From: Bruce Beattie (bruce@eecs.berkeley.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 26 2003 - 21:37:27 PDT
Hi Sean,
Take a look at the url below where I have a bunch of pictures.
One is of an S250 on a M390C.
Note that there are 3 pods that are used for leveling. They swivel up
and tuck onder the trailer during transport. It is over kill for the S250
but it has some very good advantages,
1-Park it, level it, unhitch and drive into town.
2-It has a porch and a built in ladder that pulls out and down from the back.
3-It has Air over Hydraulic brakes, so it will work great with your M35.
4-You don't have to be too gentle with it, it's rated at 2 tons off road.
5-If you want to get fancy, you can probably improvise a fold down platform
all the way
around to increase the porch space, The S250 already has a place for
setting up a shade tarp, just extend it to go over the porch area,
then put up some camoflage netting over it and the porch for shade.
Finding one will be a challange though. We were just lucky when we went to a
drmo
auction a long time ago. For some reason no one wanted it, so we got it for
$40.
I had to replace wheel cylinders and fix some fork lift damage done by good
old drmo.
Replace break lines and wiring, etc. Started to have a little problem getting
tags for it
since they ran the serial number thru as though it were a vin, and sure
enough it matched
a stolen trailer. They summoned the CHP who came after a while. He looked at
it
admiringly, and then got the whole thing straightened out. Whew!!!
Bruce MVPA 23824
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bruce/Family.html
Sean Nichols wrote:
> Greetings List,
>
> As things are a bit slow this morning, I was thinking about that article
> in MV magazine about the radio shelters that some folks had converted
> into OD campers. So it should be stated up front that this is just a
> mental fantasy motor pool game I'm playing....
>
> So that brought to mind a question: If I wanted to put an S-250 shelter
> into a trailer, rather than a CUCV or other truck, what trailer would be
> best suited to mount it in? My first thought was M-105, as it's got
> more than enough capacity to haul an S-250, and would be happier behind
> my M35 than anything else, but would an S-250 fit in it? I also
> wouldn't mind being able to pull it behind my 2500HD Dodge Diesel pickup
> too, just for convenience sake. Of course that opens up the whole
> trailer brake compatibility issue too.
>
> Now maybe I should just go back and read that article again, but alas,
> I'm at work and my library is at home. Plus I have no experience with
> either MV trailers or shelters, so I put it to you for your expertise
> and opinions.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Sean Nichols
>
> '42 IHC FFN-3 Crash Truck
> '71 AM General M35A2
>
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