I was 14 when I drove a Cheiftan at Catterick..Sgt Jim McGaldric of the dragoons set it up for my Dad. Full course and fired the main gun! Never forget it! 😊
I think you guys have respect and a little love for the vehicles you work on, some people however do not, you also have a respect and understanding of the monetary value of the vehicles and the work you do, some however do not, enough said 🤔
It’s really good to see the whole tank saga coming together Matt after all these months and watching updates. Foden is an epic piece of kit. I’m a purveyor of broken Bedfords, Land Rovers and London Cabs so this is all right up my street! Good to see some unpolished, behind the scenes B roll too!
There's something immensely satisfying about recovering a vehicle that looks totally stuck and beyond hope. Those Fodens just show that we can make good pieces of equipment sometimes 🤣.
@@fittermat I used to drive a Foden that had a Perkins TX 350 in it which you probably know was a development of the Rolls engine, It pulled really well, if you could find one it'd be great swap for the old 290. Love a 14ltr though 😁
Still think "We die like men" should be the slogan for the merch, maybe with a picture with a tank upside down.... and perhaps Ted dog just sat there shaking his head. Tank was stuck, you got it unstuck. Can't criticise something that worked.👍
That Foden is a scene stealer, it will steal the star of the show's thunder in a heartbeat. It has its own niche unique engine rumble and its also got something else we like...its BIG!
Standing clear of chains when hauling was mentioned but people seemed to be rather close to the wires when winching. Wires are probably worse than chains for whiplash if they break.
Wow, the Foden's always looked the part but they can obviously walk the walk as well. No wonder you guys love them The MOD should have bought Foden before they went under. Makes me wish I'd been a Recy Mech, a match for M.A.N or Oshkosh any day of the week.
That video was a good reminder of what us Brits excel at - telling a problem to fuck off then knuckling down and sorting it no matter what the level of motherfuckery. Legendary.
The importance of track tension before driving. Although trying to drive through a large tree wasn't the best idea I tell thee. Not a bad recovery though in the end. Lessons learnt.
He obviously was brought up on film of Nazi Panzers driving through houses ! British trees are something different however. And the bell end's driving was appalling, revving the nuts off it through the gears to start with lol
You should always check your track tension on your tanks to help prevent problems like this from happening I noticed in a lot of your videos no body pays any attention to the trach and sapention track tension is a must in the American tants you don’t want to throw a track in any situation let alone in a fight.word to the wise check the track tension on all your Armor
Watching all this winching reminds me of actually enjoying this sort of stuff on my Tank Transporter Trade training in Sennelager July-August 1980.💂♂️🪖⛑️🏴🇨🇦
Great video. A full gang of rough assed grease monkeys and a mighty Foden, it was guaranteed to come out. Joe is fearless with the gas axe, I would have shat a load when that track gave up - fair play. What a Brit-fest
I guess all the films of tanks driving through buildings and forests up to the axles in mud must be fake if one can’t handle a bank and a sapling. Great recovery though.
It was how he drove it that's the problem. He got it high centered then back and forth dug the track in on one side and it slipped a tooth on the sprocket. It was explained in the video. I'm sure with a proper driver tanks can drive through this type of terrain no issue. Any machine is only as good as it's operator at the end of the day.
This reminds me of one time on exercise in Germany way way back in the fifties a similar event occured . The tank "centurion" run over a huge tree and got the tank fully suspended on the rootball which took forever to pull the tank up the slope,
its great really that Cody broke it over here - it shows him at least its limitations as well as the punishment it can put up with i know as Matt says, the gradient is steeper, looking less in the footage - if my old REME buddy was there, he'd be doing the maths in his head (i used to have a written formula for working this out, weights x ground type x gradient etc etc) but all the combined weights and pull required is so much more than anyone thinks, even with the engine running its a dead weight with no power of its own, being dragged up a gradient through loose ground, probably trebles that weight easily, i don't know if the Foden shows the pull required of the winch, interesting to know i reckon it was a great recovery, sure Cody loved every second while it lasted, he'll be a little more forgiving i think next time, apart from any car crushing (hope someone gives him the safety pet talk) about having no one riding on top or in open hatches in case of debris including a whole car swinging round on the tracks, great to watch but incredibly dangerous, i have seen a car door be ripped off and turned into a mad throwing star, hurling itself 50+ feet into the air, and flying towards the crowd line, where it rolled to a stop fortunately against a permanent wooden fence, imagine it being a metal crowd fence or mine tape and kids being sat in the front Joe's gas axing was epic - and i reckon most of all, you boyz made the right decision getting the mighty Foden's and it has to said all being filmed at night made it that much more dramatic - damn good effort
Much appreciated, there were two pulley blocks on the steep bit of the pull and the Foden was in 'battle mode' removing all the hydraulic limiters and was right at the limit, we weren't far away from having to call in a second wrecker but the mighty Foden just about managed it.
