Permit weights and load reduction...

That looks a lot easier then a friggin beam.

 

Might as well be a beam. You need to block the front axle and also chain up the tires on either side because of the hydraulic suspension. If you do not chain the tires then they will not lift off the ground when you pick up the trailer.

 

If your lucky they might have the bolt on brackets so you can bolt up the front tires..

 

Ok why did you drive it on instead of backing it on. Any I have hauled has been backed on

 

It was totally dead, even the emergency battery steering.

They pushed it with a 988 and lifted the front and steered with 365 excavator and could only load it forward with excavator reaching over the trailer.

 

I LOVE broken machines.

 

My very favorite load, for which I was present but not driving thankfully... a Soviet T34 Main Battle Tank removed from it's parking pad in Aberdeen and placed onto a RGN with a sort of a rail down the middle. Almost like a box frame but not quite rails in the center so that the tracks would hang loose.

It was fully running and driving, turret worked and it had recently under gone restoration/rebuild for which the People of these United States are eternally grateful to see done at some point in our life time. Anderson Trucking of MN handled that move. I had a box trailer with them, but frankly it was a very poor choice compared to Specialized and tombstone work that was available then.

There was a Panzer Elephant Class SPG (I call it a SPG, but it is a non traveling turret. All one solid body. It served in Kursk and then transferred to help defend the Italy Sector against American Invasions later that year in which it was then disabled by a W86 warhead, which can mean anything fireable in the Allied Inventory in them days. That one was restored as well. But they did not truck, they brought up a Engineer Track with 8 helmeted Orange Soldiers and physically moved the track to it's resting place on display.

This is inside the Aberdeen Proving Grounds Ordnance Museum. There I think is a new facility in a place called Fort Belvior which is a expansion of the Ordnance Museum.

It is good to see our Nation's History Preserved, running and driving in some cases by dedicated People who know what they are doing.

One of these days I'll revisit the Aberdeen Facility. Might has to get a Twic card for that before then. I don't know how much as seriously changed since them bad old days of 9-11

 

Rumor has it there is a T-72 under the tarp but who really knows ?

 

KEWL.

Again, I like em heavy equipment that is. Tanks of all kinds. Not necessarily Soviet Iron, it just happens to be what it is.

There is a place in Minnesota you can hire a tank for a day, usually a British Early Chieftain Main Battle Tank or similar. You are sent to a class to be taught what you need to learn to be safe during this activity, for which you might be assigned to drive the actual tank while assaulting a terrain challenged Objective. They throw in a ride in a 3 axle troop carrier as well to the training ground.

IF you give me some time I will make a project to hunt up the webpage of this company, it's been a couple of years. Im pretty sure in this age of Patriot fevour they are doing well.

There are a number of private owned collections for the most part no one knows about but a few are museums with running equipment. The best of these keep our History Alive.

I recall Tuscon AZ which has a complete operating Nuclear Flight Base to fly missile for SAC back in the operational Days. It's a Museum as well. But everything present at that base is as it was during the bad old days of the Cold War, many of us blissfully unaware of Able Archer the third week of November 1983 or was that 4?

Baltimore and DC were protected by 24 individual Batteries of NIKE until right about 1972 I think. The very tiny amounts of remnants left of the Baltimore NIKE is in Granite Maryland. It's a very tiny town, probably 5 houses and many fields and woods I would think by now. San Francisco, Detriot, St Louis and Seattle, Portland round out a about a dozen NIKE facilites.

It's crazy when you consider that you are flying a nuclear missile in a herd of Soviet Bombers coming for your city usually from a direction of wind chosen to maximize your own fallout deaths and casulites should USA actually use the NIKEs...

If I have a little more time, I think there are a few more facilites around the USA that are very good also. The United States Fires Center, which is the Red and Gold crest of Artillery is in Oklahoma City Ok. As a example.

Emmitsburg resides the National Fire Center. All things Firehouse is up there. I don't know if it is still open to or ever was open at all to the public to visit. It's awfully close to Site R, Raven Rock, Ritchie and a dozen of other hardened installations designed to carry our Nation through the really dark days of war.