It is a legal thing, if they don't have them and something happens they will get in more sht and also it is the polices job to enforce the law not make it.
@@Tomm9y depends on how much they can sell it due to confiscation. But fortunately the road pirates didnt take this specimen because they felt threatened
Hi Guys, I worked at Chobham for 10 years. You need to look up the history of that reg. All the trials and test ones had that SP reg. You might have a rare one there. It sounds sweet and looks tidy. It looks like you had to do the old "string on the solenoid" trick. Lol. I was destined to take one to Iran for firing demo's, could be that one? Be very careful traversing the gun, at full speed the tip of the barrel is doing 60 mph!!
@@dartmoordave Ayup, I believe it, since it's a matter of life and death in combat I suppose. Laying the gun fast and all that. But boy, an accident with that is going to look right terrible.
@Uther Petersen The principle of the laminated armour is now well established, but the actual ceramic and material compounds which were also handed over for the Abrams as well, are probably still restricted. I signed the OSA, its for life.
You didn't have the "Transporting a desert sand colored main battle tank in the rain" permit. Officer, any issues with the 120mm gun? No, just get the permit, transport it when it's not raining or paint it green.
Just when you start to wonder why all the disrespect towards the Blue, they pull this type of crap. See it all the time in the states as well. Must be a genetic defect...just gotta stick their nosy beaks into everything all the time.
@@gmarie701 Uhuh, and what happens if the vehicle was not secured properly and came off the back of the transporter and the result killed people? I suppose that too would be the fault of the police for not fucking checking right? Damned if they do and damned if they don't? I fucking HATE double standards, always have and always will. I would rather they spent a few minutes checking than letting a poorly secured load travel, as the end result of the latter is potentially fatal, and probably NOT to the driver of the transporting vehicle but to the poor shits behind it. If the load is properly secured what's the issue with a few minutes having it checked? Not like you are going to be charged with anything, they will check and let you on your merry way. All you lose is a little time.
When he was 20 my dad was ordered to take a Sherman on a transporter from Bridlington to Retford to give a talk on gunnery in 1943. They had a road map, but there were no roadsigns as they had all been removed, so they came across many little bridges with 15 ton SWL signs on them....they dismounted the tank, a mere 32 tons, to cross them. The talk was to fifteen or so old men in officers uniform. It turned out they were in the reserve and had all been artillery men in WW1. He said they were very polite to the rookie trooper telling them how to suck eggs. 😁
I had someone drive into my tank once. He claimed he didn't see it. It was an open dual carriageway. He broke his nose for his trouble (That Vectra apparently didn't have an airbag).
Nah. If you avoid firing the main gun it holds it's value well. Yes I know it's traditional to put a round into the sales office when you leave but resist the temptation.
That tank has a very new engine in it. Well done. Ours used to smoke like bastards till they were proper warm. About 20 min of running. Then again we were dirty smelly armourd engineers, and only got the cast off half worn hulls for conversion into bridge layers etc.
Depends on the fuel used - my guess is your tanks used off road diesel. This particular motor would run on either gas or diesel, and they likely put modern auto diesel in this tank to make it start better.
@Eddie Hitler I looked it up, and kerosene is a much lighter oil fuel than Diesel, which the US favors to use. I had an idiot co worker that put off-road diesel then mixed in kerosene in his pickup, and it would run like a bat out of hell, but it was a turbo. I live way up at 8,500 ft - 2,600 meters, and I don't care for all the extra stuff you have to do at -30f or -34c - that a heavy fuel engine needs at this temperature, and altitude. I don't even have a clue where I would get kerosene up here. My diesel fanboy friend says that kerosene turns semisolid at this altitude. I know that if you have a diesel, and don't get winter fuel stabilizer it will gel up. I have been around, and worked on military equipment all my life, and I have never seen anything that runs on kerosene. Jet fuel is some expensive specialized stuff, and only an idiot would use it in a ground engine. It has a gel point of -47f, and is super refined. Unless it is 90 years ago your not going to use the same fuel.
@Eddie Hitler Maybe if your in the UK or Europe - like I said - you will have a hard time even finding the stuff in many places in the US especially if you live in a remote town at 2,600 meters. I asked the gas station attendant here, and he says kerosene burns very poorly at 2,600 meters, and creates a component known as carbon monoxide, because the air is so thin it burns incompletely. I find it hard to believe any country would use that fuel at high altitude, but I think that Britain's highest mountain is 10 meters so I guess it does not matter there!. ROFL
@@MegaMeaty Kerosene works fine in lamps at any altitude. That's just another name for parafin. JP4 is cleaned-up parafin with additives to increase conductivity (to stop sparks), and gumpf that kills off the greeblies that eat parafin, also some sort of detergent so that water doesn't condense out of it as easily (don't want ice in the fuel tanks).
Having been the driver of the Chieftan MBT with 2 RTR a good few years back I know how it feels to get one on and off a low loader. What I do not understand is how plastic triangles on the tracks can have any beneficial benefit I think people might notice it is a wide load. Seems like the expected police getting excited over nothing to me as usual.
So it's not just American police who need to find something to write you up for, ticket you for, or arrest you for once they've gone to the trouble of actually stopping their vehicle. Sigh.
It's mostly useless rules to make sure your covered in the event of an accident. Sure we all know your blind if you miss a 50t tank on the back of a huge truck and trailer...but rules are rules.
