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Well I found a CL ad for a M101 trailer for $50 - and it looked it. But I felt sorry for the old veteran, and I decided to rescue it from a rusty fate. Well, more rusty than it already is. There are some good parts on this unit, at the very least some parts can get saved and used to complete other better condition trailers.
Was located about 70 miles from home base, rented a Uhaul car trailer and burned some gas, towed home very nicely once ratcheted down a bit. I thought about towing home using a set of replacement wheels/tires that tacticaltruck offered, but there were other issues, like missing light harness, no plates that were valid and to be honest, the owner said last time he took the lug nuts off was 30 years or so ago, so I wasn't too confident I could even swap out the wheels. So, flat trailer it was.
Looks like it has a good lunette and trailer casting, chains, landing leg, draw arms, frame, springs, axle, and shock mounts. Not sure about the wheels, they look pretty crusty. The bed is probably shot even for a welder, lots of holes and bends, same with the tailgate. The troop seat and front gate uprights look salvagable.
I was originally thinking of taking the bed off and eventually turning this into a camping trailer, with a custom bed and room for lots of accessories. But, I'd rather do that with an M101A2 trailer, with more modern wheels and tires, and this is really too crusty and would take too much work to make 100% again. So, out comes the ratchets and the torch, I guess it's time to make lemons out of lemonade.
Oh, and the last pic - the possum license plate came attached to the trailer. I saw it and thought of wreckerman and his stupid sexual penchant for possum.
Was located about 70 miles from home base, rented a Uhaul car trailer and burned some gas, towed home very nicely once ratcheted down a bit. I thought about towing home using a set of replacement wheels/tires that tacticaltruck offered, but there were other issues, like missing light harness, no plates that were valid and to be honest, the owner said last time he took the lug nuts off was 30 years or so ago, so I wasn't too confident I could even swap out the wheels. So, flat trailer it was.
Looks like it has a good lunette and trailer casting, chains, landing leg, draw arms, frame, springs, axle, and shock mounts. Not sure about the wheels, they look pretty crusty. The bed is probably shot even for a welder, lots of holes and bends, same with the tailgate. The troop seat and front gate uprights look salvagable.
I was originally thinking of taking the bed off and eventually turning this into a camping trailer, with a custom bed and room for lots of accessories. But, I'd rather do that with an M101A2 trailer, with more modern wheels and tires, and this is really too crusty and would take too much work to make 100% again. So, out comes the ratchets and the torch, I guess it's time to make lemons out of lemonade.
Oh, and the last pic - the possum license plate came attached to the trailer. I saw it and thought of wreckerman and his stupid sexual penchant for possum.
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