@@fittermat i appreciated what you said about the deceptive angle of dangle on the bank - i know that myself - but you could really see that angle was very steep from up top, see the Foden do the final winching, that angle was mental, near on 45 degrees, got to be way over its normal limit
imagine spending all that money and on your very first drive realising that your going to need to buy a foden or an ARVRE as well for when you get it stuck next time
Found yours and joes channel through WD buying the tank. Love the vids cant seem to watch enough, ive watched all of joes an your vids since finding your channels
On that recovery, you could have run the tank engine, used the near side track to help in the load even though the tank will go at a slight angle but not that much.
Just ends up fighting to go off to one side then, got to remember the untracked road wheels will dig into the soft ground on the other side, plus you then have the added problem of the tank driver and the winch op having to communicate to work safely, much safer to just have one man in control, nice and steady on the winches
Trees are deceptively sturdy structures, tanks have marginal off road capabilities. Hope your recovery vehicle isn’t within range the next time your friends get the Chieftan stuck.
I now it’s a business….. and your there to make money…… but sometimes when I’ve sold stuff that I’ve spent resurrecting…….part of me thinks…… have I sold it to a complete Dick to wreck with more money than sense😵💫….ah well! 🙄
Cody is ace :o) he plays whistling diesel very well. I’m sure he will have a lot of fun with it. On the recovery side it seems like the track was jammed both ways? And there is nothing you can do then but take it off :o(
22:22.., whistling diesel.., yeah now we need a piece of spaghetti!.., just imagine the trouble you'd have saved yourselves if you just shot him with both barrels and buried him in the creek.
I think that was a very successful outcome. Before the armchair enthusiasts start carping let’s look at how the military train their personnel. The instructors have between 10 & 20 years experience and have no wish for their charges to fail. They show them piece by piece how to and how not to and a course can take up to a year depending upon its specifics. The problem with doing jobs like this in this situation is you become your own apprentice. At the end of the event ten or twelve people were a lot wiser than when they started which is no different from going on a course, being presented with that problem and solving it. Alternatives might well have been presented after by an instructor but you had a problem and solved it. In service in REME many of us were not trained in half the things we did we were presented them in the field without an instructor like yourselves. At that point we learned the hard way the biggest tool box is the one on your shoulders!
so much I could say, all taking the piss, well mostly. What a bloody good job to get that out, really cannot beat a Foden, though I did hear, recently, that the MoD insisted that the RR Eagle was put in it, but Foden were keen for Cummins, I do know of one fitted to one. I was holding my breath during the winching, fucking hate winch cables and the slicing effect they can have...... being ex REME, not REMY!!!
Nice video. Bit off topic but I'm sold on that battery powered chainsaw. I was reluctant to get one thinking they would lack power but that chainsaw in the video cut those treees no problem.
I was the same till I tried one, wouldn't want it for a full day of logging but for odd jobs they are awesome, added bonus of no fuel to cock up or pull cord to break!
WhistlinDeisel Appreciation Society Video: I originally watched this on Hewe's channel a few weeks ago. Beautiful sounding tank! Beautiful looking tank! If anyone was going to wreck it, that honour was going to WhistlinDeisel. Nobody else could have done it, I mean come one...56 tons of armoured fighting vehicle, built to be one tough sonofabitch and then some. Any normal person would've had hell of a game to bugger it up, but nah...not WhistlinDeisel, he'll do it in 5 seconds flat!
does back to front mean ass backwards for us yanks ,witness markings I believe is the term your looking for on the Injection pump where is was in time and someone removed it and now the painted line has shifted some
The fella driving the Chieftan would have to be a special kind of special to screw it up that bad.
