You Tube finds

[Raider4]

Urgh, be careful watching car videos. Your 'suggestions' page is suddenly awash with videos by Jeremy Clarkson and his ilk.

I currently tend to have a 'slow TV' type of video running on the tablet - either a train/cab ride (Saalbahnhof, AUNZ RAILFAN, Don Coffey), or a canal journey (Cruising the Cut UK), or an American truckride (Big Rig Travels).

[mmcv]

May have been shared before, stumbled across it a whole back but only gotten around to working through it recently, The Great War channel on YouTube taking the war week to week in real time (or at least did from 2014 onwards, 100 years on)

https://youtube.com/c/TheGreatWarSeries

Also has a number of specials and side episodes covering various aspects of the war.

[jimduncanuk]

Have a look at this from a toy soldier show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aLSy6dBRv4

I gave it a comment on the poor rendering of the Union flags which in some cases were upside down.

I got a 'LIKE'. Never had that before.

These models are either produced for commercial gain so should be accurate or are personal presentations from a collector who should know better.

Jim

[Raider4]

Panzerkampfwagen V Panther Start-up:

[fsn]

Rather hope it would play a tune.

[fsn]

We should have trained a special troop of Commando to go and steal their starter keys.

[Raider4]

German engineering: "Yeah, we found this 70-year old tank, started first time".

Was a bit worrying when the engine finally caught, and it shifted forward slightly. Luckily it didn't jump backwards . . .

[pierre the shy]

Not sure how this ISU-152 came to be sitting in a field in a village for 60+ years but somewhat amazingly it does start after some not so gentle persuasion! 

Its a big piece of kit!

[Steve J]

That is a big bit of kit for sure! Interesting to see how the soil had started to cover the tracks, or it had started to sink, probaby a combination of both.

[Techno II]

Not sure how this ISU-152 came to be sitting in a field in a village for 60+ years but somewhat amazingly it does start after some not so gentle persuasion! 

How on Earth does a battery hold any sort of charge for 60 years ? Or did they 'jump start' it ?......(I didn't watch the whole clip)

I assume even tanks/tank destroyers had some sort of battery to fire up a diesel (?) motor.

(I suppose they made things properly, back in those days.)

Cheers - Phil 

[Wulf]

How on Earth does a battery hold any sort of charge for 60 years ? Or did they 'jump start' it ?......(I didn't watch the whole clip)

I don't know what they did with the original battery, but later in the video they bring in a tractor towing a generator on a trailer to jump start it.

Here's a longer version with subs, I haven't watched it yet.

EDIT: at one point before the generator is brought in the subs say "Two batteries of a KAMAZ have been connected"... whatever a KAMAZ is...

[mollinary]

I don't know what they did with the original battery, but later in the video they bring in a tractor towing a generator on a trailer to jump start it.

Here's a longer version with subs, I haven't watched it yet.

EDIT: at one point before the generator is brought in the subs say "Two batteries of a KAMAZ have been connected"... whatever a KAMAZ is...

I think a Kamaz is a Russian truck brand?

[Techno II]

I don't know what they did with the original battery, but later in the video they bring in a tractor towing a generator on a trailer to jump start it.

Well.....That's just bloody cheating ! 

(I wonder if they put in any oil into the engine. )

It's still astonishing that they managed to 'fire it up' after all those years.....If only those guys only lived closer...I'd bet they could get our lawnmowers going again in two minutes, flat !

Cheers - Phil

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Phil I thought you had biological lawn mowers !  

[Techno II]

No, Matey.

All the organic lawnmowers have gone to that great field in the sky.

Good riddance.......Bloomin' pains.

Cheers - Phil

[steve_holmes_11]

Great video.

Good view of the breech of the 152 showing changes from the field artillery piece to tale less space in a fighting compartment.
Slightly shocked at the lack of assessment of transmission and tracks before attempting to unditch it (what would the cheiftain say).
Tip hat to the driver for some fine precision parking; It puts the school run and local supermarket parking to shame.

[Wulf]

Slightly shocked at the lack of assessment of transmission and tracks before attempting to unditch it (what would the cheiftain say).

Definitely some track tensioning needed, yes.

[Raider4]

Levitation in action:

[Steve J]

Very good .

[pierre the shy]

Great video.

Good view of the breech of the 152 showing changes from the field artillery piece to tale less space in a fighting compartment.
Slightly shocked at the lack of assessment of transmission and tracks before attempting to unditch it (what would the cheiftain say).
Tip hat to the driver for some fine precision parking; It puts the school run and local supermarket parking to shame.

I think the 152 might have been used as a war memorial or something like that as you can see what appears to be a concrete slab underneath it after it is moved? Still looks like Russian H&S standards are a bit more relaxed than modern Western practices  

Note the sledge hammer at the start of the video and the fact that the guys moving it actually read the relevant manual before start up