And how about an A frame mounted on rear of the truck? Anyone saw anything like that before?
A lot of oil field winch trucks have a a-frame setup on the rear. "pole trucks"
In vn, we had about 1/2 dozen m52s that had behind the cab winches and a-frames that pined on the rear lift brackets, the a-frame was a take-a-part, tel-a-scoping, with a separate pined on apex shive setup, had two adjustable cables with a chain end, the cable eye attached to the apex, the chain attached to a bracket off the frame next to the winch, when the a-frame was broken down, each leg fit in brackets above the tires, below the 5th wheel (brackets looked like the ones on the pipe line truck), everything else fit in the behind the cab tool box. The idea was to beable to self load/unload lighter stuff like gen sets, ect. the winch was a front winch with a transfer pto drive, (like the 815 mid winch) the rear a-frame worked very good as long as you did not try to lift a d8 dozer. Standing the a-frame about straight with a two part line, you would be surprise what you could lift. In fact worked so good that we build some shop builds as the factory trucks died.
These trucks arrived as described above, all were exactly the same, looked factory built, now the funny part is that in all the years that I have been around big trucks, construction, ect., I have not seen any others and since I have been into MVs, not one TM shows this "tractor kit" or even mentions something like it. It is hard to believe we had the only ones built but ???. I was USAF engineers but most of our trucks and iron came from the Army (at the time the USAF did not have tactical vehicles), so these m52s started out Army.