That sounds like a really cool CJ-7. Any chance you took some pictures you
could post?

Jim

--
'86 CJ-7
D30 D44 D300 4:1 T-5
SOA ARB 4.56 Mopar MPI
Fresno, CA USA
http://home.comcast.net/~cj.7/



"Lee Ayrton" <layrton@ntplx.net> wrote in message
news:Pine.GSO.4.43.0312011148470.10627-100000@sea.ntplx.net...
> On or about Sun, 30 Nov 2003, Patrick Mills of
plm1954_R_E_M_O_V_E@ix.netco...:
>
> [snip]
> > http://www.zarkware.com/Photos/TrenchingJeeps.jpg
> [snip]
> >
> > The jeeps were used as trenching machines (to lay pipe, etc.) because,
> > at the time, backhoes were not really widely available. My brother
> > remembers seeing these machines working, and said they could trench at a
> > comfortable walking pace, as long as the ground was not too rocky.
> [snip]
>
> This past summer the city reconstructed the street that I live on,
> including new sidewalks. The contractor who built the sidewalks had
> pre-cast curb sections brought in. To move them from the staging area and
> set them at the curb line they used a CJ-7. They had sawed a hole in the
> plastic hard top and mounted a small crane in the bed, with the boom
> extending out over the front bumper. A winch hauled the curb sections up
> and the jeep carried them to their proper place.
>
> The CJ looked to be in excellent shape, but I cannot imagine that it will
> survive more than a couple of seasons of that kind of work. Every time it
> lifted a curb section it seriously squatted.
>
>
>
>

 

That sounds like a really cool CJ-7. Any chance you took some pictures you
could post?

Jim

--
'86 CJ-7
D30 D44 D300 4:1 T-5
SOA ARB 4.56 Mopar MPI
Fresno, CA USA
http://home.comcast.net/~cj.7/



"Lee Ayrton" <layrton@ntplx.net> wrote in message
news:Pine.GSO.4.43.0312011148470.10627-100000@sea.ntplx.net...
> On or about Sun, 30 Nov 2003, Patrick Mills of
plm1954_R_E_M_O_V_E@ix.netco...:
>
> [snip]
> > http://www.zarkware.com/Photos/TrenchingJeeps.jpg
> [snip]
> >
> > The jeeps were used as trenching machines (to lay pipe, etc.) because,
> > at the time, backhoes were not really widely available. My brother
> > remembers seeing these machines working, and said they could trench at a
> > comfortable walking pace, as long as the ground was not too rocky.
> [snip]
>
> This past summer the city reconstructed the street that I live on,
> including new sidewalks. The contractor who built the sidewalks had
> pre-cast curb sections brought in. To move them from the staging area and
> set them at the curb line they used a CJ-7. They had sawed a hole in the
> plastic hard top and mounted a small crane in the bed, with the boom
> extending out over the front bumper. A winch hauled the curb sections up
> and the jeep carried them to their proper place.
>
> The CJ looked to be in excellent shape, but I cannot imagine that it will
> survive more than a couple of seasons of that kind of work. Every time it
> lifted a curb section it seriously squatted.
>
>
>
>