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This should be of interest if you a little snow this winter.

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MrFluffy:
The zil stuff is cool, I would love that 2906 recovery machine in those videos.
Today its also used for specialist drying operations :-
http://www.totaltailings.com/main/page_specialised_equipment.html

Bernd:
Probably never caught on because I'm sure those blades on the tubes are high maintence. Looks like they'd be easy to bend or break a chunck out of.

Bernd

Ned Ludd:

Hi Guys,
I do remember a TV program on that Bering strait trip, and seem to recall that they had problems with the drive system, (back yard engineering/bodging?) and did they suffer a leak in one of the "floats" and nearly sink? It was a few years ago and memory fails with the passage of time and birthdays.
Ned

RichardShute:
I've not seen that before. It might well be 'the original', but I'm sure the idea was also used in Soviet Russia for a tundra crossing military transport vehicle, about the size of a 20 ton truck. The Soviets came up with all sorts of interesting stuff that we never heard about at the time and is only now coming out of the wood-work, Google 'Ekranoplan' for example.

Thanks for posting that.

Richard

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