Alright treadheads, what went wrong here.
Ok, I am sure that a few of our readers have loaded a tracked Vehicle on a trailer. So I wonder what exactly went wrong here.
Category: Pointless blather
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Simply Inertia overcomes friction scenario.
Do NOT run up the ramps and then lock track. Bad ju-ju will happen everytime.
He slid in the direction the road/trailer listed.
Wish I could see this. We’re not allowed to view streaming video here.
The angle is too steep, the flatbed is too narrow, the driver is an idiot.
The a$$hat driver was only going 90 MPH!?! When we went to the Stumps we loaded our tracs on flatbed trailers. Myself, SSgt Fuimaono and Sgt Walsh loaded all 10. Slowly, carefully and with “ground guides” all over the place! We loaded all 10 without a hitch. Pretty damn funny though!?!:)
Next time an anti-tank barrier is needed, simply line up a bunch of flatbeds with ramps facing the enemy. That’ll show them
Looks to me like a classic case of low altitude wind shear.
Hey, Boris–please to hold bottle vodka and vatch ‘dis!
Yeah, were multiples tons of machinery/equipment are involved, running starts and sudden stops are never a good combination.
He shoulda leaned right instead of left.
@8. Leaning doesn’t counteract wind shears, OWB. Come on, man, think!
Insert standard Asian driver joke here.
Did the airbags deploy? I think the driver may have been Froy or Matt from Operation Repo.
As an aside, do we have a date and/or location for this?
@9 Maybe if he’d picked up his feet? Or applied a tad more right rudder?
Seriously – seeing the rate of speed ascending the ramp, I thought the intent was to launch it somewhere.
@13. Now you’re thinking. I’m wondering why his ejection seat didn’t deploy. Any thoughts?
Prolly fergot to fasten his seatbelt? Or the safety equipment needed for the intended jump off the other end of the trailer resulted in an inop ejection seat.
(Gonna pass on all the potential comments about just what may or may not have been ejected during the slow roll.)
Yeah, way too fast. Clearly an amateur operator.
Not unlike the many a$$wipes featured at TAH: they think if they own a tank, have read all the books, and dress-up in vintage uniforms that must mean they know what the hell they’re doing! Right.
@16. So, you think it was touch and go exercise and the tractor’s appearance was a surprise? Hmmmm. In that case, I’d have to say that the driver deserves a medal for avoiding the collision with the tractor.
It just proves that only women should drive tanks.
This happened because he failed to complete BOTH his Combatting Trafficing in Persons (CTIP) and Sexual Harrassment And Rape Prevention (SHARP) training.
This is why we can’t have nice things…
I think it would be easier to talk about what was done correctly –
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In my experience, having an expert ground guide was the key to my being able to drive a tracked or wheeled vehicle on to a flat bed.
He did have a ground guy. Unfortunately, the ground guide ended up being ground up when the vehicle landed on him.
Kind of reminds me of the Wreck of D-13. No, that was not a Gordon Lightfoot song. A punk ass boot tanker crashed an M-60 into a bridge abutment at Camp Fuji during the summer of 1985. Jacked that tank up, and the crew, sans driver, pretty damn good. Amazingly, all of the comm still worked. Unfortunately, when they radio backed to the rear for a medavac (sp?), it never came, as that fat ass office pogue Corporeal in the company office had the radio turned off because he didn’t like the noise of the radio breaking squeslch.
Speaking from massive experience hauling mil equip, that tank should have gone on an Retractable Goose Neck (RGN) or comparable, heavy haul step deck(tri-axle). The only armor equip I’ve hauled on a flat bed have been APC’s. However, the video is still rather frigging hilarious. Sort of like being at Camp Shelby, MS watching the civilians unloading the equipment. That there is down right funny, don’t care who ya are, lol!
Tanks with whitewalls-
NEVER a good indication of a strak unit…
And that lil’ tread ‘run-on’ at the end?
Kinda reminds me of those tractor-cows in the movie ‘Cars’… after they were tipped over.
@20. Now, that is one damn funny offering!
I know what went wrong:
Former Soviet’s all hungover from their one quart of vodka the night before.
If they had completed a 8 slide opord and 2 page risk assessment, they would’ve known that you need 4 ground guides with helmets, gloves, eyepro, and reflective belts. You also could’ve stuck the army values and ACE cards into the side of the trailer to prevent the tanks from sliding off.
One word: Vodka