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OSHA is a REACTIVE agency, in another words, a event happened that caused a death/deaths so regs was put into place to try to prevent future death, you should have been around in the late 50s, early 60s when I started and think safety "NOT", things have come a long way, sometimes going...
I met a little old lady on one of my van rides to the VA, she FLEW B17s to England, among her many stories, she told how thay would bring AMERICAN WHISKEY/BEER, the breweries and distilleries which donated everything, were told that a flight was going over, the stuff just seamed to show up from...
No, it worked the same but seemed a lot smaller, the biggest thing about it was the fuel can mount, we had a 246 with a non op. one, being that we took the cab off and in viet nam there was NO need to worry about it, I just remember what it looked like.
NO think it is a diamond t 4t, frame is to short for a Ward Le France
I type slow
edit--it might be a true deuce, NOT a added bed, It COULD be a XM60E1, this was a m45c chassis using Holmes 650 twin boom, page 342 in U.S. Military Wheeled Vehicles by Fred Crismon, lower right has a pic...
it is a fuel fired heater that fits on the back of the tub, it is a real small unit, looks like the propane unit what some of the hyd. cranes have.
If I was going to install heat in the 819/246 or a cabed wrecker, I would use the self contained propane setup.
The operator tub is the same as the 819, there is no CAB for the wreckers just for the tractor wreckers (246,819), these cabs should bolt on to the 816/543 tub
I would haul because of unexpected surprises since you DID NOT preview, we had one member that had a "driven on site" ended up with no starter/alt. and a bunch of other problems, other members have had the same type of surprises from NOT PREVIEW wins
At times it is slow, think it depends on how many are trying to post at the same time, I may complain to the wife at times, all she says is "your old and slow so it is working at your speed", then I hit refresh and just continue.