Combat Bulldozers: The Most Formidable Beasts on the Battlefield 

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unless you get one built before the emissions controls, then the comp doesn't lock up and they have to find a different excuse for the charge.

As a farmer, this, fuck deere.

@@jaquigreenleesthe military, emergency vehicles, the us government as a whole are emissions free. When the government needs things to kill people they can pollute as much as they want. When the citizens need things to work to make a living they are strangled… meanwhile the biggest 20 ships create more pollution than all passenger vehicles.

Hobarts Funnies, and the 79th Armoured Division deserve a video of their own, either here or Warographics. Percy C.S.Hobart is himself worthy of his own video.

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So your brother went back to the west bank and reconstructed hospitals, schools and everything this machine was built to destroy!!!

Absolute bullshit!!!!!!!

Nobody went back and rebuilt any infrastructure! Stop lying m!

@@pesh3042It's youtube dude, not the OP.

Sure, but he still was insane. No sane person would do what he did.

Fact. The " good ol'boy " system worked him over.

Yes. Those phone calls, alone, were an admission of guilt, when you learn about it.

This video had easily the worst take on the Killdozer incident I’ve ever heard 🤦‍♂️

@@theend1555 Yeah they would.

Yep the "Hero" who tried to stop him with his own engineering vehicle was the owner of the cement plant who had been trying with the help of the city council to force Heemyer to sell his land for years going so far as to cut off the access road to his shop putting him out of business. While any objective observer has to conclude Marv wasn't a saint and certainly wasn't blameless. The dirty underhanded tactics used to persecute him by corrupt bureaucrats left him a mentally and financially broken man and while his actions may be questionable he didn't hurt anyone and specifically targeted the businesses and property of only those who'd cooperated in his downfall.

He had more ways out than most people ever will in their life. He wasn't stuck in that town. He wasn't stuck with that property. His life didn't start there, he had no life there when his problems started. By all measures his life getting destroyed there and ending there were of his own free will. As far as I can see the only solution he wanted was the one he was never going to get and that was being right. This all started before the town screwed him. He made a real-estate purchase at auction with no due diligence. Happens all the time, can come with expensive dream destroying problems for sure. A man of his intelligence and experience probably knew the ins and outs, calling sewage hookup extortion is just a twist of personal politics. His problem was left there by the previous owners who he just so happens to have an uncorroborated story of having a bad interaction with at the auction. The only thing that story would give him is the "I didn't start it angle". So either it started there or it started when he realized who left a cement mixer as the illegal sewage solution. From there he made sure to never sell or make a deal that involved the Doscheff's despite profit on the table. You could take this either way you wanted to but raising the price a second time after a second appraisal? In the end he sold the property, it feels a bit like a "as long as it wasn't the Doscheff's" kind of deal. Even with the town working him over the end result supposedly would have been him having his sewage with no further costs. But he clearly didn't care about solutions at this point. He wanted to win the case, to be right. If you sold your property for over 9 times what you paid after 9 years, in a place you don't live, where you don't like anyone, and no one likes you. Someone needing an out would have rode off into the sunset cash up at nearly any point in the story. Someone who wants to be seen as right, who will never get that... Well we know how he would have handled that.

@@Rainmotorsports As I said he wasn't a saint but saying he should have just given up and taken the money because the people who didn't like him wanted him gone is missing the point. The people so concerned with enforcing the regulations on his property had done nothing about the previous owners flouting the law when building there then twisted the facts into a spiral trying to get rid of him. He clearly never wanted to sell so they used every possible tool in their arsenal to force their will on him. How much money is your pride your self respect or your dreams worth? Especially when you know the person buying them is acting purely out of spite. It's easy for those of us outside the situation to say take the money and start over somewhere else but being the man taken advantage of bullied, harassed, humiliated and ridiculed makes things a lot more grey.

What? Do you really think welding yourself inside a armoured bulldozer and destroying your own town because "god gave me a mission" is the sign of a healthy mind?