Loved the chieftain when I was in the forces we distributed the replacement engines for the challenger before they delivered the tanks. All top secret we went to vickers and picked them up on the day Margret thatcher was doing a visit. I was a senior driver and in charge we drove a convoy of eight trucks the best thing was going to Dover and commandeering a whole floor on a ferry for our top secret load. I loved handing over the big buff envelope labelled top secret. The customs boss went ballistic ( he honestly thought Jeremy beagle was about ) police escort all the way to Germany Military MP’s guarding the deck while on board. Then we delivered the tank engines to the tank regiments arriving at the bases and seeing the faces on the engineers saying we haven’t got the tanks yet. I had to explain that they got the spares before the tanks arrived. Word got round the base and the base commander arrived asked “ who’s in charge” I said I am he looked at me and said “but your only a driver” (my rank in the RCT ) give him his due he arranged for us to have a meal and food for the journey. He did laugh when I said can you bring it to us as I’m not fucking leaving these engines on there own sorry sir. Happy days once empty we was commissioned to bring back WW2 over stock and some desolate army barracks. It was 90 tonne of Lee Enfield 303 rifles all in boxes and full of grease and all brand new. The quarter master on site said they had been in the warehouse all this time. The tarpaulin just crumbled as we took them off. The army eventually sold them off as over stock. I remember seeing on gun dealers adverts in magazines you could buy the for £99. This was all before the Dunblane massacre in Scotland. Great video. 2” inches is still inches at the end of the day the driver new that he was just chancing his arm. 😂👍👍👍👍👍 could tell you a story about the stolly but that’s top top secret 🤫
@@herecomestrouble7878 a few issues like never delivering above 550 hp. Despite British Leyland stating 800 hp! The engine's sounded great but we're sh1t!
Well thank god those police made you put those oversize load hazard signs on your tank. No one would have known there was ever a large tank near them without them!!
The Norfolk finest were actually right, HGV regulations require triangular projection markers on load that is wider than 2.9m (9ft5inch) according to technical dimensions chieftain is 3.66m wide (12ft).
Thats Only if it doesn’t have an ‘escort’ or follow vhic , these guys had a few logistical vans and flashing orange lights . Besides … rules are made to be broken 😏
Nine years fixing Chieftain. Reckon I could do a pack lift in my sleep. In the cold, in the wet, at 3am like normal. Sounds like a bellows leaking on the exhaust box too.
@@paralogregt It was more of fondness for a job that kept me employed rather than the tank engine. But yeah, the L60 had a lot to answer for with the hydrostatic locking, saw plenty of them with piston & con rod remnants hanging out through the blocks.
Yeah- seeing the tank driving through isn't something you see every day. When I moved to my new house back in the 90s, I was not aware that there was an airfield nearby frequented by the Confederate Air Force. I was working in the yard when a Japanese Zero streaked by being chased by a Corsair. I thought-either the Confederate Air Force is in town or things are much worse than I thought.
My father was in RE commanding an AVRE Chieftain before transferring to the diving section. As a kid got to go round a few muddy fields in the back of a Stally while we were based in Germany.
Mad lads 😜There were loads of these Chieftains on the tank parks in Paderborn during 1977. They're lovely, and a joy to drive. Not so much fun re-plenning them in the middle of nowhere at stupid o'clock.
And replen is *ALWAYS* at stupid o'clock in the middle of bum fuck nowhere regardless of outfit and in worse weather and mud the heavier and bulkier your gear is to move.
From what I understand they weren’t so great. The Iranians had them and they didn’t fair all that well against the T-72M of the Iraqis. UK tried to sell Chieftains to the the Iraqis during the war but they declined buying them after seeing the problems the Iranians had with them.
It just seems that way to a lad. I thought so until we started on the Iranian prototypes. Then 70 tonnes sliding sideways on the test track at 40 became mind focussing. Lol.
Incredible how tiny red triangles can prevent absolute carnage. Thats a very give chieftain specimen😁 im very envious, but thats allright, im happy for you👍🏼
Yup - TrafficPolice are a law unto themselves. To be fair you should have had the Wide Load marker boards pre-fitted on the vehicle. The NEXT tank you buy, you now have the marker boards already! The tracks hanging over the side of the transporter is a dead giveaway...lol.
When the Police are interferring with a big recovery truck you know they jobs worths. I'm fairly sure those folks know what they are doing, turning up with an bright orange lowloader, covered in lights and warning signs, but no the police still got to put their 2 cents worth in...
mate having wide load boards on when not needed is an offence under the 1988 road traffic act. so no he should not have had them per-fitted. showing any COASHH, H&S, hazard or road traffic act / highway code sings without good reason on a vehicle is and offence. you can get three to six points or and a fine. in my experience traffic coppers' are very useful at doing the simple stuff. but know nothing about, hazardous, heavy or wide loads. they just pull something out there ass and demand you do it to feel in control. i worked in environmental drilling and we got stopped time and again moving drills and so on. not once did the old bill know what the law was. they even tried doing us for the geo-tec rig having no number plate, road tax or MOT. that was despite it being on a flat bed not on the road and a DVLA exception certificate holder. my old boss never took any bull from them and and very often sent them off with a flee in the ear. the best one, supposedly, as i didn't see it happen. was a the copper my boss seriously pi*sed off by explaining the law in esteem detail to. how he then filmed bleeding air out a tire with the pressure tester and then trying to do him for having and under inflated wheel. that guy took early retirement before he could be fired. probably why we got pulled all the time.
@@RebelTvShka i think its the same the world over mate. some people become oldbill to make life safer and fight criminal's. others because they want to be the boss. sadly we all remember the twats and forget the good guys.
The old wire/string on the fuel injector pump solenoid trick! Had to do that many a time to start the engine, looks like you have a good Chevy though and it'll be great with a bit of work.
@@MrHewes Well done Joe! Another point for you, keep the hydraulic governor topped up with the correct grande of oil, if you do not maintain the governor level the engine will experience a runaway and self destruct! Saw it happen in Hohne when all the fans smashed their way through the engine decks as the engine blew apart, how we laughed at the poor old driver!!
@@mikeandhev String on the pump became NATO standard! My pal and I had a runaway on a brand new engine while we were standing on it!! We jumped for the sides just as the liners fell in. Close call.
