American Learns About the Mercedes UNIMOG
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In the early 70:th, I was a volunteer firefighter in Sweden. We had a Unimog. It was unbelievable how this Unimog could go throw all terrain.
we still have 3 unimogs in our city with the volunteer fire services here in my german city xD
We also got these as fire trucks in the uk aswell
Yes german firefighters still use this nice and robust unimogs and many other oldtimer...😎
almost every german department had a unimog at least once
I drove this beast while my Military duty at the German Bundeswehr. IT was fun!
Unimogs are common as snowplows, tow trucks, road recovery vehicles etc here in northern Sweden, they are basically lifesavers in the countryside where normal trucks struggle during the winter.
When you're stuck in a ditch thanks to black ice and you hear that diesel chugging down the road you know help is near.
❤ Thank you from a german.
But you have also the Volvo Lappländer.. 😊
When I was like 16 or 15 I went to a birthday party with some other friends. We could not find the place, so we just asked some old grandpa we found working in his backyard.
It being the small countryside village it was, he immediately knew the family we were talking about und asked if he should simply take us there. So he went into his barn and came out with this huge Unimog, we got in and he drove us there.
Man, I love the german countryside
Little sidenote: i slept there and planned to take the bus home the next morning. When the bus arrived, I saw smoke coming from one of the wheels, so I told the driver. Turns out the bus was freakin burning.
Was a fun weekend
@@Avvisoful Probably a brake that got stuck, it creates a lot of heat that will eventually burn the rubber of the tires, and once they're burning your car is as good as trash. Be advised when you stop someone for that, don't pour water on it - apparently it can warp/bend/crack the break disk or something. Once stopped a young lady in a Opel Corsa, and didnt already know that. She cooled the break but went through a liter of water, and it was still piping. Would've cooked her car on the way home, surely.
@@Avvisoful
Dual wheels can have one tyre run flat...
and after it has run flat for a while there is enough heat built up from the flexing for the rubber to catch fire.
Unless the driver uses his mirrors and spots the extra smoke......the other tyre starts burning....then the rest of the bus.
The option to shift the steering wheel position from left to right has a really practical reason. For example, you are using the Unimog to sweep gutters at the side of the road. Then it can be better to sit on the right side of the vehicle, so you have a better view on what you are doing. And than switch it back to the left side during normal driving.
But this option came with a newer model,the older ones don't have it.
@@sven471111 That's right.
All it takes there is a mirror on the right front corner angled down so that you can see the right-side wheels and curb from the left -side driver's position. This how the bus driver determines how far they are from the curb when they stop to pick you up...
@@kevincrosby1760 Many of the elder Italian busses and lorries mainly used on narrow mountain roads do have RHD steering as well, because it actually does make a huge difference to see it, or to see it mirrored.
@@kevincrosby1760
A bus stops 5% of the day at a bus stop. 95% of the time it's just driving in regular traffic. Then a mirror will indeed be sufficient.
When you have to sweep the gutters all day long. you are driving 95% of the time close to the curb and only 5% in regular driving situations. In that situation, it's better to just sit at the right hand of the vehicle than to watch it via a mirror. Also. You have to look at what the attachment you are using is doing.
Here in Germany towns and citys use the UNIMOG as snowplows, for cutting grass next to the roads and other stuff that needs to be done.
Also fire brigades use it as special veicle in case of forest fires due to the great off road capabilities.
Exactly, and that way I knew them from my childhood days on, a pretty common piece of technology for a German. And of course as a child iI also found this was one of the coolest things driving around ;-)
You see them sometimes even on the Autobahn trimming bushes/grass at the rails on the side.
Yeah there are pretty common maintenance vehicles here in Germany but it smaller East German cousin the Multicar is also a great workhorse not so much off road but insane robust and well the smaller size is its big strength beside the 6 tonns carrying capacity it is often used like the Unimog but it fits sidewalks perfectly fine /isn't too wide or long it is just perfect for comunal services
In Europe you can see them alot . In major cities you can see them often as breakdown recovery/repair vehicels for Busses, metros and tramcars.
In Industrial areas mostly as railway shunters.
they are so good mobile offroad workbenches.
You can put any type of machinery ontop of it.
In the Netherlands they have become almost extinct as motorway maintenance vehicels.
Those are now XXL tractors who can carry even longer arms with cleaners/cutters.
And the Unimog is the go to truck for everything to do whit forest or hevy timber/lumber work.
