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A Real Off Road Vehicle

Postby RYP » Wed Sep 15, 2010 1:40 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHaj5bDSgRA

used for support vehicles as well but damn.
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Re: A Real Off Road Vehicle

Postby ktrout » Wed Sep 15, 2010 6:20 pm

Nah, look what a redneck Texan with a welder can do:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7mDekWyhmk&feature=fvw
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Re: A Real Off Road Vehicle

Postby coldharvest » Wed Sep 15, 2010 6:37 pm

RYP wrote:used for support vehicles as well but damn.

A four foot fording depth?.....what a fuckin' monster
The 6x6 is my favourite but the 8x8 with the extended cab is a total zombie apocalypse ride.
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Re: A Real Off Road Vehicle

Postby Caliban » Wed Sep 15, 2010 9:30 pm

ktrout wrote:Nah, look what a redneck Texan with a welder can do:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7mDekWyhmk&feature=fvw


Reminiscent of a pookie.

Why are they bothering to wear camo hunting jackets in that monster ?!
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Re: A Real Off Road Vehicle

Postby mitchsnider » Sun Nov 07, 2010 3:14 pm

"A four foot fording depth?.....what a fuckin' monster
The 6x6 is my favourite but the 8x8 with the extended cab is a total zombie apocalypse ride."



Nothing on this ... it swims .... no 8x8 can match it either, it is tracked and both front and rear tracks are powered (rubber tracks so it can be driven on pavement as well) :
Hägglunds Bv206
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqzXueZS9NI

Buy them for about $64k from a shop in Colorado here:
http://www.safetyoneinc.com/hagglunds-bv206.html

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Re: A Real Off Road Vehicle

Postby Dabbi » Sun Nov 07, 2010 11:00 pm

Not the greatest swimmer in the world.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xQTFpkY ... re=related


And wheeled vehicle has much better mobility on road, artic trucks which took top gear to the north pole in the first wheeled expedition there are testing out their new 6x6 44" Toyota hilux in the Antartic now, much cheaper and will use much less oil.
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Re: A Real Off Road Vehicle

Postby mitchsnider » Sun Nov 07, 2010 11:32 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfmgZRnj15k

Check the link above. There are plenty of others as well showing the Hagglund BV206 swimming. They are completely amphibious and will do 2-4 knots in the water. The cool thing is you don't have to do anything special to prep them before hitting the deep, just drive in and go. A Tracked vehicle will always have more traction off-road in mud, sand, and in snow (and in this case in the water) than a wheeled one. Wheeled vehicles are more efficient on paved surfaces than tracked but tracked vehicles obviously can run on paved surfaces. Your link showed one where the front cab fell through some thick ice (but it was still completely floating) and the rear cab did not have enough traction on the ice to pull it out. Your link still proved it was a swimmer as any other wheeled vehicle would have sunk. They make armored versions of these as well. The tracks on these are some type of rubber/poly so they are legal on the road. If I had to pick one vehicle (that I could afford) to get through a survival situation where roads are clogged or destroyed, this would be my top pick.

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Re: A Real Off Road Vehicle

Postby Dabbi » Mon Nov 08, 2010 2:29 am

I've worked with the Hagglund for years and there are a load of disadvantages to it, first would be range, even if you carry 800 litres of oil onboard a car/truck will always have better reliability and will be easier to fix/repair and finding spares for it.

The Hagglund has a nasty habbit of breaking belts and spares are few and far between, you can get through most obstacles on a 38/44" modified truck and cross rivers or drive over bodies of water up to 1,5-2 meters deep depending on the size of the truck, how it is modified and so forth. A hagglund does not swim in anything resembling a current.

For when you really need the flotation and traction the Hagglund is great but for the 364 days of the year a good truck is much better, easier and cheaper to run, maintain and handle.
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