new purchase

[Wallys World]

I purchased these warehouse carts (wagons) from a government auction. I paid $180 for the pair. I need to go to Ft. Bragg, NC next week to get them. They should come in handy around the mill.
They are 3 feet X 10 feet.

[Dave Shepard]

Neat, are they hard rubber tires or air? A friend of mine has some carts very similar to that. They were from GE, 10 ton rating. He mounted a knuckleboom on one, and a drive axle. We drove it into a house and built a castle wall with it. :D


Dave

[Wallys World]

The tires are air, unknown weight rating on the carts. There is no info on the data tag refering to weight.

[tyb525]

By the looks of the tounge, I imagine it could handle quite a bit of weight. You could probably fill it all the up with a pretty tall stack of lumber and be ok.

[sgtmaconga]

i have been looking at thoses type at our local air force bace. let us know how well they work out.

[Wallys World]

Well I did it again. I got to stop looking at the Government Liquidation auctions. This time it is a Remorques JMS ATV logging/dump trailer. It needs a little work but the price was right, $140. Need to go and get it next week in Portsmouth, VA after the Ft. Bragg trip to get the carts.
The log bunks are not there but I can make them. I checked the Remorques JMS web site and it is still being made. Baileys lists it for around $1800.

[Warbird]

Wow.  Where do you find these auctions at??

[Wallys World]

Warbird, check out www.govliquidation.com. They list all the military surplus for the government. You can search by state as well by item. For me it is easy to find a lot of items in my area, Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland and Pennysvania. You need to be able to travel or you can hire someone to pick the items up for you. It is quite an interesting site just to look at and really see what happens to "our" money.

[KnotBB]

If there is an 'NSN" (National Stock Number) or a part number on the data tag and you can get access to "FedLog" which is a CD of all federal stock number with a cross reference to part number it might have the specs.  Just about any federal agency should have a copy or access.
If you've got a friend in the military/government with an office you might ask. 

[cantcutter]

Careful with govliquidation......you will get burned on there. I bid good money on a hydraulic wrench a few years ago and even called to verify that it was what they had listed......YUP, Yup, Yup...... thats what it is......welll it wasn't and all bids are final.

I actually have a another auction site that auctions this stuff off and its not a private contract like govliquidation.... it's DRMO like in the old days..... I might even share the link if people are nice..... the down side is it is alot harder to find stuff on, but that keeps the prices cheap.

[stumpy]

Please share the link :

[Wallys World]

I made my two trips this week with no problems. At both locations they even loaded me. As far as myself, it was a great deal.

[cantcutter]

Well I did it again. I got to stop looking at the Government Liquidation auctions. This time it is a Remorques JMS ATV logging/dump trailer. It needs a little work but the price was right, $140.

Yeah when I lived in Greensboro I had alot of sick days from work making trips to Fort Bragg, Camp lejeune, and Norfolk shipyard.

The Drmo site is: http://www.drms.dla.mil/sales/property/search/search.html
It will take some time to figure out how to search and bid on stuff. It's not an easy site to navigate, but it has gotten better in the past few years.

[Wallys World]

Here are a couple of pictures of the logging trailer after a couple of repairs. I cut the clevis hitch off and replaced it with a ball coupler and made the log bunks out of 1" pipe inside of 1 1/2" pipe. Also I fixed the rear tire that was flat. Now it is time to go get more firewood with it.




The bunks just slide into the frame and are easily removed.

[thecfarm]

I myself put tubes in all of my woods trailers.That way they stay up most of the time.When they do go flat,another tube in put in.Most times this is years before they go flat or need air.Now lets see some wood on it.

[Ironwood]

Looks good,..............what are you doing w/ the bed?


Ironwood

[Wallys World]

Ironwood, I don't know what I am going to do with the bed yet. It needs a little repair, the front cross member is shot, but it is only 2 inch channel iron. The bed floor in the front needs a plate all the way across.  Would you be interested if I decide not to keep it?

[Ironwood]

Sounds like perhaps that is why it was DRMO'ed. After all, it was "shot and rusted out", probably scratched as well. (all sarcasm). Our tax dollars at work. I too have benefited from this attitude. I haven't perused the Govliquid site lately.


Ironwood

[Wallys World]

Nothing like paying for it twice, the original government cost paid by us and the cost for me to take off their hands. Like you said "our tax dollars at work". But there are some great deals to be had if you are smart about it. I know my hauling limits and the most distance I will travel.

[Wallys World]

Well, here are pictures of the 1st load out of firewood on my new to me logging trailer.






It handled the load well, bunks are 26" apart and 3 feet high.