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Military road construction.

Post by fernando mendes » Wed Jan 21, 2015 3:42 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgptPWVZ-3k
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Post by forestry4evr » Thu Jan 22, 2015 3:18 am

Fernando,

Thanks for the link.

I can just see that chicken wire tightly wrapped around the axles of a truck mired down in soft "sugar" sand.

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Post by Joe Gopan » Thu Jan 22, 2015 3:41 am

The alternative is to do nothing and fail the mission. The WWII Engineers were well trained full of effective solutions.
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Post by Lowrdrbird » Thu Jan 22, 2015 5:00 am

Thanks for posting im going to keep a few of those log matts in the back of my truck
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Re: Military road construction.

Post by chevrolet k44 » Thu Jan 22, 2015 8:57 am

Interesting to see that the Chevy in the begin of the movie has the high exhaust like the GMC's.
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