@dwiggins01 Are Porsche high maintenance? I read that 99% of them from the past 20 years are still in the streets.

Europe does not have the -40/-50 winter temperatures then the mud like the Soviet Union does. They were fine operating in their own country and the supplies lines were over extended and not equipped to handles the climates.

@@mecalpsha4473 The german vehicles performed much better under those temperatures. Rommel was able to run circles around the allies in North Africa (even so he was outnumbered), because the german tanks and aircrafts worked much better in those hot and dusty environments.The Luftwaffe was outnumbered over africa, but still managed to put up a good fight, because the aircrafts had much higher ready rates than the british ones. They had special modification kits for their aircrafts to operate in tropical climate like the Bf 109 F4 Trop Have you ever tried to cold start a Diesel engine at -40°. German tanks can exchange their coolant water to preheat a cold engine with the hot water of an already running engine. So the germans were not completely unprepared. Or why do you think they developed halftracks with excelent cross country performance? But the supplies lines were indeed over extended.

@dwiggins01 Have you ever worked on Cars? German, Japanese, French, Italian, American?? VW spare parts are darn cheap for older cars (at least in Europe) and german cars are in general quite easy to fix compared to other brands. IIf you buy luxury cars you have to deal with luxury maintenance cost. Buying the a car is only half the deal. What do you think will a high performance Porsche disk brake cost you as a spare part? Same is true for other non german luxury brands.

Freestyle In the States we have a similar expensive, high maintenance, useless vehicle, they are called Harley Davidsons

Or cute factor too.

So it's just like my Mercedes Benz

2nd kind of cool is always a great excuse to have one.

Ja und this generates die Dieter score of 763.62. Guten Tag and now we dance.

Same score as the King Tiger?

I rather like the idea of motorcycle seducing a Panther.

Actually a halftrack spending a night or two with a cheap to have motorcycle (The halftracks used interleaved road wheels well before the Kitty)

the love which has no name

Chotto matte kudasai

Your a Twisted Pup! Nice one and Cheers.

Be pretty cool to go down the shops to pick up the bread and milk lol. A friend of mine had a Bren gun carrier with rubber tracks. But regardless of that about 25yr ago he could no longer get registration to drive it on the road

I know, right? imagine how cool it would be to roll up to a biker bar on this!

You don't want one it's even worse you NEED one! A motorbike with tracks you can drive tru the lanes in your local supermarket to get the groceries. And outside you can rip and tear up the neighboorhood driving straight home because you need no roads.

@@obelic71 Yes. 1000% Yes!

As we are living our fantasies why decide, have both a bren gun carrier and a kettenkrad, together with a dingo for when you want to be more discrete!!☺.

Just another of the many reasons the Germans lost the war. For the British and Americans it was a very useful machine. It helped to keep the Germans from building effective weapons that actually worked.

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Hahahaha🤣

Ha !

Your wife has fewer lube points

yay, depression potatoes

good luck finding enough grease to keep it lubed lol

and after finding grease you gotta make sure yuu-chan doesn't try eating or cooking with it

Actually, it would be useless for exploring a post apocaluptic world. You'd be better off with an ex Soviet Lada, a Volvo 740 or earlier or even an east-german Trabant than a Kettenkrad.

SonsOfLorgar Get a load of this guy.

when a motorcycle transitions to a murdercycle

@@jasonhunt19201 that would just be a BMW mptorcycle with an MG34 or MG42 in a side car.

Yes, but nowadays it has to be mutually agreed to in writing. Otherwise the one might call "me too" on the other. Just sayin.....

One of the first hybrid vehicles 😀

It takes a lot of lubrication.

Although that was a much thiccer Kettenkrad Also hello fellow weeb

What anime is that?

@@derptank3308 whats the reference? this taku can't place it.

Latemodeloldtaku The anime was called, I think, if I remember rightly, Girls on parade

@@casadelshed9128 thank you

@ger du ; The battle was rigged from the start against it!

There is a New Version of the Kettenkrad ukposts.info/have/v-deo/nZqcoYednYSKy58.html

Hi, Derpy! :D

who would be mean to a kitten cart? awww

Yeah it’s cool I like it 😀

And christmas presents.

