Nope, I dont feel like saying hello.

Bordom and curiosity has brought me back. Couldn't remember old passwords email address etc. Its got to be close to 10 years since I posted anything on here. Stacked up well over a 1000 posts in my hay day...was bit of a disturber of the peace back then, so I'll consider the old hairy handle officially layed to rest.

surprised to see a few names I still remember kicking around the forums

 

i never give my old hairy handle a rest. probably should occasionally.

 

^^^...LOL.....



Cheers Glen.

 

Dang..I set my self up for that one.

 

Are you sure you've been to Hip Forums before???

 

Welcome back to hip Fbyt.
Enjoy your 2nd stay.
Glad you're back.

 

I don't remember much of when I initially signed up. I needed a new forum because the old one had pretty much died. I wouldn't have known you from back then or anyone else, but welcome back none the less.

 

Me either, had I quite the substance abuse problem when I was in my 20s...
2 kids to soport, and a job that requires working with police seems to keep a guy on the straight.

 

Do you weld together the chassis of old WW2 tanks onto modern machinery?

When people think of tank warfare they think its like the movies, couple tanks here, couple tanks there. Few understand the ferosity of tank warfare, there weren't 100 tanks, not 1000 or 50,000 tanks. We're talking hundreds of thousands of not over a million tanks built for WW2 by Germany and Russia alone. Tank warfare was THOUSANDS of tanks going at each other.

People then ask well what happened to them all? The chassis were re-used, Germany started taking the chassis to develop more stable tank beaters like the Stürmgeschütz with a non rotating turret, and as for the rest after WW2, they were used for modern excavating machines. Well maybe not modern as in 2018 but after the 40s.

 

I've worked on some old imported russian tracked vehicles, never ocoured to me they might be a refitted tanks chasis. They where like small tracked dozers with dump beds. No brand name of any sort, just some unreadable Russian serial numbers


They Had obviously been rebuilt over the years, updated motor and hydraulics.....probably 1970s the last time
Chassis was old enough to have rust holes in 1" thick plate

 

Fixes_big_yellow_things........You Work In The "Earthmoving" Business......Correct...???...



Cheers Glen.

 

Let's call him, Earthworm Jim

 

maybe fixes school busses

 

I used to drive big yellow things. One of the more fun jobs I've had in life.

We broke them, you fixed them. We both hated and loved one another.