There is a guy in the UK whose business it is to remove tree stumps. He used to use dynamite which is kinda dangerous and requires a special license, lengthy preparations etc . Then he bought a Unimog and now he just pulls them out with it. That is Unimog power!
It’s true as a friend of mine worked with them often having to repair the tree digging attachment on the unimog,,,based in Essex ,I remember him having to drive it all the way to Southern Ireland to remove trees and replant them elsewhere on the estates ,,,not cheap
In the early days of Operating the Harrier jump jet in Germany they quite often got stuck in the mud on field trials. One day a German farmer offered his Unimog to help. Since that day every Harrier Squadron got a couple of them as they were perfect for that role. I wonder if that farmer got any commission because he was probably responsible for a well over a thousand sales from the mid 60 onwards! Even used they on 737’s stuck in the mud in Belize when the airport tow truck gave up!
Raf used them for towing Chinooks as well but I'm pretty sure mogs were replaced by the dedicated jcb fastrac with load bed, tool boxes and air supply.
We had these in the RAF back in the late 70s, if you get one bowling along then stamp on the brakes it would do amazing ( scary ) stopies with the back wheels way off the ground.
I like how he didn't turn the wheels until he was completely off the gravel. A skid steer can turn around on the gravel, but you damage the smoothness.
Es ist lustig, wenn man Videos zuschaut wo Jeeps glorreich mit Stecken-Hindernissen kämpfen und dann kommt ein Unimog auf die Strecke und fährt im ersten Gang lustig vorbei, während der Fahrer einen Apfel knabbert. Übrigens nichts gegen Jeeps, ich habe ja selber einen.
Which is the reason for its existence - being a mixture between tractor and truck. But there is one real tractor - a version of the Hanomag Robust 800 - which is capable of running 100 km/h, so it can legally use the german autobahn.
Yeppers, powerful but let's load the double axle trailer with say ten tons of rock and then do a video of this same maneuver! That'll give it a strength test 🤔 and traction test as well 👍🤔
Geez! Some guys will do anything to avoid backing a trailer. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I appreciate how he backed up until the front wheels were off the road so that turning the steering wouldn't grind the gravel. That's professionalism on top of skill.
At 54 I won’t ever own one, but I had one as a toy as a kid. Cheapest I saw was £3000 and I figured I needed another £3000 in the bank to keep it running, so I didn’t buy it :o)
Funny I had a Corgi version as a kid too, one of my favourites. Even now on the rare occasions I see one on the road I have to point it out to someone.
Turbo diesel FTW hah. Yeah what snow runner should have been. With proper REAL manual transmission. Which devs at snow runner seem too forget about. But ever other car/truck game gets right lol.
I want one but every time one shows up it gets sold in an hour. You can literally put them in low get out go get a cuppa and walk back and it will have moved only 50 or so feet. 😂 now that’s low!
...dann komm doch vorbei, es wird noch eine Ladung benötigt, dann kannst du uns zeigen, wie man es richtig macht... Wir machen auch den Grill an und es gibt bestimmt ne Flasche Bier 🍺 😎
I dont know about you guys, but even though that's quite a capable machine, i still wouldn't feel comfortable myself turning around like that on that type of road. 😂
Ich bin unimog bei der bundeswehr gefahren! Es geht noch viel viel mehr mit dem Fahrzeug! Wir sind mit den Fahrzeugen ausversehen eine panzertest Strecke runter gefahren! Ohne Probleme! Der wühlt sich überall durch!
@@heikojenne3107 ja das war keine Absicht! Wir waren auf einem Schießstand irgendwo an der polnischen Grenze! Da kannten sich auch unsere Ausbilder nicht aus! Als wir das bemerkt haben konnten wir nicht mehr zurück! War aber kein Problem der unimig hat sich da durchgewühlt! Wir mußten durch ein wasserloch wo das Fahrzeug bis Hälfte frontscheibe unter Wasser war! Alles kein Problem mit dem unimog! Egal was für Schlamm der fährt weiter!
Schön wär's 😅! Ich fahre 2 verschiedene Unimog - Typen und am Strand kommen sie an ihre Grenzen! Da musst du wissen wo du fahren kannst, in welchem Gang du fährst und wie weit du Luft aus den Reifen nehmen musst! Von harten Sand auf weichen Sand kann sich manchmal so schnell ändern und du siehst es nicht... Da hilft dir auch das Sperrdifferential nicht mehr. Nichts desto trotz ist der Unimog eine Kampfsau!