It was too small to carry a significant amount of supplies and too light to pull a large load.

there is a new version of Kettenkrad Here in Mini ukposts.info/have/v-deo/nZqcoYednYSKy58.html

@@JohnRodriguesPhotographer It was used later in war as an aircraft tractor - particularly for jets. It was quite capable of pulling a load having been originally designed for logging and used by the Wehremacht to haul small antitank guns and run phone lines.

And travel the post apocalypse.

Exactly right!

m.mangahere.cc/manga/shoujo_shuumatsu_ryokou/ the manga, enyoy It ending

Of course, it‘s actually terrible for the post-apocalypse, because where are you gonna get spare parts or lube?

@@raylast3873 :(

@@raylast3873 The story actually acknowledges that, and they eventually have to leave it behind because the engine breaks and it can't be fixed.

I think it's main use would have been drinking rallies. Load a crate of open beer in the back, complete a course as quick as possible and drink what is left.

It had a heater????!!!!! .

@@BobSmith-dk8nw You learn fast that anything with an engine has a heater.

@@BobSmith-dk8nw I know eh! German and over-engineered? I'm SHOCKED!

@@TheDave159 Well ... yeah ... you can get heat off the engine - and for something like a motor cycle where you're pretty much sitting astride the engine ... sure - but that's not a real "heater" that would warm up the guys on the back of the thing. Although ... if these things were giving Ranking Officers rides - maybe they did have a heater ... I've spent to many hours freezing my ass off in worn out patrol trucks that were - supposed to have a heater - it just didn't work ... Trust me ... I (like anyone else who's been in the military) could go on and on ... There's the way things are supposed to be ... and then ... there's the way they are ... .

love that anime it me go awhh

And it's pretty realistic that they had to constantly fix it

@@ctrlaltdebug need sause

@@jonathansibrian695 m.mangahere.cc/manga/shoujo_shuumatsu_ryokou/ there you have the manga, estoy it

@@jonathansibrian695the name is Girls’ last tour

this the kettenkrad Sparks JOY

It's cute but it needs an 88 and schurzen

This pretty much sums it up

Scorch earth FTW

it can go invisible too..

80 KPH is 50 MPH, which isn't that fast for a wheeled vehicle, especially a motorcycle. It is pretty fast for a tracked vehicle. If you had a smooth road and you yourself didn't have to lube the vehicle and replace all the worn-out parts, I don't see why it wouldn't be able to go 50 MPH -- for a while. Towing trains or 155mm long guns up mountain trails or whatever else it can do in video games is something else. But getting up to 80 KPH on a soccer pitch before crashing into the goal net should be possible. :-)

CoH :D

@@lwilton it can go faster with some defencive vet

Not a 37 mm gun, that was in US Army inventory.

Coiled Steel 3.7 cm PAK 36, fine. Same thing.

It could reliably pull this (Arado weighes between 8 and 10 tons), otherwise they wouldn't even attempt it. So it would undouobtedly pull a PaK40 (1.4 tons) without a problem.

@@bellator11 You think pulling an airplane down a runway can compare to pulling a trailer through the mud? Shit, man, you and me and a couple of our toughest friends could push an eight ton Arado down a flat, smooth runway. Twenty-eight hundred pounds up a hill? Probably not. I'm not saying the 'Krad isn't capable, mind you...

Coiled Steel the pak 36 was a 37mm gun from the Germans.

A lot of these ended up on German farms after the war. I could see these being useful for Forest Service rescue or resupply.

I believe the Kettenkrad stayed in production after the war because those were widely used by the forestry service in several European countries. The US probably brought some over for military evaluation and forestry work. In 1995 I got to check one out at our local airport during an airshow that also had a WW2 German re-enactment group from Texas showing off that, a Hetzer and BMW R75 sidecar rig. They said the tank and bike were purchased in Europe while the Kettenkrad was bought at a US Govt. surplus auction. They drove the Kettenkrad with the front wheel off because those wore out fast and weren't needed for steering.

They were designed begore the war gor forestry services in Germany so it makes sense.

