Well gang, heres a little more info but first answers. The tires aren't radials. The look like 1980s school bus tires. As far as towing it like that, A few years ago I built a piggyback device that clamps to a deuce front axle and has a plate and kingpin on the bottom. Its just a matter of installing that then loading it up. Here's the chronology for yesterday. Up early and loaded in some supplies and the device into the tractor. Got to the bank about 910am. Of course they couldn't give me all the money in cash (another story) so I got as much cash as I could and a cashiers check for the rest. On the road about 930am. Lake City is about 340 miles away and this place closes at 500pm. I was concerned about making the trip in time so I leaned on it all the way stopping only for fuel. I got off the interstate in Lake City about 330pm so I topped off and grabbed a burger. As I was taking a short cut through the Sonnys BBQ lot I happened across an M35A2 w/w towing some weird looking M200 trailer with a tank on it. Faded red with 1203 placarded on it. Looked like GSA stuff. Anyway, 12 miles down the road I come to Hawthorne Tractor. The place looks like a junk yard. Upon entering it sure is a junk yard. 25 acres worth. I saw everything from M422 Mity Mites, HMMWVs, a Gama Goat, deuces, 5 tons, USMC forklifts (the cool ones) cranes and hosts of other stuff. They had a rack that must have had 50 snatch blocks on it. This was all in the front yard. Never had time to make it to the back. I spoke with Mike (onwers son). We checked out the truck, fired it up and I ran the crane a bit. From there we went into the office and worked on the deal. Obviously, the deal was made. Mike picked up the front of the M108 and I backed the tractor underneath and got it locked in. Spent about an hour or so and pulled the rear axles shafts and front drive flanges. Used the drive flanges (along with 2 extras I brought) to cover the rear hubs. Strapped everything down and strapped on my towing lights and I was off. The first few miles were hell. The crane weighs just a tad under 20,000# and I could tell. Tough to stop. Once on the highway it took about 2 miles to get up to speed. Once at 55 the little tractor had no problem running that speed, even 60 was no problem. All is going well until about 75 miles into the ride. I'm looking out the passenger mirror and I see the end of the boom over the line. Screech to a halt and find that since I didn;t pin down the sway bars, the crane was rotating on its own. 10 minutes and 2 straps later, its straight enough and I'm back enroute. Not a single problem the rest of the way. Now as far as the axles, on previous piggybacks I always suspended the fwd rear axle. I wanted to do this but was concerned about the weight on the old tires so I left all of them on the ground. As it turns out, the rear axle was bottomed out and carrying most of the weight anyway. fwd tires were nearly cold wher the back ones were hot. Anyway, made it home safely. I'll take some more pics today and post some of the yard later. Heres another one of the wrecker where is sat when I got there. I'll also give a rundown on the goods and bads of the truck.