The fella driving the Chieftan would have to be a special kind of special to screw it up that bad.

Omg health & safety shut your eyes ? RTR & REME in tears lol Ecologists screaming you've got it all in one vid guys !!!

That Foden's an amazing bit of kit.

The L60 might not have been the best tank engine in terms of reliability but when they are running they sound absolutely fantastic screaming away.

It was inevitable that he would break it, he breaks everything😊

It’s really good to see the whole tank saga coming together Matt after all these months and watching updates. Foden is an epic piece of kit. I’m a purveyor of broken Bedfords, Land Rovers and London Cabs so this is all right up my street! Good to see some unpolished, behind the scenes B roll too!

I was 14 when I drove a Cheiftan at Catterick..Sgt Jim McGaldric of the dragoons set it up for my Dad. Full course and fired the main gun! Never forget it! 😊

If the laws of natural evolution were truly in effect, Whistlin Diesel would have been eaten long ago LOL!

I think you guys have respect and a little love for the vehicles you work on, some people however do not, you also have a respect and understanding of the monetary value of the vehicles and the work you do, some however do not, enough said 🤔

Great video Matt, showing Outstanding British Teamwork!

There's something immensely satisfying about recovering a vehicle that looks totally stuck and beyond hope. Those Fodens just show that we can make good pieces of equipment sometimes 🤣.

That Foden is a scene stealer, it will steal the star of the show's thunder in a heartbeat. It has its own niche unique engine rumble and its also got something else we like...its BIG!

Standing clear of chains when hauling was mentioned but people seemed to be rather close to the wires when winching. Wires are probably worse than chains for whiplash if they break.

Wow, the Foden's always looked the part but they can obviously walk the walk as well. No wonder you guys love them The MOD should have bought Foden before they went under. Makes me wish I'd been a Recy Mech, a match for M.A.N or Oshkosh any day of the week.

Now i understand why some adverts say "no test drives without payment in advance"

Good to see everyone wearing the safety squint, during cutting ops.

chieften is the best engine noise ever, nothing beats it, end of! goes for anything with an engine.

that whistlin diesel is a complete knob jockey

MORTAR - Matt's Off Road Tank & Artillery Rescue. 😊

Still think "We die like men" should be the slogan for the merch, maybe with a picture with a tank upside down.... and perhaps Ted dog just sat there shaking his head. Tank was stuck, you got it unstuck. Can't criticise something that worked.👍

That Foden is a fecking Warrior . Definitely the star of this video .

Watching all this winching reminds me of actually enjoying this sort of stuff on my Tank Transporter Trade training in Sennelager July-August 1980.💂‍♂️🪖⛑️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇦

The importance of track tension before driving. Although trying to drive through a large tree wasn't the best idea I tell thee. Not a bad recovery though in the end. Lessons learnt.

21:43 There is a tool of I remember for pinching the track links together, specifically for getting a jammed track pin out.

That video was a good reminder of what us Brits excel at - telling a problem to fuck off then knuckling down and sorting it no matter what the level of motherfuckery. Legendary.

Recovery work is the ultimate exercise in frustration

Great video Matt, worth the wait!!

That thing sounds pure evil, like one of the horsemen of the apocalypse

You should always check your track tension on your tanks to help prevent problems like this from happening I noticed in a lot of your videos no body pays any attention to the trach and sapention track tension is a must in the American tants you don’t want to throw a track in any situation let alone in a fight.word to the wise check the track tension on all your Armor

Great bit of back woods thinking 👌🏻… should have set up a GoPro on time lapse 👍🏻

Great video. A full gang of rough assed grease monkeys and a mighty Foden, it was guaranteed to come out. Joe is fearless with the gas axe, I would have shat a load when that track gave up - fair play. What a Brit-fest

Looks like the foden is still a heavyweight these days as it was in the eighties when I was in the reme

Tell ya something mate, was a smart move to film that, because if that bell end had have wrecked it its NO REFUNDS!