I can't remember his name But I do remember just before I left we ( all the volunteers) drove down to Sailsbury plain to pick up some tank power-packed ( engine and gearbox in one unit ) For the sole purpose of selling g them and the money going to the museum UNFORTUNATELY for the museum he decided to sell them himself and pocket the money and using the museum's name as his reference Think 90% of us left within weeks of us finding out ... a sad day for all
I can only imagine how many Cops there would be if you decided to drive it home! LOL. It's going to be interesting to see this being worked on. I'm looking forward to this. Thanks for the video!
Only way they're stoping it is if it breaks down or runs out of fuel, the driver won't hear the sirens over the engine noise, stingers will do diddly squat, can't pit manouvre it because its a tank, anyone want to risk using their car as a barricade in the road in the hopes the tank decides to stop?
Nearly came to Canada back in the day to the annual/biannual? Tank bash on the Suffield training area to demonstrate the muzzle reference system and computerised gun control system in a big shoot off.
I thought it was the mutli-fuel engine from Leyland was the problem. The export to the middle east replaced that engine with a diesel so it was easier to maintain.
@@bobgriffin5585 I think James is thinking of the regular diesel engine in the tanks Vickers were making themselves for export or the Iranian Shir1 which was a re engined half Chieftain/half new rear hull, or the Shir2 which in a revamped guise became Challenger1.
Worked at Vickers in the 60's with lots of these tanks being machined and built. I seem to remember some problems with the sealing against leakage when going through deep water. Didn't work!
In 1968 my father was sent to Southampton waters to recover a centurine that was dropped into the sea at a boat slip. There were two centurion tanks on a landing craft the one at the front had a naf engin. Landing craft was pushed on to the boat slip, Rear Centurion engine started and used to push the front Centurion off. Front centurion made contact with the slip stopped rear tank carried on pushing and the whole lot floated into Southampton waters where the front centurine toppled off the landing craft. The centurions were being exported to Israel!! My father was a REME Major overseeing the recovery with his recovery team. The actual recovery was uneventful.
Be great to hear a L60 growl again . Prone to oil leaks though but all in all bloody brilliant kit 👍👍 hope you keep us posted on here of all the fun. Is the swear box ready lol?
i feel like re activating the gun wouldnt be too hard as it looks like they just welded certain parts shut.im sure everything else can be machined and replaced and you can probably cut all those welds off
I'm Torn. If I was transporting a Tank, I'd be well annoyed at get stopped by the Police. If I was the Police, there's no way I wouldn't pull over a Tank to have a nose...
I bought an M3 A1 1942 Scout Car a few years back. Drove it home from storage with a cop following all the way, as I had plates on it he couldn't come up with an excuse to stop us
Judging by the registration, this tank was a trials vehicle of some sort? The SP on the number plate denotes Special Project, so I hope it has an interesting story ?
@@fittermat Iran did buy some Chieftain tanks, so this could be a 'desertised' export version. If you access the Tank Museum archives, they should tell you its history?
@@fittermat I was about to mention the SP registration as well. Does it have the standard TN12 or the full automatic TN12E gearbox? As some Iranian Vehicles were ordered with the TN12E. Spent many a happy hour fixing them. Womderful glorious things when they work.
@@fittermat It looks like one of the ones I was going to take to Iran to demonstrate the Muzzle reference system MRS, and the laser sight to eliminate the 50 cal ranging gun. We were just about to ship them when the Shar was deposed. Phew!!
@@sappersteve1443 Iran had the largest tank army outside USSR at the time. All versions of Chieftain which was why I was involved with the Marconi upgrades. All at Chobham had SP plates.
mate you need to be introduced to my mum. even in her seventies she would still go full handbag looney if she decided it was HER parking spot. i really don't think a 52 ton tank would have intimidated her one bit. :)
Same here in the US, can't argue with DOT cops although you are correct.... I had a Barney Fife cite me for driver fatigue because I had an empty Mountain Dew can in my cup holder!!
Am I the only person that got sad when he said the gun is deactivated. I'm glad that I was born in the US where our civilian owned tanks have working cannons.
@@Volfur2251 If you have a destructive devices license you can have tanks with functional cannons in most US states. As well as other military equipment. You can't buy modern tanks and equipment for the most part, but not because it's illegal. Those companies are under contract and literally can't sell to civilians.
Must be an oldie. Has the original “Duplex” controller for the gunner! They were swapped out for the “Thumb” controllers in the early 80,s when IFCS came in. Lots of missing small bits as well just from a glance. Nice though.
Thought I recognised the orange truck and trailer. I once lived in Kibworth. I wonder how often they are asked to transport large military vehicles because the pongoes normally do it for themselves.
We did this 15 years ago, took our mk11 to beltring on a scammer commander , sold it at the show . Ours was a Mk11 , got the laser amplifier on the gun laying system from Beverly museum the very minute they became de-classified.
I've heard about the Cheiftain's that were built for the Shar's Army, but they were never shipped because of the Iranian revolution. I had always assumed that they were all mothballed and then later scrapped to make way for the mothballed Challenger 1's.
THAT IS FREAKIN AWSOME!! GREAT BUY GUYS!! I've seen tanks loaded lots of times. Removable Goose neck trailers is the way to go. If the Russians were loading it, the tank would be upside down and the truck on its side.
The police just can't help themselves can they! Remember the old saying "If you have done nothing wrong, you still have everything to fear from the police."
I'm sure you could get a good loud bang out of the gun safely and legally using an oxygen/acetylene mix some imagination and a wicked sense of humour 😁💥
Ok, I'm subbing but only for a future video "We took a Chieftain MBT to McDonalds Drive-Through"! :)
Hahahah that would be worth watching 😂😂😂🔥🔥
I would love to go to a drive through with a Greyhound or Scout Car. At a bank would be “fun”.