Australian train driver (that's railroad engineer to you). We had a Unimog at the last place I worked. Outside of railways, what really sets them apart from everything else is their portal axles. In off-road world, either you have them or you don't and everyone else don't. It doesn't a PTO, it has three. Front, rear, and one side.
lol 🤣🤣
I was in german army in 1998. We had 2 of them in the unit as a mobile field kitchen. This bad boy crowls to us in bavarian mountains with the famous( in German army) "Gulasch Kanone"!
I was in the Australian army for many years, in field force transport so, drove mog's a lot. Eight gears forwards and backwards, drive through and or over anything and, I even had a 12 volt fridge for the snack's. There was a dual cab variant ordered from Merc for "one transport squadron/Australian army" to be used in the Variety club's charity bash in the eighties or maybe a bit earlier in the mid to late seventies.
Same here, mostly in the Dutch forces, lots of good memories. Almost impossible to get them stuck. However, there was this guy, a sgt., who took a 4x4 Landrover to get a VW combi out of the mud he got it stuck in. He got the LR stuck too. Then he completely burried the Unimog he took to get the VW and the LR out. Then he took another Uni to get all three out. He burried that one too. Eventually it took the Uni of the firedept. and a smarter operator to winch all of them out of the bog. That's how I know there are people that can't drive ANYTHING! Not even a UNIMOG 😁
It was a 4 speed with an automaticly actuated splitter between 4 and 5. There is a version that also splits on each gear = 16 "gears", plus has a crawler split = 32 "gears" and it's 6x6.
I was Army Engineers 😀
@@arturama8581 That sgt, he sounds like the embodiment of Sunk Cost 😄
@@arturama8581 A true story, We had a sgt whom transfered to field force from admin, an accountant no less. He had to be coded for all of the vehicles we used. Here is the radio message we got from his instructor. Come in "sunray", over. This is sunray, over. "Sergent Rayner rolled the Rover over, over"!! Hah hah !! So funny, the man was a walked disaster area.
Hi, my son and i are from the Netherlands and own an '87 Unimog 406. It is a medium size Unimog. With its 5,7 l (348 cubic inch)straight six diesel it produces only 84 hp en weighs approx. 4000 kg (8800 lbs). It took us almost 2 years to rebuild the truck and now it looks amazing. It is true the parts are sometimes very expensive. We use the truck just for fun driving. But it is so much fun driving this old-school truck
+ysbranddd.... The Netherlands are the perfect playground for Unimogs - especially because its climbing abilities ... ;-)
@@svenlima a lot of marshy turf though
The name Unimog is pronounced [ˈʊnɪmɔk], and an acronym for the German "UNIversal-MOtor-Gerät", Gerät being the German word for a piece of equipment (also in the sense of device, machine, instrument, gear, apparatus). It was created by German engineer Hans Zabel, who made the note Universal-Motor-Gerät on one of the technical drawings for the Unimog. Later, the Universal-Motor-Gerät was shortened to the acronym Unimog. On 20 November 1946, the name Unimog was officially unveiled. Since 1952, Unimog has been a brand of Daimler Truck.
Unimog was more than just a brand of Mercedes, they were their own independent division for a long time basically just using some dealers and the Mercedes name up until around the 90s shen they become more integrated with Mercedes.
Translation of "UniversalMotorGeraet" is "Universal Motor Device".
There's not much that it can't be used for...
We had these unimogs in our company during my time in the German army. They managed extremely heavy terrain for example the deep muddy tracks of our Leopard tanks filled with water on the training areas. The water came up to the door but these things crawled through that shit like nothing. Loved it!!
And if the water comes in through the door, you pull the plug afterwards and let it out...
We had an old one in the workshop to move trailers. As a driver you sit with your knees against your ears, next to you is the cooling water tank and the engine and behind it a console with levers for the various shift, reduction, change-over, power take-off and locking gears and not one lever is labeled.
We had an old one with a petrol engine in the German army for a short time, but then got a newer model with a diesel engine. It was a lot better. When driving through water over 1.20 m, you had to close the windows and switch the fan to 4. It had no cabin ventilation and so the overpressure could prevent water from penetrating. Headlights, axles and gears were also charged with compressed air when driving off-road.
They even told tankers not to drive where a Unimog got stuck.
The motor wasn't even very strong, but due to the many gear reductions, it had such a torque on the wheels that it screwed through everywhere in slow motion.
The petrol one that you had in the German army was the unimog 404, first released in the mid 50s with 80 hp. Definitely underpowered but geared like a tractor. The replacement you mentioned sounds like a sbu series (also known as the square cans mogs) unimog, much bigger engine, much bigger vehicle in general and a lot more capable (it had a 150 hp minimum engine). The 404 was a 4.5 ton truck where as the sbu's were 10 ton trucks often derated to 7.5 ton to not require a heavy truck license.
