maddawg308

That's a helluva piece of equipment to save there VT. But it would be awesome to try and find out who owns it and if they were in the market to sell. I'm sure someone here needs a big time project like that....

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maddawg308
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2003 Dodge Durango SLT 4.7L V-8 parts hauler
1967 Stevens M416 trailer
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vtdeucedriver

Who knows whats going to be done with it but its registerd for the road so maybe I can have the plate ran to see who the owner is and try and contact them. I am sure its WAY out of my price range but I sure would not mind playing with it...................I used to have one in my sand box back in the day

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DKELONE

I've had several mules over the years that had twisted wire bundles that were hanging from the 3 tiedown points. Early on I cut those off and threw them in the scrap. About 15 years ago I got one from the range near Ft Mcoy, WI that had both the twisted wire bundles and paperwork for return shipment from VN stateside. I have never removed a wire bundle from a mule since. I just sold a mule to a rancher from western Nebraska who had been a 106 gun mule crewmember in VN. The mule he bought still had the ship tie down wire bundles on it. So a few of the 5000 mules deployed to VN made it home.

I would imagine that a lot of the equipment abandoned during departure were rendered inop by thermite grenades.

Wile E. Coyote

Old thread, but while I was trying to scrape the scabbiest portions of the paint from an ancient deuce here at work, the paint came off in a sheet revealing nice, clean, FS24087 paint beneath and the painted-on marking in white, 'SIN LOI', which someone once told me is Vietnamese for 'Good Luck'. I've lost track of the truck since but it should still be here on the lot somewhere (didn't have the presence of mind to photograph it at the time - but just painted back over it with CARC 3-color rather than sand etc. and destroy history.)

(Hmm..just checking and it seems that 'SIN LOI' is actually:


XIN LOI : (sin loy) a polite Vietnamese phrase literally meaning "excuse me" or "pardon me", but used sardonically by GIs to mean "sorry about that", "too **** bad", or "tough ****"; sometimes misspelled "sin loi" or "xoine loi". Compare MEA CULPA, A-OK, CHECK IT OUT, GUSTO, FIDO, **** HAPPENS, ROTS O' RUCK, AMF, ZIP, ZAP. [nb: various phrases have been used by 20th century combatants for protective disassociation from epiphenomena, including: "There it is.", "It's all just rock 'n' roll.", "It don't mean nuthin'.", "It ain't nuthin'.", "It's just a thing."; the latter appears in "The Rescue" by Joseph Conrad (1920)] [v: sumimasen at ITTY-WA DESKA]

So yeah.)