@@Legitpenguins99 Does boarding a ship in the middle of the night and dumping metric tons of Tea into a Harbor seem like the sign of healthy minds to you? It seems like the minds of men who were backed into a corner and forced to choose between fight or flight. You might be a pussy, but there are some people who choose fight. The local family of that town used the local governmental offices to railroad a guy into selling a property that he had outbid them on at auction fair and square; that's the definition of tyranny, and it should be resisted at every turn, less it become commonplace.

..I remember seeing those M60s with that stubby bsrrel at one of the kasernes in the Nurnberg area back ca. 1971 to 1974..

​​@@cbroz7492the A2 with the gun/launcher barrel or the engineer thingy with the mortar? edit: almost finished the video and read the answers, question answered

​@@aRealAndHumanManThingprobably the engineer one The starship wouldnt be working

​@@aRealAndHumanManThingjust nothised in the video its menioned the m728

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I feel like anyone who hasn't operated a dozer without AC is probably underestimating how much of a hot box those cabs turn into.

That sounds miserable, I wonder what screwed up the a/c? There’s nothing hotter than a dozer cab with no a/c.

@@somethinglikethat2176right? You have a 12-24” opening with absolutely no airflow lol

Agreed.

More so, he wrote papers that the Germans based the blitzkrieg on. He didn't describe them, *they* read them.

When you look at the military decisions Britain made before WW2, including ignoring Hibart on tank warfare and forcing his retirement right before the war kicked off, it really seems like they were doing everything they could to lose the war when it ever kicked off. From ignoring Hobart, to passing on the Mosquito, and firing the only experienced air combat officer who had helped modernize the air force it was like the British Bureaucracy really wanted to weaken the island so the Nazis could invade and take over, and put the aold king back on the throne with his divorced American Wife. Funnily enough, Hobart was apparently the Brother in Law of Montgomery, but how Hobart and Monty's sister got together wasn't the best story. She was already married to another officer when they met. Fortunately despite ignoring many of the things that would eventually make them successful, the British would eventually get their head out of their ass to help the Americans kick ass. Russian blood, British Intelligience and American steel, food, and factories. Too bad American industrialists scrapped and undermined American manufacturing capacity and shipped it overseas. It's almost as if fascists took control of American conservatism and used it to systematically weaken the nation.

​@@granatmofIt's unfortunately mere incompetence, not malice, the government was broke and convinced peace was guaranteed (or at least achievable and maintainable) until only a few years before the war, so the amount of money invested in the military went way down, and innovative upstarts who kept asking for the money to reform it were sidelined in favour of people who would go with the cuts

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hey funny enough so was my father..and most on here

Except the Amish when they build a barn 😂

No mud or clay in the desert bro

that depends, what type of engineer you are talking about. the engineers that designed the kubota skid steer loader are a sorry excuse for human beings, it's that hard to service.

True, but that was a horrible take on the incident

Absolutely. I cut my foot on a bottle cap once. Sand pits are death traps.

Sorry, it was Marvin.

How much more can the common man be expected to take?

@@brett9675 Yup that’s my b good catch

Sometimes reasonable men must do unreasonable things.

Heemeyer went on a rampage because the city didn't want his homemade septic tank running into a creek. Shooting at people because they told you not to shit in a creek is the embodiment of "Don't Tread on Me" mindset

@@OGTylerP He wasn't looking to be reasonable though was he. His answer to making a bad real estate purchase was that sewage hookup costs were extortion? Nevermind the fact there were other solutions. He had profitable financial outs but derailed them, could it be because he never wanted to make a deal with the enemy that according to him wanted the property from the start, but with or without that the very same family left the problem behind that he was facing. After the town screwed him, forced his hand, however you look at that, he had a solution in front of him but would rather try and win the case than to have a solution. Someone who wants the resolution to be that they are right, can't be reasoned with any longer. When you hear his side by itself it sounds all too familiar, people get screwed like this all the time right? Only when you look at everything he seemed to have lacked the usual underdog story or solid unsolvable problems others have. He had a bonafide feud he took to the grave, corruption or not, right or wrong. I think he hit a point of no return very early on in this that was more based on his experience and standing with life people and government prior. You can slice it down whichever side you want, i don't think anyone cares what happened as he is the very public face of other peoples struggles.

