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Absolutely cannot get enough of this! It’s pure information, no hype no filler, very high quality production. Thanks!

@thetankmuseum

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the great feedback Mark. Really appreciated.

WW2 tanks are simple, they said. Post-war tanks with their hydraulic systems are more complex, they said. Whomever designed the Churchill's hyrdro-pneumatic systems used throughout the tank was clearly working for the Germans.

@Slaktrax

5 жыл бұрын

Hahaha. Though the Germans were using torsion bars then. The Churchill as under-powered as it was rode x-country extremely well (as did the Conqueror).

@SonsOfLorgar

5 жыл бұрын

@@Slaktrax but not very fast...

@alganhar1

5 жыл бұрын

@@SonsOfLorgar True, but it could get places no other tank of the era could, admittedly not quickly, but point it to a mountain top and it *would* eventually get there.

@Real_Claudy_Focan

5 жыл бұрын

Designed in mind with "can cross any type of trench" for a war about movements... It was slow but crossed anything !

@thetankmuseum

5 жыл бұрын

@@Slaktrax A very underrated tank some would say.

Fascinating. Great stuff! Always love to hear from the mechanics and machinists and volunteers themselves.

@thetankmuseum

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Glad to see someone younger volunteering there. If there was a place like this near me when I was growing up, I'd never be home :)

@paulschauer6273

5 жыл бұрын

mattmopar440 amen to that

@joelbrown3084

5 жыл бұрын

same here, shame i live at the other end of the country

@thetankmuseum

5 жыл бұрын

It's very important to get the younger generation involved, so we don't lose these skills.

@builder396

5 жыл бұрын

Makes me wonder if I should do a week vacation and volunteer someday...

I haven't touched mechanics in my life, but this series makes me want to get into it

Very impressive!!. Who needs mainstream TV when there is this to watch instead. I could watch this all day.

Well the start of the video brought back memories of changing spring packs on Chieftain. To all of you keep up the good work and keep the old girls running.

@lindasanson3094

2 жыл бұрын

Mk 6 Chiefy knocked me out once....I ran into a very well camo'd one on a night Ex ...thank God it was stationary..

I'm really enjoying this series. Thanks to all the hard working folks that are doing all this work - the dirty work of restoration as well as the very good production work. We're privileged in that the technicians and engineers that are doing the restoration work are also so good at describing what they do. That's rare.

“I work in a museum doing restorations.” “Really! How interesting. What medium do you work in? Paintings? Ceramics?” ...

@moosemaimer

5 жыл бұрын

"Sculpture. Mainly iron castings."

@alephkasai9384

5 жыл бұрын

I'd love to see him paint a tank. Especially because he has a first hand view of quite a few of em

@benjaminfitzgerald7839

4 жыл бұрын

I've done work in styrene/plastics scale models for a few museums , it was lots of fun.

@thomascampbell4730

3 жыл бұрын

I restored a Zis-3 Soviet made artillery piece and an SU-76 SP which used the same gun. Tons of dirty hard work but I loved it. disassembly was tough because it had been out in the weather since the Korean war but it all got sand blasted, primed, and repainted.

I wish I lived closer I would volunteer every week to help

Thank you SO MUCH for these behind the scenes looks at how these amazing vehicles get restored. I can't imagine how much fun and hard work is involved. But, again, thank you for giving us a glimpse into the lives and work of the people bringing these vehicles back to life.

@markfryer9880

5 жыл бұрын

Funny kind of fun! I am sure that the workshop crew will get what you mean because it is their kind of fun and hard work, chasing down a problem and invariably finding at least two more problems, coming up with fixes for everything and putting it all back together.

@CybershamanX

5 жыл бұрын

​@@markfryer9880 Exactly! There might be tired/sore muscles, strained tendons, busted knuckles... Maybe even be the occasional frustrated shouts of the "colorful language" variety... But in the end...fun! ;)

As an ex-tanker you give me a whole new appreciation of the work ordinance workshops did. We used the tanks and used them hard, did very basic maintenance but when we broke them we just sent them off to a higher maintenance unit and drew a new tank. You do truly amazing work.

I am totally gobsmacked!! - when i see three men working so hard to get just one bolt out of the track, one understand the tremendous work they doo, and what effort that goes into restoration of these lovely vehicles, - i really lift my hat off and bow!! - greets, Levi from Finland

I spent some time working with tanks and AFV's (ten years) back in the 70's and I find this all seriously interesting. Thank you. If I lived near Bovington I'd never be at home. My first visit to the Tank Museum was in 1970, it was a bit different then!

