Where is military tank expert?

Flatwheels

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Grantham
I believe the tank at Ancaster Karting has hydraulic drive after it was decommissioned. You may have seen it if travelling to Cereals from the South.
 

sjt01

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North Norfolk
If you can get a low loader with a winch to it, split each track and it will winch on on its wheels if it won't freewheel with the tracks still on. They pull easy without tracks.
When we went round Catterick Camp as students, they showed us the track splitting kit - a charge of explosive. Unlike ag tracks, the ones they were using then the pins went through several bushes on each track plate, and wore to look like a crank shaft so impossible to knock out.
 

diesel1

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North Yorkshire
There's a guy I know bought a Russian tank (think it was Russian) on eBay for £30k, found several gold bars in the fuel tank! Google it, its on utube, he videos a lot of what he does. He also drives people round London in a abbot fv433, picks tourists up from there hotel, ride round London for about 3 hrs and drops them off at hotel and charges £3500, all on red diesel, never gets bothered by the police, all on utube.
I bought a 40k tank off him last year, got it home, had to pester him for his bank details so I could pay for it, very trusting!
 

JLTate

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Speedstar

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Scottish Borders
There is or was someone who posted messages in this section and knows all about military tanks.. I said sometime ago that a tank was coming up for sale in a marriage break up,
I have just found out in the last couple of days is still available but there are conflicting reports to the value . I don't know what it is yet but I do know it's a non runner so moving it will be interesting .
If and it's a very big if I do buy it the only way I can think of moving it is jack it up on heavy sleepers and make a frame or chassis underneath and fit axle
What model of tank is it ?, I have done a lot of engines for tanks in the past
 

Frankzy

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Jamtland, Sweden
I don't know what it is yet but I do know it's a non runner so moving it will be interesting .
If and it's a very big if I do buy it the only way I can think of moving it is jack it up on heavy sleepers and make a frame or chassis underneath and fit axle

Right...
If it's a relatively modern tank, ie actually designed after the war, there's a good chance that it will follow the powerpack design philosophy which means that everything that connects to the engine and transmission is super quick to detach.
So in that case rather than jacking it or splitting tracks and whatnot the simplest way is to open the engine deck, find the "trumpets" connecting the drive sprockets to the transmission, and you should find that pulling it apart is very straightforward and a matter of undoing very few easily accessible bolts.
Now the tracks are freewheeling and you can just winch it up a trailer.
 

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