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I've had no problems with those longer towbars. Yesterday I flat towed an M939 series truck about 400 miles with the standard adjustable medium towbars and couldn't turn as tight and had more wander while going down the road.
I think you're absolutely right on the chains. I don't generally...
I've experimented with panic stops with unbraked 14k on towbars behind a 5ton on wet roads previously to see just what it would do. I was unable to get it to break the rear wheels loose.
If i were to snap the towbars , that's why the crossed safety chains are there. Braking would then be...
I use and endorse the 68k medium-heavy towbars intended for the M113 APC. They're not as bad to move around as the true heavy 112k bars, yet will tow anything up to a HET.
Yesterday was an eventful day. Shakedown drive of my most recently acquired M925.
A fellow SS member got a truck at auction and needed it delivered to PHX. I got up and pretripped my truck and went and picked it up. The GP guy was good to deal with and we had the towbars connected in a very...