This was a tank a long time ago

[Rob MacDonald]

I saw something simular during the construction of the Cambie Street Skytrain line 2 years ago - a drilling rig set up on a Sherman chassis.

Shame I didn't have the camera with me.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Paul,

Thanks for sharing the pics with us. Most of these, if not all, off road crawlers and carriers for the logging & mining industries, use Sherman drive train parts fitted only to a newly fabricated hull. So all one gets when buying one of these conversions is actually only a set of bogies, final drive, idler wheels and track, which will be (very) worn by the nature of their application.

Also see my web page "Shermans into ploughshares".

Regards,
Hanno