INFO NEEDED FOR M35A2 stave and bow storage!

[saddamsnightmare]

May 19th, 2010.

My Oct. 1976 TM-9-2320-209-10/1 on page 2-124 shows the staves and corners stowed in front of the headache board on the cargo deuce in an upright position, with the corners facing (forward? or backward?) and the bows stored under the bed and tied off to something on each end.... Anyone have good pictures or drawings of these mountings, as I need to make up a set. It seems like a good idea to store these items on the truck in case of need..... Also it seems like you'd be hard pressed to mislay them when you needed to reinstall the tarpaulin..... So gents, enlighten me!!!

 

[Recovry4x4]

Kyle, the dropside bed has pockets in the front for the staves to go in. If yours isn't a dropside, you will have to brew something up. The underside is just 2 steel rods with straps. I'll get a pic in the AM (If I can just remember).

 

[saddamsnightmare]

May 19th, 2010.

Kenny:

I was figuring to use some 1/8 or 1/4"X 1" flat stock to make two holder strap steps for each side of the rear cab window, attached to the 2nd down from the top and second up from the bottom wood slats in the headache board, with the stave feet resting on the front bed top angle. The bow storage seems to be in the first two pockets under the front of the bed, placement crosswise under the bed, but the way the M35A2 is configured, the bows with have to face concave down over the frame, with the top center of the bows under the center of the bed....

The question is how to secure them so they don't slip out and get lost? The manual drawing seems to show them tied in place at each end of the pocket.... Until I get a real barn at the new place, a lot of the deuce equipment will have to be stored on the deuce.... PLUS I have to get a beacon bracket fabricated ASAP to mount the rotating amber beacon above the cab, convoy fashion. I have the drawings made up, now I'll have to scrounge a switch and figure out where to tap the circuits on the firewall. Other then that, how goes things with you? I was in consideration for a USAF Historian at Osan,AB,RoK, and was trying to figure which truck to ship...Unimog or deuce????

Have a good one, I'll look out for the photos when they turn up. Looks like the dropsides got a little more engineering applied to their beds then the stock M35A2's...

 

[Recovry4x4]

Your staves will sit about a foot higher than they look in the TM if you rest them on the top of the bed. Pics in the AM

 

[saddamsnightmare]

May 20th, 2010.

Kenny:

I figure from the manual that the M35A2C's must have holes cut in the top angle bulb rail to let the bottoms of the staves rest either in brackets attached to the front wall of the bed or on the bottom sill's top area.... I'm not inclined right now to alter the top front rail of the bed, plus even if I did wish to, I've got a move to Illinois coming up in the next six to eight weeks with a heck of a lot of work to be done to get the truck(s) ready to go with the move. I figure that if I were to put the straps on the inside of the head rack, the feet could rest on the floor of the bed and the stave corners would just clear the cab roof, but then the straps will get in the way when I need to stack stuff tight against the front rack in the bed. The other way, the staves and corners shouldn't bee too much higher then the top of the exhaust stack, if that, but I'll do some measureing tomorrow. The bows are gonna be the bear securing them under the bed so they don't shake out...If I had the hard top on the cab, a Canadian basket might be the way to store the tarp, but I'll have to get a canvas bag made up to secure it under the passenger bench seat in the cab..... You'd a thunk Uncle would have worked all these details out. Interesting that all 5 of my bows have the pins for the catch on the corners at each end, so I guess they must have been intended for a M35A2C... But the stave corners dont have the catch that must mate with the bows.... I guess you could unlatch the corners from the bows to drop one side(???) on the M35A2C's?

My head hurts, so I guess I'm making the smoke fly tonight...

 

[Boatcarpenter]

Kyle,
Check this thread. It has some pics of what you need.

Cargo Bows & Cover parts Stowage

I've seen several trucks where they have their cargo cover gear secured behind the cab some way but havent seen a good clear example. I know it should be in a manual somplace or maybe a home made rig. Who would sell these kits ? I need a better way to strore them on the truck when not in use.

www.steelsoldiers.com

BC

 

[saddamsnightmare]

May 21st,2010.

Thanks Boatcarpenter, the link helps some. What I see is a bent 1/2 rd mild steel bar, with a dogleg and tail on one end, and the other end threaded for 1/2" nuts. As best as I can determine the "tail" goes through a hole in one cross sill and the other end is passed through a lower 1/2" round hole in the front sill AFTER the straps are placed on it, then the nut(s) are screwed down to hold it in place. The straps have one set of hold fasts, something like what was used on my Unimog and most older Jeeps (M38A1) to catch the side curtain straps.
The brackets for the staves and corners look like they attach to the front side of the headache rack, and have 4 or 5 rectangular tubes to hold the feet of the staves in the tubes.....? I could get these fabricated around here, I am just trying to avoid cutting the rectangular slots in the top bulb rail of the bed's front wall, which is what the M35A2C and M35A3's seem to have had done to them... Boy, I wish my coal forge was set up & I had coal, as it makes this kind of work much easier....
First item on the list is to have a local machine shop fabricate me two masts for the convoy lights to go behind the cab.... No use getting run over on the way to my new home...

Thanks again for the help, Gents, I am deeply indebted for the kindness....


Cheers,