER!!!


Maybe get Connie, that hot blond from PM Magazine, to be the romantic interest of that fearless crew of fast drivers ... and deadly gunners.

Them trucks are a-freakin'-mazing!

T

[driftingbosco]

Very nice.

[allesennogwat]

The old Fords had the gas tank inside the cab, behind the seat. I guess you'll need a stake body type filler tube and maybe a matching tank. With all of the flatbeds around it shouldn't be difficult. Maybe even a tank from a different type of truck could be fitted.

[JohnFreeman]

There's a bunch of gun truck videos on YouTube. Amazing stuff

[CPO TED]

The old Fords had the gas tank inside the cab, behind the seat. I guess you'll need a stake body type filler tube and maybe a matching tank. With all of the flatbeds around it shouldn't be difficult. Maybe even a tank from a different type of truck could be fitted.

WE'LL figure it all out. I know I can count on a couple words of advice from the old salts on the 'Files if I end up with a head scratcher.

T

[CPO TED]

There's a bunch of gun truck videos on YouTube. Amazing stuff

I saw that too John. I remember reading something about them things back in the day ... but not real much.

Most people don't even know they existed. Everybodh has heard of the Ho Che Minh Trail ... but only a few know of Route One ... and the struggle to keep it open.

Does anybody know of any books about that part of the Vietnam War?

T

[mojo00]

Gun Truck Id like to own...Oshkosh by gosh
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[allesennogwat]

Maybe you can use the stock fuel tank and maybe have to make a support for the filler tube, or maybe that's not even required. Here's some places that deal with fuel tanks.

http://www.transferflow.com/Ford_replacement_tank.html

http://www.mtscompany.com/ford.htm

[the eXiLe]

Those are just awesome looking trucks.

[CPO TED]

Those are just awesome looking trucks.

+1 old buddy!

Can you imagine one of them big boys "runnin' and gunnin'"?

That had to be something to see.

I wonder how fast one of them trucks would go hot-rodded a little ... and with the governors taken off.

T

[motorhead]

all you need to do is make a plate to raise the hitch. one with multiple holes welded to the drawbar. makes it adjustable. that's how mine is set up.

[KalashnikovMarine]

Dang ted now you have me thinking bout grabbing up a deuce and a half lol

[JohnFreeman]

Whatcha going to do with / to the trailer Ted?

Is it a containment facility for more electronic experiments?

John

[CPO TED]

Whatcha going to do with / to the trailer Ted?

Is it a containment facility for more electronic experiments?

John

Nope ... the bed is going on the back of my beloved Ford!

I'm building me a mini Deuce and a half!

T

[bigwheel]

Merry Christmas!

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[KernelKrink]

Great cockpit pics Bigwheel! My Dad had an opportunity to buy a surplus D model right after WWII, IIRC the going rate back then was $600! After figuring up the operating costs per hour he passed and went with the Waco trainer for the same price.:cry_small

Gun trucks are cool, Dad rode around in a halftrack for most of the war. After the first couple of strafing runs from the Germans they salvaged a 20mm automatic cannon from a German fighter and rigged it up into a ring mount up behind the cab, that was his fighting position whenever the Luftwaffe came a callin'. Well, either there or under a handy Sherman tank depending on warning!