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Went up to Letterkenny, PA on Thursday morning with a towbar and some lights (thanks, Jeff!) and rigged up the deuces for towback. Checked the winch truck, started right up and ran great in the lot, checked all the fluids and the air pressue/oil pressure/etc. and made sure I had on clean underwear. Hooking one deuce to another was easy, getting them lined up was a pain in the rear. Back forth back turn grumble front back turn cuss back crunch oops front back DONE! Then check my underwear again.
Once the deuces were hooked together, towed them out front and got a few good stares from other people picking stuff up at GL. Not sure why. The front tires of the rear truck (the non-winch M35A2) were a little low on air, and rolled fine when straight, but turning at road intersections was a little unnerving, seeing them squish out and ride on the sidewalls around the bend. I drove the chase vehicle (Rob's Nissan pickup) behind the rigs most of the way to make sure nothing bad happened. (Hey, it's our trucks, but his money!). We made several stops, one to fuel up, just to check everything and make sure it was okay. Left Letterkenny at 10:50am and arrived back in Front Royal area at 1:45pm. A few times, Rob got the deuce down to 38mph on I-81, and he was being flipped off by kids in car seats for holding up traffic, but for the most part, our speeds were 50-55mph. Not bad for a deuce towing another.
Got some thumbs-ups as well from drivers who liked our combination! Guess MVs are kinda cool, like chick magnets, except the chicks all weigh 200 lbs and look like they fell face-first on an M2A burner unit.
Anyways, they are home safe and sound in storage at my buddy's place (I don't have the room). Next, we're gonna fix them up a little and start using them. Cool!
Once the deuces were hooked together, towed them out front and got a few good stares from other people picking stuff up at GL. Not sure why. The front tires of the rear truck (the non-winch M35A2) were a little low on air, and rolled fine when straight, but turning at road intersections was a little unnerving, seeing them squish out and ride on the sidewalls around the bend. I drove the chase vehicle (Rob's Nissan pickup) behind the rigs most of the way to make sure nothing bad happened. (Hey, it's our trucks, but his money!). We made several stops, one to fuel up, just to check everything and make sure it was okay. Left Letterkenny at 10:50am and arrived back in Front Royal area at 1:45pm. A few times, Rob got the deuce down to 38mph on I-81, and he was being flipped off by kids in car seats for holding up traffic, but for the most part, our speeds were 50-55mph. Not bad for a deuce towing another.
Got some thumbs-ups as well from drivers who liked our combination! Guess MVs are kinda cool, like chick magnets, except the chicks all weigh 200 lbs and look like they fell face-first on an M2A burner unit.
Anyways, they are home safe and sound in storage at my buddy's place (I don't have the room). Next, we're gonna fix them up a little and start using them. Cool!
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