The Unusual uses for a tank thread.

[wibblywobbly]

There are plenty of tanks that have been converted for other uses. Has anyone found any interesting ones?

Painless sent me a pic of one, so I went and found a video of it in action. This is a Hungarian T34, with two MIG 21 jet engines mounted on it. It sprays oil fires with a massive amount of water and extinguishes them.

[jackalope]

No picture of it but I read of a King Tiger that is used to hold up a section of road in Poland. I read they are trying to get permits to remove it but the govt doesn't want to have to re-do the road. Can't remember where I read it sorry no link.

[ALPHA]

During the Holidays...one of these would be a very practical thing to have when venturing to any mall or supermarket

and this little gem ...just to show off to the neighbors


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[SovereignZuul]

That Panther crane still around? Must be worth millions if so.

Was thinking the Bigfoot Tank but Alpha got it covered.

Saw this one recently. A "fire tank."

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[wibblywobbly]

No picture of it but I read of a King Tiger that is used to hold up a section of road in Poland. I read they are trying to get permits to remove it but the govt doesn't want to have to re-do the road. Can't remember where I read it sorry no link.

Here you go....

Kingtiger turret parts found in 2001 near Mantes-la-Jolie (France). This tank from the 101 SS.s.Abteilung was lost in a crater near Fontenay-Saint-Père on 26 August 1944. It was blown up by a scrap dealer after the war and the small metal bits were buried when the D913 road was constructed. Bruno Renoult, a local historian, discovered and recovered parts of the turret, including the roof and parts of the turret’s left side.The hull of the tank still remain (in bits) under the road. There is a project to recover all the bits still remaining under the road, to reconstruct the tank and to build a monument where the tank will be displayed, but it encounters technical and administrative difficulties.

..............Google Translate ....newspaper report

Courier Mantes
Published: January 18, 2001

- Half of the turret has been reconstituted. The young man who is in the tank commander of the post gives an idea of the impressive size of the craft.

A Tiger tank was spotted, buried under a road Fontenay-Saint-Père. Bruno Renoult, who has worked for years on the battles of the Second World War in Mantois, began excavations with some other enthusiasts. They found underground awesome pieces to this chariot. They now hope to get the support of the department to release the remains of prisoners under the road.

Bruno Renoult, historian and author of "Deck The head of Mantes - The Battle of Vexin", is on the trail of the Tigers for several years now. These Tigers are the German tanks that participated in August 1944 against the German attack after the arrival of the Allies in Mantes. This book is the result of several years of work spent discussing with those who lived through the fighting. He has collected hundreds of photographs of the time and months that followed the Liberation. Yet despite this meticulous work, something had escaped him. When his book was published, former contacted him to teach him a new size. One of them clearly remembered a Tiger tank spilled on the side of a road. He claimed that he used to fill a hole on which today passes a road.

"I could not believe it, says Bruno Renoult, for me, there was certainly the buried scrap there, but certainly not a full tank. After the war, the machines were scrapped. "In his papers, he found the photo of the tank in question, rolled on its side, with a number painted on the side of the turret: No. 123.

Bruno Renoult are believed not. But it still contact a friend of detecting school. Armed with a device to detect metals at depth, François Pelletier removes his helmet and suddenly tells him: "There was something big down there."

After obtaining permission from the local mayor and DDE to probe the site, Bruno Renoult, helped by a farmer who provided an excavator began digging. Under two meters of land, he discovered the first pieces of sheet metal and pieces of several hundred pounds. They remove mud half of the turret of the tank. Bruno Renoult then sees a bit of a caterpillar that appears to extend under the road. But further excavation is stopped for safety reasons and DDE ordered to reseal the hole. "We have reached the possible limits of the excavation. It will now other ways and certainly open the way to take out the rest of the char "explains Bruno Renoult.

Fell into a crater

The discovery is huge because if the tank was apparently blasted before being buried, it seems that we can reconstruct it. There are only a few examples in the world of the Royal Tiger tank, one is kept in working order at Saumur. According to the historian, during the fighting, the tank fell and rolled in a bomb crater. Then he would have been pushed inside out of the way.

Already the discoverer of this chariot and his friends began to rebuild it from the discovered items. They now hope that the department will be sensitive to this discovery and enable new digs.

For Bruno Renoult ambition is to use these remains for the construction of a memorial in memory of the hundreds of US soldiers killed in this part of Vexin during the heavy fighting of the Liberation. "I imagined a Vexin stone wall on which is inscribed the names of dead soldiers here with behind the tank reconstituted half buried in a mound," he goes on to show the sketch he has already done.

Wednesday, Bruno Renoult receive, hotel department at Versailles, the Local History Award for his book and do not miss the opportunity to defend his project.