Some backstory: These gentlemen are Canadian Army, part of the 3 Area Support Group Technical Services Division, and apparently had a lot of time on their hands while at Canadian Forces Base Gagetown in New Brunswick. This performance was part of an army services parade in Halifax. Impressive.
h/t Dave S.
A Jiffy is how long it takes light to travel 1 centimeter.
Next I want to see them do it blindfolded. 🙂
I loved it !!
Not a drop of anything on the ground!
But,,, I don’t know how long its going to run without any coolant,,, (I hate dumping spoilers)
I should have added that I’d be proud to buy these guys a round.
That’s the branch of the army I used to be in. I haven’t done that before but when I was doing my phase training at Borden I did change a jeep transmission in the dark in a snow bank. A good time was had by some.
3 things,
-1- COOL !
-2- The Jeep helped in winning World War Two because it kept the Allies very mobile in an age where Germans were still moving most of their stuff with horse and carriage.
The Germans had a Jeep of their own.
Oh yes it was faster, had a suspension and many “superior” features , but they could
only produce one a day, while the Americans could produce 60 “less refined” Jeeps a day.
The Jeep could be easely and quickly repaired while the German Jeep ( can’t remember it’s name now ) being more sophisticated could not be repaired as easely.
The US provided its troops with lots and lots of Jeeps which made it easy for them to relocate often,
Something the Germans could not do due to low production numbers.
I have no links or anything,
I’m a WWII documentary buff ( I own hundreds of hours of WWII documentaries ) and I’m just going by memory.
-3- To think that fine young men such as these in the video above risk (and lose) their lives to preserve our freedom…which the left uses to root for our ennemies and uses to bring depravity and decay to our civilization…is sad, really sad…
This group performed the activity during the International Tattoo in Halifax in July. Wild!
wish mechanics in service stations could work so fast. The bill would be a lot less for us poor mechanically deprived people.
Nearly as fast as a disabled car on the Cross Bronx Expressway.
But for some reason the dealership needs me to leave my car with them for a full day just to get an oil change…..
Oh yes, and the infamous extra charge of $12.92 for so-called ‘shop supplies’. I tore the service manager a new one over this charge. I mean, come on, I asked him, I’d like to see a complete itemization of how they arrive at precisely 12 dollars AND 92 cents. His response was, “But sir, the oil change portion was ‘only’ $29.95”. Good grief.
Friend of USA:
Are you are thinking of the Kubelwagon?:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_K%C3%BCbelwagen
Saw this the other day on Ace of Spaces as well — very cool stuff.
It would be interesting to know what they’ve done to the Jeep to make it knock down like that. I am guessing that there are holes in the floorboard to let the pedal come out with the engine and transmission as a single unit, and they’re probably using pins to hold components together in spots, rather than threaded bolts. I should do the same thing to my Toyota Echo, just for the heck of it.
Semi-related: these things are fun, too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_gun_competition
Google search on field gun competition videos: http://tiny.cc/c10nj
Could it be said that it was done in a jeepy.
Ok have no defence against this, everyone gets to come up with something stupid at times.
That was awesome. I am one proud Canadian of the men and women in our Canadian forces.
Well that was cool, but Dion could put a hot dog back together,,,and Iggula knows which end of a.. These are the real men, not the Toronto Star CBC types that wince lifting a towel in the bathhouses. Harper needs a majority to keep funding our military so people like this can do the heavy lifting.
Lovely. I’ve embedded it at my site, thanks.
“Teamwork” means one thing to people who actually get things done and another thing to people like the IPCC.
Shaken: “Nearly as fast as a disabled car on the Cross Bronx Expressway.”
BWAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!!!!!
You gots to live in NY to get that joke, its a beauty.
Well done! I also love the way they used only hand-powered tools. No electric drills or other power tools.
And it took the Ford dealer 1 hour to replace the heater door motor on my ranger p/u.
Shop supplies for the job was exactly 10% of the labour charge.
mike
bartinsky at September 24, 2010 9:44 AM
[whine] Why do you hate us metrosexuals? /sarc
Friend of USA and rmgk, I believe that there were two base models, one a land version and one that was also amphibian. The land version had a flat bottom and the amphibious version’s bottom was round at the front, kind of like a dingy and had a propeller at the back.
I never put a Jeep together in a jiffy, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn, once.
“…apparently had a lot of time on their hands…”
I would not say 4 minutes is a lot of time. heh
rmgk,
Yeah I think that is the vehicle, but if it is then Wikipedia contradicts the black and white footage of WWII in my hundreds of hours of documentaries.
According to Wiki, during WWII the Germans produced 50,000 Kubelwagon, while the American produced only 8000 Jeeps???!!!
At 60/day the USA needed only 134 days ( about 4 months ) to produce 8000 Jeeps…and they were in the war far longer than 4 months…
something does not add up here…
I think Wikipedia has its numbers ( or dates ) wrong…
The RCASC (Royal Canadian Army Service Corps) performed the same (disassemble and assemble) as a team at the CNE back in the late 1950’s. I witnessed it and it was done almost the same as this video.
ex RCASC (ATC)
The amphibious version was called the ‘schwimmwagon’.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Schwimmwagen
I remember seeing this done in the 1967 military tattoo. The only differance was the story line. Two Canadian Peacekeepers stop their jeeo to do observations. As their backs are turned, the jeep is taken apart and spirited away by Arabs. Very non-PC, but a great laugh at the time.
I remember seeing this done in the 1967 military tattoo. The only differance was the story line. Two Canadian Peacekeepers stop their jeeo to do observations. As their backs are turned, the jeep is taken apart and spirited away by Arabs. Very non-PC, but a great laugh at the time.
Nice video.
BTW, you aren’t really still using Jeeps in the Canadian armed forces are you?
Please tell me that thing is only used in parades and such.
I like Jeeps. Own one now, bought to replace the Jeep that I wore out (after only 300K miles; nothing lasts anymore). But still, I would hope that Canadian soldiers have a more up to date means of transport.