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  1. cranetruck

    Help identify crane

    Here is another, relatively compact crane, anybody know anything about it? Used on the M113 APC it appears...
  2. cranetruck

    Help identify crane

    Excellent, excellent photos, best I have seen by far, so taken about twenty years ago?
  3. cranetruck

    Help identify crane

    HIAB is actually Swedish and I don't think this is a HIAB crane, since it's not a "knuckle" boom.
  4. cranetruck

    Help identify crane

    Thanks for you effort Jimmy, the 8x8 is actually the Ford xm757 and the EL (erector/launcher) the m790. You can see the crane or davit at the front of the trailer. All Pershing launchers were destroyed as part of an agreement with the USSR between 1985 and 1990 or so. The trucks were not...
  5. cranetruck

    Help identify crane

    Hi all, this crane was used in the seventies, mounted on the Pershing 1A missile trailer, M790. It was self contained and used to assemble (mate) the missile parts. May have been manually hand-pump operated. TIA
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