The trick is the many gears. Last one I had was a light Mini-MOG with the 2.9 liter Van engine - it was a beast in harsh conditions, but You had to pick from 28 gears all in all, shifted with three different levers plus a fourth one to change direction from reverse to forward and back, and the three different PTOs for hydraulic and winch were extra geared ... we put a crane and wide feet on it, a central winch and a highrise frontloader with a man-cage or forks and had even place left to put a slightly changed backhoe at the end - crane or backhoe only though, with hydraulics that needed changing from one to the other; backhoe away, loggers winch or loggers splitter or loggers big blade saw on, I even had a big sump pump (firefighter version) and a three-blade plough the chap I got it from gave me with it .... That thing was worth four or fife other machines and had just the smallish, fairly economic engine in it. Marvellous piece of machinery. Took about half a day to sell (for my price of course) when I retired.
Sitting with your knees against your ears is by design, because that's all the noise insulation that Mercedes offers on the 'mog.
'you can do anything with it' But just almost. As one Mercedes dealer said "though our continuous pleas they have been unable to mount wings on it, otherwise it's just fine"
You can buy used ex-army Unimogs for about $45,000 AU. They can be registered and people make amazing go-anywhere campers out of them.
i didn't know Astronomical Unit's where a currency.
I have owned Unimog's for years, started out with a 404, then a 406 and ended up with a U1600(427), extremely versatile with a huge range of options, likewise some of the places I have worked also have had Unimog's, have used my one for agricultural, forestry\arboriculture, land access like repairing remote tracks and getting equipment to the tops of hills, along with winter maintenance with snowplough and blower for the local county council (my avatar image is my U1600 taken on the Sarn Helen roman road in the Brecon Beacons National Park while doing track maintenance)
My grandpa had a Christmas tree farm here in Belgium, he used to have a Unimog there, it’s an insane vehicle, but one of the most notable things I remember, is the seating position, it was like sitting on the ground with your legs straight in front of you
Yeah the floor is so high above the ground, they made it so you could sit like in a normal truck the cab would be even higher, and thus more top heavy.
@@kuehlschrank4389 indeed, it’s just such a silly seating position I’ll never forget it
@@jonahfastre It is everything but ergonomic, but You can _drive_ in it where You want .... 😁
Mercedes Unimog is very famous in Germany or in the German-speaking area and is almost a legend. I knew this thing already as a child for over 40 years!
Unimog is an acronym for (Universal-Motor-Gerät) universal motorized vehicle. In my immediate vicinity (in Baden-Württemberg / Black Forest) there is even a small Unimog museum!
And at the Unimog museum there is an obstacle course where you can have a ride.
@@bigbar4be Thanks, didn't know that! 😉
They are legendary in the netherlands as well. There is nothing an unimog can't do.
Not vehicle. The correct translation for Gerät is device, item or appliance.
In Bettmeralp, Switzerland, they use an Unimog for waste collection. The village isn't connected to the road network and can only be reached on foot or by cableway, so they strap the Unimog underneath it (for safety reasons nobody stays in the Unimog or cableway)
In 8th grade (ca 1990) we went on 4 day field trip to visit the factory where these things are build in Gaggenau Germany.
That was quite impressive
I worked on a farm decades ago and one of the farmers had a big yellow Unimog, it was a beast. This thing was pulling trailers out of muddy fields when all the other tractors were struggling.
I grew up on a winery. I learned to drive with one of these as soon as I could operate the clutch. Was in the early 80s. I was about 12 years old. And never recovered from this Bug. Still in love with it to this Day. Greates off-road vehicle ever built.
The South African Buffel APC was based on the Unimog 404. It had a separate gear lever for revers and another one to select hi/ low range, that gave you basically 8 gears forward and 8 in reverse. If you really want one import army surplus from SA or Australia. By the way it will do nearly 70 M/h on pav4ed roads and 55 on level unpaved, Yes we did it in the Buffel that had 8 metric tons of armor plating high over the chassis due to the V shape body for mine protection.
'n Buffel het my lewe gered. Dit was monsters op hulle tyd.
Ah, yes. I just made a comment about this earlier, but I couldn't remember all the details. Thanks for clarifying!
I was already wondering about the military applications... from German Dingo to Marine Corps / Socom MRAP to said Buffel APC there are several (and certainly more than I know of)
Awesome vehicles. You can basically bolt anything, any kind of equipment to them and use them for pretty much anything. Our National Railway Company as well as some local public transport companies have hydraulics-driven rail axels installed on them on the front and the back. This way they can use them on tram lines and railway tracks as well as a normal truck since the axels are liftable. On the affordability, these hold their value insanely well. I have seen Unimog's here that are 20-30 years old and still hold 50-70% of their original asking price, which wasn't low to begin with.