Very interesting. Perhaps you could make one on Hobart to the present in British Royal Engineer and Royal Armoured Corps history. The omission of the stalwart Centurian variants was sadly mssed. REgards.

That is pretty awesome! You can sit in the AC or sip a latte while throwing literal tons around.

Yea I remember seeing those well over 10+ years ago

@@TheSnowMan-cy9tu with the new next gen loaders and excavators they've added a bunch more too it, the mine star system still exists but from my understanding it's more capable now, there was talk of being able to toss a starlink antena on top and being able to run anywhere you can get a signal. if they can get the network quality high enough to get all the data it needs

A Helldiver Sapper? There isn't explosive enough in the galaxy to satisfy such a thing...

Retired Engineer Veteran here, is it because stuff tended to go BOOM! around us?

@@Canis_Lupus_Rex No, it was because you guys are so EXCITED by the boom and tend to forget about the people shooting at you part. The saying "never share a foxhole with someone braver than yourself" was clearly talking about combat engineers!

yeah check out what Israel uses them for

And no lives were lost (other than sadly his own).

@@dariusstarrett8837 Not from a lack of trying. His own recordings made it clear he was going to kill people and he didn't care if innocents died. All he cared about was revenge. He didn't know people had evacuated the buildings and he didn't care. The lore that has been built around Heemeyer is nothing but BS.

I believe he covered him in a Brain Blaze

He was a looney bin.

He did I think it's on casual criminalist

How many simon channels are there?

​@DeliciousDogMeat Too...fucking...many.😐

Killdozer also didn't last more than a few hours. It's radiator got damaged by small arms and it was leaking oil.

Do we remember that the killdozer pushed aside an earth mover. They brought out an earth mover to square up against him, and the killdozer, which was built by a guy in a garage, pushed aside an earth mover.

Killdozer also only gave up because he got stuck, hung up due to partially falling in a buildings basement

@@Hollylivengood There was no tank. He pushed a front end loader out of the way when a deputy tried to use it to jam up the dozer. There also wasn't a National Guard Apache called out or Guardsmen with a Javelin, but those two options were offered to the Governor.

@@jeffscott3186also not to mention one of it’s tracks got stuck in a stair well.

few people will understand the genius in this comment haha

I’d say wit, cuz it’s funny. Not quite genius but smart at least

The trick is to push a rock on it's power cable first. Fighting head on is just silly.

That lost .

@@ThePropertyProjectplease help us plebeians?

the fat electrician has a vid

The Fat Electrician has made a great one

​@@angel102ifywas about to comment the same thing.

Considering what their job is, and how slow they are, I'ld wager they sport about the same armor around the entire body, precisely to avoid that kind of maneuver... Also one would expect them to have some kind of escort, the armed kind, to make the potential attackers actually no-brained if they attempt anything.

Who uses javelins only nato….combat bulldozers, nato…

The D9 models rock about 25 tons or armor, good luck shooting anywhere. Pretty sure they've tested against hellfires and they could go and get in and start them up and push.

Then I guess it raises the question, what do you use to kill one of these things? Tank hunting is a known military element, so I'd imagine it's similar to that discipline in both offense and defense.

​@@jordanscherr6699well, I can tell you a little about generally what Hamas and Hezbollah try to do against the IDF bulldozers. As a general rule, they either will try to kill the operator through explosives or antimaterial rifles, or disable the dozer from moving. It's nearly impossible to actually destroy a dozer without something like a smart bomb, but you can disable their tracked movement and you can try to kill their operators. But yes, combat dozers are incredibly important and useful, and at least the IDF will also use them as mobile cover and instant fortifications - place in position, lower the blade, and there you go

If anyone in the US thinks they're suffering under some sort of tyranny, it is them that don't understand it.

Yeah. He really got that part wrong

Yep

I think he was referring to the WWII spec D7's used by the British Army back then. Not the current spec modern D7.

Was this in RC east circa 2009ish

@@rikispanish RC South 2012, outside of Kandahar City.

@@wooltron1 nice. Ya same shit happened to me in RC South 2009

Um this is late afternoon, sir