Our M936A2

[kd0ezq]

Our M936A2 doing work, we use it for recovery,towing work along I-70 in Kansas.

 

[cattlerepairman]

Ok, I have to ask.....why? What makes an old, underpowered, single boom winch wrecker attractive for the work you do? Reason for asking is that recovery in my area is a tough cutthroat business where every investment better have a good business case and return. I am not in recovery but get to talk to them on accident scenes. M936 is a cool truck and I have often wondered whether there is a civilian recovery use for them! You got me all curious now.

 

[kd0ezq]

Ok, I have to ask.....why? What makes an old, underpowered, single boom winch wrecker attractive for the work you do? Reason for asking is that recovery in my area is a tough cutthroat business where every investment better have a good business case and return. I am not in recovery but get to talk to them on accident scenes. M936 is a cool truck and I have often wondered whether there is a civilian recovery use for them! You got me all curious now.
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Ok, I have to ask.....why? What makes an old, underpowered, single boom winch wrecker attractive for the work you do? Reason for asking is that recovery in my area is a tough cutthroat business where every investment better have a good business case and return. I am not in recovery but get to talk to them on accident scenes. M936 is a cool truck and I have often wondered whether there is a civilian recovery use for them! You got me all curious now.

We bought it cheap first of all, and it goes places our big wreckers and roll backs and even our 4x4 won’t go. We’ve pulled semis out of ditches in a couple feet of snow with the drag winch, drug them through muddy fields even pulled boats to the beach at the lake with it. It’s the only one like it around, probably within 200 miles and there’s just time it works better than anything else we can use, we don’t do heavy recoveries often enough to justify even a used heavy rotator, but this one will suffice when we need something similar. Agreed it’s not something that we use every day, but if we can justify running it out to a scene for something we take it, it’s paid for itself a few times, we’ve used it to transfer cargo from a wrecked truck to another truck a couple times, set it in the middle of two trailers and swing from one side to the other to quickly move stuff…

 

[Mullaney]

View attachment 895944Our M936A2 doing work, we use it for recovery,towing work along I-70 in Kansas.

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One "gotta ask" from me... Boom Support. The tubes on the left and right sides of the boom so that the hydraulics aren't supporting the boom. It's a heck of a neat looking picture but those supports keep things from going wrong. Taking a turn pulling something could cause the rotation manifold to "give up" and rotate your load out beside you.

(Those gizmos sticking out back in the picture below.)

#27 and #22 in the TM picture above

 

[SCM35A2]

Good looking truck!