M3A3 Grant Tank, Getting the tracks on
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- Опубліковано 26 чер 2024
- M3A3 Grant Tank, Getting the tracks on.
Wow what a week, it's been like working on the sun with the temperature this week, along with the gas axe and every stuck nut and bolt. We know we will have to take all the wheel stations off and repair or replace some of them, we did some crazy bodge jobs just to get the tracks on and ready for the Capel Military Show but we got the job done just in time for the low loader to pick her up in the morning, well done to my crew. - Авто та транспорт
you are the proud owners of a M3 convertible. keep up the good work
Thanks! 👍
The road wheels can be re-rubbered. New tiers are mad to use on fork trucks. Same size.
Yes we got a mate with a 150 ton press that has fitted a few on our Sherman's, not cheap, but we got to rip them wheel stations to bit at some point and will deal with the tyres then, if I can afford it.
There is that 6V53 again!
After my comment on a previous video about not hearing one run in decades, I had the privilege of getting a 6V53T in a fire truck going. Then later that afternoon visiting a friend with an M548 and getting to hear it run.
You fellows are having way too much fun, I would like to see a short video of your Guiberson!
I am amazed by the amount of spare parts you have.
The Guiberson is not here yet but we will post it up when it turns up, your right we are having fun but its hard work.
Let the purists cry, if it means life is brought back into one of these machines that would otherwise be sitting looking sorry for itself then I'm all for it. At the end of the day, its not like it cant be corrected at some point in the future. Keep ball rolling.
Thanks, we do this on a shoe strig budget, it's this way or it don't happen, as you say somebody can spend loads of money on it after we have had our fun.... one day.
looking at pictures of other Grants , I don't think those are the right kind of tracks for it which may explain why your having trouble getting them on .
@@MOLE60 watch the video again with your glasses on and your listening ears
lol
@@514thmick Its shoe string budgets and passion that have saved many many machines from the cutting torch, and more often than not these machines have gone on to be enjoyed and be shown to the public rather than being shoved behind a barrier never to see the light of day. Miss the days of the red ball express, and seeing the displays at W&P. Ill get involved again one day :)
The Farmer clobbered the hell out of that machine! The return rollers seized and being scraped flat, that idler wheel, God knows what else it's been through. I love the sound of the engine on that telehandler or whatever you call it.
The CDP tracks look great. Time for cold snacks.
Nice to see real mechanics no gloves goggles not frightened of a bit of muck keep er gannen
Don't like gloves, cant feel anything
I had thought that was a crack in the hull until you pointed out it was a deliberate torch cut. There'll be a bit of welding to do as you reassemble the hull.
yes lots of welding for her to come
Great effort you all earned a beer or two...😊😊
You got that right!
Greetings from Australia. That my friends ...was really bloody interesting!
Thanks
Beautiful!
Thank you and the tanks not too bad as well lol
See you in Capel
Guys, I absolutely love your videos..and following you...but please try and work on your sound quality...really hard to hear everything. I don't mean to be rude...
Sorry it's the mic on the GoPro, I got no money to buy a new one, UA-cam pay us about $2 a year, your lucky I remember to pull the GoPro out my pocked at turn it on, plus I will only be bleeping most of what Del says out anyway lol
Mick, are you going to completely rebuild the M3, or is someone going to buy it and take care of the rebuild? Either way, it's looking great with tracks on it again.
We will keep it, I would like to build a M31 TVR out of it to go with our Sherman's
killdozers lost cousin
lol
Maybe I missed the explanation in a previous episode, but what exactly is this tank's eventual destination after the upcoming show? You've put a lot of time and sweat into about half of a tank while you've got at least one on the property that is a MUCH better resto candidate. Also, any idea how that idler wheel got crushed? It looks like the one you replaced it with was stouter, too.
The Matilda Mk.II belongs to my mate, we have some other parts for that, the transmission engines etc but not sure how far we will go with it. As for the Grant we plan to put a V8 Cummins in it and turn her into a M31 TRV in the end (to tow our Sherman's about) but its a few years work. I have no idea what happened to the idler wheel, probably damage from her days as a bull dozer on an Australian farm but the wheel we replaced it with is the same as the one we took off. We have a few other tanks and vehicles that take up a lot of our time so no real time scale or dates for anything, just needed them sorted for this Capel Military Show.
@@514thmick Many thanks for the reply. I hadn't considered the option of converting the cut-down M3 into a recovery vehicle.
Its a pretty manky old tank, but now it looks more like a tank!😅 Well done I say, more farm scrap sort of saved!👍🇦🇺 Just one question, how can you guys still have all your fingers!😂🤣
It will look even more like a tank when we finished it, as for the fingers it's not our first tank so we know when not to stick them in them holes lol
Bet them beers never tasted so good if it eas Wednesday or Thursday you were doing them tracks, it was the same for me as I was dismantling a combine harvester for packing into a container for export.
Yes it was all last week, bloody hot work, that beer tasted good lol
Are you going to weld up that torched cut before you go? It'd be a shame if a crack propagated from the cut.
It's already left on the low loader, it will be parked up and when it gets back it will be one of the jobs after we have taken that wheel station off.
Капец, первый раз при просмотре видео меня укачало. Ребят, купите стабилизатор!!!
No way, we got tank parts to spend money on lol
@@514thmick hmmm, a compelling argument!
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Omg that camera shake makes this unwatchable
Really? I've watched it twice..
Easy, don't watch, I promise it wont get any better lol
Imagem muito tremida, a câmera treme demais durante a gravação
Não assista então, nós construímos tanques e não fazemos vídeos
HA HA HA HA 😅