Re: [MV] Would like information about M246's

From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Wed Feb 18 2004 - 15:54:48 PST


At 3:31 PM -0800 2/18/04, Robert Buettner wrote:
>[snip]
>The catalog says it is a M246 Truck, Tractor, Wrecker
>and were designed to haul a trailer or to to general
>wrecker work.

There is even an 800 Series 5 Ton Tractor/Wrecker so it's been a
standard LWB concept for quite some time. It makes sense when you
think about it. Some capacity to haul a flatbed for a vehicle that is
very unable to move but still needs to be recovered and can't be
towed in a suspended form.

see http://www.greensix.simonides.org/types/g744.html

>So far that is all I know. A search on the internet
>has turned up little and I would like to know more
>about this unique vehicle. Can anybody help me out?
>Let me hear your war stories if any one of you used
>one of these in the service or own.owned one of them
>in your lifetime.

A book that covers that series (G744 or M54 type 5 tons) covers that
wrecker. Its available off of Logsa actually. I'll e-mail you the PDF
for the Operators manual.

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