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I’m very glad they made you put those orange triangle thingies on the back of the tank, you wouldn’t see it otherwise.... 🤪
Don't they just signify a slow moving vehicle? Nvm I was thinking of the other fluorescent orange triangle things used in the US
Honestly you’d be surprised with 80% of car drivers 😂
Camouflage!!!😂
It is a legal thing, if they don't have them and something happens they will get in more sht and also it is the polices job to enforce the law not make it.
There's a possibility that other drivers wouldn't believe what they were seeing.....
Well that's some addition to the fleet. Magnificent. I'm sure the Police basically were completing their road stop bingo, ending 2021 with a tank
How much do the police score a tank at? Must be more than a Lambo.
@@Tomm9y depends on how much they can sell it due to confiscation.
But fortunately the road pirates didnt take this specimen because they felt threatened
You may jest, but its true. Power tripping little nazis
Too big to impound
Let me guess, a violation of the firearm laws ..??
Hi Guys, I worked at Chobham for 10 years. You need to look up the history of that reg. All the trials and test ones had that SP reg. You might have a rare one there. It sounds sweet and looks tidy. It looks like you had to do the old "string on the solenoid" trick. Lol. I was destined to take one to Iran for firing demo's, could be that one? Be very careful traversing the gun, at full speed the tip of the barrel is doing 60 mph!!
60 mph?!! Someone's going to wind up a head short!
@@UnclePutte Yes, the guy running the turret rig at Chobham had calculated the time to rotate versus the radius of the barrel tip. So I'm told.
@@dartmoordave Ayup, I believe it, since it's a matter of life and death in combat I suppose. Laying the gun fast and all that. But boy, an accident with that is going to look right terrible.
@Uther Petersen The principle of the laminated armour is now well established, but the actual ceramic and material compounds which were also handed over for the Abrams as well, are probably still restricted. I signed the OSA, its for life.
@@dartmoordave
Regarding the speed of the turret rotation, no point in trying to shout 'duck', then? 😂
I agree with the Coppers. I thought that you were driving an empty low loader until you got those little triangles. 🤣
Yep, when they drove it on the trailer, it was like it just disappeared.
Yes a lot like nobody can see the engines on a Airbus A300 until you put 3 cones around them!
@@SIXPACFISH It blends with the sky, so if you're driving alongside it's hard to see. Almost like the paint is supposed to hide the tank.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Shhhh, stealth.
You didn't have the "Transporting a desert sand colored main battle tank in the rain" permit.
Officer, any issues with the 120mm gun?
No, just get the permit, transport it when it's not raining or paint it green.
If only the Soviets had known about the fluorescent orange thingies. They could have brought the British army to a standstill…
The temptation to rotate the turret on the 'rozzers' must have been overwhelming.😁
" Two inches? You should be more worried about 120mm."
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@@forbeshutton5487 😂😂
Just when you start to wonder why all the disrespect towards the Blue, they pull this type of crap. See it all the time in the states as well. Must be a genetic defect...just gotta stick their nosy beaks into everything all the time.
@@gmarie701 Uhuh, and what happens if the vehicle was not secured properly and came off the back of the transporter and the result killed people? I suppose that too would be the fault of the police for not fucking checking right? Damned if they do and damned if they don't?
I fucking HATE double standards, always have and always will. I would rather they spent a few minutes checking than letting a poorly secured load travel, as the end result of the latter is potentially fatal, and probably NOT to the driver of the transporting vehicle but to the poor shits behind it. If the load is properly secured what's the issue with a few minutes having it checked? Not like you are going to be charged with anything, they will check and let you on your merry way. All you lose is a little time.
When he was 20 my dad was ordered to take a Sherman on a transporter from Bridlington to Retford to give a talk on gunnery in 1943. They had a road map, but there were no roadsigns as they had all been removed, so they came across many little bridges with 15 ton SWL signs on them....they dismounted the tank, a mere 32 tons, to cross them. The talk was to fifteen or so old men in officers uniform. It turned out they were in the reserve and had all been artillery men in WW1. He said they were very polite to the rookie trooper telling them how to suck eggs. 😁
Those boards are a good idea because prior to you fitting them, I couldn’t see the tank.
oh people could . but those prickly coppers want some extra money.
I had someone drive into my tank once. He claimed he didn't see it. It was an open dual carriageway. He broke his nose for his trouble (That Vectra apparently didn't have an airbag).
@Alfred Wedmore, any joke you have a problem with, just let me explain.
@@nathandean1687 What money?
@Alfred Wedmore, as I typed, I was wondering but went ahead anyway. Can be diff to detect irony/sarcasm in print form. 🙂
Buying tanks is awesome but the only thing I hate about it is as soon as you drive them off the lot they lose 1/4 of their value!
Aw man, I have that every damn time!
@@sjonnieplayfull5859 Not to mention those dirty sleezy used tank salesman.
Nah. If you avoid firing the main gun it holds it's value well. Yes I know it's traditional to put a round into the sales office when you leave but resist the temptation.
Wrong these are basically Toyota's they only appreciate 😂
@@119beaker Yeah but why else would you even buy a tank if not to fire the man gun at some liberal vegans in a Prius.
That tank has a very new engine in it. Well done. Ours used to smoke like bastards till they were proper warm. About 20 min of running. Then again we were dirty smelly armourd engineers, and only got the cast off half worn hulls for conversion into bridge layers etc.
Depends on the fuel used - my guess is your tanks used off road diesel. This particular motor would run on either gas or diesel, and they likely put modern auto diesel in this tank to make it start better.