Indeed, some metro/underground operators use them to pull metro trains out of the tunnels in case of a power failure.
Hey Ian. We have a few in Australia. When I was working for Telstra (telehone company) back in the early 2000's, one of my colleagues drove 1 for the company. He said it would go just about anywhere, virtually unstoppable & couldn't get done for speeding on the highway as top speed was only 50 mph (80kph). 2 days ago, I saw 1 here in my home town, brought in by the SES (State Emergency Service) due to the river being in flood.
They should have ordered the US Version with the "long" gearbox, still no speeding in Australia, but it can go around 100km/h (just make sure you don't have to fill the tank on your own money ;-)
As a german I see quite a few of these here on the streets pulling smaller trailers.
see them quite often here in Berlin with scaffolding trailers
After viewing your clip I remembered we had a few of these incredible Mogs as support in our tank artillery battalion in the german army. Two were build in the late 60th and three in the early 80th. All of them reliable as hell.
I just checked how much a used one costs here in Germany. I was suprised that a 40 year old one in a good condition costs 20.000 - 30.000€.
Unimogs are very desirable. They always have been crazy expensive used.
That's what happens if it can do everything and everyone has a use for them.
You can get 'em for 10 k in repairable, not running/not driving condition. It gets even cheaper with parts missing, but You would need two or three of those to get one ready and driving for a reasonable price - so yes, it might actually be the range You gotta put aside for a driving/working one. Plus You gotta count in all the accessories You might still want/need, from a crane to winches to frontloader or backhoe ... it is a workhorse after all. But look at what a working tractor, a working excavator, a working loader or a working 4X4 or 6x6 lorry costs - the UniMoGs aren't pricey in comparison.
Junge... Du weisst doch, dass Qualität ihren Preis hat. Wenn du dir heute nen neuen Kobold von Vorwerk kaufst, dann wird's auch 4- stellig. Aber das Ding wird die nächsten 30- 40 Jahre seinen Job machen.Inklusive der gesicherten Ersatzteilbeschaffung in diesem Zeitraum...
But it only went up in the last years. In 2011 I was looking around and the 12t Version was selling as Army Surplus with just 60000km for around 12000EUR in reasonable condition.
Many years ago I was hiking in the Austrian Alps, high above the cable car station. Along with the sound of cowbells was a diesel turning over. Sure enough a Unimog, farmer dropping off feed for the cows.
The same one probably goes still up there 😁
Hi ! There must be Unimogs in the US available. That silly self-acclaimed "car expert" Doug DeMuro once tested one. And that video was the reason I stopped watching his stuff. It was outright stupid. The Unimog he tested had a US numberplate and was - obviously - road legal. And in an episode of Diesel Brothers they showed a company in Arizona (?) which sell and modify Unimogs. Maybe Mercedes did not directly import them due to "regulations" (and US manufacturers fearing the competition) as is with other "outlandish stuff". You should get one. A 1500 is not too big, fits on most driveways, can be used in villages and on smaller country roads ... and is a real hog on offroads. And in the winter. You need a good advisor and an additional heater ... Thanks for sharing !
I can't believe those are not known in the states! I saw them while living in Chile, and in Europe they are very popular as well, I really thought this was a "universal" (got it? nice reference eh!) vehicle found anywhere in the world.
The change of steering column side is because sometimes you do have to work primarily on the right side, sometimes on the left side, so it only makes sense if you can just choose whatever. It's not nice, it is built to perform easy repairs and to allow it to adapt to whatever work environment.
It's a strange phenomenon within engineering, but when a particular vehicle is designed & built using a pure 'Function Over Form' concept', they invariably turn out looking fantastic as well.
I've loved the Unimog for decades.
ITS the Same with my second Love: Landrovers!😊
Ah hell yeah. I’ve been around unimogs for years at work. We clear trees back from power lines with them here in the UK. My boss had a fleet of about 30 at one point, all with elevated platforms on the back. I’m no longer in the cutting side of things but I use to love blasting around the English countryside in a mog.
Don’t know if it was just that one model in the video, but I’m sure I’ve see our mogs hit 70-80mph.
Yea most of them can go faster than 55 mph, it's just that the truck speed limit in germany is 80kph or 55 mph so they only list that as the top speed. Here in the US the bigger ones can be seen holding 65/70 properly set up, with some holding a bit higher with some power upgrades.
