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neat :D

 

In September of 2000, they turned to Mr. Aleksander Borovkovthe, manager of the Narva Open Pit company AS Eesti Polevkivi, to rent the company’s Komatsu D375A-2 bulldozer. (Currently used at the pit, the Komatsu dozer was manufactured in 1995 and has recorded 19,000 operating hours without major repairs.)

 

why exactly was that last bit of info included? :hmm:

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I think the author was reflecting on the happiness of the owners of said dozer, since most mechanical things in Mother Russia don't last very long (neither did my short lived romance with Nadia the bar maid in Waco, TX...that's another story though) or the author was drinking, drinking vodka to be precise. They do drink vodka in the Ukraine don't they? :dunno:

 

Since I read this article I found out that its sort of a frequent occurrence to find forgotten and submerged vehicles out there on the Eastern Front. Nonetheless, still a cool rescue of a piece of history.

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The main flaw in your premise Jim is the word: "build". Never mind that we have to rely on them to get us to space nowadays. Generally the Russians are too drunk to build anything. This is why Putin often goes on these "manly" excursions to wrestle bears, go fishing without a shirt on and tranquilize wild tigers and such. Its a PR effort to inspire the male population to go out and do something, anything besides boozing themselves to death (which btw is something I'm quite fond of).

 

....I'm surprised they even used a bull dozer, usually Russians just gather around 4,000 villagers with a tow rope for such retrievals. :D

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Just a thought. Did the crew stay with the tank? Or did they bail out and let it go in by it's self? Also I find it hard to believe that a running engine went underwater sucking in water and whatever else and suffered no damage. With the military type filters it is possible to cut off air flow, hilling the engine before it sucks any water, but I still find it hard to believe. Of course they could have just shut it off at the bank and then pushed it in. Maybe the area was dry when they parked it and the weight of the tank created a depression and filled with water. :dunno:

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man this made me think of a show i used to watch called tank overhaul. what a killer show. showed a bit of history with the break down and rebuild of every tank. wonder what happened with it?

 

 

i liked that show too.

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man this made me think of a show i used to watch called tank overhaul. what a killer show. showed a bit of history with the break down and rebuild of every tank. wonder what happened with it?

 

I remember that show.....bunch of brits on the isle of wight or something. They would do things like take two halves of a tank turret and weld them together to make one intact one.

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This isn't recent, I read about this probably 2 years ago. I would think by now that this thing would be restored or at least fully cleaned up and romping around Russia...

 

Money is tight over there. It was probably restored and recommissioned.

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