Sort of. I was saying if I don't net 60/ hr after ALL costs. Otherwise I would just put in more hours at my day job and not have to leave the house.
Now that I think about it, it's a good thing that I didn't try to go over Fourth of July Summit or Lookout Pass!How badly did it wear the tractor tires? I would think the tires would wear out in that distance...at least once.
That would have no problem hauling a jeep. If you had the ramps the jeep probably could fit in the bed. It does sound like a Kubota tractor designation instead of a military truck.
It's not Mine, it's MCMXI's unit.
For having and making him happy, presumably.
Either that, or he's prepping for the zombie apocalypse.
A friend in Hawaii gave it to me, and my plan at this stage is to upgrade a couple of things on it and then use it for fun and for a couple of towing scenarios.For having and making him happy, presumably.
In life it’s often about the journey rather than the intermediate goals. Sounds like a good time. I had an old NA diesel in a Chevy (6.2L, IIRC. I think the military used them in light duty rigs as well). The fuel filter would restrict flow when it got water accumulated in it. The. The old beast had little power with a dry fuel filter and almost no power with a wet one.Talking of transportation costs, last summer I got a quote to truck the M1078 from Tacoma, WA to Kalispell, MT and it was around $7k and that was assuming that the driver didn't run into any delays. I forget the term the trucking company used, but any time spent waiting to get loaded, getting caught up in traffic or roadworks would have added to the final cost. The drive is 535 miles or so which works out to a little over $13/mile assuming no issues. Admittedly the M1078 is 17,000lb, 9ft tall, 8ft wide and 21ft long, but since I had no idea what such a thing would cost it was interesting to get some idea.
Given such high transportation costs I ended up driving the Jeep out to Tacoma, staying at a nice hotel, and towing the Jeep back behind the 1078. It ended up costing me around $750 for fuel, hotel and food for the 1,075+ mile roundtrip. I got to spend a night at a friend's place in Kettle Falls, WA on the way back and had the amazing experience of climbing big hills in the dark on I90 going no more than 25mph due to clogged fuel filters.
