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

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Griff

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.

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

[Deuce]

Originally Posted by Beestie

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.

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

[busterb]

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.

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]

Originally Posted by Deuce

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]

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]

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]

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]

Originally Posted by glatt

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.