REAL MAN TRUCKWORKS & SURVIVAL
PERSONAL READINESS => Bug-Out Bag and Camping gear => Topic started by: Farmer Jon on October 18, 2015, 09:49:55 AM
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I ran across this site accidentally one morning having coffee. I'm sure some of you have seen it before.
http://www.govplanet.com/?h=
All kinds of stuff. Ive never been in the military but I have always liked the military vehicles. A lot of this stuff on here could easily be adapted to use onfarm and ranch.
They have Hummers starting bid at $7,500. I read somewhere you can now get them with an off road title. SO I have a question for the military guys. What would have to be done to make a military hummer road legal? Why cant I just go buy one and drive it around? If they are not road legal why are them selling them to the public?
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I was under the impression that they quit selling Humvees to the public. They are sold to scrappers that have to meet a certain criteria....as in they have to make the pieces so small that they can't be welded back together.
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Hmm, just looked at that site. Maybe they quit being stupid.
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Maybe they realized they can get more money by selling them to the public than for scrap.
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These hummers can never be driven on highways.
Tricky certificate of origin from US Gov't
Pretty much anything the government does these days makes no sense...same/same with this HMMV deal. I'd steer clear
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Why couldn't you swap title and vin from old truck? We did this on all of our rock crawler builds. This allowed us to title them so we could legally drive them on highways to and from trails. Granted it was KY but we titled our in Indiana........
These hummers can never be driven on highways.
Tricky certificate of origin from US Gov't
Pretty much anything the government does these days makes no sense...same/same with this HMMV deal. I'd steer clear
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There is a guy here that buys military trucks. The most popular ones are the big Oshkosh 8x8 trucks. They mount manure spreaders on them. Cant build them fast enough. Farmers love them. As soon as that spreader gets mounted it becomes farm equipment. This is where it gets tricky. You can drive on the road, You can use dyed diesel. BUT you have to drive more off road miles than on road.
I thought it would be cool to have a hummer if its only off road I would only be able to drive it in the winter when the crops are out. That's no fun its too darn cold.
Like in KY that are tons of trails to drive on. My wife is from Owsley county KY it is defiantly very different from any place Ive ever been. Love it there.