Bushmaster - 4x4 controls & more
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- Опубліковано 13 тра 2023
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The Thales Bushmaster is what's known as a "Protected Mobility Vehicle", or armoured 4X4 military truck. In this video I briefly explain what some of the 4x4 controls are, and some of the recovery points such as the power-takeoff winch. The controls are basically similar to your own 4X4!
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Thank you for the review and huge thanks to Australia for providing them to my country for defending
Some serious Heavy Equipment there.
Im jealous you had this experience. Bushmaster is one of the vehicles in my Apocalypse garage.
best vid of em yet
55 years ago the Australian designed and built in Australia 4x4 and 6x6 ACCO trucks designed specifically for the Australian Armed Services I was driving, had a centre mounted winch running 73m of steel cable which was routed to either the front or rear of the vehicle driven from a PTO, nothing changes.
I would have liked to have had a centralised tyre inflation system back then, would've been a great help. The original Australian design was done in 1959 on a 4x4 chassis, with the 6x6 chassis very quickly following.
Air conditioning back then would have been wonderful...
Very interesting quick review; thanks.
Must have taken ages to change pressures? I did like the side-mounted winch with option for double-line pull to centralise the force. Very cool. Hard to adapt to a civilian road-legal car though. For those interested the Gaz Trackmaster has CTI and my video includes a demonstration ua-cam.com/video/4SN3PlALNXY/v-deo.html
And Second World War Canadian Military Pattern 'Quad' gun tractors and 15CWT winch-equipped trucks had a centre mounted PTO winch with front and rear rollers. It's a very common setup for military vehicles.
@@contributor7219 One aspect of the two trucks I drove, is that the 6x6 had a shear pin in the winch system, which meant that when you reached the shear point, the pin sheared and you were left high and dry in sand, or possibly stuck in a bog. The 4x4 truck had an electric cancellation switch, I cannot remember the specifics as it's so long ago, but you needed to re-set and then have another go.
The shear pin was a very bad design issue as far as all the drivers I knew thought of, including myself. If you really needed to be extracted out in a hurry, you didn't need or want the shear pin to shear. Some of us carried some steel pins filed down to shape; what happens in the field is quite different to the training we all undertook
If you are running a winch from a PTO, you need a shear pin or an electric cut-off to preserve the transmission from dropping it's lunch; meaning you'll be going nowhere. I wonder what the cut-off is for the Bushmaster?
@@L2SFBC We could drop air pretty quickly, but we never dropped much as the tyres were tubed and as sure as eggs are eggs, you would be pinching or chafing a hole in a tube before you knew it if you went really low, especially if you were fully loaded. Split rims were the go and it was always fun to watch an unsuspecting soul standing with us while we talked about anything except the wheel next to us being inflated from the truck's air brake system and then have it clang into position. The split rim was always facing towards the truck and back then one was allowed to stand within 6m of the inflating tyre, or on the other side of the truck in front of the two rear axles.
You are correct, it did take ages to re-inflate. We didn't generally use a pressure gauge in the field, we just hit the tyre with a jemmy every now and then, when it made the right sound it was surprisingly near enough.
Interesting points should I ever be allowed to drive one of these by the ADF!
Love the Bushmaster. Did it have low range also?
Yes it has low range.
No, it's a single speed transfer case. You just get a very low geared 1st for climbing/descending with.
2 questions mate
where do i buy one
how much for one
1. if you have to ask you won't be allowed
2. if you have to ask you can't afford it
What’s going on with that double park valve setup?
So the top one is for the park brake. The second is to send air to a PMV that will need to be recovered to we can release the park brake on a stricken one. Technically a trailer park brake.
@@Nando_1221 Ah I see. I’ve only ever seen the yellow and red. Sometimes a round blue or black one that’s emergency release but only on a few vehicles.
How much did you say these Master-of-the Bush go for?
I didn't mention but I'm sure if you were fighting for your country's survival in Europe a deal could be worked out 👍
It is sad to remember that all the design changes and improvements put into the Bushmaster were hard and unforgiving lessons learnt by men and women in wars before in inferior and deeply inadequate vehicles. The fact that the truck has shrugged off missiles and anti tank mines with the crew uninjured in Ukraine is fantastic.
Indeed, an excellent point. Thank you.
it would shrug off a mine sure, but probably not a anti tank round/missile/rocket/grenade
1:26 It's not that it doesn't have a five-star safety rating; it's that whatever it shares the road with has a no-star safety rating!
A reasonable point!
That’s what I was gonna say. The only things you’d need this to have an airbag for is an 18 wheeler and a train
@@servicetrucker5564 “Bushmaster - because our crumple zone is other vehicles!”
Will save you from .50 cal automatic gunfire and IEDs in a war zone but not much good in a head on when driving to visit your mother-in-law.
WW3 👀
Slava Rusiji!
Thugs in thongs hahaha 🤣😂😅😁👍
just to be clear, that's the Australian definition of 'thong'.
Nice video but didn't need the Ukrainian propaganda at the end.
Ok boris
propaganda? What you support the Russians do you? If thats the case Australia says fuck off