Comanche County Posted May 26, 2012 Share Posted May 26, 2012 Sometimes they do something cool. http://blog.kaiserwillys.com/wwii-tank- ... r-62-years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete M Posted May 26, 2012 Share Posted May 26, 2012 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: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comanche County Posted May 26, 2012 Author Share Posted May 26, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimoshel Posted May 26, 2012 Share Posted May 26, 2012 So why didn't they build a caison around the tank, pump it dry, repair the tank there and drive it out? Yeah, yeah. I know. There's a smart donkey in every crowd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comanche County Posted May 26, 2012 Author Share Posted May 26, 2012 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeepcoMJ Posted May 27, 2012 Share Posted May 27, 2012 62 years angst no rust? So much as a drop of water looks at an mj and it's gone.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dakal Posted May 27, 2012 Share Posted May 27, 2012 wow. what a great article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakeWI Posted May 27, 2012 Share Posted May 27, 2012 haha thats awesome. I want to find a tank. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete M Posted May 27, 2012 Share Posted May 27, 2012 62 years angst no rust? So much as a drop of water looks at an mj and it's gone.... not a lot of oxygen at the bottom of a peat bog. :thumbsup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimoshel Posted May 28, 2012 Share Posted May 28, 2012 Friends don't let friends drive tanks into peat bogs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
500 MJ Posted May 28, 2012 Share Posted May 28, 2012 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimoshel Posted May 28, 2012 Share Posted May 28, 2012 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: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Sam Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 62 years angst no rust? So much as a drop of water looks at an mj and it's gone.... In soviet russia tank rusts water! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SW86 Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dakal Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Sam Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carnuck Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 maybe the bog was 1/2 frozen when they went onto it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrawombat Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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