M101 finally gets the attention ....

[gasser]

I guess I am tootin' my own horn (or my wife would stay strokin' it), anyhoo, with the help of Cabell's website and George from the mil-veh list, I was able to get my trailer back into complete order. Cabell had excellent instructions on creating the wood bows and I was able to locate NOS bow corners and canvas.

Again, the awesome value of sharing knowledge.

Enjoy!

-graham

 

[gimpyrobb]

Lookin good.

 

[McGuyver]

Very nice. I would like to do the same thing with my M101 trailer. I need to get five more bows, as I only currently have one. Need to get the canvas cover too. Can you "share" some of this knowlege with me too?

Thanks.

 

[emmado22]

for new Plastic "canvas" www.gmacover.com

 

[FrankUSMC]

Trailer looks great.
But....are the bows shorter or is the canvas (plastic) now cut longer? I had NOS canvas on my M101 and it did not hang down that far. It was almost even with the bed.
One of the few, Frank

 

[Armada]

Looks great gasser! I like the woodland camo. Ditto what Frank said. I have a GMA cover and it doesn't hang as low as yours. My bows are NOS supposedly. Is your top a GMA also? Are there different size tops for the M101?

 

[CGarbee]

Must be some variation in the covers... The early solid green vinyl, and the canvas ones that I have don't quite touch the fenders. The measurments that I have on my website for the wood pieces came from the bows that were on one of my trailers when I purchased it (and matched the measurements on a couple other ones procured from GSA)...

A decent photo of the trailer that I got my measurements from (that Graham references in his first post) is:
http://www.garbee.net/~cabell/convoy2005/ecc149.JPG

In any event, the M101's pictured in this thread all look really good IMHO.

 

[Armada]

The cover looks like it might be a little long. Maybe they sent you the cover for a 3/4T HMT?
The eye bolts in your trailer bed are a great idea for tie downs.

 

[emmado22]

It's not the HMT trailer cover... Trust me. I own one.. The HMT trailer cover looks VERY humveeish...

 

[Recovry4x4]

Was that George Maineiri of Vermont Commercial Salvage? If so Goerge has lots of stuff, always worth a call.

 

[Armada]

It's not the HMT trailer cover... Trust me. I own one.. The HMT trailer cover looks VERY humveeish...

Emmado22, how do you like the hmt? I have only seen pictures of them. Do you have a pic of yours?

 

[emmado22]

I love mine.. Will post pics in the next few days.