From: Dan Maguire (dmaguire@mchsi.com)
Date: Fri Jan 06 2006 - 21:36:33 PST
When put like that, perhaps the picture that I thought showed severe
overloading was actually a $24M wrecker during liftoff...
m35products wrote:
> "1968 5 ton wrecker 20,000 lb boom 21' reach rear winch , front winch needs
> repair and bumper needs replaced. truck hase 30,000 k miles runs perfect .
> We did a recovery job last year with this truck pulled a 40,000k trackhoe
> from a bog hole over 1000' to hard ground this truck made 24,000k in 12 days
> on that one job we were the only guys crazy enough to tackel the job truck
> could use new rear cabel on big winch tires are in good shape . motor is a
> multi fuel turbo diesel." (sic)
>
> It has, according to the description, 30,000 K miles. That equals 30,000,000
> miles.
>
> It pulled a 40,000,000 pound backhoe, and made ($)24,000,000.00 in 12 days.
>
> This makes an obvious case of the importance of paying attention in math
> class, when they discuss the significance of the comma, and the meaning of
> the letter "K".
>
> I don't know about you, but were I to make $24M on one job, I'd keep the
> truck.
>
> APB
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Maguire" <dmaguire@mchsi.com>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 12:14 AM
> Subject: [MV] Military wrecker on Ebay
>
>
>
>>*Very* heavily used military wrecker on Ebay. Check out the photo of it
>>"rearing up." I know that they're are tough, but my goodness. I
>>wouldn't want to be around when it goes snap - that's for sure!
>>
>>1968 5 ton military wrecker/Tank retrever - Item number: 4602569895
>>
>>This is definitely not mine!
>>
>>Cheers,
>>Dan
>>Auburn, IN
>>
>>
>>
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