Road trip to Eglin AFB sometime in the next 2 weeks:end of April to first week of May

[Stonepicker1]

My son and I will be making a road trip to Eglin AFB, FL in the next two weeks. Depending on the appointment time it could just be me doing the pickup (son does gun shows on the weekend here in Florida)

1200 mile round trip. Picking up around 27 pallets of ammo cans. Trailer will be filled to the max.

 

[m16ty]

Looks like you're going to need a whole bunch of lids.

 

[Stonepicker1]

Looks like you're going to need a whole bunch of lids.

Lol...lids are stored in the center of the pallet. At lease I hope so.

 

[Stonepicker1]

Paid my invoice and gave GL a call just to make sure how many pallets that I won.

Some of the lots didn't say how many pallets in the lot, so I figured it should be around 27 pallets total looking a the lot pictures, wrong...GL rep said a total of 30 pallets.


I might have to take two trailers up there now. 27 pallets was going to be almost impossible to do as it was. No way I can move 30 pallets.

Still have a little time to plan something. Might rent a second trailer from U-haul or ? and have my son drive the other truck.

 

[wreckerman893]

Still have a little time to plan something. Might rent a second trailer from U-haul or ? and have my son drive the other truck.

You don't have enough truck. A M915 with 38 foot flatbed would be the ticket.

 

[Stonepicker1]

You don't have enough truck. A M915 with 38 foot flatbed would be the ticket.

LOL...that would put me in early retirement with no benefits.

 

[Jeepsinker]

Actually, it might be worth just asking. Depends on how nice your higher- ups are. Worst they can do is say no. They may surprise you.

 

[Stonepicker1]

Picked up 20 pallets today, have to make another trip next week for the 10 pallets I had to leave behind.

Truck would not start after we stopped to eat. I put a bag of ice on the injector pump. Took about 4 hours of trying everything to get it started. Up and running now.

Getting on 1-10 east in a few minutes. Stopped aT Walmart to get some things to fix the loose cans on the trailer.

 

[Stonepicker1]

Saw this truck at Loves truck stop.

 

[TB58]

That is a lot of truck for not much trailer

Pretty good score on ammo cans...can make a house out of them

 

[FloridaAKM]

Fill them with sand & have an up armored house that will be bullet proof. Thats a LOT of ammo cans; nobody in South Florida will be lacking for ammo cans. Drive safely!

 

[Stonepicker1]

Made it home yesterday around 2pm. Have to plan another trip next week to get the rest of the cans.

Big thing will be unloading the trailer to make another trip.

We put the 30 cal cans inside the 50 cal cans and then put them inside the "fat" 50 cans to save space. It was a heavy load.

Looks like I was only getting around 8-9 mpg at 65 mph on the way back.

 

[Recovry4x4]

You guys should be all set on cans for weeks or even months.

 

[Stonepicker1]

You guys should be all set on cans for weeks or even months.

Yes, I would say at least until the end of the year.
Son is doing good at the gun shows every weekend moving these cans.

Planning another trip maybe Wed or Thursday.

Eglin was the easiest base to get onto. Flashed my Military ID and drove right in.

 

[Recovry4x4]

They saw the trailer and likely thought that you were golf course maintenance.

 

[dilligaf13]

Or saw the E-9 on the ID and didn't want a butt chewing....

 

[Csm Davis]

Or saw the E-9 on the ID and didn't want a butt chewing....

Love Eglin it can be the easiest and the hardest to get on board, all in the same day.

 

[Stonepicker1]

My son and I was on our way back to Eglin AFB to pickup the second load of ammo cans Last night.
Made it 3 hours up the road and stopped for fuel.
Had a load noise coming from under the hood. Sound like a bad tensioner bearing. Decided to turn around and play it safe. Got home at 2am.

Troublesooted the noise this afternoon and it was my passenger side alternator pulley bearing that was bad.
At some point when the Seabees had the truck, they replaced the water pump and left a lot of the bolts loose. I figured as I was tearing everything apart( small oil leak from the water pump bolt) I would go ahead and tighten all the bolts up. That's when I noticed the crankshaft pulley was bad.

Replaced everything and truck is ready for the next trip on Tuesday.

 

[Csm Davis]

When you go you should spend the night at Just Loafing rv park Lamar Roland's place. He is a MV collector and all around nice guy.

 

[Stonepicker1]

My son and I are making our second trip to Eglin AFB today. We are just getting off I-10, exit 56. Left last night at 8pm and stopped for a 3 hour nap just east of Tallahassee.

Loading the the rest of the ammo cans and heading back home tonight.