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I have been using my english adapters for a while now. Ive hauled about 30000 bushels of corn to town, thats about 34 trips with total weight of 87500 lbs and about 1700 miles of heavy use off road, gravel and paved miles, so there was a lot of twisting on the kingpin though the oscillating...
I have a backhoe bucket at ft riley ks that needs to be picked up in the next week or so. If one of you kansans would be able to pick it up and hold it till I get down that way some time, that would be swell...here is the auction
http://www.govliquidation.com/auction/view?auctionId=4126799...
If I paint any of my trucks they will be green though a flat black might look nice... He is a farmer and uses the m915a1 trucks for bringing in the corn/soybeans and keeps his new petes for hauling on better roads...
if you are coming back thru nebraska and have room for my rops that wreckerman has, I could contribute to your gas fund. I may be out of your way though...
using m915a1 and m920 for hauling corn/soybeans........ 120 miles round trip. 80000 lbs m915a1 full/30000 empty getting 4.5 mpg average trip.....88000 lbs m920 full/37000 empty getting 3.85 average trip...
sometimes the gauge panel(or gauges themselves) dosent ground well to the dash. It might be worth running a jumper wire to ground it better...or fiddle around with the latch screws on the panel
commercial style set up with 4 air bags, driveshaft loop to clear driveshaft...yes 16.00x20 tires...thnks for not bidding....using 3.5 fifthwheel with adapters for civilian 2 inch kingpin from Capus UK Ltd Kent - Specialise in the supply of Technical / Safety Critical parts for Commercial...
Here are some more pics of my m920 with the ramps and fifth wheel spacer removed. Yes a module or flat rack...occasionaly...will deal with that after I have a module....there is a aux hyd hookup on the factory m920
on the trailer backing, if you can back a four wheel steerable trailer you can back this one. It takes some practice but I can back it if I really need to, but I usually try to make sure I can just go forward. There is a lock pin for locking the front axle so it cant turn but you have to do...
Yes 16.00x20 tires, gvwr on trailers is 49500 lbs. I got a little over 6mpg going and 5mpg on the trip home. runs 65mph a little over 2200rpm, a run it 62-63 mph 2000-2100rpm...
I recovered my and "M1075's" m1076 trailers from Rapid City SD yesterday. We had a Gary from JK Crane Service Inc (605-381-5491) come out to the pickup location and stack one trailer on top the other. He was excellent to work with as was Ray from GL. There was a pesky pheasant that was...
Sorry Ive been changing injectors on the m920 getting ready for a big trip... I got the adapters from Capus in England. I bought five of them to keep in the m916 and m920 so I could keep the big fifth wheel and use on trailers with 2 inch kingpins...
the m916 and m920 have oscillating fifth wheels and they are in a "sled" that moves left and right in a kind of oval. It is not a simple hinge like the m818 so no wedges are needed. It works great especially in the country where the roads are crowned, without it when I turn a corner with the...