The Cellar - January 25, 2007: Old tank found, pulled out of the muck

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xoxoxoBruce

01-26-2007 10:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Griff (Post 310322)

I think its neat that a commonly available civilian dozer is powerful enough to pull that tank out.

I'm not sure a 68 ton dozer can be called commonly available.

I first saw this story through a link from that Kidofspeed girl riding her motorcycle through the Chernobyl dead area. She has a whole section on collecting military battlefield souvenirs. :worried:

This is the story and pictures page http://www.strategypage.com/military...115163335.aspx

Deuce

01-26-2007 11:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Beestie (Post 310484)

Mmmmmmmmmmmm... Its the Friday IotD! I say we saute that sucker in garlic butte... heyyyyyyyyy - Wait a sec - I can't eat that! There's gotta be a way to work this into a tasty morsel thread.

Mebbe we can scrape some tasty nematoads...

Ohhh I got it! Lets build a huge fire and roast the entire tank then, after it cools, we can go inside and eat whatever was living in it! Ahhh. Better now.:yum:

Yeah, like oysters. Once you get past hard candy coating, they're delish-crunch-us. Especially with garlic butter.

busterb

01-26-2007 01:04 PM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce;
I first saw this story through a link from that [B

Kidofspeed girl [/b]riding her motorcycle through the Chernobyl dead area. She has a whole section on collecting military battlefield souvenirs. :worried:

This is the story and pictures page http://www.strategypage.com/military...115163335.aspx

xoB. A link to her, please. I've lost mine. Never mind. Tnx Google.

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ferret88

01-26-2007 01:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Deuce (Post 310510)

Yeah, like oysters. Once you get past hard candy coating, they're delish-crunch-us. Especially with garlic butter.

Or maybe escargot (or whatever the Russians call snails-as-food)...

zippyt

01-26-2007 08:33 PM

I was going to argue that it didn't look like a T34 ,
well I was WRONG !!!
Here's a link for info ,
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/row/t-34.htm

xoxoxoBruce

01-26-2007 09:20 PM

Another thing that tank had going for it is it was almost brand new.
They lost it to the Nazis in it's first battle. Then it was repainted to use against the Russians but in another three weeks the Nazis had to retreat so they dumped it in the lake with 116 of it's original Russian shells on board.
It helps the restoration if it isn't all beat to hell to start with. ;)

tulzscha

01-27-2007 01:48 AM

Here's another tank-in-the-mud story, though the pictures are a little more indistinct. And technically, it's not a tank, it's an "assault gun"(Sturmgeschutz IIIG), but, well...

Guess those wide tracks didn't lower the ground pressure quite enough...

mitheral

01-27-2007 03:28 PM

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Originally Posted by glatt (Post 310327)

They are obviously thick and strong enough for the task, but I can't help remembering the stories my Dad told me about how a cable will always whip around when it snaps, and can easily decapitate a person, but when a chain breaks, it just falls to the ground with no force. I bet those cables could cut through some of those smaller trees if they snapped, there is so much force in them. [/freak]

Chain can be just as dangerous, one should never be complacent when dealing with a load.

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