I was assigned to the 225th HEMCO at Ft. Sill, OK in June of 1969 IIRC. I occasionally drove a 10T tractor and drop bed draggin wagon to haul tanks, SP Artillery, and one time, M551's back and forth between main post and West Range. Loading M551's in the rain and red mud, if you eased up to the ramps they would spin the tracks once you were on the ramp so you had to either hit the ramp with more than SOP speed, or if you could park your draggin wagon in a ditch and load it over the side. Either choice left you with an adrenalin hangover after you were done. That was my limited exposure to the M551's. I would be surprised if all the ozone generated by Traversing & Elevating the main turret (it was electrical not hydraulic) wouldn't give you a headache if you spent enough time in them. Were your main gun rounds combustible casing rounds or brass? What was the power plant? Was it a 6V53T Detroit?
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Today's Featured Article - Talk of the Town: The Saga of Grandpa's Tractor - by The following saga is from the Tractor Talk Discussion Forum. Someone. The saga starts with the following message: Hey guys I have a decision to make. I know what you all will probably suggest and it will probably agree with me way down inside, but here it is. I have a picture blown up and framed in my "tractor room" of a Farmall M. It was my Grandpa's tractor, of which whom I never got to meet. He froze to death getting this tractor out of the barn to pull a truck out of the ditch before I was born. Anyway my dad and aunt had to sell it at the auction,
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