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still see quite a few of these from the 60/70s chugging around down south hauling logs.
versatile things.
although i remember a few years back in a campsite in South Tirol... there were two of these things with Swiss plates, fully kitted out for some serious expedition, go anywhere things. but both were parked up with these Swiss couples on a campingplatz, with a fixed awning, with electric hooked up. seemed like such a waste and kind of typical of the Swiss...
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One of these belonged to a parent at a school I worked at. He had a kitted out unimog as well for daytrips, as well as a Hummer H1 with a heated flat roof for winter shooting day trips.
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Great editing when the farmer flobs a massive greenie out !
Haven't had chance to watch that yet, but I must say that i love the Unimog.
Mate from uni who's a tree surgeon has one, it costs him a fortune to run and is overkill for most jobs but he loves it.
I've also remembered a winters evening sat with my dad fashioning a working unimog drivetrain (portal gears?) out of lego technic when i was 9 or 10. Working suspension as well
Nice find.
Love the tree surgeons' Unimogs around here. Always seem wildly over-the-top but an obvious move.
Once went on one as part of a canoeing expedition. Very agricultural, very cool!
When driving around Germany and Austria you see loads of them in mountainous areas in a highways maintenance role. Even in the awful orange livery they still look very cool.
ktaylor - Member
Once went on one as part of a canoeing expedition. Very agricultural, very cool!
I'm absolutely picturing that the Unimog was in the water beside you
I now want a Unimog..
Bookmarking this for later
Was walking in Arran a couple of years ago, and found a weird track - 45 degrees up a steep muddy hill, plowed right through a load of rhodedendrons higher than my head. Looked like a tank had been through. Up on top of the hill was a BT Unimog replacing a telephone pole.
Amazing machines.
Thanks for that
[url= http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/trucks/other/auction-1143773755.htm ]Unimog[/url]
One for sale on Milweb at the moment. Hmm, only 8 grand....
A mate's dad works for BT and bought one of their old ones, made it into a camper. Brilliant thing if a little unwieldy on the road, unstoppable though!
My workplace. A surprise youtube find:
That is great...
No it isn't...I really want one now!
I've always wanted a unimog.
Those are good zombie apocalypse vehicles which I think everyone should have one with a turret gun mounted.
I now want a Unimog..
You and me both, I just want one even more now!
Property knitted out with a good expedition back on it. 55mph top speed, apparently, but if you've got one of those, who really cares! 😀
We've got a few at work................
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Godawful things, and i'll not recount the tale of how my Doka breaking down, accidentally got my mate a bit part in a home made outdoors gay porn movie...
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Too tall for a shipping container, otherwise a great piece of kit.
switchbacktrog - MemberWe've got a few at work................
Where do I apply?
ulysse - Member
Godawful things, and i'll not recount the tale of how my Doka breaking down, accidentally got my mate a bit part in a home made outdoors gay porn movie...
No please indulge us...
8)
The Doka broke down halfway from Bury to Bolton, matey had a 300Tdi 110 Land rover that i knew was man enough to tow it. At the time i was up Smithils about 100m down from the Winter Hill mast and about a quarter of a mile from Yan the Landy Man's place - all this will become pertinent to those with local knowledge- So im on the Bolton side of Belmont Rd.
Matey lives on a farm in Darwen just off the A666, so the aforementioned local knowledge base will be working out the quickest route being up past the old Belmont Bleach works.
We now know the tree lined lanes leading this way to be a local dogging hotspot.
We had our suspicions before, but trust me, now it's a dead cert!
Anyway the trusty Landy dragged the ailing Merc along Crompton way, which was backfiring like a machine gun all the way as i ran the engine to get servo assist on the brakes, so all the locals at a reet Tut n Shive called The Bolton Castle were out expecting some drug deal gone wrong, but this ancient old nato green massive defunct shitbox came trundling past dragged on a substantial rope.
So we get to Coal Pit rd somewhat noisily but in one piece , and matey heads home in all innocence, via the shortest path...
Where he happens upon a "broken down Fiesta" being "pushed" by 2 blokes
So being the gentleman he is, he winds down the window (300Tdi's are posh like that, no lowly sliding windows for them) and is about to say "do you need a lift lads"
But all that escapes from his mouth is a sound like Dr Bunsen Honeydew's best mate.
In his own words " They were butt naked and i know one of them was ginger and i never saw his head"
As he rolled up the window, that's when he noticed the 3rd bloke with the camera...
So if you're on Pornhub or whatever and happen upon a film with two blokes going hammer and tongs over the back of a fiesta, and a white Land Rover rolls up and a big bald bloke leans out and says "Meeep" before scorching off in a cloud of diesel smoke
Don't blame me!
fashioning a working unimog drivetrain (portal gears?) out of lego technic when i was 9 or 10. Working suspension as wel
Splitter box, from memory, one lever for hi low ratio, another one for reverse but only while in low giving 4 reverse gears, and one lever being the 4 gears mainbox
Torque tubed prop shafts to the diffs and down to the portal gears at the hubs, all this is designed to flex with the main ladder chassis to help articulation
edit, only a little bit wrong, a 404 is less complicated than this civilian 416 diesel- god i forgot how slow them 2.0 diesel 416 are
We've got a few at work................
That makes three of us then. Luckily we have four depots to share.
I so nearly bought a 404 with the wife's permission but it fell through, I then ruined things by wanting a Zil 131 to which the Mrs shut up shop on the Zil AND a 404.
A 110 is as far as I can go, but ultimately I want a Chieftain like the bloke round the corner from me.
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I hope it wasnt mine you were after, and something in my aging rapidly failing memory kinda says it might have been - it was the most unreliable toy i ever owned!
- Andy in Leigh 404 wasnt much better either
And the 406 2.0 diesel with the bust 2nd gear was "interesting" to drive to put it mildly!
It was a yellow radio bodied 404 that someone had converted for overland use but not got beyond Staffordshire in!
ulysse=U31?
Aye it is, and gay porn dude was big paul if you hadnt guessed already.. 😀
Where I work got rid of their 'mog not long before I started.
So many functions, even a levelling cab, would go where tractors struggle and was faster than the Land Rover on the road whilst dragging the timber trailer.
But the costs were crippling them, the maintenance of a tractor, lorry, digger and something else all in one that hardly any one understood.
Which is a shame, I would have loved to have used it, I've seen photos of it on slopes we can't get the tractor on and in mud so deep it's scraping its underside 🙁