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Yup. I'm kicking myself for buying those danged CUCVs instead of bidding on an MK17 or three in the following week's auction. aua Oh, well, I just wanted the crane anyway, and would have sold off or scrapped the rest of the RBU long before the MK48 FPUs appeared on the scene.

I don't suppose that you want to sell me the knuckleboom off of that MK17, do you? ;)

With the FPUs about to come up on the auction block, I think we'll start seeing more LVS's on SS in the next few months. I won't be one of the owners, but I hope that one of them will be within drooling distance of me!

... with a side ramp and side-mounted draglines for side-loading! :jumpin:

By the way: After some searching around, I found a set of LVS TMs on Scribd. They're in the TM 08780B series. I was just interested in the crane stuff. One think I'd still like to see is the load chart for the Wajax/Palfinger PK19000 knuckleboom on the MK17 RBUs. It's not in the manual, which...

I know! Bolt two MK48 FPUs back to back, link the controls, and make a push-me-pull-me truck! :mrgreen:

Sadly, I had a chance to bid on a batch of MK17 and MK17A1 trailers out of Barstow a few years back, but I didn't take it.

I've read that the front power units like to nosedive if you hit the brakes too hard. I gather that they're normally only moved around without a rear body unit at slow speed around the yard for maintenance purposes. Easy solution, though... get a rear body unit to go along with it! I haven't...