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05-24-2007, 11:23 PM
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Love the sound of the air brakes too!
Not too many tree huggers in that crowd either.
You gotta hand it to these guys, wages are probably a quarter of what they are in the states, and fuel is probably 5 times as expensive. These guys are really dedicated gear heads.
Not too many tree huggers in that crowd either.
You gotta hand it to these guys, wages are probably a quarter of what they are in the states, and fuel is probably 5 times as expensive. These guys are really dedicated gear heads.
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05-25-2007, 10:51 AM
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awe that is nothin, try runnin a swing arm skidder in N Idaho country with 3-4 trees behind pushing you down the hill, forget brakes ride her out and then hope the blade slows you near the bottom 
Those are pretty neat, thx for posting
Those are pretty neat, thx for posting
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Did one of those guys have a snorkel in his mouth ? LOL - that's awesome.
Obviously they've never heard of our 'Tread Lightly' program
Here's another vid of those same kinds of trucks at the Dakar rally and some other places it looks like, complete with an Eastern European Techno version of 'The Final Countdown' as the soundtrack
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gUMF...related&search=
Obviously they've never heard of our 'Tread Lightly' program
Here's another vid of those same kinds of trucks at the Dakar rally and some other places it looks like, complete with an Eastern European Techno version of 'The Final Countdown' as the soundtrack
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gUMF...related&search=
05-25-2007, 12:05 PM
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yea those things beat there own path pretty much, it's sweet. Our military has similar vehicles, but for the public to afford one it's cheaper to just get a Jeep or toyota or somthing and build a rig to go the same places but won't be close to as dominant as those, lol. Those things have dual front steering, 8x8 independent suspension, lots of money involved, but man they would be fun.
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both vids were great, me and my boy like when the one truck backed right over a tree and kept on going. The second vid just unreal!!! That Russian truck was passing everything!! Can you imagine the suspension and what those axles have to hold up to!!
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I have drove one, I work as a truckdriver in my off periods from the north sea, and one of the lokal truck companys had a 6x6 Tatra dump truck some years ago.
It got full air suspension on all wheels, and indipendent suspension all around, pretty much the same kind as the rear suspension as an old VW betle, when we dumped the cargo the rear wheel stod in some kind of spesial positions before the air bellows got lined up again.
It also had a air cooled non turbo 12 cylineder V engine that was around 19 liters and 300 hp wtih a lot of torque.
There was also a twin turbo verision wth somewhere around 500 hp
The engine blew up on the one I drove due to the crank where build by pices that where torqued together, and the bolts loosened.
It could drive where the Volvo and Moxy dumpers had no chance.
It got full air suspension on all wheels, and indipendent suspension all around, pretty much the same kind as the rear suspension as an old VW betle, when we dumped the cargo the rear wheel stod in some kind of spesial positions before the air bellows got lined up again.
It also had a air cooled non turbo 12 cylineder V engine that was around 19 liters and 300 hp wtih a lot of torque.
There was also a twin turbo verision wth somewhere around 500 hp
The engine blew up on the one I drove due to the crank where build by pices that where torqued together, and the bolts loosened.
It could drive where the Volvo and Moxy dumpers had no chance.