@Mrdoctile

5 жыл бұрын

Time for a revisit...

Those are some serious skilled Farm boys you got there....... Good job Gents....

When you see the advanced engineering used in these vehicles, you begin to realise that it was the needs of warfare which drove the advances in civil mechanical engineering later. The same applied to aircraft systems and shipping of course. On another note, the job satisfaction experienced by these guys must be second to none. Oh - and I think, with updates on so many vehicles, this the best Tank Workshop Diaries yet. Can they beat that in the future? I'm sure they will.

I am actually enjoying these Workshop Diaries videos very much. I guess it is the problem solving skills and the ability to deal with the additional problems that you encounter as you go about finding and fixing the initial problem that is of interest. I liked seeing how you designed and made up the suspension spring compression tools for the Churchill tank. Well done on that one.

You can tell these are ex-military or techies / instructors. They can talk about a subject clearly with no errs ummss or ahs or pauses. Its a natural confidence borne of training, their own expert knowledge and character. Makes me very proud as a Brit that we've made the worlds premier Tank Museum. I hope the US sees this as a challenge and saves things like the USS TEXAS, and we all collectively up our game around the globe to preserve our herritage.

The Tank Museum has some of the best video's on KZread. Thank you for all your hard work.

@thetankmuseum

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ron, if you haven't already, you may wish to consider supporting us on Patreon in return for exclusive benefits. Our Patron's support makes this work possible www.patreon.com/tankmuseum Thanks!

Thank you for the work you do by preserving these significant machines for years to come!

@thetankmuseum

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Montayo!

Wish I wasn't stuck in the United States. I would visit all time just to see some much that is so interesting and well taken care of.

My main comment is "Aw man it's already over..." You guys make brilliant work and brilliant videos about it. Huge props to you all

Brilliant work lads ....... This channel just gets better with every upload......

That huge spring was terrifying.

Great programmes giving an real insight into the trials and tribulations of running restored military vehicles. Good to see the repaired vehicles roaring away on the track. Must be with real satisfaction for the permanent and volunteer staff to see the vehicles running smoothly under their own steam after all the hard graft that goes into maintaining the fleet. Many thanks for all the hard work you all put in keeping these magnificent vehicles running. Proper job !

Tank maintenance, gently hitting the vehicle with sledgehammers to fix it! Magnificent job, as always. I always enjoy these insights into the trials and tribulations of keeping these historic vehicles running.

thank you very much this is something I think a lot of us have been looking forward to after the Matilda diaries. really enjoy seeing the shop work on the tanks and equipment . thank you again

More suspense than a thriller. I keep waiting for a wrench (spanner) to slip and take its pound of flesh. I'm rooting for you boys! Thanks for to work you do to keep and show these historical artifacts

It's the mechanic in me that loves this. One of the best videos I've seen. Got a walkthrough and a lesson in hydraulics. Nice work.

Hi from New Zealand. 2018 around June I and my wife were in England visiting her family. I had one wish. To go to the Tank Museum. We got there about June 2018, spent all day looking at everything. I loved it. Next trip to England will be in August so i can get to your Tankfest. So until then I watch and listen to every word from your Tank Workshop Diaries. I think you all are doing a brilliant job. Thankyou.

@thetankmuseum

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Michael, really great to hear that you enjoyed your visit! Tankfest is at the end of June though www.tankmuseum.org/whats-on/events/tankfest

Tank Workshop Diaries are some of my favorite videos!!

Interlocking wheels of 'Ze Germanz' where overcomplicated? Churchill: Hold my (edit because the Brits in the comments couldn’t agree on the drink) 😋🍻

@dougjb7848

5 жыл бұрын

Lager? Lager? Ale, maybe. Porter, maybe. Lager?

@JohnyG29

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, the interlocking wheels of Nazi tanks were overcomplicated.

@JohnyG29

5 жыл бұрын

@@dougjb7848 I understand they drink something called lager on the continent. It's like a tasteless ale.

@Real_Claudy_Focan

5 жыл бұрын

*hold my champagne

@systemshocker7634

5 жыл бұрын

Pint. Everyone should be able to agree on that.

These videos are priceless. If these were on TV they would be ruined with dumb commercials and abhorrent editing and unnecessary drama. You guys rock.

That first pan shot over the workshop was great!

Really informative, it just shows the amount of work going on in keeping these vehicles running. Time I visited this amazing museum again👍

Great stuff chaps, would love to be attending Tank Fest this year but work gets in the way.

