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no price for Mr crouch if you ask he probably has a brand new one for ya and a trailer and unit to drag it around 😉 another good video lads

gota love google lol

Is this MBT's or all variants, or were engineering variants just made from older specs

Last one we sold was at beltring , a Mk11 £13.5 IIRC , we had a serving scammer commander for a few days to drop it off . Great days , far away from all the BS now . We got it road legal too , I mot,d it .

Their centurion is on 95k so chieftain might go for around 150k-200k? Seems like a normal price for a cold war tank

Having seen the clean and tidy looking staff at Bovington, I doubt they'd want to lay in the mud surrounding Mr Hewes farmyard workshop.

Having seen the clean and tidy staff at Bovington, I'm under the impression for the most part they have deeply patient wives who posses industrial grade pressure cleaners and irons who nonetheless thank the heavens tweed doesn't show up most stains.@@solariss452

Oh boy , just last evening I got a text from my son lets just say he works for the Gov and is now and then assigned to work with Bov . He has hardly had a single day off since xmas inc working all weekends into the foreseable future as well . He is doing esentially 2 peoples jobs and his boss is doing 3 superiors jobs - MOD does not have the manpower or the budget to do the day to day stuff let alone the things happening on screen here . Conscription may just be necessary in the very near future for this country to have any future in so many different ways . Enjoy what is on screen here and be realistic about what is happening to all Government employees currently because as of now you are out of touch im afraid.

@@jackjones7504 conscription wouldn't be a bad thing in this day and age

I am more than aware "Jonesy" of the current situation politically, internationally or domestic when it comes to such matters at the moment thanks very much. This is a You Tube channel, you need to pull yourself together to help out your son by the sounds of it. Many of the problems the MOD has had can be seen in the DNA of these dinosaurs these guys are working hard to keep on the road. Hence the lack of a "real" domestic Tank Industry now. With Chally 3 upgrades having its turret made by Rheinmetall in Germany and BAE Land Systems based in the UK. Don`t PANIC....@@jackjones7504

Had to see if someone commented that first before I did 😂😂

shit i almost fell back over on the chair laughing, that's the best joke i've heard all year.

I predict a huge jump after Tankfest.

@@farmersboyooh, is this an orgy that anyone can join in?

Who were they afraid of? Seems delusional paranoia

Something that's always submerged in water won't rust, but something getting wet repeatedly will. Mostly because there's a lack of oxygen under water. At Battleship Cove Massachusetts, they have the remains of a sunken PT boat submerged in a display filled with water to preserve them

​@@skyraider87exactly

That is due to galvanic corrosion on canal boats. There was no battery on the tank so that should lessen it.

@@planespeaking archaeologists do the same don’t they when they dig something out of a wet bog, they keep the artifact wet/ under water to stop the air getting to it and it rotting away (until it’s conserved of course)

That's government agencies through and through. Pay top dollar for everything, then just chuck it when it's no longer required. NHS is exactly the same!

Wife worked at Abby wood the central procurement site and she saw at first hand the biblical waste of money but couldn't say anything untill each story becomes public. They are allways crying about funding but don' have a clue about saving or getting the cost back.

What you actually need is a traveler friend close to the mod Much better prices

As Widey says, that's just how all government agencies work. It's because due to the way the public sector works, including how heavily unionized they are and how no one ever gets fired and such, there's no pressure to perform or to be efficient by any objective measures, all you have is someone in a position above you who gets some idea of an important thing that needs to be done, then that gets put in place, actions are taken to achieve whatever they wanted, and then generally this continues in perpetuity as no one gives an order to stop. So if, say, bureaucrat X says "Why do we need X amount of challengers when we have Y amount of chieftains?" then bureaucrat Y will decide "Since I want challengers now, I need to get the chieftains out of inventory". Cost doesn't factor into his decision, efficiency, things maintaining vehicles as living history, etc. It is all about achieving the goal (clearing the inventory) and they will do that in whatever way they think is the fastest. Except this gets into the second problem where competence is not rewarded, sycophantism is. Because there's no external factors such as profitability all that counts to a persons progress up the ladder of authority is how much they please their superiors. So as you go up you'll tend to find people who're less capable of making good decisions in the first place, so what they think is fastest may not even be fastest or even an effective way of achieving the goal in the first place. This is how you get people like Dianne Abacus in cabinet/shadow positions.

Nightingale covid hospitals??​@@wideyxyz2271

YES. You beat me to the suggestion lol

@@anyvid100 Well I am sure the lads and lasses are grateful for your lecture in how to restore tanks. Or maybe not ... 😏

I’m going to look this up, I love learning things like this

could be wrong but i believe he mentions that at 26 mins into the video

Does anyone own it?

At the very top it’s all about politicians making money (back handers) with lucrative military contracts. They need to churn kit and replace it, they don’t care how it’s done, it’s going on now with Ukraine and the Americans salivating over releasing another 60 billion dollars for more arms.

Electrical work is not the problem its finding or having known good replacement OEM harnesses or electrical control box repair or replacement as well. I can see how just getting the tank to start and move is a huge acomplisment. I do wonder how often these guys hit their head. Im surprized they dont ware "bump" helmets.

Electrics been my job for over40 years

I love electrical i wire everything from planes cars computers and robots

@@dancarney106helmets are more trouble than they are worth.

Definitely fousty!

That’s a BIG hypothetically. I supposed you would also have punched the RSM?

@@johnnunn8688 I'm not into violence. I would have argued my case and found an alternative solution, though, even if it cost me a little out of my own pocket to do so. Something as primitive as box made out of old boards or pallets nailed or screwed together, a plastic liner and then concrete poured in would have achieved the same result and without the needless damage. Actually, making a box to fill with concrete would likely have saved whoever money by needing a lot less concrete as still achieve the look of something totally immovable. A 'less costly for the same result' solution often works as an argument when dealing with business people and people with money.

@@DelticEngine except the RSM would have inspected your shoddy job and torn you a new one. Then, made you do it properly. You are SUCH an innocent 🤣😂. Tell me you’ve never been in a military organisation, without telling me you’ve never been in a military organisation?

@@johnnunn8688 Granted, I've never been in a military organisation and I admit I didn't know what an 'RSM' was until I looked it up, but that doesn't excuse insults. However, this last comment hints at an alternative reasoning for doing such a thing than what I had first thought. I am open to being enlightened and educated by someone more knowledgeable than myself. I had assumed that this filling with concrete had been done in private ownership for some reason. Your comment immediately suggests the possibility of a very different situation, put simply, along the lines of the machine being disabled out in the field to prevent the use of by an enemy. If this is the case and the machine is not to be recovered, then filling it with concrete in such a way certainly appears justified, particularly regarding time and availability of materials. Or am I incorrect again? If you have answers, I am open to listening and learning. Some of us have never had the honour of serving the country, for various reasons. Best regards.

@@DelticEngine Joe said, right at the beginning that this had been a gate guard.