Vladislav

Cool!!

His tail looks great on the #3 picture. Tom, good shots, hope nobody was hurt

How did he do that?

The matter of the trick is weld pulls the stud walls to its center when getting colder and makes a stud thinner that way. So after welding a nut a stud comes relatively free. It's too difficult to weld inside a deep hole starting from its bottom though.

Congrats!! I wouldn't say everybody of a man might boast of celebrating his 75 and exactly in a place he had his life started.

O-ho! When I build it I had a shortage of info either but had access to the real unit. The ruined one though. Those day there was no ZIL cab in model. Excepting Italery 1:35 wich was not perfect. Now I'm packed with the blueprints totally. Just have nothing of time. PM me if you want to re-freeze the old work.

The sun shine, grass green and blue Mack MH single axle lots of nice old trucks! Looks like a beautiful day! Thank you for sharing.

Funny............

Sorry, no info on Dornier. It was some thing imported from Germany. When in 1986 that thing was collapsed every thing was supplied there. And lots of people too. The local firefighters were the first. They had absolutely no idea of what they dealt with. No one is alive now. After that army came. Engeneers and constructors. Actually they put a number of tons of concrete into the reactor to plunge it. So the vehicles you see in those junk yards had different geography and purpose. And the same end.

A dozer unit was called BAT or BAT-M. The most agressive looking unit it the family on my mind. I drove the trencher. My dad has a picture when he was in the army, probably about the same time as your Vietnam entertainment. He's job was serving acid batteries for vehicles. In that picture he seats with other soldiers in front of ATT traktor. It's difficult to scale the size of the vehicle until you relate it to a man's figure. They're really huge. I'll ask him to copy that shot to share. About 20 years back when I was more enthusiasted to modelling I was going to scratch build ATT. I copied most everything of the drovings of it from the liabrary. So all the info is in my stock, probaly for all the modifications. There were other kinds of artillary traktors. Another nice one is ATL - the light ("Leghkiy"). Both ATT and ATL had a cab based on a truck one (40's International ) The other types had them of an industrial style, not so nice looking ones. The model of ATL was done. It was more than 20 years back and I payed for that job the way I could buy my first car. 20 y.o. Mercedes though It was scaled 1:43. Planned as a resin cast series but finally I just assembled two "signal" trucks. By the word the tracks were cast of white metal (by me) and were done of the separate pieces. Having drive spockets turnable you could move the model having all the track assembly moving as it shoud do. Still remember, there are 84 links in every track, whole evening to get the one assembled. P.S. We have all the talks on media about Ukraine and how America is agressive to us having its iterest of a slanz gas industry in Ukraine

Sorry I'm not a helper for a fire stuff, just want to say you work with the beautiful truck! Seems like a lot of job. Good luck on the project! Vlad

The last pic is a killer! Did you need to shift all the switches in the dash to get it moving??

Thank you for the pics and the story, too interesting. It's done no worse than by a profy museum guide. Yea, special thanks for the goat!! The optics work perfect!

No, I still have it just in plans. Not shure the relationship with Ukraine "warming up" adds an easiness to such an adventure. I was told some stories from the man who were told by the man who were there. Yes, not direct ones. Nevertheless I was told those vehicles were in the yards since 1986 and were complete units for a long while. Now you can see the most of aluminium parts are gone. That's due to local's activity. They took some gooddies off including iron pieces and add them into new produced steel and alloys. Nobody can find out minor quantities of. Or maybe can. The tracked vehicle is the one of my favorite units. It's called ATT wich means Artillery Traktor Heavy ("Tiajoly"). Basically it doesn't have a tank chassis, its drive spockets are in the front, not like on the most of tanks. Big V12 diesel engine is of the tank type indeed. The same about tracks. The production started right after the war and for about 20 years long. Don't know how long for sure though. Basical vehicle was a traktor with a multy purpose military body of the kind the most American military trucks of the WW2 time had. There were also 2 versions of digging machines. One to make a cavit to keep a big vehicle (the one on the pic Paul posted) and the different digger with a big rotor to make trenches for troops. The unit with a krane on its back you saw in the movie was a big dozer to build roadways for troops walking to their new positions. It could form relatively easy way through a forest or other hard conditions with a speed of a walking man (troop). The dozer blade could be formed straight or could be splined to right or left for snow ploughing. Or could be splined left part to the left and R to R to clear up everything in front of it building a road. I myself hadn't been drafted but got a military education as a part of the high school study. Those machines were the part of my military speciality (along with mines). I was lucky having a chance to drive it off-road. Too sorry only once but for about a couple of miles through the lap deep mud. The only thing I can say it worth all the study time!

Both dogs are nice but the super one has color brighter Congrats on the purchase.

We had some talks about it a bit earlier http://www.bigmacktrucks.com/index.php?/topic/41092-nju-on-cl/

Wineries with no grapes on? Winter...? Wonder how many people (with all their truck and other collections) could that land contein? Tim, great advertizement work so far

I suppose stories like that are going to be pretty common in the nearest future. Good shooter but right at the moment he's in trouble.

Congrats on the increase of the dog house!

Unfortunately I missed a chance to know how those things were nice in good old days but now it seems like Volvo's ship those vent windows to Sweden and than back for the cost they offer them.

Seems like it can keep its position without kickstand. Neat little Mack

The configuration opposit the drive gear is the torque limiter if I'm not wrong. I have the description of Garwood winch in the manual of military Mack NM. The one you have looks generally similar. PM me if you want it scanned.

Jim, thank you for the detailed shots. There is not many ... a.. uhh... ANY Bulldogs in my neighbourhood to look over.

Low rider The lights work is Ok. Not to the honor to the man who built it but the price he offered it for is good for Packard 288 Inline Flat Head 8.

The rollback is a cool thing. Worth the cost if take to account it's qute modern truck with classic rebuild well done. LF wrecker was for sale about a year back and for about the same money. B model tandem looks nice and tough but seems a way out of reasonable request. L firetruck is faded candy. Sometimes you might think you better don't open ebay. Much easier when you're out of possibility to shake your pocket.