One of the books I have on the Kettenkrad suggests that it was presented in response to a requirement for a light tractor that could fit inside a Ju52 for transport, intended to tow, as described in the video, the 3.7cm PaK. With the demise of airborne operations, that role for the Kettenkrad disappeared, and it got jobbed out for other roles, like cable laying and as a generic light utility vehicle. From looking at the German halbketten designs, having a lubrication point on each track link was standard, a case of German overengineering that the troops in the field then hand to deal with.

Mostly tracks.

Tractor tech has come a very long way. My uncle collects and works on vintage tractors and they are crazy to maintain.

More grease points than a Mexican

Years ago working at an oil change place, a guy brought in one of those trucks they pull whole trees out of the ground with. Got the big hydraulic spiky shovels of death or whatever they call them. I think I counted about 120.

@@chapiit08 😲😲

And it did it very well!

I heard that too

These were also used to retrieve me 163 rocket fighters after they had landed, with the use of a complex lift and carry trailer, as the me163's wheels were jettisoned after take off.

@@chrisknight6884 Interesting. Thanks for sharing.

According to the sources I've read, it was the result of a requirement for a light artillery tractor that would fit inside a Ju-52 transport for airborne troops.

@@DmdShiva Interesting, but I do find this a little difficult to comprehend given the limited size and location of the JU52s cargo door. This would also be only viable if the the only field gun this machine could tow, the 37mm, would also fit in the JU52, not much point otherwise. Not being an expert on the carrying capacity of this aircraft I would not discount this until I can do more research. Thanks for the info.

There are reproductions

Imagine a modern one with a light composite body and electrical drive. You could probably drift with it.

Look into the “ripchair “ tracked vehicle by Howe & Howe !

Basically a snowmobile. Give it ATV wheels instead of skis, figure out cooling the tread wheels (or just make them steel), bam, reverse Kettenkrad.

Best post-apocalypse vehicle

That was beautiful series.

@@ctrlaltdebug Yeah screw Musk and his stupid Cybertruck.

Pulling power depends AFAIK very much on weight and friction. You could put a modern engine in and try to pull a plane with it, but the vehicle would just dig itself in...

​@@edi9892 A Cessna 172 might be moved with a Kettenkrad without digging in yourself.😉 And as they told during the video, it was actually used to move Me 262 airplanes.

edi you're right, but when everything else is equal a low power engine will give you less pulling power than a higher power engine.

It's Torque, not Horsepower, that does the pulling. Horsepower is defined as Torque * Rotational Speed. If you take the output of your engine and gear it down to 1/2 crankshaft speed, then you've doubled the torque. (1/3 = trebled, an so on.) So, it's not only the power of the core engine, but its gearing that make a difference there. That being said, traction is, of course, very important - and also very dependent on ground condition. (Consider if you will, a 400 HP Muscle Car at a stop light, with an 60 HP compact car next to it - When the light changes, which vehicle pulls ahead? In summer, it's the Muscle Car. But, on a wet or snow-covered road, the Muscle Car will have broken traction, just spinning its wheels, and the compact car will easily pull away.) There are situations where a large footprint, with a low ground contact pressure, like wide tires, or tracks, will give you more traction, There are other conditions where a high ground contact pressure will give more traction. (Snow plowing, for example)

@@peterstickney7608 but when you have two identical Lamborghini, one with minimal fuel and no one on the other seat and the other fully loaded, I put my money on the second car when it comes to winning the pulling match.

Rescue stranded people and cars on the highway after a blizzard and be a hero

Hoehner Tim, exactly what I was thinking. Given how simple the universal carrier was it would not surprise me if it was cheaper as well.

On board the Kittenkard

I would compare it to an sdkfz 251, given the overall weight of the universal carrier.

HaVoC117X , in terms of weight the universal carrier sits right between the sdkfz251 and the kettenkrad, roughly 3.5T with the sdkfz251 at roughly 7.5T and the kettenkrad at 1.5T. It left it small enough to be used as a company level run around, much in the fashion of a jeep, but armoured, which is where the comparison with the kettenkrad seems applicable.

