From: chance wolf (chance_wolf@shaw.ca)
Date: Mon Jan 05 2004 - 10:23:37 PST
> I had the same experience down at SECO when I got my first M114, the guy
> on the forklift ran a fork through one of the road wheels.
My pet name for it all is "Forklift Demolition Derby", and I remember seeing
a long line of M886s at Fort Lewis, WA years ago with not a single straight
driveshaft to be found among them. Same with the CUCV's. The poor 1009s
fared worst, as most of the first ones we got had side body damage near the
antenna mounts where it seems they just either rammed the things with the
forklift once the tines were underneath, or perhaps just shovelled them
right up against one of their brothers quite forcefully in the holding yard.
Ow. Spent a few days fixing that sort of damage. My own personal 1009 had
a brand spanking new fuel tank with about 20 gallons of really nice diesel
in it - both of which I found out about when buddy in the yard speared a
forklift tine right through the tank while shovelling it around the yard.
Result: one HazMat incident; one early retirement - and one fuel tank
change.
To be kind to GL, it seems most of the damage is happening on the military
side of things in the Can. Point or while they're shovelling them around
from various holding yards. The GL guys at Lewis have been great.
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