An enjoyable video Mat. Some really good video shots at the beginning. Well done everyone.

Whistling Diesel is a Septic Tank.......!

Bloody hell. As usual Jack is getting stuck in. A true grafter.

I now know why all big recovery firms have Foden's on their fleet. Some pull of that thing

Someones going to get a vacation to go over and fix it when Cody breaks it again....

Them fodens are so bloody impressive 😎

It seems, this is the same colour of MasterMilo's Type69 tank, isn't it....🤔

Most interesting video you’ve posted Matt 👍👍 The Foden is a beast!

Found yours and joes channel through WD buying the tank. Love the vids cant seem to watch enough, ive watched all of joes an your vids since finding your channels

This reminds me of one time on exercise in Germany way way back in the fifties a similar event occured . The tank "centurion" run over a huge tree and got the tank fully suspended on the rootball which took forever to pull the tank up the slope,

The only thing that went wrong here was selling a perfectly good tank to that...bloke.....

imagine spending all that money and on your very first drive realising that your going to need to buy a foden or an ARVRE as well for when you get it stuck next time

I love the way you all stand around a recovery cable, not aware of the fact that it it snapped, the whip will cut you all in half!!!

Well documented mate 👍🏼🏴‍☠️✌🏼

That was really cool. Those Fodens are just fucking Awesome 👏

its great really that Cody broke it over here - it shows him at least its limitations as well as the punishment it can put up with i know as Matt says, the gradient is steeper, looking less in the footage - if my old REME buddy was there, he'd be doing the maths in his head (i used to have a written formula for working this out, weights x ground type x gradient etc etc) but all the combined weights and pull required is so much more than anyone thinks, even with the engine running its a dead weight with no power of its own, being dragged up a gradient through loose ground, probably trebles that weight easily, i don't know if the Foden shows the pull required of the winch, interesting to know i reckon it was a great recovery, sure Cody loved every second while it lasted, he'll be a little more forgiving i think next time, apart from any car crushing (hope someone gives him the safety pet talk) about having no one riding on top or in open hatches in case of debris including a whole car swinging round on the tracks, great to watch but incredibly dangerous, i have seen a car door be ripped off and turned into a mad throwing star, hurling itself 50+ feet into the air, and flying towards the crowd line, where it rolled to a stop fortunately against a permanent wooden fence, imagine it being a metal crowd fence or mine tape and kids being sat in the front Joe's gas axing was epic - and i reckon most of all, you boyz made the right decision getting the mighty Foden's and it has to said all being filmed at night made it that much more dramatic - damn good effort

WhistlinDiesel is a nutter, I love his stuff! 👍

Clearly no lover of trees….(RIP🌳)

Cody... "If there ain't no road....make and break one!".... .... and broke it again after bussing it! Lol

Had Fodens in Civvy st ---super strong the best ❤and 😅

I think he showed great restraint. I would have done something very similar if I was driving.

Track clamps? Gas axe?

Brilliant 😮

Great recovery there, shame that Foden is no more. Great piece of kit.

Only watched one Whistling Diesel video to work out that guy is a gold medal w⚓️ Such a waste to sell a beautiful machine to the tosser

The only one we had to teach to use the sledge was you 😂😂

She sounds BADASS 👍

Good on the tree😉

On that recovery, you could have run the tank engine, used the near side track to help in the load even though the tank will go at a slight angle but not that much.

The tank engine sounds amazing. Great video.

Superb video Matt👍

I guess all the films of tanks driving through buildings and forests up to the axles in mud must be fake if one can’t handle a bank and a sapling. Great recovery though.

Cody is ace :o) he plays whistling diesel very well. I’m sure he will have a lot of fun with it. On the recovery side it seems like the track was jammed both ways? And there is nothing you can do then but take it off :o(

That rolls sounds brilliant in the Foden

Foden is wicked Good to see some uploads (know your also working full time) Cheers JIm

Trees are deceptively sturdy structures, tanks have marginal off road capabilities. Hope your recovery vehicle isn’t within range the next time your friends get the Chieftan stuck.

