From: Ryan M Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Thu Oct 02 2003 - 12:14:07 PDT
At 1:50 PM +0100 10/2/03, John Rozell wrote:
>While poking around my local scrap yard, I came across an old
>generator that needed a home. Turns out to be a 1945 vintage Hobart
>PE-197 generator that, while painted blue now, as some O.D. green
>peeking out underneath. Now I have an interesting accessory to my
>MV collection, but have a question. I have some Army photos that
>shows this very generator on the back of a M274 mule. Would look
>good on mine, except the darn thing weighs at least 900 lbs. What
>would the correct trailer be for this piece of equipment? I was
>originally thinking the little M762 generator trailers would work,
>except that I believe they are only 3/4 ton in capacity, and are
>Vietnam era trailers as well.
The generator is less than 1/2 a ton. 1 ton being 2000 lbs.
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