In 1986and1987,I went to school with two twin brothers that built a truck very similar to this one.If memory serves me right I believe they used one or another part from just about every vehicle manufacturer. It was a beast in mud,we called it the Blue Moose. Your truck is bad ass for sure. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. God bless.
That is one of the most amazing machines I have ever seen. I can’t believe it can pivot like that and still deliver that much power to all corners. Beautiful!
Some Dodge Power Wagons had that split frame. If i remember it was an option for forestry work and similar jobs. Pretty amazing. Got to see one in person and it was pretty damn cool.
If you look up the Swivel Frame conversion done in the late 40s to the flat fender Civilian power wagons you'll find that setup. He might have swapped a earlier truck nose on one or built a version himself but it's been done for years back in the day.
@@longsleevethong1457 Your probably right about that. I noticed it seems a lot more interactive than the simple swivel frame they made. Looks like hydraulic lines and things which a set up like that would need too. The Swivel frame was real though but very rare. Some of the self built hydraulic based rock crawlers can extend and contract and do all kinds of crazy things no normal rig could hope to do. Some guy using a scrap skid steer to make a very capable rig certainly isn't out of the question.
I knew a guy about 20 years ago down here in Florida that built one like this. He told me he used the front hub of a big semi truck and used it as a pivot point between the front frame and back frame of the truck. He welded cross beams between the frame rails and basically boxed in the frame and put the pivot point between the cross beams.
That's what I was wondering about was the articulation. Who thinks of stuff like that! Is this idea derived from farm equipment or is there a name for this piece/type of chassis?
I've lived all over the country... I've seen thousands of thousands of vehicles in real life and online... This is literally, without question, without a shadow of a doubt... The single greatest machine I have ever witnessed.
Having the rear end articulating actually she's the benefit it quite a bit....... Pretty cool design Definitely one of the more unique mudders I've seen in a while
Now you know why it's hard for tractors to get stuck: Look at all four corners. That truck has not one, but two tractor wheels on each corner -- so basically, a 4x4 dually, with all 4 wheels being duallys. Then, you have the tractor tire tread, which is designed to slough off mud and dirt as a tractor moves through a field. Then, the thinness of the tires, which is actually better, since instead of rolling over the mud and digging itself in, the tractor tires instead cut through it and keep rolling. Basically, this truck is all because science.
I like watching this stuff, as long as I get to stay clean. I sure am glad that he ain't MY daggum neighbor because I sleep in the day time. That IS an awesome machine, though !! I was a Heavy Equipment Mechanic in the US Army; met my 1st husband while stationed in Germany. He was a wheeled vehicle mechanic. After 17 yrs of Marriage, he and I decided that it was time for him to get the hell out of my house. He went back to Michigan where he belongs, and I took over the maintenance on whatever we were driving, and required both of my kids to be there to "help". Long story short, my High Functioning Autistic daughter decided that she really liked it and went to College and got a degree for Automotive Technology. So proud of her !! I don't work on vehicles anymore, but, did do plenty of repairs to various vehicles, including partially re-wiring part of the engine of my Buick LaSabre, as I was melting Catalytic Converters, and exploding brand spanking new mufflers; (1 of which exploded with less than 10 miles on the new muffler) at my age, getting down is 1 thing, getting back up without help is a whole 'nother animal !!! I got my training in the Army; didn't get to work in it much. Men don't like women in their shops, too much, whether in the Military or out in the civilian world. It's been a long time since either of us took a vehicle to a mechanic, and even longer since we actually paid any money for a vehicle. Mostly, people give them to me or Jessica. We keep them (as I call it) running, rolling, and, stopping, then have AAA come haul 'em to the crusher when we're done with them. When we're done with the vehicle; it's pretty much done.
It's just a logging skidder chasis with a truck body slapped on it. Obviously with some other alterations too. But yeah it's basically just a logging skidder. So really not some ridiculous engineering done
Looks to me like they put a pickup on a skidder frame. Nice job I've always wanted to do that since a skidder is the best off road vehicle I've ever operated. Hope they left the winch on .
There was a company that started doing that to the Dodge Power wagons back in a day, made them articulate in the center, giving them massive amounts of lean angle and traction, and that was due to a lot of the untravelable roads in the pacific northwest
Its a mini wiggle wagon with some serious power... thats bad ass. I wonder if it uses a center section from a fully articulated off road dump truck or something custom
That "Son of a Beast" is one Articulated, most Unjulated, down right Unregulated mud churning, high Octane burning Hogster. I've ever laid my pretty LiL eyes on, or ears. OooWee!!!!
