Early recovery training

[Keshka]

This was me in 1986 learning how to get "things" unstuck. Not shown, one was up to the main gun in Kentucky mud. Glad I was not on the "dig" crew for that one. I got the clean end, the pull now end!. To right one of these 60 ton beasts takes three other tanks and lots of coordination.

 

[Nex]

@John M BUNMAN must have been driving the one on the left...

 

[3Dog]

Ft Knox, heavy armor division and training school, before it moved to Benning. Very cool.

 

[smurfslayer]

#Respect. I’ve seen stuck trucks before, but that’s STUCK.
I had a high school buddy who landed a landscaping job. Got his boss’s 460 f350 crew cab with near bald tires stuck in the mud on the far side of a corn field. It had rained for 20 consecutive days.

When I got there about 0130, there were at least a dozen trucks trying to get him unstuck. 2 suffered breakages and we had to clear one of them to get access to the truck again. Eventually, we had to shuttle my buddy back to his parents place, so his dad could come get him. His dad brought a trailered bulldozer and possibly the longest strap or cable assembly I’d seen deployed. He hooked the strap to the 350’s frame, and pulled it out SIDEWAYS with a bulldozer several hundred feet away. He drove the f350 out.

My buddy got an earful of profanity from his dad.

 

[trav7314]

Don’t have any pics for evidence but we had an Abrams that fell into a trench so deep that the guntube stuck like a lawn dart.

As a driver in Kuwait, we sheared a final drive sprocket off in the middle of the desert and our crew had to wait about 24 hours for an 88 to drag us back to camp.

I look back fondly but that was miserable.

 

[Keshka]

Don’t have any pics for evidence but we had an Abrams that fell into a trench so deep that the guntube stuck like a lawn dart.

As a driver in Kuwait, we sheared a final drive sprocket off in the middle of the desert and our crew had to wait about 24 hours for an 88 to drag us back to camp.

I look back fondly but that was miserable.

Amazing machines but they break in normal use far more often that the automobiles we drive. One time ten M60's parked in a row for a training lecture, the M60 to my right just decided to loose a torque rod with a loud boom just sitting there, power off. That crew was not happy! We all knew what they would be doing for the next several hours.