Rebels start a WWII tank right on the monument

Ignoramus15251 on Sun, 15 Jun

Dey build 'em robust in old country.

-- pyotr filipivich "With Age comes Wisdom. Although more often, Age travels alone."

Somebody was doing some maintenance on it, or the pistons would have been frozen in the rusted cylinders. But, I didn't hear it "start", all I saw and heard was it running on the starter drive and blowing huge clouds of oil mist. One cylinder might have fired a couple of times, maybe. Probably the valves are sticking open.

Jon

In Mudder Russia?

What was that thing, a 12-cylinder hitting on about 4?

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This just in:

I listened carefully.

I think that what happened is that it did start running, but not on all cylinders.

It also seems that smoke ws coming from the cab and that the "crew" had to abanon the cab due to smoke.

Larry Jaques on Sun, 15 Jun 2014

I suspect they didn't install a new battery, check the oil level, then just jump in and turn the key. (It is a Josef Stalin tank, probably end of the war or immediately after wars.)

And yes, in Mudder Russia, they built them robust. As the joke went "Soviet Technology is like Mickey Mouse Watch. You drop it, it stops running, you pick it up, shake it, and it starts running again."

-- pyotr filipivich "With Age comes Wisdom. Although more often, Age travels alone."