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You may need to remove the tires on one side as they will be 105 inches wide.

The top trailer is strapped down by the d rings. If you look close you can see the straps on the front of it. I was stopped by New York DOT with this load because I did not have DOT numbers on my pickup which were not required because I was not hauling commercially. I was transporting them for...

I was able to get 5 on a 29 foot deck.I'm sorry, but this is the only pic that I have.

Get the 6 lug hubs and keep a 6 to 5 lug adapter with your 5 lug spares. If you go with the 8 lug later you should only have to change the hubs on the axle or get 6 to 8 lug adapters to go with spares.

If you remove one tire you can stack one on its side inside of the other one. These pictures are of a recovery I made from Aberdeen to northern Vermont this spring. If you hook chains to both shackles on the same side they roll over and hang close to 90 degrees. The lift operator lifted it and I...

Just don't turn the steering wheel unless the truck is moving. Also your driveway is 4inches of what.

Our boat trailer has working surge brakes on it. I often tow it with my 2001 f250 4x4 with a v10. Although the M1008 will not have the acceleration that our newer trucks have we will still save time as it will be already hooked up. It will be safer because it will be hooked up when no one is in...

My fire department has a chance at getting a M1008 that we would use to tow a 26 ft boat on emergency calls. The boat wieghs around 8000 lbs. Our area is fairly flat. We would put a reese hitch on it. Currently we tow it with our own pickups, but with only 3 of us having trucks set up to tow it...

Those fords had the longest production run; 1954 - 1996 if I remember right. Mack also used the cab for a few years in the 60,s as well as FWD trucks and Thibault fire trucks.

Just a thought on the square holes, is it possible that they are there for ventalation when the tarp is installed?

Check on your frame. My MEP002's have pick up tubes clamped to the inside of the lower angle iron on the side with the fuel pumps. There is also a place to store the bung adapter on the frame. There is a hole on a gusset of the upper angle iron. I'll post a couple of pics later.

These were goverment surplus for the village I work for. I got them unloaded today.Sorry the camera battery was dead. I had to unload the 2 trailers were the excavator was 2 miles up the road from the shop. After I towed them to the shop I started to check them out. 1 has only 9.3 hours and had...

My brother owns an excavation business, but the toys are not always near by so I have to use chain falls and come a longs from time to time.

I picked up the trailer at Aberdeen. The upper lunette ring was on the trailer already. I knew it was mounted too high and did not think that I would be able to remove it so I brought one with me so I could match the height of the pick up. I also had to change the plug on the light cord. All the...

I will keep you all posted of my progress. The fellow at Letterkenny DRMO placed them on the trailer with a fork lift. I'm going to hoist them off with an excavator today.