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M1031 Trucks On The Job! post your pics!!

maddawg308

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I like the concept of a contact maintenance truck, but I wouldn't get one, only because I see more general utility of a regular pickup bed, like a M880 or M1008. I would, however, have a tag-along trailer like a M116 pioneer tool setup to haul all the gear and genset that the -1031 would normally have. That way, if I need a pickup, I just take the truck. If I need the tools, I hookup and pull the trailer.
 
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maddawg308 said:
I like the concept of a contact maintenance truck, but I wouldn't get one, only because I see more general utility of a regular pickup bed, like a M880 or M1008. I would, however, have a tag-along trailer like a M116 pioneer tool setup to haul all the gear and genset that the -1031 would normally have. That way, if I need a pickup, I just take the truck. If I need the tools, I hookup and pull the trailer.
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Except if you're at Haspin and someone gets their exhaust tied up beneath their truck (like a wedgie gone real bad) then you don't have to be concerned with connecting a trailer in the pouring rain and mud.

I do however, want a pioneer tool trailer (long bed) to tow behind my contact maintenance truck. Can't have too many tools.
 
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Here's my ex Alaska NG SECM nursing up to the Case track hoe for a little TLC.
To me, the M1031 with the aluminum box, PTO generator and Miller XMT300 CC/CV welder is a dream rig which will still be useful long after the 1008's are done and gone.
 

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Heck, Docfarmall bought my SECM trailer to put behind his M1031 SECM. Guess you can't have too many tools.
 
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NDT said:
Here's my ex Alaska NG SECM nursing up to the Case track hoe for a little TLC.
To me, the M1031 with the aluminum box, PTO generator and Miller XMT300 CC/CV welder is a dream rig which will still be useful long after the 1008's are done and gone.
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absolutely could not agree more! were trying to save ours as much as possible!! definitely not driving it in the winter!!! in the barn it goes!!! lol
 
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