@Eddie Hitler I looked it up, and kerosene is a much lighter oil fuel than Diesel, which the US favors to use. I had an idiot co worker that put off-road diesel then mixed in kerosene in his pickup, and it would run like a bat out of hell, but it was a turbo. I live way up at 8,500 ft - 2,600 meters, and I don't care for all the extra stuff you have to do at -30f or -34c - that a heavy fuel engine needs at this temperature, and altitude. I don't even have a clue where I would get kerosene up here. My diesel fanboy friend says that kerosene turns semisolid at this altitude. I know that if you have a diesel, and don't get winter fuel stabilizer it will gel up. I have been around, and worked on military equipment all my life, and I have never seen anything that runs on kerosene. Jet fuel is some expensive specialized stuff, and only an idiot would use it in a ground engine. It has a gel point of -47f, and is super refined. Unless it is 90 years ago your not going to use the same fuel.
@Eddie Hitler Maybe if your in the UK or Europe - like I said - you will have a hard time even finding the stuff in many places in the US especially if you live in a remote town at 2,600 meters. I asked the gas station attendant here, and he says kerosene burns very poorly at 2,600 meters, and creates a component known as carbon monoxide, because the air is so thin it burns incompletely. I find it hard to believe any country would use that fuel at high altitude, but I think that Britain's highest mountain is 10 meters so I guess it does not matter there!. ROFL
@@MegaMeaty Kerosene works fine in lamps at any altitude. That's just another name for parafin. JP4 is cleaned-up parafin with additives to increase conductivity (to stop sparks), and gumpf that kills off the greeblies that eat parafin, also some sort of detergent so that water doesn't condense out of it as easily (don't want ice in the fuel tanks).
Having been the driver of the Chieftan MBT with 2 RTR a good few years back I know how it feels to get one on and off a low loader. What I do not understand is how plastic triangles on the tracks can have any beneficial benefit I think people might notice it is a wide load. Seems like the expected police getting excited over nothing to me as usual.
So it's not just American police who need to find something to write you up for, ticket you for, or arrest you for once they've gone to the trouble of actually stopping their vehicle.
Sigh.
I loved the big exercises in Germany back in the day!
It's mostly useless rules to make sure your covered in the event of an accident. Sure we all know your blind if you miss a 50t tank on the back of a huge truck and trailer...but rules are rules.
Hi I am the police. I am important. I stopped you because I can. I will do everything I can to look important. Now I can brag i stopped a tank today.
@@assassinlexx1993 yeah seems they were bored lol
Loved the chieftain when I was in the forces we distributed the replacement engines for the challenger before they delivered the tanks. All top secret we went to vickers and picked them up on the day Margret thatcher was doing a visit. I was a senior driver and in charge we drove a convoy of eight trucks the best thing was going to Dover and commandeering a whole floor on a ferry for our top secret load. I loved handing over the big buff envelope labelled top secret. The customs boss went ballistic ( he honestly thought Jeremy beagle was about ) police escort all the way to Germany Military MP’s guarding the deck while on board. Then we delivered the tank engines to the tank regiments arriving at the bases and seeing the faces on the engineers saying we haven’t got the tanks yet. I had to explain that they got the spares before the tanks arrived. Word got round the base and the base commander arrived asked “ who’s in charge” I said I am he looked at me and said “but your only a driver” (my rank in the RCT ) give him his due he arranged for us to have a meal and food for the journey. He did laugh when I said can you bring it to us as I’m not fucking leaving these engines on there own sorry sir. Happy days once empty we was commissioned to bring back WW2 over stock and some desolate army barracks. It was 90 tonne of Lee Enfield 303 rifles all in boxes and full of grease and all brand new. The quarter master on site said they had been in the warehouse all this time. The tarpaulin just crumbled as we took them off. The army eventually sold them off as over stock. I remember seeing on gun dealers adverts in magazines you could buy the for £99. This was all before the Dunblane massacre in Scotland. Great video. 2” inches is still inches at the end of the day the driver new that he was just chancing his arm. 😂👍👍👍👍👍 could tell you a story about the stolly but that’s top top secret 🤫
Great story, doesn’t surprise me one bit!
Great story, Id love to hear more but you might get shot.
Leyland L60 engines 2 stroke 6 cylinder 12 piston multi fuel 19 litre Diesel engine engines sound great but they did have a few issues
@@herecomestrouble7878 a few issues like never delivering above 550 hp. Despite British Leyland stating 800 hp! The engine's sounded great but we're sh1t!
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Well thank god those police made you put those oversize load hazard signs on your tank. No one would have known there was ever a large tank near them without them!!
The Norfolk finest were actually right, HGV regulations require triangular projection markers on load that is wider than 2.9m (9ft5inch) according to technical dimensions chieftain is 3.66m wide (12ft).
thats only if its a standard bed and has no following vehicle mate.
On this edition of “I googled something and read the first result I saw for 3 seconds and then went full keyboard warrior”
Thats Only if it doesn’t have an ‘escort’ or follow vhic , these guys had a few logistical vans and flashing orange lights . Besides … rules are made to be broken 😏
@@kooperativekrohn819 wait so i AM supposed to use chlorine gas to defend my home against the neighbours cats...
@@hosybosy1119 well duh, it's what I've been using, after magazines above 10 rounds in 5.56 was made illegal
Nine years fixing Chieftain. Reckon I could do a pack lift in my sleep. In the cold, in the wet, at 3am like normal.
Sounds like a bellows leaking on the exhaust box too.
How fast is the average pack change?
We used to do chieftain pack changes in about 4hrs. Berlin Armoured Squadron 1988-1990
I reckon the main armament is the all enveloping smoke screen.
You must be one of those REME guys we couldn't do without, stay lucky mate
and with the assistance wee yellow handbag Dave.
I can smell the exhaust through the monitor...brings back memories!
Another awesome tank in the collection. Can't wait to see more videos on the Chieftain.
The marker boards definitely made the tank more visible, without them nobody would have seen it on the low loader.
I walked into it 3 times damn camouflage…
@@MrHewes Well, that just proves my point. It's lucky the police took time out of their busy schedule to identify and sort the problem.
Damned stealth tanks
Rulez is rulez. It's either legal or it isn't & they'd have found out that really matters if somebody had hit it.
