What can you get for $45

[Recovry4x4]

Well, you could get a very rusty M101 from GSA. Here are a few pics of my $45 investment.

 

[Recovry4x4]

45 minutes with a pressure cleaner and maybe it's not quite as rusty as they described.

 

[rosco]

Good you used those web straps, instead of chain, so you wouldn't scratch anything! That's a nice trailer!

Lee in Alaska

 

[mangus580]

Whats the wife think?

Is the bed a little twisted?

 

[Recovry4x4]

Bed isn't twisted, weird angle and the truck is at yet another angle. The war dept hasn't seen it yet. It's small, she might not notice it. Can't go wrong for the price

 

[BFR]

how did it pull behind the p/u?

 

[Recovry4x4]

I only moved it around the yard, picked it up with the car trailer. I've had M116 trailers in the past and they tow fantastic. I bought one at Homestead AFB many years ago with 2 5KW gensets. Towed it home 70 MPH with my 1/2 ton Chev with the 6.2 dsl. Also towed the same 116 genset trailer with a 116 tool trailer on it to Wayne Harris house at 70 MPH. worked great.

 

[mangus580]

how did it pull behind the p/u?

Joel, I have pulled my M116 generator trailer all over the northeast with my 1009.

Lets see, been
adberdeen and back
Jim Thorpe and back (via cooperstown area both ways)
Ft Drum and back
Newburgh NY and back (also via cooperstown area)
and the cooperstown area and back like 2-3 times
(at least one of these times behind the 'Burb)

I cant wait to get the 101A2 done with brakes, it will be even better!

 

[ida34]

Power wash the car hauler too. That thing needs paint quick. When you said rusty trailer I was trying to figure out which one you meant. Is that an old travel trailer frame? I have one I use but I want to tear it down and rebuild it with metal instead of wood decking.

 

[Recovry4x4]

Dunno what that car trailer was at first. I piad $100 for it about 9 years ago. It needs a couple of gallons of exterior latex for sure. It's been all over the east coast. Hauled 3 deuce front axles, t 5 ton trannys a golf cart and GP Medium from OH to FL, Hauled an M715 from Evansville IN to OH then to FL plus tons of trips with little stuff such as M1009s and the such. Might be one of the better "C" noted I ever spent.

 

[Armada]

Nice score Kenny!

 

[citizensoldier]

Good deal Kenny.. You doubled you money even if you scrap it.. I think you need a M37 in front of it now! The rims sell for $50 a piece.. Good score.. I dont understand why they cut the front off and then welded a pintle hitch back on? Strange..

 

[Recovry4x4]

I may start looking for someone boning out a 101 so that I can fix that and maybe scare up racks and a gate.

 

[hippiedude]

That would make a great little dump trailer for behined the picup ...add some nidrolics and a electic pump ..Babam....dunp trailer....

 

[hippiedude]

oppa hydraulics..

 

[Djfreema]

Nice score, I would much rather have a 101 than a 105.

 

[ida34]

My trailer was cheap and has paid for itself many times over with hauling cucvs home ans such. I gave $200 a few years ago. Another trailer I have I bought as an old popup trailer. I got it for $50 and I have used it for about 15 years. Cheap trailers never let you down. Old dry rotted tires do.

 

[Recovry4x4]

Cheap trailers never let you down. Old dry rotted tires do.

Amen brother. I ended up replacing all the tires on the car trailer during the M715 trip. Replaced them one at a time all the way home.

 

[ida34]

I just bit the bullet and got tires for my car hauler. $400 worth of tires. I started to go get my water buffalo and about 30 miles out I felt a vibration and found that the whole tread came off one tire. I had one spare I put on and the second spare was not holding air. I decided to quickly go home and take the rims in to get new tires. I am glad it happened so close to home.

I also blew two tires on the way moving to MI from TN. I had to find a walmart to buy the tires on the rims before we could make our way home.

 

[Armada]

I just bit the bullet and got tires for my car hauler. $400 worth of tires. I started to go get my water buffalo and about 30 miles out I felt a vibration and found that the whole tread came off one tire. I had one spare I put on and the second spare was not holding air. I decided to quickly go home and take the rims in to get new tires. I am glad it happened so close to home.

I also blew two tires on the way moving to MI from TN. I had to find a walmart to buy the tires on the rims before we could make our way home.

Seems I also remember a roadside tire replacement coming back from Columbus. A plank came off the deck too, Man did that scatter traffic...hehe. Good times, good times....