Heavy Military Trailer

[RedMF40]

Maybe someone who was in the service knows what they were used for. If I'm reading the data plate right, it looks like they weigh in at around 18K lbs. Can that be right? They didn't skimp on the steel.

 

[Absent Minded Farmer]

Maybe someone who was in the service knows what they were used for. If I'm reading the data plate right, it looks like they weigh in at around 18K lbs. Can that be right? They didn't skimp on the steel.

Interesting. They look like oil field equipment supply trailers.

It'll be interesting to see what they are exactly.

Mike

 

[joeysmith]

Is it a tank or multiple tanks for bulk fluids?

 

[Ray,IN]

21 years in the Army, never saw one before, but then I was never in a transportation division.

 

[JoeM(GA)]

Gee, I’d be careful with that tongue assembly, looks pretty light duty to me

 

[Keith True]

That tag says it weighs 11,225.Even that sounds like a lot,but with the capacities listed,it could well have a lot of iron out of sight.

 

[Stephen Newell]

Maybe someone who was in the service knows what they were used for. If I'm reading the data plate right, it looks like they weigh in at around 18K lbs. Can that be right? They didn't skimp on the steel.

I bet the 18K is the load capacity.

 

[Keith True]

I think that 18,000+ capacity is for the lifting points.With the wheels all the way to the rear like that,I am going to suspect generator trailer.Hatches on the sides for air circulation,and a tarp rack to hold the canvas cover when not in use.Specialty trailer,the junkyard I worked in in 76 bought lots of things like that.Everybody had big ideas,but after sitting on it all for a couple of years most of it got scrapped.Just not that much use for most of it in the civilian world anymore.

 

[RedMF40]

It looked like a nice supply of heavy steel for some projects—until the reality of torching it apart sets in. Might crush my trailer as well; just put new tires and springs all around. Has a small engine up front, maybe a pump? Looks disproportionately small for the trailer, wonder if it was to pump out water that collects in it.

 

[scootergmc]

Where's this auction at? Is it online? Perhaps they have photos of the other data plates.

 

[Dingo3]

Looks like it says 11,225# shipping weight. That’s probably including the comp., welder or what ever came with it.

 

[RedMF40]

Where's this auction at? Is it online? Perhaps they have photos of the other data plates.

In Frederick, Md next Saturday. I took the photos, stop in when I pass the auction site to see if there’s anything interesting.

 

[560Dennis]

I think the lighting is 24 volt if that is important to you

 

[sms]

It looked like a nice supply of heavy steel for some projects—until the reality of torching it apart sets in. Might crush my trailer as well; just put new tires and springs all around. Has a small engine up front, maybe a pump? Looks disproportionately small for the trailer, wonder if it was to pump out water that collects in it.

My guess is a hydraulic pump for the jack. That little T-handle looks like a lot of work for a heavy trailer.

 

[Texasmark]

Maybe someone who was in the service knows what they were used for. If I'm reading the data plate right, it looks like they weigh in at around 18K lbs. Can that be right? They didn't skimp on the steel.

Which is the 18k Lbs.........the trailer itself or the contents......I know what it says but what about the weight of the trailer itself......wonder what the Army used to pull it fully loaded? Getting a license plate has got to require "deep pockets" to afford it.

 

[scootergmc]

In Frederick, Md next Saturday. I took the photos, stop in when I pass the auction site to see if there’s anything interesting.

Thanks. Auction won't be loaded online till later next week it looks like. We'll see then.

 

[Mule Meat]

Kind of looks like an old trailer that was used to dispense Razor wire.

If it's a mobile machine shop. I have never saw one without a hard top.