From: J Brennan (brenrock@optonline.net)
Date: Wed Feb 25 2004 - 12:09:04 PST
Two years ago I backed my HMMWV off my driveway so I could clean up all the
sand from the winter. It was on the slightest incline just before my back
yard really drops off. I left it running with the e-brake on while I was
sweeping and shoveling the sand. After 20 minutes I stepped inside for a
minute when I heard my son ask my wife what dad was doing going backwards
through the back yard. WHAT!?! My only guess is that the brake cable
warmed up enough to loosen up and off she went. Luckily there was a tree at
the bottom of the hill to catch the right rear panel of the Humvee and stop
it! 200+ drilled out rivets later I removed the rear panel, re-bent and
welded the aluminum rear frame, and replaced the rear panel. To this day
there is aluminum imbedded in that tree. No matter if I'm on flat or
incline I now place 2 chocks under the wheels. I was at West Point last May
and saw that every HMMWV carried a chock in the back chained to the vehicle.
John
'93 M1038
-----Original Message-----
From: Military Vehicles Mailing List [mailto:mil-veh@mil-veh.org] On Behalf
Of David Cole
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 2:50 PM
To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
Subject: Re: [MV] WOW UAV - limited MV content.
Authur,
I think that is called UMUP. For Unmanned and Unplanned. That goes into a
whole different category! (;->) I think the insurance companies discuss a
lot of those situations.
I had a roll away occur while I was working on it, actually I was sanding
the vehicles body, prepping for a paint job. Fortunately (?) it rolled
into a car I had parked behind it and my leg was not behind the tire! It
was sort of one of those, ok.. a little more over here, a little more over
there, ah ... what the heXX is going on ..... smash. (:-<>)
Lesson learned: NEVER buy or rent a house with a driveway at a 20% grade.
Either vehicle "could" have been an MV, but they were not.
Dave
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 21:14:59 -0500, m35products <m35prod@optonline.net>
wrote:
> Mine rolled down the driveway and across the road into the neighbor's
> field
> one Sunday morning, while I was sleeping. Does that count?
>
> apb
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen & Jeanne Keith"
> <cckw@comcast.net>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 8:58 PM
> Subject: [MV] WOW UAV
>
>
>> Just watched a PBS show on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for the
>> military. One recently flew from CA to Austrailia by itself w/o
>> refuelling!!!!!!
>>
>> OK who is going to have the 1st M35A7 UM35...?
>>
>> Steve AKA Dr Deuce
>>
>>
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