Showing posts with label off roading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label off roading. Show all posts

Saturday, March 8, 2014

Having a bad day? look at these Aussies having a couple mud bogs, and then a roll over, and the tides coming in all the while. Proves again that a snatch strap is what you need in mud, snow, etc

King of the Hammer 2013

with a crusher crawler, you will have no problem running over zombies


an Army Corps or Engineers vehicle for getting through swampy tree areas between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Texas, across Florida to make a barge canal (Like the successful Ohio canal) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_Florida_Barge_Canal though the impassible swampy areas where they wanted to make roads in Alabama, Loiusianna, Missouri, etc. it didn't get stuck, because there was no belly pan, it's all track. Powered by a pair of 270 hp Caterpillar engines

Found on http://strangernn.livejournal.com/799388.html#cutid1 which has more info and photos

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

epic hill climbing video



some make it with great applause well earned, other fail in horrible parts breakages

Found on http://twentytwowords.com/

the Martin Crocodile, 1924 Ford conversion for the US Army



Google translate says
Here's what you can do from simple binders kolkhoz "tin Lizzie" by the specialists of "Martin Rocking Fifth Wheel Company". What prompted the company engaged in semi- tracked transporter do not understand, but in 1924 the army experienced here this is their tracked products. However, native engine from Ford-T was replaced with the engine of the "lorry" Reo Speed ​​Wagon, there is not only a third more power (27.5 hp) and torque even at the expense of volume in nearly 4 liters - more suitable for crawler transporter. Moreover, there are at least two versions of the conveyor, as different body type (flatbed, with awning and hard ambulance wagon) and some small parts Coil. However ... However, judging by the complete lack of results and the development of ideas - anything they did not work.

found on http://strangernn.livejournal.com/930088.html#cutid1