I find the workshop diaries fascinating, I visited the Tank museum yesterday I was last there probably about 40 years ago. Things have changed a lot since then. Keep up the good work..

Being a mechanically inclined person that I am, I am in awe of the pride and craftsmanship that is on hand in this shop. It is also one of the reasons I enlisted in the airborne infantry instead of the armor corp. Great work.

I love this, These lads really get to the point of whatever it is we are looking at, and with enthusiasm as only someone who really likes what they are doing does! And also the cuts between information is really good, none of that History channel explanation every 5 mins what they are doing, what they are going to do, and what has happened the last 10 episodes of cutscenes, Information wich has already been on screen the last minute of you watching being regurgitated over and over. I love these episodes, Please dont stop!

@thetankmuseum

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the positive feedback, it is always much appreciated.

very nice to see and listen to the guys who work on the tanks.a big well done to you all

Chieftain track tension problems you say! Glorious irony.

@Slaktrax

5 жыл бұрын

The older (mechanical) system never gave any trouble. Suspension-wise the Chieftain (Marks 2, 3 and 5) were reliable. The only problems I remember were road wheel nuts not being tightened enough (so poor attention to maintenance) which caused the mounting studs to snap and on very rare occasions the rebound pads and mounting plates getting damaged in severe x-country environments which caused the spring-pack to dis-locate from the mountings.

I never get tired of seeing the past come to life in your videos. Keep up the good work. Without you the pay would just fade away.

Wonderful work as always folks, thank you for sharing these films.

Amazing stuff. I took my family to Tankfest last year for the first time after I had been in 2015 & 2016 and they loved it, despite not really being tank or even militarily-interested people. Keep doing what you're doing, it's so unique and special. Much love from Surrey

Having used spring compressors for car suspension you can’t help but have massive respect to be anywhere near that coiled spring!

This is some serious man stuff . Excellent .

Great work raising the overall state of the running fleet chaps! And the explanation on the Churchill tool manufacture and spring replacement was "high pucker factor" yet amazing... Tank Fest is going to be amazing!

Hello! I can never get tired watching this series! That's the kind of work I would have liked to do... Thank you!

Such transparency. Companies should learn from you.

If you need some extra Churchill tank parts there are two tanks sunk in a bog at the back of Ringwood in the New Forest !

Someone asks: Why do you need to know how fix a churchill mk3 suspension? Me: Well do you know how fix it? No? That's why.

These segments are by far my favorite programs from the Tank Museum. Thank you. I hope to see this stuff in person at some point!

What I am VERY amazed at is how these vehicles may have been repaired "Under Fire" as it were. I realise that there comes a time when a unit in active service becomes "Non-Repairable" at that time. You do an amazing jobe there.

@BaronSamedi1959

5 жыл бұрын

You'd be amazed what can be done. During my military service in the Belgian Army as a reserve officer of Artillery, we got amazing repairs done in the field during field training exercises. Remember that this was during the Cold War period! And repairs which outside of the FTX would take weeks if not months got done in a few days. Of course such repairs were much more wasteful. Rather than do some fine repairs, you just swapped whole mechanical units and assemblies. It was actually not unknown to tow broken-down vehicles to the FTX area and then declare it "broken during FTX" to get it quickly field-repaired with brand new spare parts, no doubt from some NATO-allocated "war stock".

@jamesgoacher2433

5 жыл бұрын

Hello. I posted with the awareness of the poosibilit of the other fella coming down the road was a huge motivator. My experience as a Maintenance Electrician in an environment of an Electric Furnace and molten iron which NEEDED to be got going again within 30 minutes does not compare but is analygous in some way. What amazed me was the weight of the individual parts. :-D My largest spanner was an 0BA (about 6-7mm) and that was not used often. (That is daft of course I am just making a point) of Scale. Streuth I am glad I am 74 yrs old and not 90 odd.

I wish these episodes were at least two hours long. Fascinating to see the amount of hard work that goes into keeping these things running!

greets from germany......amazing work ur doing!!!!

@nickthorp5790

5 жыл бұрын

Greets isnt a word in English, so many Germans say it while writing English. Just an observation. Maybe like us saying "Gutens" instead of guten tag. Just isn't a word. Yes i speak German, French etc and have worked in Germany so am not being rude. Observation.

@kondensat1285

5 жыл бұрын

@@nickthorp5790 ok, but its an short little word to write and u understood ^^

Once again, brilliant. Thank you very much

This is probably my dream job.

Amazing! Keep up the incredible restoration work you all do. Thank you!

