Gareth Coe Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 I've always had a fascination with bridge-layers. This little baby is my personal fave: BIBER Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stone Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 I really badly want to own an SA-6 Gainful (2K12 Kub) or its radar unit (1S91 Straight Flush). To me they just look like the epitome of tracked kit - the radar in particular is such a massively excessive piece of kit, it's fantastic - real heavy metal. They're also not mega-expensive! Unfortunately I've nowhere to put one, and they're ~3.2m wide so the DVLA would take great delight in refusing you a road registration. Spoilsports. Stone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
centi521 Posted April 20, 2009 Author Share Posted April 20, 2009 Cent001.jpgcenturion1.jpgshot_003.jpgpz5760_001.jpgshot_004.jpg85sanremo_rohrl2-1.jpg The last is not green ^^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonny666 Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 chieftain for me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferrettkitt Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 Always liked the Comet ever since I built the Matchbox version years ago. Centurion has to come second though. Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gritineye Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 (edited) The Cletrac does it for me too, left un-restored so full of character and fun to drive. Ah well, some one had to be the first to claim this one, a Pioneer, haven't got a pic of a tracked Explorer! Roger Barnard getting through a wet hole I had just winched 432 out of, hence the comment! (not by me) :-D Something went wrong... Edited April 21, 2009 by gritineye Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radiomike7 Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 Here is mine: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Farrant Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 Here is mine: Merchant Navy Class ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radiomike7 Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 Merchant Navy Class ? Yes, rebuilt Merchant Navy 'Clan Line', slightly heavier than the Battle of Britain and West Country classes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlienFTM Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 Yes, rebuilt Merchant Navy 'Clan Line', slightly heavier than the Battle of Britain and West Country classes. Nice engines. For a while I read a lot about steam engines and living in the heart of the LSWR region, these three very similar Bullied Pacifics in particular. The Bullieds were designed by him when the War Office had demanded that wartime prioritisation meant that passenger engines were not a priority. So Bulleid declared his West country design an "Express freight" engine. Moot point. The other two were derived from the West Country, being lighter to save on steel and with design improvements. The story that always cracks me up goes something like this (it's been a good few years, so the memory isn't what it was). They used to stop at a light near the Nine Elms water tank. In order to line engines up with the filler, there were white painted markings on the wall so that when a driver stopped his engine in the right place, the wall told him he was right for the engine he was driving. Unfortunately, when mainline trains stopped as these lights, the First Class passengers used to complain that they appeared to be stopped right next to the WC, which was not on: after all they were First Class passengers. LSWR repainted the sign for West Country as BoB for Battle of Britain. ---ooo0ooo--- As to my tracks? It would be easy to say Scorpion after seven years in Recce (and Spit on Scimitar, even though I wear a T-shirt showing a Scimitar and declaring that RECCE DO IT IN FRONT OF EVERYONE), or choose any of the other CVR(T)s I served on. I'd say Ferret, but the title expressly demands TRACKED. The Tiger 1E was special, and I see the Chieftain as being its Cold War equivalent. See why I have avoided answering this question for so long? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antarmike Posted April 25, 2009 Share Posted April 25, 2009 CET because it is so complicated, suposedly unreliable but great fun !!! and useful in so many ways... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poptopshed Posted April 27, 2009 Share Posted April 27, 2009 I see you spent most the weekend of the Royal Ordnance Factory Nottingham web site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HotBed Posted April 27, 2009 Share Posted April 27, 2009 PANTHER ausf G Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bodge Deep Posted April 27, 2009 Share Posted April 27, 2009 always liked these things... daft but fun! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
centi521 Posted May 2, 2009 Author Share Posted May 2, 2009 Foto0707.jpgFoto0711.jpgFoto0712.jpgFoto0710.jpg us new toy m5 halftrack international Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon_M Posted May 12, 2009 Share Posted May 12, 2009 ... with only two tracks; Yes, I do have one, and yes, they did do military ones... Gordon_M Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubber Duck Posted May 17, 2009 Share Posted May 17, 2009 If you want BIG, weird and impressive there is only one place to go.......Russia! Imagine a Hagglunds but massive with a 30 ton payload that will go over or through anything, swims and has massive pulling power, you should see the way it drags out a Russian MBT that is buried in snow:- Seen that before. That is one hugely impressive piece if kit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swill1952xs Posted May 17, 2009 Share Posted May 17, 2009 ... with only two tracks; Yes, I do have one, and yes, they did do military ones... Gordon_M Any film of the recovery............... that would be fannyskating to watch. (Fascinating........ eh..... geddit :-D ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon_M Posted May 19, 2009 Share Posted May 19, 2009 Recovery film is included on the original BP films, which are all copyrighted unfortuantely so I can't distribute, though there are clips on You Tube. As you surely worked out they were driving along and a crevass lid just fell away beneath them. As mostly ex-military types they described it as being like driving a tank over a minefield, except you went down instead of up. Usual procedure was to drive another couple of 'Cats up front, disconnect the rear sledges and add a couple of Weasels to the back as ground anchors, then dig lightweight aluminium bridging underneath and drive or haul it out. The four Sno-Cats got all the way across, and numerous other vehicles (Weasels, Muskeg) were abandoned as planned, but one of the four Sno-Cats was lost a couple of years later on the Ross ice shelf when it ran over a similar crevass but end on - one fatality and two seriously injured. My Sno-Cat, a smaller 443 or the same period, sits on a nice dry garage floor and tows up to three M19 ski/wheel trailers when I take it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
centi521 Posted May 22, 2009 Author Share Posted May 22, 2009 centurion-in-vietnam.jpg vietnam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FV107 Posted June 5, 2009 Share Posted June 5, 2009 Warrior, Spartans and the newest generation of MLRS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
centi521 Posted June 5, 2009 Author Share Posted June 5, 2009 what think you about swiss tanks? like panzer 61 and 68 (68/88 same electrnonic like in the leopard 2) ch_stc_2005_Panzer68-88.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon8910 Posted June 6, 2009 Share Posted June 6, 2009 The Muckleburgh Collection in Norfolk use their ex Swiss Panzer 68 for the daily tank demonstration which is usually worth watching. They have got a weekend event planned for the 27/28 June. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
centi521 Posted June 7, 2009 Author Share Posted June 7, 2009 panzer 68 8,75m 39.5 t 660 hp ^^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antar Posted June 8, 2009 Share Posted June 8, 2009 and useful in so many ways... I should perhaps posted this pic of mine with the very rare to find crane jib attached at a local show a in 2005. John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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