I've worked with one in the early 00s. A 404 from some time in the 70s. Absolutely amazing for getting around undeveloped land or the woods. Also almost indestructable, if you don't count the glass. And we used it as waste oil disposal. Those old precombustion diesels eat just about everything that has the consistency of oil, from frier fat to mashine gearbox oil. Just run it through some filter cloth and chug it in, though in winter you kinda want diesel. A block of solid frozen frier fat is not conducive to operation. You also don't need a radio. While you are driving you will not hear it, after you can't.
I live in kinda rural germany, not quite the boonies, but they are just beyond the hill back there. They are quite ubiquitous around here. Every farmer, wood worker and construction company has at least one of them. They are like offroad Lego. Just get one and then pick the attachments you need for the job. And where thy can't go, you don't have any business being anyway ^^
Been on one of these, while i was filming some lumberjacks. Well, it went straight uphill, dragging 2 large chained logs, as well as opening a new road. for the other vehicles to follow. It was just insane. These things feel like breaking the rules of nature.
You might like the Pinzgauer
UNIMOG (="Universal Motor Gerät") which translates to "universal motor device"
Loved Mogs from a very young age. The most ubiquitous at the time were orange communal 406's. I find the 404 very pleasant to look at, with that oval grille and round headlights. Not so sure about the nineties versions with the high windscreen. I acknowledge that looking out of it was considered more important than looking at it in real life, but as a model-maker and collector, my priorities are different.
I agree that the original machines looked particularly cool even though they were not designed to (or maybe even BECAUSE they weren't). Same is true for the original Willys Jeep and The Land Rover Series I.
Well simple answer for you m8.
Uncle Sam is why you cant have them.
Same as Suzuki Jimmny
Same as Harley selling junk for years.
Protecting the domestic manufacturer.
Unimog is untouchable even in Europe.
Its everywhere as a road maintenance vehicle, unless talking about very poor countries.
Its not Cheap but Maintenance is not expensive since there is very little of it.
So yeah Parts may be expensive but the amount of parts you would change through the exploit of the vehicle makes it typically Old Mercedes cheaper overall to own.
BTW 56mph is a legal Limit for Trucks in Europe. All of them are electronically limited to that speed now, since no one allows them to move faster on roads.
However at the time Unimog was made there was no such system and the vehicle needed to Prove to the Motor vehicle department what it is so it can be Categorized. So they made a mechanical limit.
For US also would be hard to maintain because of General Lack of Mercedes parts.( Again Uncle Sam)
But for Anywhere else in the world, it's very easy they Use Standard Mercedes Delivery truck parts, other than the chassis.
Theres a Few on sale where I live, ranging from 15 000$ for a 70s one to 34 000 for a 97' one.
Also they usually come with attachments so a lot of the price goes to that.
The problem with Unimog pricing is It will never go down because it's not a luxury item or a toy, it's a Machine. And it will always be able to do work like a field/communal Tractor. So it doesn't depreciate.
Also You may wanna know Mercedes actually made a Grandfather of a Modern Tractor(on a Unimog type chassis with permanent 4x4 ) it's called MB Trac. You should check it out. They sound Incredible. As Most Old Truck Mercedes engines do :)
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unimogs been in use for over 70 years. even used as response vehicles in some cities with narrow old streets.
we still have them in use for fire and rescue , heavy duty wreckers etc. crazy little machines.
if you can think of a attachment they made it for them. even used on rails to pull train carts etc.
I'm UK based and have loved unimogs since finding out about them as a car mad kid... unimogs are used in the UK, but aren't exactly common... all I can say is the experience of coming around a single track, blind bend, in the dusk, driving a na MX5 to find a unimog hauling farm equipment heading straight at you is a heart stopping experience that stays with you!
I drove a 404 for a while in the Danish Army. It certainly was very capable as an off-road vehicle but other than that it was actually not very comfortable. The driving position was a little weird because the seat was low to the floor. It was also noisy, drafty and when driving on paved roads it tended to rock along because of the huge tires and the portal axles making you a little seasick.
Off-road though? Awesome fun.
My uncle owns an older Unimog and loves it. It's fairly low tech and he's been working on it and modifying it and basically has bought, build and modified a number of attachments and modules he can swap out at will and do anything around the family property that would normally require a truck, a tractor, a combine harvester, a forklift, an excavator or a wheel loader. It's such a workhorse.
i live in paris and there is one unimog that sits parked 4 blocks from i always love to stop and look at it when im passing by :) awesome machine !
there is even a big lego model of the unimog with a pneumatic arm it was really fun to built it andd play with it haha
I have owned 3 ...