Highly intelligent and no fear at all :D
Tapping the boards if he did that for real on that slope
Believe me, the average British soldier could bend a steel ball bearing.
@@michaeldoolan7595 truth right there :D
@@michaeldoolan7595 LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!
That Foden's an amazing bit of kit.
wouldn't be without one now!
Omg health & safety shut your eyes ?
RTR & REME in tears lol
Ecologists screaming
you've got it all in one vid guys !!!
It was inevitable that he would break it, he breaks everything😊
Are you saying he has passionate fingers? Effs everything he touches.
The L60 might not have been the best tank engine in terms of reliability but when they are running they sound absolutely fantastic screaming away.
I was 14 when I drove a Cheiftan at Catterick..Sgt Jim McGaldric of the dragoons set it up for my Dad.
Full course and fired the main gun!
Never forget it! 😊
I think you guys have respect and a little love for the vehicles you work on, some people however do not, you also have a respect and understanding of the monetary value of the vehicles and the work you do, some however do not, enough said 🤔
I agree totally ...i hate W.D. pains me to watch it....
Couldn’t agree more. This is what happens when you have more money than brains.
If the laws of natural evolution were truly in effect, Whistlin Diesel would have been eaten long ago LOL!
It’s really good to see the whole tank saga coming together Matt after all these months and watching updates. Foden is an epic piece of kit. I’m a purveyor of broken Bedfords, Land Rovers and London Cabs so this is all right up my street! Good to see some unpolished, behind the scenes B roll too!
There's something immensely satisfying about recovering a vehicle that looks totally stuck and beyond hope. Those Fodens just show that we can make good pieces of equipment sometimes 🤣.
all those rodents need is about 200hp more, the ones that have been converted with 14l cummins are real animals!
@@fittermat I used to drive a Foden that had a Perkins TX 350 in it which you probably know was a development of the Rolls engine, It pulled really well, if you could find one it'd be great swap for the old 290. Love a 14ltr though 😁
Still think "We die like men" should be the slogan for the merch, maybe with a picture with a tank upside down.... and perhaps Ted dog just sat there shaking his head.
Tank was stuck, you got it unstuck.
Can't criticise something that worked.👍
Ile see about doing a run
Their one mistake was not having Ted the dog supervising.
Great video Matt, showing Outstanding British Teamwork!
That Foden is a scene stealer, it will steal the star of the show's thunder in a heartbeat. It has its own niche unique engine rumble and its also got something else we like...its BIG!
Aye appen, it'll pull itself in t ground when it starts winchin, tha nors!
The Foden is an absolute babe
@@fittermat There are trucks, then there are _real_ trucks!...then theres the Foden!
Standing clear of chains when hauling was mentioned but people seemed to be rather close to the wires when winching. Wires are probably worse than chains for whiplash if they break.
Wow, the Foden's always looked the part but they can obviously walk the walk as well. No wonder you guys love them The MOD should have bought Foden before they went under. Makes me wish I'd been a Recy Mech, a match for M.A.N or Oshkosh any day of the week.
The MoD did buy Fodens, lots of them in lots of different roles. And I love a wannabe... lol.
Now i understand why some adverts say "no test drives without payment in advance"
That video was a good reminder of what us Brits excel at - telling a problem to fuck off then knuckling down and sorting it no matter what the level of motherfuckery. Legendary.
One day we will have a problem we can't sort with swearing and targeted violence, but today was not this day.
@@fittermat See, that's when you use explosives. :D
@@fittermat the day that happens, you'll go home for a cuppa and a think & get back to find the pikeys have nicked it
Also shows what americans are good at cocking things up then sitting back while someone else cleans up the mess
@@fittermat 🤣
Good to see everyone wearing the safety squint, during cutting ops.
