This was a tank a long time ago

paul53 · #1 05-10-09, 05:09

Hi all,

thought some one might want to see these, I had taken these pictures when on a hoildays with my wife in Smithers B.C. . I had driven past this fenced off yard before but I had to finally make a u-turn and check these out. There were two hard rock drill rigs on tank chassis and one is for sale if your looking for a project... Fella's name was marcell, i just need to find his phone number..

I guess you could build a kangaroo out of them nothing left up top but drill rig stuff

Enjoy, Paul

cantankrs · #2 05-10-09, 10:00

Either an M3 Lee/Grant with later bogies, or more likely an early M4 Sherman. I can't tell which without seeing the right hand upper front flange of the tranny housing - or other hull details. Seems to have been shortened unless I'm mistaken. Interested to know if anyone can identify it as a RAM - or is the "hull" non genuine too?

Regards

Alex

Rob MacDonald · #3 05-10-09, 15:18

I saw something simular during the construction of the Cambie Street Skytrain line 2 years ago - a drilling rig set up on a Sherman chassis.

Shame I didn't have the camera with me.

Hanno Spoelstra · #4 05-10-09, 16:37

Paul,

Thanks for sharing the pics with us. Most of these, if not all, off road crawlers and carriers for the logging & mining industries, use Sherman drive train parts fitted only to a newly fabricated hull. So all one gets when buying one of these conversions is actually only a set of bogies, final drive, idler wheels and track, which will be (very) worn by the nature of their application.

Also see my web page "Shermans into ploughshares".

Regards,
Hanno