@@ballagh LOL. I would call that double standard. First of all the universal carrier had a weight of 4t. The are many versions of the german halftrack system in different weight classes. The sdkfz 250 had a weight of 5t. Universal carrier's and sdkfz 250/51 were manly used as APCs and not like small traktors or Kradmelder. They were a totally different breed of vehicles.

It did break down at one point

Agree 100%. The horses in particular took on a HUGE roll in the war effort. Of course, so very much about the eastern conflict was truly horrifying, especially for the dedicated teams pulling artillery, supply wagons, wounded soldiers, and everything else imaginable. Performed their duties thru blazing summer heat and Brutal -40 below zero Russian winter conditions just the same. Pushing thru endless kilometers while beyond exhausted and more often than not, while starving. It was ironically these animals that taught mankind what selfless sacrifice really is.

Absolutely. Also featured were Camels, used for transport like horses, oxen, just the same, but also geese used as alarms, manning fields, ostrich, used for transport of ''light'' materiel, and pigeons for courrier work. Animals were extensively used and they very much deserve their recognition in their use by man in their wars with each other. The poor creatures never knew what they were used for. @@LJWalter78

Fronzel41 I learned what a Lorry was from Top Gear. Top Gear said we like to put dog houses in the front nose of our lorries. 😂

Fast Turtles Well said. I learned British English from Top Gear first but now UKposts has exposed Americans to much more British terminology. Hell, a third of the channels I’m Subbed to are British.

I don't see why we wouldn't know what a lorry is... We don't use the term often but whenever I seen it used its always referred to a truck... so unless its your first encounter with it, I think its pretty obvious from context alone.

It's not a word I knew in my younger years. But with youtube and just watching stuff from all over the world, I've learned quite a bit of British English. I'd say most Americans who watch youtube videos should know what a lorry is.

Truck sounds more virile than lorry.

There generally aren't many hills on an airfield, and an airfield tends to have nice, solid ground where it isn't paved. Additionally, you don't want to go much over a couple miles per hour when towing an aircraft, so you can keep it down in bottom gear where you have the torque.

@@DmdShiva Well it obviously couldn't pull an Me262 across rough ground, but it is also 5 times heavier than a PaK40 and doesnt have giant wheels to ease towing it. A PaK40 generally shouldn't be a problem for the Kettenkrad, as long as it doesn't have to pull it through deep mud, but as mentioned here any truck wouldve failed too.

hmm.. a hyabusa engine would pull along a modern version quite nicely >_>

You could check the US Patent office. They probably have the plans.

i would concur too with US archives as the NSU plant was in the US occupation zone.

@@1320crusier LS1 swap :)

A Brit 7.3 Powerstroke Diesel

Mk1 Pferd was also good.

@@Defenestrationflight What's that?

@@pistonar Horse 😂

@@DoddyIshamel Certainly more widely used, but still could not be parked and left. They require daily fueling and basic maintenance. It's also much more difficult to replace a damaged part.

@@pistonar Certainly hard to repair, people have been leaving them parked for thousands of years though. Also whilst needing fuelled at least it was a more widely accessible fuel.

Maybe its just for show and not meant to duplicate a working machine...

@@ragazzi25 You do have to question their knowledge when they can't even depict the vehicle properly.

Or not. Any vehicle that's high on specialised maintenance is useless in a post apoc scenario.

@@SonsOfLorgar you didn't get the reference mate

Riqi Alka Must not be a man of culture.

Motorized doesnt mean infantry riding trucks. It means heavy equipment being truck drawn, and supplies being truck transpkrted.

@airborneleaf TIK channel shows how they lacked enough fuel to run all those vehicles. Basically, by July 1941, they had a lack of fuel in Russia. We know Rommel always complained about lack of fuel. I've read some German soldier memoirs and those relate that the soldiers marched through Russia; sun-up to sundown, 6 days a week. They were in half rags by the time they reached Stalingrad.

This vehicle was an expensive toy, that worked. It didnt change the fact that the Wehrmacht lost a lot of vehicles, trucks and cars over the course of the war.

@airborneleaf To be fair, he had to truck fuel 1000 miles from Tripoli for much of the campaign. It takes A LOT of fuel to transport fuel, In Russia, the mud made fuel consumption increase exponentially because they also had to use tanks as tow vehicles.

