And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Dull colors-no flash. Trailer is level, balanced. Tires and rims match (and spares). This dude and/or dudette are gettin' ready to GO. Need to have rig pointin' toward the road. Git some!
Nope. Not an M151. Only a fool would drive an M151, if he could find one that made it past the Army' destruction program, without adding a roll bar.
The US Army made me puke with its safety programs that never seemed to apply to the M151 until the end of its service life. The independent suspensions would fold up the wheels like an accordion if they lost contact with the road's surface. (Ask me how I know.) With no roll bar and no seatbelts, they were death traps after that.
At nearly the end of its service life and a couple or so years before the introduction of the HMMWV, the Army went in the complete opposite direction after the required number of soldiers died. The Army added "a roll bar cage on steroids" and seatbelts. Too many soldiers died before that happened,however. Typical US Army.
The Army recognized that the M151 was a death trap. That's why when the vehicles went to surplus sales, their undersides were cut with acetylene torches in a giant "X." Some enterprising individuals, however, were able to salvage them and weld them back together again. The rarity of this happening, however, explains the dearth of M151's on the road today.
Absent the potential for going airborne and rolling, in general usage, I had no problem with the M152. That whining transmission was more than a bit annoying, however.
While we're on the subject of dangerous vehicles, try coping with the field ambulance version of the 151 (the M718, I think). You could roll it standing still.
Dull colors-no flash. Trailer is level, balanced. Tires and rims match (and spares). This dude and/or dudette are gettin' ready to GO. Need to have rig pointin' toward the road. Git some!
ReplyDeleteGIT A TRUCK,IMO
ReplyDeleteI'd love to have this M151 and matching M416 trailer.
ReplyDeleteThat's not an M-151. That's a Jeep (of various years and parts) that looks similar to a CJ-3.
DeleteNope. Not an M151. Only a fool would drive an M151, if he could find one that made it past the Army' destruction program, without adding a roll bar.
DeleteThe US Army made me puke with its safety programs that never seemed to apply to the M151 until the end of its service life. The independent suspensions would fold up the wheels like an accordion if they lost contact with the road's surface. (Ask me how I know.) With no roll bar and no seatbelts, they were death traps after that.
At nearly the end of its service life and a couple or so years before the introduction of the HMMWV, the Army went in the complete opposite direction after the required number of soldiers died. The Army added "a roll bar cage on steroids" and seatbelts. Too many soldiers died before that happened,however. Typical US Army.
The Army recognized that the M151 was a death trap. That's why when the vehicles went to surplus sales, their undersides were cut with acetylene torches in a giant "X." Some enterprising individuals, however, were able to salvage them and weld them back together again. The rarity of this happening, however, explains the dearth of M151's on the road today.
Absent the potential for going airborne and rolling, in general usage, I had no problem with the M152. That whining transmission was more than a bit annoying, however.
ME WANT!!!
ReplyDeleteDo want. Now.
ReplyDeleteWhile we're on the subject of dangerous vehicles, try coping with the field ambulance version of the 151 (the M718, I think). You could roll it standing still.
ReplyDeleteA neighbor has a very similar pair. It's cool to see some old iron still around and appreciated
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