MORTAR - Matt's Off Road Tank & Artillery Rescue. 😊
That thing sounds pure evil, like one of the horsemen of the apocalypse
Recovery work is the ultimate exercise in frustration
That Foden is a fecking Warrior . Definitely the star of this video .
Its an absolute babe!
that whistlin diesel is a complete knob jockey
You're not wrong there.
Dorks
The importance of track tension before driving. Although trying to drive through a large tree wasn't the best idea I tell thee.
Not a bad recovery though in the end. Lessons learnt.
He obviously was brought up on film of Nazi Panzers driving through houses ! British trees are something different however. And the bell end's driving was appalling, revving the nuts off it through the gears to start with lol
@@samrodian919 it's a 2 stroke!
Tell ya something mate, was a smart move to film that, because if that bell end had have wrecked it its NO REFUNDS!
You should always check your track tension on your tanks to help prevent problems like this from happening I noticed in a lot of your videos no body pays any attention to the trach and sapention track tension is a must in the American tants you don’t want to throw a track in any situation let alone in a fight.word to the wise check the track tension on all your Armor
Thanks. I'll check all my tanks 1st. thing tomorrow
Great bit of back woods thinking 👌🏻… should have set up a GoPro on time lapse 👍🏻
Only watched one Whistling Diesel video to work out that guy is a gold medal w⚓️
Such a waste to sell a beautiful machine to the tosser
100% agree Peter.
21:43 There is a tool of I remember for pinching the track links together, specifically for getting a jammed track pin out.
chieften is the best engine noise ever, nothing beats it, end of! goes for anything with an engine.
Bloody hell. As usual Jack is getting stuck in. A true grafter.
Whistling Diesel is a Septic Tank.......!
It seems, this is the same colour of MasterMilo's Type69 tank, isn't it....🤔
Watching all this winching reminds me of actually enjoying this sort of stuff on my Tank Transporter Trade training in Sennelager July-August 1980.💂♂️🪖⛑️🏴🇨🇦
Great video Matt, worth the wait!!
Thanks!
Looks like the foden is still a heavyweight these days as it was in the eighties when I was in the reme
Great video. A full gang of rough assed grease monkeys and a mighty Foden, it was guaranteed to come out. Joe is fearless with the gas axe, I would have shat a load when that track gave up - fair play. What a Brit-fest
I guess all the films of tanks driving through buildings and forests up to the axles in mud must be fake if one can’t handle a bank and a sapling. Great recovery though.
It was how he drove it that's the problem. He got it high centered then back and forth dug the track in on one side and it slipped a tooth on the sprocket. It was explained in the video. I'm sure with a proper driver tanks can drive through this type of terrain no issue. Any machine is only as good as it's operator at the end of the day.
I now know why all big recovery firms have Foden's on their fleet. Some pull of that thing
That was really cool. Those Fodens are just fucking Awesome 👏
Them fodens are so bloody impressive 😎
This reminds me of one time on exercise in Germany way way back in the fifties a similar event occured . The tank "centurion" run over a huge tree and got the tank fully suspended on the rootball which took forever to pull the tank up the slope,
The only one we had to teach to use the sledge was you 😂😂
Your just jealous it was taller than yiu
Clearly no lover of trees….(RIP🌳)
its great really that Cody broke it over here - it shows him at least its limitations as well as the punishment it can put up with
i know as Matt says, the gradient is steeper, looking less in the footage - if my old REME buddy was there, he'd be doing the maths in his head (i used to have a written formula for working this out, weights x ground type x gradient etc etc) but all the combined weights and pull required is so much more than anyone thinks, even with the engine running its a dead weight with no power of its own, being dragged up a gradient through loose ground, probably trebles that weight easily, i don't know if the Foden shows the pull required of the winch, interesting to know
i reckon it was a great recovery, sure Cody loved every second while it lasted, he'll be a little more forgiving i think next time, apart from any car crushing (hope someone gives him the safety pet talk) about having no one riding on top or in open hatches in case of debris including a whole car swinging round on the tracks, great to watch but incredibly dangerous, i have seen a car door be ripped off and turned into a mad throwing star, hurling itself 50+ feet into the air, and flying towards the crowd line, where it rolled to a stop fortunately against a permanent wooden fence, imagine it being a metal crowd fence or mine tape and kids being sat in the front
Joe's gas axing was epic - and i reckon most of all, you boyz made the right decision getting the mighty Foden's
and it has to said all being filmed at night made it that much more dramatic - damn good effort
Much appreciated, there were two pulley blocks on the steep bit of the pull and the Foden was in 'battle mode' removing all the hydraulic limiters and was right at the limit, we weren't far away from having to call in a second wrecker but the mighty Foden just about managed it.
