Interesting Reuse of Some U.S. M3 Half-Track Bits and Pieces

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Cool!
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Nice find

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Nebraska military museum

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Talking about tracked Ford trucks…

H.P.

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I wonder how you would steer those. :thinking:

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Snow plow?

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Yes, plow is hooked up to the front winch.

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The whole front track assembly turns, just like the front axle/axles of full trailers


The drawbar swings the whole dolly around

I would definitely want power steering or the ability to brake either of the front tracks to make the track assembly swing around

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Either that or you develop biceps like Popeye!

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Here’s another one:


(source: De Tank No. 281)

This is a Hanomag A-LO 28 truck used by the Dutch air force (as shown by the LM number plate), one of two that had an American halftrack suspension grafted on for use on and around the firing range on Vlieland. The suspension of one of the two was later transferred to a DAF V-1600 for use there as well, and which still exists in the collection of the National Military Museum.

Even more interesting is that there’s also a photo of a halftrack A-LO 28 with the tracks of an M29 Weasel on it.

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I guess it’s the other Dutch conversion Jakko mentioned above…

H.P.

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French firefighting conversion using a Citroen U23 truck cab

H.P.

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That’s the one :slight_smile:

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Somewhere on here I’ve posted photos of two that were used as “switchers” on a spur near a grain silo.

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Low Buck Garage gives a good step by step on his Halftrack re use.

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H.P.

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At the end you’ll see a halftrack in a mountainous area in Utah.

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If any of you guys have 3d/resin printers this would be a cool 1/16 or 1/35 vehicle

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I’ve been watching the Low Buck Garage on Youtube and I must admit he certainly knows his stuff and some of his work arounds for issues on his vehicles borders on the genius and is certainly keeping in with the scheme of his channel. That being said at times I find myself grinding my teeth at some of his workarounds as I am very much a “if a jobs worth doing” kind of bloke.

But I digress, I was wondering about the availability of the tracks for the various M3’s shown in this thread. Granted some of the pics are old but my question is would replacement tracks be new old stock (as I imagine many thousands of tracks were produced during the war), worn old tracks scavenged or new made to order as generally anything can be made for a price? I’d love to know if anyone can enlighten me.

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