A thing of rare and magnificent mechanical beauty. Well done fellas, have fun.
Good old Chieftain, they were my 'bread & butter' for 13 years when I worked at 38 Central Workshops 👍
Good old Chieftain my arse, what piece of junk, terrible engine. Politics got in the way of having a good tank with a reliable engine. Ex REME A mech
@@paralogregt It was more of fondness for a job that kept me employed rather than the tank engine. But yeah, the L60 had a lot to answer for with the hydrostatic locking, saw plenty of them with piston & con rod remnants hanging out through the blocks.
@@garyphillips7993 yeah so did i in the 12 ARMD pack section and at Batus
@@garyphillips7993 far more interesting than tills. 😁👍
@@dfar2303 Heck of a lot more interesting & challenging.
Yeah- seeing the tank driving through isn't something you see every day.
When I moved to my new house back in the 90s, I was not aware that there was an airfield nearby frequented by the Confederate Air Force. I was working in the yard when a Japanese Zero streaked by being chased by a Corsair. I thought-either the Confederate Air Force is in town or things are much worse than I thought.
Just the fact that you can buy tanks and tank-like vehicles is amazing
My father was in RE commanding an AVRE Chieftain before transferring to the diving section. As a kid got to go round a few muddy fields in the back of a Stally while we were based in Germany.
Mad lads 😜There were loads of these Chieftains on the tank parks in Paderborn during 1977. They're lovely, and a joy to drive. Not so much fun re-plenning them in the middle of nowhere at stupid o'clock.
And replen is *ALWAYS* at stupid o'clock in the middle of bum fuck nowhere regardless of outfit and in worse weather and mud the heavier and bulkier your gear is to move.
Watching from Australia. Congratulations on another great addition to the “Big Boys Shed”. 😎
You Aussies could use a good tank these days! They can't keep you in the Covid camp if you're driving out in a Chieftain!
Sounds great drove a MK1 in Germany early 70s when I was 17 loved it
Man…I could smell the exhaust fumes from here filtering through my screen! Lol
But what a find! 😍
Excellent stuff! 😎👍
Loaded on to the Antares a few times in Germany before the Big Exercise always entertaining to watch....
I drove a Chieftan when I was in the CCF at school over the tank ranges at Tidworth. What a thrill for a 16 year old, they actually go quite fast.
I remember them from NATO drills in the 80's - they liked to stop running in the middle of a drill.
From what I understand they weren’t so great. The Iranians had them and they didn’t fair all that well against the T-72M of the Iraqis. UK tried to sell Chieftains to the the Iraqis during the war but they declined buying them after seeing the problems the Iranians had with them.
It just seems that way to a lad. I thought so until we started on the Iranian prototypes. Then 70 tonnes sliding sideways on the test track at 40 became mind focussing. Lol.
@@johan-erikjohannesson2796 They tried to sell them to the Iraqis because Vickers were pissed at the Iranians kicking out the Shar.
I worked at Barnbow, and made most of the pipework for the Chieftan, Have subscribed and cannot wait for the rebuild
I worked at Barnbow, mid 70s, west shop crane driver. loved every second.
looks in pretty good nick and most of the interior fittings are there. as an ex tankie who worked with these i will be subscribing. good luck lads
Well done everybody and kudos to the tank driver and his helpers for putting it on that lowbed
Not a bad effort for his first chieftain drive!
@@fittermat He did an excellent job backing it up onto the trailer. Well done!
Who needs smoke generators when you have a Leyland Multi-fuel.......
LOL! The Bluebottles buzz around where they aren't need and aren't welcome.
Incredible how tiny red triangles can prevent absolute carnage.
Thats a very give chieftain specimen😁 im very envious, but thats allright, im happy for you👍🏼
Bloody hell, the camouflage on that tank must be the best in the world.
Imagine having to put orange triangles on it so that it could be seen!
Calling a transport company.
"Yeah, I have this Battle tank that I need transporting, Can you do that?"
Nice collection...As a child I owned the Dinky Toys Chieftain Tank, always dreamed of owning the real thing.
Severe bout of envy here in Darmstadt, Germany. Well, enjoy your new toy guys! :)
Yup - TrafficPolice are a law unto themselves. To be fair you should have had the Wide Load marker boards pre-fitted on the vehicle.
The NEXT tank you buy, you now have the marker boards already!
The tracks hanging over the side of the transporter is a dead giveaway...lol.
When the Police are interferring with a big recovery truck you know they jobs worths.
I'm fairly sure those folks know what they are doing, turning up with an bright orange lowloader, covered in lights and warning signs, but no the police still got to put their 2 cents worth in...
mate having wide load boards on when not needed is an offence under the 1988 road traffic act. so no he should not have had them per-fitted. showing any COASHH, H&S, hazard or road traffic act / highway code sings without good reason on a vehicle is and offence. you can get three to six points or and a fine.
in my experience traffic coppers' are very useful at doing the simple stuff. but know nothing about, hazardous, heavy or wide loads. they just pull something out there ass and demand you do it to feel in control.
i worked in environmental drilling and we got stopped time and again moving drills and so on. not once did the old bill know what the law was. they even tried doing us for the geo-tec rig having no number plate, road tax or MOT. that was despite it being on a flat bed not on the road and a DVLA exception certificate holder. my old boss never took any bull from them and and very often sent them off with a flee in the ear.
the best one, supposedly, as i didn't see it happen. was a the copper my boss seriously pi*sed off by explaining the law in esteem detail to. how he then filmed bleeding air out a tire with the pressure tester and then trying to do him for having and under inflated wheel. that guy took early retirement before he could be fired. probably why we got pulled all the time.
@@tommyfred6180 Yeah, DOT in America pulls the same shit. Usually, if you're cool, they're cool, but they can easily be big assholes.
@@RebelTvShka i think its the same the world over mate. some people become oldbill to make life safer and fight criminal's. others because they want to be the boss. sadly we all remember the twats and forget the good guys.
"Now, sir, what were you planning on doing with this tank?"
"We thought it'd look lovely in the garden."
My friend got a tank from somewhere in Africa (think it was a T55). Got it shipped over to Grimsby and found it still had a shell up the spout.
The old wire/string on the fuel injector pump solenoid trick! Had to do that many a time to start the engine, looks like you have a good Chevy though and it'll be great with a bit of work.
I fixed this issue now, turns out a mouse had chewed a wire inside the turret !
@@MrHewes Well done Joe! Another point for you, keep the hydraulic governor topped up with the correct grande of oil, if you do not maintain the governor level the engine will experience a runaway and self destruct! Saw it happen in Hohne when all the fans smashed their way through the engine decks as the engine blew apart, how we laughed at the poor old driver!!
@@mikeandhev String on the pump became NATO standard! My pal and I had a runaway on a brand new engine while we were standing on it!! We jumped for the sides just as the liners fell in. Close call.
Nice to see you using good old Crouch... Great team of people..
The tracks are too tight, you need about 1.5 to 2'' of sag between the top rollers or else you'll have way too much friction.
Top Man, i can see you've done your share of "Track Bashing" ?
@@dartmoordave Yup ten years on Cents & Chieftains. :-)
@@Slaktrax im sure it binds up a bit when the suspension cycles too.
The barrel on this is rifled for accuracy not many tanks can say that
The only chieftens reversed onto transporters were the dozers. Normal loading forward with gun over back decks. Loved putting 14b onto Antars.
I took all the workshop manuals for the Chieftain range to the tank museum library at Bovington. They`re called AESPs.
I drove one of them when I worked for Duxford .. great fun !
Cambridgeshire you say .... cool my neck of the woods !!
The Mk 10 that they have by any chance ?
Sadly that was over 25 years a go and I was about 20 years old i Barely knew one end of a tank from another !! Lol
@@NUTTER8291 Who was in charge back then ?
I can't remember his name
But I do remember just before I left we ( all the volunteers) drove down to Sailsbury plain to pick up some tank power-packed ( engine and gearbox in one unit )
For the sole purpose of selling g them and the money going to the museum
UNFORTUNATELY for the museum he decided to sell them himself and pocket the money and using the museum's name as his reference
Think 90% of us left within weeks of us finding out ... a sad day for all
@@NUTTER8291 The museum didn't like the volunteers much if i can recall.
Opfor colours, especially without the skirts. Saladin is a cracking piece of kit
I'm surprised that a company like Crouch would have driver that would take an unmarked overhanging load.
didn't need the markers, coppers were wrong.
@@MrGroucho1933 HGC regulations require triangular projection markers on a load that is wider than 2.9 meters. The chieftain is 3.66 meters
Nice throaty rumble. Could hear these for miles when they were thrashed across the North German Plain back in the 80’s.
When I read the title, I immediately imagined the tank being boxed in by three squad cars and being forced to the side of the road.
Would have ended about the same as in James Bond...
a tank being boxed in? Wouldn't end well for the squad cars, unless they want pancake cars
Bet you could crash a cheese and wine business meeting in downing street with that.
I can only imagine how many Cops there would be if you decided to drive it home! LOL.
It's going to be interesting to see this being worked on.
I'm looking forward to this. Thanks for the video!
It would have broken down lol
Only way they're stoping it is if it breaks down or runs out of fuel, the driver won't hear the sirens over the engine noise, stingers will do diddly squat, can't pit manouvre it because its a tank, anyone want to risk using their car as a barricade in the road in the hopes the tank decides to stop?
Wow, there's something different!Looks like you'll be busy for the foreseeable future!😊👍😉
All Coppers are nice when they're collecting fees... yet - Kudos on your score!
Respect from Canada
No police in the U.K. collect fees.
Nearly came to Canada back in the day to the annual/biannual? Tank bash on the Suffield training area to demonstrate the muzzle reference system and computerised gun control system in a big shoot off.
@@dartmoordave Yeah - Alberta hosts quite the field party I hear.
I'm very grateful to you for making this video.
Tanks very much.
Crouch owns the Recovery tow van of the beast. (Y666 Tow)
A little neighborhood protection "in this day and age".
I thought it was the mutli-fuel engine from Leyland was the problem.
The export to the middle east replaced that engine with a diesel so it was easier to maintain.
James same engine went to export model Leyland l60, designed as multifuel but only ever ran on diesel
It was a NATO requirement for a multifuel engine I think, that only the British followed & produced *that* engine :/
@@bobgriffin5585 I think James is thinking of the regular diesel engine in the tanks Vickers were making themselves for export or the Iranian Shir1 which was a re engined half Chieftain/half new rear hull, or the Shir2 which in a revamped guise became Challenger1.
I learnt to drive one of these back in the 1960, I took a test and passed and never drove another one again!
What a buy! Cor, that's cool!
Worked at Vickers in the 60's with lots of these tanks being machined and built. I seem to remember some problems with the sealing against leakage when going through deep water. Didn't work!
In 1968 my father was sent to Southampton waters to recover a centurine that was dropped into the sea at a boat slip. There were two centurion tanks on a landing craft the one at the front had a naf engin. Landing craft was pushed on to the boat slip, Rear Centurion engine started and used to push the front Centurion off. Front centurion made contact with the slip stopped rear tank carried on pushing and the whole lot floated into Southampton waters where the front centurine toppled off the landing craft. The centurions were being exported to Israel!! My father was a REME Major overseeing the recovery with his recovery team. The actual recovery was uneventful.
I have driven one of these at an Army training ground. An extraordinary experience for a civilian.
Be great to hear a L60 growl again . Prone to oil leaks though but all in all bloody brilliant kit 👍👍 hope you keep us posted on here of all the fun. Is the swear box ready lol?