@@fittermat i appreciated what you said about the deceptive angle of dangle on the bank - i know that myself - but you could really see that angle was very steep from up top, see the Foden do the final winching, that angle was mental, near on 45 degrees, got to be way over its normal limit
Cody... "If there ain't no road....make and break one!".... .... and broke it again after bussing it! Lol
Someones going to get a vacation to go over and fix it when Cody breaks it again....
imagine spending all that money and on your very first drive realising that your going to need to buy a foden or an ARVRE as well for when you get it stuck next time
Well documented mate 👍🏼🏴☠️✌🏼
thanks!
An enjoyable video Mat. Some really good video shots at the beginning. Well done everyone.
I love the way you all stand around a recovery cable, not aware of the fact that it it snapped, the whip will cut you all in half!!!
More than aware, but wherever we stood with that much weight in it wasn’t ending well if it snapped so might as well die quickly
It has never happened from tension alone breaking the cable.
The only thing that went wrong here was selling a perfectly good tank to that...bloke.....
Prat
Most interesting video you’ve posted Matt 👍👍 The Foden is a beast!
WhistlinDiesel is a nutter, I love his stuff! 👍
Found yours and joes channel through WD buying the tank. Love the vids cant seem to watch enough, ive watched all of joes an your vids since finding your channels
Had Fodens in Civvy st ---super strong the best ❤and 😅
Good on the tree😉
Brilliant 😮
I think he showed great restraint. I would have done something very similar if I was driving.
Great recovery there, shame that Foden is no more. Great piece of kit.
No more? It’s the most used bit of kit and is almost in every other video on Hewes’ channel? 😵💫😵💫😵💫
@@sebbrady8927 The company! not the truck.
Track clamps?
Gas axe?
On that recovery, you could have run the tank engine, used the near side track to help in the load even though the tank will go at a slight angle but not that much.
Just ends up fighting to go off to one side then, got to remember the untracked road wheels will dig into the soft ground on the other side, plus you then have the added problem of the tank driver and the winch op having to communicate to work safely, much safer to just have one man in control, nice and steady on the winches
The tank engine sounds amazing. Great video.
She sounds BADASS 👍
Trees are deceptively sturdy structures, tanks have marginal off road capabilities. Hope your recovery vehicle isn’t within range the next time your friends get the Chieftan stuck.
All you have to do is watch a few Rally stages, eventually a car runs up against a tree no thicker than your arm and comes to a full crunching stop...
Looked good on that paramotor Matt!!! lols....
cheers!
I now it’s a business….. and your there to make money…… but sometimes when I’ve sold stuff that I’ve spent resurrecting…….part of me thinks…… have I sold it to a complete Dick to wreck with more money than sense😵💫….ah well! 🙄
That rolls sounds brilliant in the Foden
It produces a lot more noise than power but it is a lovely noise
@@fittermat would that be a rolls Eagle
Cody is ace :o) he plays whistling diesel very well. I’m sure he will have a lot of fun with it. On the recovery side it seems like the track was jammed both ways? And there is nothing you can do then but take it off :o(
Im looking forward to seeing his videos with it!
@@fittermat Same. And fingers crossed he stays safe. I want Cody and Colin Furze to get old ungracefully :D
Two hopes Bob & no
Superb video Matt👍
cheers!
Foden is wicked
Good to see some uploads (know your also working full time)
Cheers
JIm
22:22.., whistling diesel.., yeah now we need a piece of spaghetti!.., just imagine the trouble you'd have saved yourselves if you just shot him with both barrels and buried him in the creek.
