Need help with ID of this Trailer...Signal Corps?

Bill_Wolf · Post by **Bill_Wolf** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 12:02 am

Spotted this in a secure junk yard in Maine and need help from the experts on this board.

Sorry about the poor quality pictures but I was shooting through a chainlink fence. No access to yard.

This is some type of Cable laying trailer. Has traces of OD paint on it and 16" NDT tires on what look like Jeep wheels. Looks Military.

It is difficult to tell from the pics but it has a claw (hoe) that is lowered down below wheel level and the cable feeds through a hollow channel in the rear of the claw into the ground. The claw is inverted in the total upright postion in the pics.

Anybody have any idea what era and specifics on what the trailer is.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Bill

42cckw · Post by **42cckw** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 1:39 pm

Trailer is a post war cable trencher , The wheels will most likely have civilian paint under the OD . Joel Gopan use to have three of these trailers NOS , they where not much good for anything so he cut them up for scrap and keep only the combat rims for his MB.

Bill_Wolf · Post by **Bill_Wolf** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 8:26 pm

Thank you Jim.....

And Thank you too Joel