What happens when you mix an M-818 with ideas peppered with too much testosterone?

[roscoe]

WoW. Nice.

 

[scootertrs]

HMMM ... yeah... Deuce Fire truck almost done... 46 Indian Project almost done... HMMM Hmmmm ... My dog is looking worried that he will be sharing the dog house... I have a cherry 818 that shivers as I walk past it... maybe it knows the future? If I don't do it, it is because it is too cherry. (or maybe the significant other sets her foot down and kills the new project, even though I always get the last words in during an argument... yes dear...) Anyway, that is one fine, correct that, very very fine military means of transportation. Congratulations

 

[Harold43512]

Looks like some great work. Can you show and tell us how you spliced together the two frames?

 

[ALFA2]

Wow, this is one of the smoothest looking builds in a long time, elegant, not too much additional fabricating, and it looks practical as well!

Great job on doing it this way!

Keep it up.

Thanks.

ALFA2

 

[Alex400]

how did you connect the frames specifically? did you run some plate down the rails and weld it as well as just welding the joint?

 

[Harold43512]

I saw a bunch of bolt holes that I would have been tempted to use for a mechanical connection. Don't know if that would be the way to go, though. Probably not.

 

[Alex400]

I saw a bunch of bolt holes that I would have been tempted to use for a mechanical connection. Don't know if that would be the way to go, though. Probably not.

i guess the way i was thinking about it was running a section of plate on the inside of the C-channel, bolting it to hold it there while you run a couple full length beads down it to connect the frame rails as well as buzzing the actual joint.

 

[m.walker]

Really cool !!!

 

[chgofiveo]

All I can say is...

WOW!!!

Awsome truck bro!

 

[Farmun]

That is freakishly too kool!

And to think, most guys talk of bobbing their rides. I think you may have just strated a new trend !!!!

I think we need to have a competition to see what else can "mated" together to make that ultimate MV hybrid !!!

 

[Alex400]

No quite the same kind of melding process but, I saw a log yarder build on a sherman tank lower frame section. had repowered it with a 8v71T going into the stock sherman trans from the looks of it. A pretty interesting piece to say the least. I think i have some pictures of it somewhere.

 

[mdlbldrmatt135]

No quite the same kind of melding process but, I saw a log yarder build on a sherman tank lower frame section. had repowered it with a 8v71T going into the stock sherman trans from the looks of it. A pretty interesting piece to say the least. I think i have some pictures of it somewhere.

Yep... it was used on Axmen...... on Tv...... I forget which logging crew used it... But I think it was Pihl logging

 

[pctrans]

The 5-ton frame actually fit inside of the MK frame. Blew some existing holes out with a plasma cutter and used the same frame bolts that originally held the "saddle" in.

 

[tdubovsky]

Wouldn’t the front axle off an Oshkosh cement truck have the same ratio? I know they are the same axle used in the HEMMT.

 

[snakeater]

even my wife says that is sweet and wants to send me to summer camp with you so i can come home with a monstrosity like that........

 

[Crash_AF]

Dude, there is only one word to describe that thing..... EPIC...

Just out of curiosity, what is the wheelbase?

Later,
Joe

 

[pctrans]

Haven't measured the wheelbase yet, but the overall length is 33 feet. It's not advisable to weld along the flange. I used the inner frame member from old tandem to reinforce the main truck frame. Also welded a support plate (photo) to the front of the trailer frame and bolted it to the truck frame.

 

[gimpyrobb]

What is the "black box"?

 

[pctrans]

Hydraulic fluid tank, to run the crane.

 

[USAFSS-ColdWarrior]

Excellent retro-engineering. It reminds me of the early NASA. Mix and match rockets, engines, boosters and stages to achieve the mission.

Did you have a specific "Mission" in mind when you "designed" this mutation?

Have you got some cost figures that you'd like to share?

Do you anticipate any problems with registration/street legal-ness of your "shop built" truck?

Thank you for sharing your project with us troops.