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What have you done WITH your FMTV ( trips, Rescues etc) NOT: fixes, updates etc

Floridianson

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No issues today just do not need it. Now there were things that were corrected with the truck so new owner has a good truck I feel. I still have the 915A2 to pull my trailers on road. Now if we are talking when I first got the truck then yea. Some moron took out the front drive shaft and put it back out of phase. Good thing I decided to trailer it from Md. to Fl. Rear most axle milked and good thing I decided to trailer it home. Had to change the fluid out three time to get the fluid looking right. Oil cooler gasket but that is to be expected with an older truck.
 
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Colorado had a big blizzard on Sunday, dumping 2-3' of wet/dense snow across the Denver area. Denver gets a storm like this about once every 5-10 years (e.g. flood of 2013, 3' blizzard of 2006, etc.). The news said this was the 4th largest blizzard on record.

We spent 12+ hours out around town, pulling people out, and rescuing people from unrecoverable vehicles and ferrying them to safety. People should not have been out with smaller than about Ø40" tires, because they were just getting high centered and losing traction. Of course the people who were out and about were also wearing only a sweatshirt and sometimes shorts, had no shovel or tow strap, etc. Poor decision making at its finest!

LMTV ran like a champ. All told, we pulled or pushed out over 30 vehicles, including an electric-company medium duty utility truck, pickups with trailers, two police vehicles, pickups that got stuck pulling out other pickups, 2WD crossover SUVs and cars, etc. We rescued people from several unrecoverable vehicles, and put them in the back, for a ride to somewhere safe/open/accessible.

Once it got dark, we saw some hazard flashers across a field. We found a county road to go down, and went through about 2-3' deep snow to reach a Honda Ridgeline. The college-age girl inside said she was going to visit a friend (IN A BLIZZARD?). We had to hook her to the pintle and drag her backwards ~1000 yards to the main road. She would have been out there all night, because anything smaller than us wasn't making it down that road.

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Awesomeness said:
Colorado had a big blizzard on Sunday, dumping 2-3' of wet/dense snow across the Denver area. Denver gets a storm like this about once every 5-10 years (e.g. flood of 2013, 3' blizzard of 2006, etc.). The news said this was the 4th largest blizzard on record.

We spent 12+ hours out around town, pulling people out, and rescuing people from unrecoverable vehicles and ferrying them to safety. People should not have been out with smaller than about Ø40" tires, because they were just getting high centered and losing traction. Of course the people who were out and about were also wearing only a sweatshirt and sometimes shorts, had no shovel or tow strap, etc. Poor decision making at its finest!

LMTV ran like a champ. All told, we pulled or pushed out over 30 vehicles, including an electric-company medium duty utility truck, pickups with trailers, two police vehicles, pickups that got stuck pulling out other pickups, 2WD crossover SUVs and cars, etc. We rescued people from several unrecoverable vehicles, and put them in the back, for a ride to somewhere safe/open/accessible.

Once it got dark, we saw some hazard flashers across a field. We found a county road to go down, and went through about 2-3' deep snow to reach a Honda Ridgeline. The college-age girl inside said she was going to visit a friend (IN A BLIZZARD?). We had to hook her to the pintle and drag her backwards ~1000 yards to the main road. She would have been out there all night, because anything smaller than us wasn't making it down that road.

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Nice job ! !!!! If you have any video, please share. I am building a library of picts of rescues to help MV owners in States who do not allow them.
 
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Today I took a seven hour drive through mountains and desert of North-Central Nevada. Went through Carrol's Summit east of Fallon, then back south through Dixie Valley, part of the Navy weapons range out here. Lots of parked vehicles that pilots are supposed to find and identify. I know of at least three SGT York/DIVADS, the two M-551 Sheridans, a few 5-tons, and some in-use ex-Soviet stuff. Also found a parking area with a lot of neat stuff - FMTV A1R's, HEMMTs, and some other stuff...
Photo is of Goliath (my M1081 in War Pig configuration) and one of the SGT York AAA units, found in Horse Creek Canyon
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BTW, this canyon is also the site of a helicopter roll-over that killed a crew member while doing a SpecOps insertion. There's a granite memorial for the crew member nearby.
 
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well summer is nearly gone.... so post up your little trips and jobs you did worthy of a fun discussion but not maybe so exciting it warrants a whole new thread?

PS- oh.. but do tell in new threads those exciting adventures as well though
 
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I used the winch on the truck to drag up a good sized tree in the woods over the weekend.
 

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Been four months since receiving full payment for the 1088. Truck was not going to leave the yard before title transfer. Yesterday the OP came up and I walked him through the DMV and out of my name. Now just waiting for the shipper to come and trailer it to Miami. Yay truck will be gone but more grass to cut.
 
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Floridianson said:
Been four months since receiving full payment for the 1088. Truck was not going to leave the yard before title transfer. Yesterday the OP came up and I walked him through the DMV and out of my name. Now just waiting for the shipper to come and trailer it to Miami. Yay truck will be gone but more grass to cut.
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Maybe it will take less time to cut the grass now... Hopefully it will be faster to roar around the yard in a straight line rather than having to cut around the truck. Happy to hear that you got the paperwork finished!
 
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Typically, I don't do the beach on holiday weekends (fucking tourists). But this afternoon a buddy came by with pizza and beer on his way out to fish and I had a load of brush to burn already on the trailer so we rolled to my "secret spot".

Landed two Black Tip the first 30 minutes. This section of beach was totally cleared out by 5:00PM and I chilled by the fire with the Dog until 02:00 AM. Hard to beat for an unplanned day trip.

Little black tip are damned good eatin' too. Caught 'em on sand trout. Also landed a little Skipjack for next trip's bait.

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