We can’t afford a swear box
@@fittermat Not since you emptied it to buy a tank!
Auto captions says [Music] when the engine is running... excellent.
Wow,and it’s not all stripped out,and it runs!🙀
Just what we need in Australia to regain some semblance of civility and respect for the electorate from the labor party.
We did the trials on these back late 70s at MVEE Chertsey.
Job No 1. Check the B.V. works!!! 😉😂😂😂
Love the look of the thermal sleeved barrel!
i feel like re activating the gun wouldnt be too hard as it looks like they just welded certain parts shut.im sure everything else can be machined and replaced and you can probably cut all those welds off
Yeah but the po-po wouldn't be too happy about that I assume
Just the exact thing one needs for urban driving in the United States.
I'm Torn.
If I was transporting a Tank, I'd be well annoyed at get stopped by the Police.
If I was the Police, there's no way I wouldn't pull over a Tank to have a nose...
Put on the lights and become and ad-hoc escort
I bought an M3 A1 1942 Scout Car a few years back. Drove it home from storage with a cop following all the way, as I had plates on it he couldn't come up with an excuse to stop us
Judging by the registration, this tank was a trials vehicle of some sort?
The SP on the number plate denotes Special Project, so I hope it has an interesting story ?
As far as we know it was originally intended for the Iranian armed forces, but ended up being used for development and testing of some description
@@fittermat Iran did buy some Chieftain tanks, so this could be a 'desertised' export version. If you access the Tank Museum archives, they should tell you its history?
@@fittermat
I was about to mention the SP registration as well.
Does it have the standard TN12 or the full automatic TN12E gearbox?
As some Iranian Vehicles were ordered with the TN12E.
Spent many a happy hour fixing them.
Womderful glorious things when they work.
@@fittermat It looks like one of the ones I was going to take to Iran to demonstrate the Muzzle reference system MRS, and the laser sight to eliminate the 50 cal ranging gun. We were just about to ship them when the Shar was deposed. Phew!!
@@sappersteve1443 Iran had the largest tank army outside USSR at the time. All versions of Chieftain which was why I was involved with the Marconi upgrades. All at Chobham had SP plates.
What a lovely sound. @8:22
The best thing about owning a tank is that NOBODY fights you for a parking space!
mate you need to be introduced to my mum. even in her seventies she would still go full handbag looney if she decided it was HER parking spot. i really don't think a 52 ton tank would have intimidated her one bit. :)
Yes officer, this is my medicinal chieftain MBT
They must have thought you were working for the gangsters from Monty python demanding protection money unless they don’t want any tanks to go missing
Don’t let the Piranha brothers get their hands on it!
Same here in the US, can't argue with DOT cops although you are correct.... I had a Barney Fife cite me for driver fatigue because I had an empty Mountain Dew can in my cup holder!!
Am I the only person that got sad when he said the gun is deactivated. I'm glad that I was born in the US where our civilian owned tanks have working cannons.
How would you defend yourself from the IRS otherwise?
@@aramhalamech4204 You can't they just bring in a bigger tank.
I may or may not be speaking from experience.
Problem, Biden is going hard after the 2nd amendment oh and 3/4 of the states hate the 2nd amendment, I shud know being a new yorker
apart from a civilian owning a tank with working guns is still illegal US or not lol... so you are mistaken
@@Volfur2251 If you have a destructive devices license you can have tanks with functional cannons in most US states. As well as other military equipment. You can't buy modern tanks and equipment for the most part, but not because it's illegal. Those companies are under contract and literally can't sell to civilians.
Must be an oldie. Has the original “Duplex” controller for the gunner! They were swapped out for the “Thumb” controllers in the early 80,s when IFCS came in. Lots of missing small bits as well just from a glance. Nice though.
I want one now. I'm going to assume they are hard to find in Canada 🇨🇦 lol.
We can arrange shipping
I dare say there's a few being used as "Hard Targets" at BATUS, sneak in one night and get one..
There was a permanent detachment at Suffield for years. I assume its been superceded by Challengers? What happened to those?
Best towing job ever. I can emagine the conversation at dinner that night.
'Only 2 inches', that's what she said.
What an amazing purchase, enjoy!
Thought I recognised the orange truck and trailer. I once lived in Kibworth. I wonder how often they are asked to transport large military vehicles because the pongoes normally do it for themselves.
We did this 15 years ago, took our mk11 to beltring on a scammer commander , sold it at the show .
Ours was a Mk11 , got the laser amplifier on the gun laying system from Beverly museum the very minute they became de-classified.
I've heard about the Cheiftain's that were built for the Shar's Army, but they were never shipped because of the Iranian revolution. I had always assumed that they were all mothballed and then later scrapped to make way for the mothballed Challenger 1's.
Google the UK/Iranian tank contracts and all will be revealed
It's in good nick compared to the scrap you usually buy.
We do like scrap!
THAT IS FREAKIN AWSOME!! GREAT BUY GUYS!! I've seen tanks loaded lots of times. Removable Goose neck trailers is the way to go. If the Russians were loading it, the tank would be upside down and the truck on its side.
The police just can't help themselves can they! Remember the old saying "If you have done nothing wrong, you still have everything to fear from the police."
No cops followed regulation and did right .... damned if the cops do and damned if they dont
I used to live near a military base. It wasn't unusual to tanks and APCs DRIVEN on the road.
I'm sure you could get a good loud bang out of the gun safely and legally using an oxygen/acetylene mix some imagination and a wicked sense of humour 😁💥
I'm now imagining a 120mm rifled potato cannon :)
@@cmusgrave so a WMD by NATO's standards?
Just the thing we need here in the states to go to walmart in.Park next to me now an open your door and see who's paint gets scratched lol
Mommy, why can't I have one!!!!!!!!..........Good looking machine!!!!!!
Brilliant tank.