Gunfighter97
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Some on here may remember me from Sherman the tan 65 1100 4x4. Others probably know me from BP. In any case, I had to take a hiatus from my IH habbit as I left cali and put everything in storage. We packed to live in the RV for 4 months, and this 9th of May marked 4 years. We only just purchased a piece of ground middle of 24, moved the rv on to it right as the first snow flew, built a 50x60 shop that next summer, and now the house is going up. Anyways, somewhere in there 5 full size pods of stuff I litterally hadn't seen in years got dumped into the shop, and I bought this absolute monster of a 4x4, with a 14' deck, and 10k lb payload. The best part was I owned it for about a month and a half before I ever laid eyes on it in person. . . Never again. . .
This is Polar Bear, Bear for short. So named for the white paint and big black nose, and my family's dearly departed Cental Aisian Shepherd who it instantaneously reminded us all of when I found it on Craigslist. Safe to say we were instantly sold, especially once it appeared on ebay. Purchase secured, it left me to rent a trailer big enough. . . It was barely big enough:
An all day and then some round trip from Adams county ID to Eureka MT and back took about 21 hours. When we got there we had to pull the outer rear wheels and the trailers fenders to load it. The front tires hung off as you see both sides, and the ramps closed within about 6" of the bed.
The next day we offloaded the rig into storage about a 5 minute drive from our new home. It would remain here for about a year as I worked on it.
This truck already runs which was quite a journey. I have a lot of content already to post, and this will be a more concise build thread for reading enjoyment than the overblown 30 something page mess on BP
This is Polar Bear, Bear for short. So named for the white paint and big black nose, and my family's dearly departed Cental Aisian Shepherd who it instantaneously reminded us all of when I found it on Craigslist. Safe to say we were instantly sold, especially once it appeared on ebay. Purchase secured, it left me to rent a trailer big enough. . . It was barely big enough:
An all day and then some round trip from Adams county ID to Eureka MT and back took about 21 hours. When we got there we had to pull the outer rear wheels and the trailers fenders to load it. The front tires hung off as you see both sides, and the ramps closed within about 6" of the bed.
The next day we offloaded the rig into storage about a 5 minute drive from our new home. It would remain here for about a year as I worked on it.
This truck already runs which was quite a journey. I have a lot of content already to post, and this will be a more concise build thread for reading enjoyment than the overblown 30 something page mess on BP