I think that was a very successful outcome. Before the armchair enthusiasts start carping let’s look at how the military train their personnel. The instructors have between 10 & 20 years experience and have no wish for their charges to fail. They show them piece by piece how to and how not to and a course can take up to a year depending upon its specifics. The problem with doing jobs like this in this situation is you become your own apprentice. At the end of the event ten or twelve people were a lot wiser than when they started which is no different from going on a course, being presented with that problem and solving it. Alternatives might well have been presented after by an instructor but you had a problem and solved it. In service in REME many of us were not trained in half the things we did we were presented them in the field without an instructor like yourselves. At that point we learned the hard way the biggest tool box is the one on your shoulders!
so much I could say, all taking the piss, well mostly. What a bloody good job to get that out, really cannot beat a Foden, though I did hear, recently, that the MoD insisted that the RR Eagle was put in it, but Foden were keen for Cummins, I do know of one fitted to one. I was holding my breath during the winching, fucking hate winch cables and the slicing effect they can have...... being ex REME, not REMY!!!
The Forden was a great buy.
Fun and games for the lads, that in sure you could have done without.
Chieftain made a mess of those trees.
The tracks they put on tanks seem very lacking. I have an LGP D6 that I am pretty sure has way more off road abilities than most tanks.
Nice video. Bit off topic but I'm sold on that battery powered chainsaw. I was reluctant to get one thinking they would lack power but that chainsaw in the video cut those treees no problem.
I was the same till I tried one, wouldn't want it for a full day of logging but for odd jobs they are awesome, added bonus of no fuel to cock up or pull cord to break!
Septic Chocolate Teapots
WhistlinDeisel Appreciation Society Video: I originally watched this on Hewe's channel a few weeks ago. Beautiful sounding tank! Beautiful looking tank! If anyone was going to wreck it, that honour was going to WhistlinDeisel. Nobody else could have done it, I mean come one...56 tons of armoured fighting vehicle, built to be one tough sonofabitch and then some. Any normal person would've had hell of a game to bugger it up, but nah...not WhistlinDeisel, he'll do it in 5 seconds flat!
just another video to prove that whistlindiesel is a bellend
100% agree but dont forget it pays wages creating that content
@@tklandb9306aye but it costs that and more to fix the stuff that's broken.😂
Foden: you’re comin’ with me
there's not much that can say no!
My mate Daves fiat panda 4x4 would of pulled that out a piece of piss!
If there is one person unworthy of the chieftain its him
Hes earnt the money to buy it himself, which by very definition makes him worthy.
Why drive into a wood, just seems pointless ??
@@michaeldeakin824 Fun?
Are those guys wearing body armour? That MAGA hat😅
Damn right - he strikes me as just another yank with more money than sense who has no concept of the value of items or has any respect for them...
I honestly would have paid good money to watch, and maybe help, but mostly watch. 😄
Powered by caffeine mcdonalds and hatred. Sounds like my team!
Best video ever, which I could come and be part of the action
Disclaimer- Not a single piece of nature was harmed during the making of this video. (Not by a Brit anyway!)
Any chance of getting my hands on the Hilux for a video? 🤣 I’m in the north west
I see you'd brought your grandma's "chainsaw"...
Cheers
does back to front mean ass backwards for us yanks ,witness markings I believe is the term your looking for on the Injection pump where is was in time and someone removed it and now the painted line has shifted some
As a 'A' Vehical driver, throwing track is one experience you only ever want to do once . . .
Great video, enjoyed it
thanks
Good one👍🐒
thanks
After serving for three years on the Centurion, I wish to say nothing about the Chiftain tank. I left the Army !
Absolute American Bell End!!
Oh trust me us Americans know how to use a sledgeham however not sure about whistling diesel and his crew
Thats a helluva bulldozer ya wassock
The downs is strong in this one. God bless 'merica.
It's a classic. How to avoid a tank, go into the forest.....that's basic!!
Let's burn the clutch s right out as you get hung up and break track all one time great day
Clutch packs were fine, their made to take a lot more abuse than that, as for splitting the track it ended up being quite good fun in the end
@@fittermat was good to see the Foden get a workout and the screwing around to yank it out