I would recommend contacting Expedition imports in California for information.. 1300L
Is best if possible usually 30k price range
I was in the "THW" (Technisches Hilfswerk), something like a voluntarily civil protection in Germany and we had a Unimog which could do a fording of 1,2 meters / 4 foot easily. Love that Truck.
I've served military. I've seen u5000 drift. Yeaaah, it was on snow, but still... That's over 7,5T swinging its' tail
They have a 'rocker' mode that reverses the transmission without having to change gear. It makes getting out of holes easy - you can build up momentum just rocking back and forth until you bump out. My Series Land Rover had PTO front and rear - had a winch on the front and could attach huge grass cutters on the back. The newer models don't have them anymore and my Nissan Safari gearbox doesn't have a PTO - would love a PTO rear recovery winch, but will have to be more circumspect! Great vid - Unimogs are the dog's bollocks of off-road for sure. Expensive to own and run, but reliable and more capable than anything else.
Unless it's already covered in an older video a fun fact regarding the Dakar racing references:
The trucks aren't *actually* even there to race. There's a rule in the Paris-Dakar race saying the racers are not allowed a support team etc. However they are allowed to accept help from fellow competitors! The trucks are basically there to support the fast rally cars. A mobile pit crew. Obviously they gotta at least *try* to keep up and over the years they've developed some competitiveness between the "pit crews" as well and as a result we have trucks racing across the desert!
Yeah damn, I remember the videos DAF Turbo Twin (someone please correct me if that's not the right name) passing the fastest car at the time. It's embedded into my memory, unfortunately I'm only 26 so I haven't had the experience of watching Dakar evolve
@@joshthomas2536 Yes, an accident with a daf caused a speedlimit for trucks to be introduced in the rallye.
Imagine a truck overtaking essentially a groupe b rallye car(peugeot 405t16) on sand. And that was not a baja/stadium pickup truck.
Hi Ian, please check out Unimog climbs wall crazy by 01rsvapril from 2008 on RUclips I promise you will not be disappointed.
We also used them in the Swiss army until the 90s. Those models were so old that the exhaust fumes were a danger, so we couldn't carry troops without having a fully open side even in winter. After freezing my ass numerous times, I can't say I have such good memories of those trucks. 😁
Same for the driver. You would get sleepy in a long lasting convoy
At the Germany UNIMOG museum they said: when you drove to the end of the world you can´t go back so you must go further and this you can only do with a UNIMOG. I recoment this Video: ruclips.net/video/aGTiF8o1UJA/видео.html
I used it in the Portuguese army and my father used it too. It´s a lot of fun and does the job quite amazingly.
Jorge, numa vez, no COE de Lamego, uma berliet bloqueou as rodas. Solução, atrelar a berliet a um unimog! O unimog ARRASTOU a berliet com as rodas bloquedas!!!
@@zerique6360 nada como o belo do Unimog. 💪💪
Actually as much as i love the unimog(im from west germany and came into touch with one of the Boehringers in my childhood and my uncle had an u1200 for his landscape business....) go and try to find something about the so called Multicar(came from east Germany when germany was divided after the 2nd ww). It like a mini version of the unimog!
I have great memories driving a Unimog back in the eighties, in the RAF, including snow clearing and aircraft towing duties. But it was also great for doing burnouts and donuts, on the aircraft pans, if you know what I mean! 😉😉😂 We had hard tops and soft top versions, which were great in the summer.
"German for very very big car"🤣. I had driven one at the THW and it's fun. Not fast but great. And I still want one a private car. My wife's not amused, but I thing the dwarfs woul announce me as grandfather of the millenium🤔
Ehmm, not really as trains. They are railroad service cars with train wheels which can be lowered. And yes they have a coupler for shunting waggons and some other stuff for the job. But they're not used as locomotives.
In 1989 we still used Moggy in the danish army. Nothing could come close to replacing it. It pulled APC and tank alike clean out when all else fails. (And it really is fun to drive)
I loved seeing them when I lived in Germany. I SO wanted to bring one home... Such a shame they are not sold here.
If you live in a rural area in Germany, it is not uncommon to see a Unimog driving around that is 40, 50 years old. Mind you as a work tool, not a lavishly restored vintage car. The vehicles don't have the reputation of being indestructible for nothing.
Outside of Germany, the first country to manufacture the Unimog was Argentina in the 1960s. The Argentine army continues to use them. As a kid I always dreamed of having one (they can be bought from those discharged from the army)
Unimog likes pulling, digging, plowing, logging, transporting in almost any environment. Nobody ever that drove one was complaining about the missing entertainment package.
I've seen the folding backhoe Unimog version for sale in the U.S. from time to time. Old military surplus sales usually.
