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PantherP71
03-06-2009, 02:00 PM
http://www.forwardon.com/view.php?e=Id11fc7e32ed18454c

And a video of it being dragged out the lake:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhK1eXDAfgQ

Couldn't believe they got it to start so easily. I want to know who swam down and kicked it into neutral to drag it out.
bigmerc2003
03-06-2009, 02:23 PM
Those pics are un-real! Can you imagine the force the the dozer and cable were under to pull 62 tons of metal up that hill and through the mud! That had to be like a 3" steel tow line!
Bluerauder
03-06-2009, 02:35 PM
Those pics are un-real! Can you imagine the force the the dozer and cable were under to pull 62 tons of metal up that hill and through the mud! That had to be like a 3" steel tow line!
Tank was 27 tons. I believe that this was initially posted just after the MM Group visited the Patton Museum at Fort Knox, KY during the Apr 08 Louisville, KY meet. Someone thought that it was one of the tanks on display in the museum. The story and video are a couple years old, I think.

Getting tanks, bulldozers and heavy equipment out of mud holes ain't fun.
bigmerc2003
03-06-2009, 02:45 PM
Tank was 27 tons. I believe that this was initially posted just after the MM Group visited the Patton Museum at Fort Knox, KY during the Apr 08 Louisville, KY meet. Someone thought that it was one of the tanks on display in the museum. The story and video are a couple years old, I think.

Getting tanks, bulldozers and heavy equipment out of mud holes ain't fun.

My bad, I got the years and tons mixed up
ckadiddle
03-06-2009, 02:55 PM
Just needs a little Turtle Wax Ice.....;)
fastblackmerc
03-06-2009, 03:06 PM
Checkout Tank Overhaul on the Military or Discovery channels. They restore everything from an M4 Sherman to Panzers to tank destroyers. There are episodes where they found a German or Russian tank in a Polish river, got it out and restored it. Very interesting.
TAKEDOWN
03-06-2009, 03:08 PM
Hmmmmmmm.... I wonder what they could dig up from under Lake Michigan.
Bigdogjim
03-06-2009, 04:26 PM
Somedays I wish I had to drive on the roads:)

Cause somedays you feel like you need it
n00bkiller944
03-06-2009, 05:10 PM
Haha, that is awesome!
UncleLar
03-06-2009, 06:01 PM
Hmmmmmmm.... I wonder what they could dig up from under Lake Michigan.
There are still a bunch of WWII aircraft lost there during the war when they were practicing landings on the special carriers they had out there then.A bunch of them have been brought up in surprisingly good condition.
justbob
03-06-2009, 06:01 PM
That is really cool!
TAKEDOWN
03-06-2009, 08:04 PM
... and it started up!
UncleLar
03-06-2009, 09:04 PM
WWII Aircraft in Lake Michigan. There is also a sunken WWI German Sub out there.
http://www.atrecovery.com/Pages/Airplanes.htm
Baaad GN
03-06-2009, 09:06 PM
Oh also there is a German submarine sunk out in Lake Michigan, ah but everyone knows that.
1 Bad Merc
03-06-2009, 09:17 PM
I believe the plane they have hanging in Midway Airport going to Terminal A is one of the same practice carrier planes that they brought up from the bottom of Lake Michigan and restored.