@@fazole TIK is not famous for his great accuracy... As for German motorization, well, they began with the idea of mixed cavalry and motorized infantry units, but that didnt prove sucha great idea, so they concentrated their vehicles inzo purely motorized units by barbarossa. Non motorized units had their vehicles assigned to the baggage train, and as artillery tractors. This was indeed insufficent, so horse drawn supplie carriges were still in rather extensive use, but that is by no means unique at this point in time. In fact in the whole war the only forces to have completely motorized supply were the BEF and US expeditionary forces. As for truck bprne infantry, that didnt exist outside of dedicated manouver units, such as the infantry regiments of a tank division until the late fifties, anywhere. And I mean not in the US or Soviet army.

Seba Jarosz yeah it seems fairly simple

Jeep was $738.74 How much was the Kettinkrad?

You can't compare prices of German military equipment due to how their economy was controlled. You need to compare manpower, time, tooling and materials required.

The Kubelwagen was simpler and even cheaper, and could go much farther than any other 4x2 vehicle thanks to its low weight and flat underside

@@visionist7 Source? I can believe the cost or even simplicity, but the mileage? Never heard this claim.

@@damascus1111 by farther I didn't mean further ;-) Off road most RWD vehicles got bogged down but the Kubelwagen could often cross almost the same terrain as a Jeep, within reason.

Felice Graziano awwwwe okay so it’s cross country ability was better than that of the Jeep or 4x4’s. May I ask, if you know why that is?

@@damascus1111 basically it was made out of stamped metal with the engine out of the original Volkswagen. The Volkswagen Beetle was actually an idea from Hitler. So the average German could drive on the Autobahn

It is called producer gas if you wish to do homework on it. Even training tanks were powered by the stuff by war's end. Buses,private cars,other.

Gas producers or "charcoal burners" were very common in south eastern Australia during the war. Petrol rationing was very strict, but they had a lot of hardwood forests with trees up to 100 metres high. So many people assembled gas producers in garden sheds and towed them behind their cars.

There were a lot, because there was hardly any petrol or gasoline. Germany had hardly own oilfields. They used oil from Romania and tried to reach the wells in the south of the Sowjet Union, but that dit not work out well, They did work on synthetic fuel but it took a lot of efford. The gas generators needed a lot of attention from the drivers and demanded a lot of the vehicles they were build on. You needed the generator to be installed, sometimes on a 1 axle trailer but also it demanded space and load capacity for the wood.

@@bertnl530 but even with all those limitations, it got you mobile, here in Britain some vehicles were converted to domestic gas with a gas bag on the roof, only low pressure and a limited range but once again it was mobility.

@@CrusaderSports250 It was better then nothing ,that's for sure. Now people can laugh about it and look outside to their car of motorcycle, but lack of transportation is a killer. During the winter of 1944 the people in the cities of the WEst Netherlands (Amsterdam The Hague Haarlem etc, suffered of foodshortage. Partly due to heavy winter and confiscation by the German occupier, but also artificial as an act of rage. The railways had hardly any material left and lorries and big trucks were mostly confiscated or standing broke down by lack of parts or fuel. In such situations you are happy with every form of motorized transport. Here the city people had to ride like hundreds of kilometers by bicycle to find some food. No tyres anymore, so riding on bare metal, or they had to use small karts or prams, normally use for babies. Wlking for days in broken shoes. Jorse also confiscated. The lack of transportation costed thousands of lifes.

Yevrah Hipstar yeah and useless.

@@alonzocalvillo6702 Heavy and useless.

@@alonzocalvillo6702 Ah.. they did point out that she was good at pulling her weight...

Yevweh Hipster - Yeah but with feminist plantation system inspired women now, they are mainly Rotten Oranges, whose juice is NOT worth squeezing!

@Arn does Yee-ha baby!

(Kampfrad means combat bike in German)

I would imaging the German solution just being a line of troops to dig a hole, the vehicle lays the cable in the shallow trench and the troops fill it back in. Otherwise you could in theory add a plough to the front, cable at the back and have a second vehicle follow it to push the dirt back in