I drove it as a rescue truck for the fire department. 8 forward gears, 8 reverse gears. Theoretically you can drive it forwards and backwards (!!!) up to 110 km/h. The Unimog is just fun!
Hey @IWrocker what that didn't mention is the amazing number of options, including in the drivetrain... One of them is "Supercrawl" Have a look at this for an example - it's pretty damn impressive (but not for getting anywhere fast!!)
ruclips.net/video/eAf8hLRS3CI/видео.html
Standard for a Unimog is the climbing ability of 100% (45°) and that was 1992 a world record for the Unimog.
Yes, and for all what is over 45 degree the swiss take out their Menzi Muck. Not so versatile, but if you need offroad capabilities to the max, that is the way to go.
Firemen in my town still use a 50 or 60 yo Unimog. I mean, not for show, they really use it, daily. I'm 50 and I've seen it around all my life.
The gearbox of the Unimog 404S was able to drive PTO front and back, but also a PTO to the right hand side. All optional, with a bolt on modular approach. It could also bolt on a special crawler gear option, to the bottom of the gearbox. In addition to that, a belt driven compressor could be mounted for air driven attachments or trailer breaks. Great stuff. :)
The newer ones have even more options: PTO, air and hydraulics!
And yes, the stock Unimog is extremely capable off-road, if you ever have the chance to drive one, you should. I've driven these on and off-road, it's great fun.
In the USA, you can purchase ex-military Unimog's from C&C Equipment
I really love the older models where it seemed like a build-your-own vehicle for whatever task you needed. The ultra big modern ones are cool but it's not that DIY feel to it any more.
And you can't drive them as a cabrio. With the old ones you could even fold down the windscreen :-)
Unimog means UNIverselles MOtor Gerät, which translates to universal motor device
UNIMOG = Beast Mode!!
i usedto work for mercedes comercial vehicles and we built unimogs to whatever the customer wanted mostly for utility and telecom companies hiabs and trucks for the army 💪 great job i loved it and a very versatile platform 😊
In Germany there is the speech: if a Unimog can't get through, then no other can.
My dad bought one After he saw it so often as kid, now we have for already 20years a 411 unimog langer radstand
I was telling a civilian how much fun the Unimog was to drive. It had an eight speed gearbox with a forward and reverse selector. It could go as fast backwards as it could forwards.
I was contradicted by one of my corporals (Hi Jonesy, if you're reading this) who said that they went faster backwards because they were better aerodynamically.
Unimog and Steyr-Puch Pinzgauer are most versitile vehicles on this earth by far.
We have a fair few here in England, saw 1 about a week ago. Used by a lot of power companies for accessing power lines and poles off of the usual beaten path
Check out the Bushmaster and Hawkei from Australia , You'll luv em !!!
We have just a few of these in the Swedish military. I was driving the old Scania SBAT 11 during my service (we were cleaning them), when I saw one of those newer UNIMOG's pull up and it looked absolutely badass!
Has a reverse-able gear box(not sure of the technical term) so can go as fast backwards as forward! 8 gears! Drove them back in my army days, they literally go anywhere.
My brother-in-law is a big fan of Unimogs. He had quite a few during the last years, his recent one is the 406 model. He invited me to a ride through the woods this summer and it was a blast. I am more of a sports car guy, but after this I seriously considered to get one myself. Pure fun.
Always makes me wonder when americans are so fascinated with Unimogs. For us germans they are just there, in every colour and shape, since "always", as the name says, universal motor vehicle, the vehicle for every task of work you could immagine. Almost every village's fire station has got one, every road maintence site has at least one, the military got vast numbers of them, some farmers have one, lot of driving schools use them for ligh duty truck and tractor licences, since their standard two seat configuration of the cab is much more usefull for this purpose than conventional tractors, to seat the driving instructor and the trainee.
The RUclipsr Tedward actually has a video of how to drive one of these. Quite a good video.
If you want to react to it here is a link: ruclips.net/video/DBLchakeCJs/видео.html
Some local german companies have them, my home town has one for public gardening work.
The interesting thing about these is that they have a pre-selector manual gearbox.
To drive it you basically have to rev the engine up to 2500 rpm, select the next gear with the gear selector like a sequential transmission, and then use the clutch.
When coming to a stop there is a button on the side which will put the transmission back in first gear.
I just looked there is one for sale in sweden at 27222,84 dollars from 1980 with the following info:
Mercedes Unimog 1000 1980 .Excellent condition.Crane Hiab .Snow plow attachment with lifting piston. Winch on crane arm. PTO front.
