Make your own trailer from M105A2 bed (RogerN?)

Buy the M35Ax and you can be single...

If you get them cheap enough, it's always scrap steel after you pull whatever bits you want off of them. Your gov paperwork specifies you won't export them, but that doesn't apply to the US scrap metal dealer grinding them up and selling the grindings to China where they can turn them into more Harbor Freight goodies.

Crikey, the gummint is paying over three grand for those fookin' beds by themselves?!? Acq Value:3 $9,048

-- Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. -- Storm Jameson

According to Google maps directions Rock Island is 322 miles from me.

RogerN

And they are worth it.

I'm reading an article about exploring Sakhalin in a 'shishiga' truck. Would you buy one?

I find that hard to believe. What, are they made of titanium/unobtanium alloy? $3k is too much for an entire -trailer-, let alone just a bed.

-- Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary. -- Peter Minard

I like Deuce and a half better, for the sheer looks.

Its Russian equivalent is here:

The newer version is here

That shouldn't be hard, just buy that CNC lathe you want and finish filling up the garage ;)

Karl

The Deuce-n-a-haf wasn't much fun on the Autobahn, especially the rough concrete section near Frankfurt. When it was available we used a Suburban (C-10) that cruised comfortably at 100 MPH. It helps to have a rich Uncle to pay for gas.

Germany is too neatly manicured to test it's off road capabilities, at least in the places they let us set up radio repeater sites.

Waiting at one such site next to the Grenze, with perhaps two rifes and my pistol to defend it, there was little to do but practice saying "nicht schiessen" or "=CE=C5 =D3=D4=D2=C5=CC=D1=CA=D4=C5" (don't shoot). We= knew we were the cheese in the mousetrap.

jsw

I still can't figure out why anyone would want a deuceandahalf. They beat the hell out of you, they won't get out of their own way on the highway and they are noisy as hell. I need one now about as bad as I need a senior drill sargent as a roommate...

Because they will go nearly anywhere on 3 different kinds of fuel and are rugged as hell.

Other than that..I agree with your synopsis

Gunner

I am the Sword of my Family and the Shield of my Nation. If sent, I will crush everything you have built, burn everything you love, and kill every one of you. (Hebrew quote)

One with a crane would be a great tool to make money on ebay.

I like the rowdy way they roll over cop cars. Pick up a copy of "Rambo: First Blood" and watch him bounce one over the patrol car.

-- Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary. -- Peter Minard

"and they have their badpoints as well."

The fact remains, they are multi-fueled, all terrain capable, robust as hell, and a threat in and of their own right.

And some people will read that sentence and say "Your point???"

it isn't that it takes all kinds, just that we seem to have all kinds.

tschus pyotr

Google figure of speech - analogy

Agreed.

Ah, the old "finger bone of speech" routine. Like I said, some people will read that sentence, and not see the problem. Maybe because they are married to a senior drill sergeant. Or are a drill sergeant themselves. Or don't find it a problem.

So now I'm wondering what your point is. Figures of speech are a totally acceptable form of English communications.

Your statement "finger bone of speech" is, in itself some sort of metaphor or figure of speech (I'm too lazy to look it up). Were you making it as some sort of sideways criticism of the less than straight- forward English?

Albert the Alligator used it a lot in Pogo. Back in the dark ages.

Oh, never mind.

Fort Mudge was one of my first postings

Gunner

I am the Sword of my Family and the Shield of my Nation. If sent, I will crush everything you have built, burn everything you love, and kill every one of you. (Hebrew quote)