I think that was a very successful outcome. Before the armchair enthusiasts start carping let’s look at how the military train their personnel. The instructors have between 10 & 20 years experience and have no wish for their charges to fail. They show them piece by piece how to and how not to and a course can take up to a year depending upon its specifics. The problem with doing jobs like this in this situation is you become your own apprentice. At the end of the event ten or twelve people were a lot wiser than when they started which is no different from going on a course, being presented with that problem and solving it. Alternatives might well have been presented after by an instructor but you had a problem and solved it. In service in REME many of us were not trained in half the things we did we were presented them in the field without an instructor like yourselves. At that point we learned the hard way the biggest tool box is the one on your shoulders!

Septic Chocolate Teapots

If there is one person unworthy of the chieftain its him

Looked good on that paramotor Matt!!! lols....

just another video to prove that whistlindiesel is a bellend

The tracks they put on tanks seem very lacking. I have an LGP D6 that I am pretty sure has way more off road abilities than most tanks.

Best video ever, which I could come and be part of the action

so much I could say, all taking the piss, well mostly. What a bloody good job to get that out, really cannot beat a Foden, though I did hear, recently, that the MoD insisted that the RR Eagle was put in it, but Foden were keen for Cummins, I do know of one fitted to one. I was holding my breath during the winching, fucking hate winch cables and the slicing effect they can have...... being ex REME, not REMY!!!

WhistlinDeisel Appreciation Society Video: I originally watched this on Hewe's channel a few weeks ago. Beautiful sounding tank! Beautiful looking tank! If anyone was going to wreck it, that honour was going to WhistlinDeisel. Nobody else could have done it, I mean come one...56 tons of armoured fighting vehicle, built to be one tough sonofabitch and then some. Any normal person would've had hell of a game to bugger it up, but nah...not WhistlinDeisel, he'll do it in 5 seconds flat!

My mate Daves fiat panda 4x4 would of pulled that out a piece of piss!

does back to front mean ass backwards for us yanks ,witness markings I believe is the term your looking for on the Injection pump where is was in time and someone removed it and now the painted line has shifted some

The Forden was a great buy. Fun and games for the lads, that in sure you could have done without. Chieftain made a mess of those trees.

I honestly would have paid good money to watch, and maybe help, but mostly watch. 😄

Disclaimer- Not a single piece of nature was harmed during the making of this video. (Not by a Brit anyway!)

Great video, enjoyed it

As a 'A' Vehical driver, throwing track is one experience you only ever want to do once . . .

The downs is strong in this one. God bless 'merica.

Nice video. Bit off topic but I'm sold on that battery powered chainsaw. I was reluctant to get one thinking they would lack power but that chainsaw in the video cut those treees no problem.

Oh trust me us Americans know how to use a sledgeham however not sure about whistling diesel and his crew

Foden: you’re comin’ with me

Any chance of getting my hands on the Hilux for a video? 🤣 I’m in the north west

Cheers Mat - brilliant content

22:22.., whistling diesel.., yeah now we need a piece of spaghetti!.., just imagine the trouble you'd have saved yourselves if you just shot him with both barrels and buried him in the creek.

Whistling diesel is a friend of diesel dave the tank was featured when diesel dave flew his blllackhawk to visit him

After serving for three years on the Centurion, I wish to say nothing about the Chiftain tank. I left the Army !

she’s a reyt weapon 👌🏼

Good one👍🐒

I now it’s a business….. and your there to make money…… but sometimes when I’ve sold stuff that I’ve spent resurrecting…….part of me thinks…… have I sold it to a complete Dick to wreck with more money than sense😵‍💫….ah well! 🙄

Powered by caffeine mcdonalds and hatred. Sounds like my team!

Invest in track clamps

Foden power……👍🇮🇲💪