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When The Plan Comes Together

Bob R1

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I just got my Cecco Farm Bumper Installed. So I started to get a little more serious looking for a trailer to pull behind Rocky to haul fire wood, etc.
I knew where an old Military 1/4 Ton trailer had been, but the owner had passed away, and the trailer was gone. I half way suspected his son might still have it. I was planning to ask his wife where it had gone.
I was talking with a buddy of mine in the store today who has a bunch of old Jeeps, and mentioned that I was looking for a trailer, and preferably an old Jeep Trailer. I mentioned trying to track down the one mentioned above. He tells me that he can help me out. He was the one who had bought it, and he had just listed it for sale.
My buddy was interested in a 1950 Water Buffalo that I owned. We were both wanting $1500 for our trailers. so we did a swap.
It was an absolute miracle that it was not already sold.
I am now the proud owner of a 1967 Manufacture M416 Trailer Cargo, 1/4 Ton 2 Wheel. This is as good as a trailer can get to go behind a Roxor.

I have already located a shop to sand blast it, and get it ready for a fresh coat of OD Green Paint.
Don't you like it when the plan comes together.
No money changed hands, and we are both very happy doing the swap.

Bob R
 

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A few months ago I bought a 1968 Manufacture M416 Trailer Cargo, 1/4 Ton 2 Wheel trailer for my Roxor to use at my ranch, but someone had previously done a tailgate conversion on it, which was not bad and more practical for my needs, but I discovered that the C-channel frame was terribly rusted out where the A-frame ties in to the longitudinal frame on both sides. I had to remove the bed and discovered that the tailgate conversion was welded to the frame and the bed, so I had to do a lot of grinding and torch some of the welds in order to separate the frame from the bed in order to cut out and splice the rusted out frame joints on both sides. I have it in pieces now, and need to fabricate some C-channel to match the original to do the splice repair. I am going to modify the tailgate conversion to so that I can always unbolt the body and not have to go thru that pain again if I ever want to remove the body again. Bob, you sure did get lucky with your trade.
 

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Did they use a Willys Marked CJ Tail Gate for the conversion?
Put together correctly where it looks like the back of a CJ Jeep, they look sharp.
I went on line checking prices on M416's. WOW I was seeing numbers between $1,500 and $3,500 for a straight, reasonably clean trailer. Higher than I would have thought on the top end.

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They are insanely expensive today. I think it is all of the yuppie overlanding crowd, been spending tons of money building overlanding rigs like they use in Australia and then only driving them to the office everyday to show them off. They take so much gear with them that they have to have an offroad trailer to help carry it all.
No this one had a pretty good box, but they just cut the rear wall out, braced the sides of the box, and welded the rear wall to the rear frame member with a piano hinge. It was very functional, but made removing the box impossible without cutting a bunch of welds. I could not locate anything that had not already been molested unless it had a rusted out box or swapped out axle, because people were too stupid to keep the drains open. I just needed something functional to drag around on the ranch with high enough ground clearance for use on the rough, rocky ranch terrain of South West Texas.
 

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I took a look at the frame on mine. It looks ok. It could use some clean up, and fresh paint.
I have a new 2" Curtis Channel Mount Coupler w/Sleeve Lock on order. The 1-7/8" trailer coupler is going in the trash. I have 2" couplers on all of my trailers. I prefer the Sleeve Lock set up. I should have the Title next week so that I can get Plates on it. My buddy could not locate his title, so he had to put in for a lost title for it.
I am not 100% sure that the Military Tires on it are not the original 1967 tires it came with. I will probably check out some new Military style tires for it. I doubt that new ones will last 57 years.

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The tires on mine look original, and appear to be quite old, but the guy I bought it from pulled it on the freeway for several hundred miles, so I think they will hold up just fine on my ranch. The rubber appears to be very hard, which will resist the 2" mesquite thorns much better than modern soft rubber tires. They are labeled Cooper, so I don't think they are reproductions.
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Coopers weren’t a factory tire option. Look at the dot code and that will tell you the age.
 

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I believe the M416 Trailer Tires are Firestone NDT Military 7.00 x 16.

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