Driven 168000km
Keep your dreams alive Ian ;)
Some of the benefits of the uni IG is the range of temperatures it can operate in. Another advantage is the frame is independent so the cab can twist one direction whilst the trailer goes the opposite direction.
For another incredible 4x4, check out the Steyr Puch Haflinger.
...or even better... the Puch Pinzgauer 6*6
Unimogs are insane. I used to live next to a dike near Hamburg, where the local farmers had a Unimog attachment for mowing both faces of the dike all at once from the road on top of it. Also, I can't remember where, but I saw a graphic somewhere of what you need from a vehicle and where it should go and then all different varieties of powered vehicle below, and the Unimog checked all boxes except flying (there even were several amphibious versions).
The Unimog fills the Pickup-Sized gap in the European car mix.
The German Dingo from the Bundeswehr was based on an unimog. It looks cool too
I drove them in the German Army as a paramedic (the ambulance version)...
In Germany we have the saying: Where a Unimog can't go, nobody can go.
unimog.the europeans ute that keeps america dreaming.😂😂😂😂
Drove these and was a driving instructor in the Australian Army... and I know unimog doesn't stand for what we called it in the Army.. but we referred to them as UNIversal Movement Over Ground - Unimog 🤪. the drive hubs make it awesome for creek/river crossings and big ruts.
The gear box had an 8 speed, 4 lower range, through a plant gate and then you had 4 higher range gears. A lever for F-N-R, so we used to play tricks on the students and put it in neutral... they'd put it in 5th and go to take off and nothing 😀🤣 Or rotate the rear lens so the indicator was where the reverse was haha. But this also meant you had 8 gears in reverse 🤯 Its a weird feeling cha going gears while driving backwards. They have diff locks and pretty much do everything... except do more than 80kmh 🤣
I thought they were 8 normal gears forward and back then switch to low and have another 8 for each? Or is that on certain models or maybe I misunderstood the entire concept. I've always had my eyes on getting an ex Australian army one for camping and stupid offroad shit here in Victoria. Awesome stories about the tricks on apprentices. Thats literally my dad to me even now and I'm 26😂
I grew up on a 400 acre farm and bought my first car with my own money. Sure it was my neighbours brumby that I bought but midway through driving my old man would knock the gear lever into neutral everytime I'd quickly look out the window to check my surroundings etc.
Tell us more of your time in Unimogs, I'm intrigued😁
@@joshthomas2536 All the Army ones I drove had 4-through an air gate-then another 4. Ive heard theres others with splitter between gears to give 16 ratios, but yeah would make a great camper for off road. Theres actually an Aussie couple doing that and they post their adventures on youtube You may get some good ideas and see how good they go off road :)
Unimog are great but that donut media video is the most annoying way to learn about them.
i am a german farmer and i have two of thease and i love them
i even have the unimog tractor called mb trac
The dash and pedal box is on a sliding bar. A button and a lever and you can slide the whole lot across and make it left or right hand drive easily
They are brilliant
often see unimogs on rallys doing the recoverys in the uk as they can go anywhere and drag anything from anywhere always fun to see the mog come along towing like 7 cars behind it
The only drawback of the UNIMOG is that when you do get stuck with it, no wrecker can help you. You need a cargo helicopter to recover it. But I have never heard of a UNIMOG getting stuck. I live 6 miles away from the plant where they build them, and I see them often in the vicinity when they do training rides with customers.
Wenn ein UNIMOG einmal nicht mehr weiterkommt, kann er von keinem anderen Fahrzeug geborgen werden - außer einem UNIMOG. Für andere Vehikel ist er in der Regel unerreichbar. Ja, oder Frachthubschrauber! 😉
You need to do more donut media reactions. James and Nolan are awesome.
these are also in Ukraine now, with missile launchers on the back tray
Just had a look at what they are going for (used) here in germany. €25k to 125k depending on model, age and condition. A classmate of mine and his brother bougt a rather old one from the german THW (disaster response) and they were in the process of converting it to a kind of motorhome. Don't know if they ever finished it...
I did my national service as a conscript in the Bundeswehr in 1988 as a mechanic, we had both the old ones and the newer ones. The new one was much more comfortable but the old oone with the petrol engine hat a very nice feature. Turning the key of and on while driving made a big bang, wich we had fun with....until one day my mate let the key in the off-position too long and after the BANG the complete exhaust left "The Mog" and fell to the road.
Germany has one other thing... the "Multicar". A... yeah... let's call it a kind of truck. But smaller, much smaller, very much smaller. It is also used by the German Army. There as "ESK Mungo. The story of the Multicar is from the then other part of Germany.