No shortage of rolling stock

[Retiredwarhorses]

I decided to google maps Yermo California....go ahead and take a look at that!
impressive. One lot appears to have hundreds of shrink wrapped HMMWV's ?
another lot appears to have a whole bunch of M triple 9's "howitzers"

Yermo, CA 92398

 

[Royalpower]

Hello Steven,

This is Ruben, I was chatting you up on Facebook about the bumper.

That's good news man! You can never have enough of the green machines .

 

[Retiredwarhorses]

Hello Steven,

This is Ruben, I was chatting you up on Facebook about the bumper.

That's good news man! You can never have enough of the green machines .

true...but a lot of those are active duty trucks, having not been to Yermo yet, I don't know where the GP people site is.
i bought 3 truck today...but I'm not picking them up when it's time.

 

[Royalpower]

First to make sure we're on the same page, you're also Steven S. K., right?

I think as long as they auction of a few hundred a month I'm good. To be honest, I just don't want them to dry up any time soon. I just want to have access to them. I enjoy working on the darn things too much.

true...but a lot of those are active duty trucks, having not been to Yermo yet, I don't know where the GP people site is.
i bought 3 truck today...but I'm not picking them up when it's time.

 

[Retiredwarhorses]

First to make sure we're on the same page, you're also Steven S. K., right?

I think as long as they auction of a few hundred a month I'm good. To be honest, I just don't want them to dry up any time soon. I just want to have access to them. I enjoy working on the darn things too much.

yes...

 

[Weller]

I used to drive past the base, slow down, and daydream. Now I'm almost always picking something up.

 

[Royalpower]

I used to drive past the base, slow down, and daydream. Now I'm almost always picking something up.

So you just walk on and ask them for their junk or you know people there?

 

[GMVguy]

Barstow/Yermo MCLB is a Logistics base strategically located with tons of equipment ready to deploy by rail, so most of it will never be for sale. Picked up there last year and scheduled a base tour and it blew my mind to see all that heavy equipment ready to deploy. Truly amazing. The elevation, humidity, etc is ideal for storing vehicles outdoors, year-round. Virtually no environmental damage other than the sun, so vehicles can last decades there. And then when a unit is called up, rail cars are loaded and sent to the coast.

 

[Weller]

So you just walk on and ask them for their junk or you know people there?

Big DMRO lot, which can be seen from the 40fwy. If I'm making a trip that way, I check whats up for auction first, no point in driving past with an empty pickup truck.

 

[DukeNukem]

Hopefully I can adopt three orphans and rebuild them.

 

[WalterMitty]

Wow..that was impressive.

 

[Jakob1944]

First to make sure we're on the same page, you're also Steven S. K., right?

I think as long as they auction of a few hundred a month I'm good. To be honest, I just don't want them to dry up any time soon. I just want to have access to them. I enjoy working on the darn things too much.

If your talking Hmmwv.....I read where they aren't going to retire all of them......just the armored up ones are being replaced with a vehicle from Oshkosh, The JLTV......The light Hummee are going to be still used........I would venture to say that all the support units (about 60 percent of the Military) will still be using the "plain jane" hummvee.......The JLT is just too impractical for those rolls.....It weight around 7 tons and cost 250K.....I would liken it to using a Abrams Tank to go pick up repair parts or to the post laundry......

my 2 cent.......

and I might add.....with a new man coming in times might start getting tighter

 

[WalterMitty]

I can't see them ever selling the armored up units. They don't even like selling almost 30 year units with hard doors, tops, or a radio.

 

[Jakob1944]

I can't see them ever selling the armored up units. They don't even like selling almost 30 year units with hard doors, tops, or a radio.

I totally agree with you.....bet they'll demil them.....shred or make mini reefs off shore.....could peel them down and sell them naked to recap some monies.....

 

[springbok]

If there is no shortage of rolling stock why are there only 31 HUMVEEs in the next two auctions, most of which are beaters?
I guess they gave up on the M1123s nobody was buying the stock ones...
They trying to drive up the price or don't have stock ready to sell ? ?
We will see

 

[Lionel]

Sure looks to me like we're at the bottom of the barrel.

 

[Styk33]

They had quite a bit for sale a few weeks ago. Some went for a good price, others only had one bid and a few didn't receive any bids (those were pretty beat up). They probably learned to not do that many at one time, as a lot of folks that aren't businesses will not bid on more than a few at a time. If I had won every truck (not just HMMWVs) I bid on, I would have had to transfer money to come up with the money.

 

[Jakob1944]

They had quite a bit for sale a few weeks ago. Some went for a good price, others only had one bid and a few didn't receive any bids (those were pretty beat up). They probably learned to not do that many at one time, as a lot of folks that aren't businesses will not bid on more than a few at a time. If I had won every truck (not just HMMWVs) I bid on, I would have had to transfer money to come up with the money.

Good......maybe my EUC will hurry up