@thetankmuseum

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Bruce, great to hear you're enjoying this series.

Greetings from Belgium to Chris, Bob and Jonathon. We had a lovely time visiting your Churchill and got a lot of tips which should help us with ours. Hope we can return the favor some day. Quick update on our Mk IV, we're one layer of paint away from attaching the TA wheels. This weekend we're going to inspect the state of the fuel tanks.

@wibo3218

5 жыл бұрын

Pascal Michiels i subbed your channel. Nice tanks bro!

@wibo3218

5 жыл бұрын

Hope to own REAL tanks aswell. And not only model tanks ;)

@michaelscaplis

5 жыл бұрын

Wibo 32 The problem is you need space (besides money 😁) an then there’s the legal implications as depending on your country’s law you’re usually not allowed to drive these things on public roads. That’s why it’s easier and less costly to become a volunteer at a museum. It has the added advantage that you get together with likeminded folks and you get more than one tank to ‘play’ with 😉

seeing the engine bay of your type 59 reminds me what a challenge mastermilo has for his ex gate guard Type 69 - II.

I love that. Wish it was a proper television show.

@snakedogman

5 жыл бұрын

Would that make it better? To me, a format like this is better than a television show, which would have to be made much more commercial and flashy.

Utterly superb! More, more, more.

Thanks for these videos, it is really interesting to see all the work that goes into keeping these valuable vehicles in running order. Overcoming so many varied problems is challenging and you guys do a fantastic job!

Thank you for your work in restoring and maintaining these vehicles! As other have said, it's great to hear directly from the technicians themselves. Now if only the Belgian military museum would open its tank expo again... It's been closed for years!

@michaelscaplis

5 жыл бұрын

Drop in at Gunfire in Brasschaat ;-)

Yes another fascinating episode. Bravo.

fantastic love these diarys

Gods, what a dream job for young mechanics and machinists.

this should be a full fledged show. You guys need to be paid way more for this.

Very cool to see such beasts being worked on.

love this series

Absolutely brilliant video.....fabulous work and dedication from you guys.I'm just working on a very large scale Churchill mk3....scratch built from steel......this video inspires me to increase my efforts.

Great work. You all should be proud.

Another great update.

Good camera work, very interesting episode.

Thank you for sharing with us the work that goes into maintaining the collection.

a golden channel of KZread

Wow. This is where the hands get dirty. Really enjoyed this

Bloody brilliant.

Brilliant.

just found you guys a diesel mechanic but never been close to a tank very interesting watching the mechanical parts am american dont know much about british engines

Very enjoyable series! Well done to all!

What a wonderful insight. Love it.

Can't wait for Tankfest, counting down the days!

Yet again another great video from the workshop guys, so interesting, can't wait for the next one, keep up the good work guys.

Oh my. I am a natural born wrencher, but how in the world do you get a job like this? Extremely incredible.

Excellent programs! Thank you. I can't wait for the next one!

Great job guys. Hope tank feast will be a ball for everyone.

@richardsinger01

5 жыл бұрын

Michael Bolling “tank feast” Like it!

Man sized transfer case... good work.

6:00 the_chieftain would be proud....

Brilliant, brilliant series. Well done Tank Museum.

Please consider a reality TV show based in the workshops/museum. With the characters down there, I imagine it would become addictive viewing.

Didn't know tank maintenance was so brute force and dangerous, but with all the weight and mass involved, I can see why. I think aircraft maintenance is a bit easier, but the comparison is like comparing a bull or ox to a thoroughbred horse.

Me: proud when I changed the sparkplug on my scooter. Also me: watching Tank Workshop

@dnloke7172

5 жыл бұрын

You: commented this on the last tank workshop video

@logoseven3365

5 жыл бұрын

DN Loke It’s a 2stroke scooter

@moosemaimer

5 жыл бұрын

Couple of days ago I was on the side of the road, pulling the tiny wrench out of my trunk and hoping the lug nuts on my wheel weren't so tight I couldn't get them off. wait, that sounds suggestive

Very Interesting. Good work guys!

Warning spring can kill , don’t get in line of fire when compressed and fitting, you won’t appreciate how much energy goes off so quickly till you see one go, take extra care with new and old tools , good luck.

Great work you guys do...cheers.

The Churchill is my favourite tank ever.

@neilgutteridge6405

5 жыл бұрын

Mine too....it doesn't get the recognition it rightley deserves.

Absolutely fascinating - long may those engineers and their skills continue!

Great team & really interesting to see the depth you go to for maintenance of those historic vehicles 👍