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I'm going to print your link out for a closer read but it looks like what I was trying to explain only maybe I may have to re-think my position. (I'll have no luck with my Brother though.) Thanks

I help my Brother move his 28,000lb track hoe and he'd laugh me all the way home if the chains were not crossed. Mock it up on your kitchen table with a board and box and some string. I wish I could demo it for you but it works. It is especially true of anything with a suspension.

I tow one Deuce/M105 combo home with my Dodge 1500 and I'm labeled for life. ;-)

Reduces sway side-to-side on the load. If you don't cross them you can't get them tight enough to eliminate the sway.

If you have everything setup correctly and the trailer isn't overloaded you should be fine checking on it every now and then. Do you have the chains crossed? With everything correct that is the only thing left besides driver experience.

Good find.

Yeah right. There is a chance I'll be driving that 915 before you. ;-)

Now that's an idea.

No, it was years ago.

That looks like it does the same thing as a Zener only it is already packaged and looks pretty. Good find.

Not GM made. It is actually made by an outside firm. It has tags on it and there is info in a cast on one of the feet. They had rows of them at the plant here.

That would solve the moving it around problem but people seem to want to swing the power pack around and roll it out in front of the truck on the crane. Not a big fan. I've seen cranes flip and if it happened and one of my friends got hurt........well you can guess how I'd feel about it. I...

Casters might be nice if I trusted have a 1-ton load flopping around 5 feet off the ground but I don't. In my opinion it is much safer to do it this way. If someone can convince me otherwise I do listen (don't tell my wife that).

Tan does not show Haspin mud and dust as much. ;-) Still, like my Brother says, "pretty sells".

Are you going to paint it and sell it? If not there won't be any return on your dollar. What it looks like to you when it is done is all that counts, it's all subjective.

If you are looking at keeping the engine shutdown spikes from coming through I would consider using a Zener Diode and determine what you want to regulate it to. Zener diode - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

We should have pulled out that darn stump out in the field today. ;-)

Thanks I will test it by picking up the entire front of the truck BEFORE I ever get under it. My Brother got the 21 foot long version. They came out of a GM plant here in Dayton. I tried to buy all three but the guy wanted to keep one.

Thinking about it. Heck this year I may be driving a Chrysler 300 and pitching a tent. Never know.

Pics of the assembly of the gantry crane to get started on pulling the power pack. I'm going to pull it as one unit, radiator, engine and transmission. JW showed up just in time to be put to work today and Gimpy was already in the AO. Thanks guys, I'd never have got it together myself.