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The technique illustrated in post 42 is described in the applicable TM. Example shown is a M817WW and the TM is 9-2320-260-10. M39 and 900 series dumps are similar.

Reference post 38: This seems to be an excellent idea to bend the tailgate and blow the seals out of the lift pistons. The technique is definitely not described in the applicable TM. If you don't want to dump a load of gravel in a pile and spread it out with a loader; rig the chains on the...

Reference is made to post 16: There is not much to understand. The design load limits are stated on the vehicle data plates and in the -10 manual. Exceed them at your own peril. The only way to really know what it will do is test it to destruction and then you will understand the parameters...

The issue everyone forgets to analyze is not how big a body I can put on this or does the hoist have the power to lift it, but how much can you STOP with Army brakes which did not envision these loads. A 5 ton dump truck is designed to support a construction engineer platoon when they go out to...

Table 2-3 on pages 2-130 & 131 lists the weights of various materials expected to be hauled in 5 yard dump trucks. Most of these commodities will cube out before they weight out. A "snow cone" load of wet clay will overload the chassis. Table 2-3 is in the previously referenced TM...

Using M 817 dump body is "quarry mode" where load goes over top of gate. Care must be taken when changing from top to bottom hinge that you do not get both sides released at the same time as this will allow that very heavy gate to fall off which is usually a bad thing.

Read the reading: then operators manual, in the case of a M817 is TM 9-2320-260-10 explains how the tail gate works. and yes it can be used to spread gravel by manipulating the chains on the gate when the gate is in the top hinged moie.