Method of cutting up M151A2's

[pharbor1941]

Somewhere I recall seeing information on the way the M151A2 were cut up. The article stated that they were cut in two, then quartered, then shredded, I believe. The article gave the time frame of the changes in cutting. Does anyone have or remember where that article is located?

[sarmadq]

Are you talking about this;

Demilitarisation
The US Department of Defense deems all M151 series vehicles "unsafe for public highway use". Therefore, these vehicles have to be made "unusable by removing major components and destroying the unitized body so it cannot rebuilt". However, this policy gradually changed from releasing vehicles intact to releasing cut or crushed bodies only. These are the official demilitarisation methods and dates for the M151:
"INTACT BUT UNSERVICEABLE SOLD TILL 4 FEB 1970"
"INTACT BUT SERVICEABLE SOLD TILL 4 FEB 1973"
"1/2 CUT BEGINS 5 FEB 1973 ENDS 8 APR 1981"
"1/4 CUT BEGINS 9 APR 1981(?) PREFER CRUSH"
"1/4 CUT TO DATE IF CRUSH IS NOT AVAILABLE"
In practice demilitarisation is done by crushing the body with a bulldozer or cutting the body in half and removing a section across the middle. The US Government is convinced that this method prevents any of these vehicles to come into civilian hands in a driveable condition. In a pamphlet of the Defense Reutilization & Marketing Service it is stated that: "Stories and ads claiming that US military jeeps are available for sale as vehicles to the general public are not true"(!)

http://www.geocities.com/fordm151/

[pharbor1941]

Thats exactly what I was looking for. Thanks

[sarmadq]

Good to know that I was of help.

[svramselaar]

this is also a link to a site aboud it

http://www.olive-drab.com/od_mvg_dod4160m.php3

george

[Ralph Fuller]

[moose53]

That was half cut heres a quarter cut mutt





Jim

[Francis Marion]

[rickf]

I pointed this out a long time ago on the 503, notice in the picture of the half cut with the kid driving, He is driving! The wheels are spinning. You can't kill a mutt!


Rick

[moose53]

current demill method for old jeeps...




Jim