supply drops gone wrong

[Guest ozzie]

These guys can get the stuff to the war but if you can use it is another thing.

 

whoever put the jeep on the pallet forgot to leave the handbrake on.

 

 

 

[Tomo]

Aww :ah_oh:

 

That jeep one is quite amusing really...

 

 

[Guest ozzie]

it holds the 1/4 mile record for a jeep.

 

 

[Guest Maj Millard]

Great stuff, reminds me of some of the drops they did out of Richmond NSW in the early 70s. They decided they would drop a D6 Dozer out of a Herc, on about six large cargo chutes. Tripled up on the crushable cushioning underneath the dozer for the landing impact and all. Unfortunatly it was all for naught, as the dozer left the ramp a thousand feet above, it proceeded to tumble spectaculaly, wrapping itself up in the six deploying chutes as it did.

 

Although we all knew it would impact some distance from us, the only response to an 8 ton dozer overhead, hurtling eartwards, was to RUN !!. Which we all did, strangly enough.

 

There was not much projecting above the hole after impact, and every bit of metal including engine and gearbox was cracked.......................................

 

 

[rick-p]

Great stuff, reminds me of some of the drops they did out of Richmond NSW in the early 70s. They decided they would drop a D6 Dozer out of a Herc, on about six large cargo chutes. Tripled up on the crushable cushioning underneath the dozer for the landing impact and all. Unfortunatly it was all for naught, as the dozer left the ramp a thousand feet above, it proceeded to tumble spectaculaly, wrapping itself up in the six deploying chutes as it did.Although we all knew it would impact some distance from us, the only response to an 8 ton dozer overhead, hurtling eartwards, was to RUN !!. Which we all did, strangly enough.

There was not much projecting above the hole after impact, and every bit of metal including engine and gearbox was cracked.......................................

It just goes to show that CAT ain't the whiskers, now if it was a FIAT it would have hit you all in the head and come out undamaged, NO BULL:ban me please: