The Heavy-Duty Beast that Remained in the Shadows ▶ The Sterling T26 8x8 V12 Story

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  • The Heavy-Duty Beast that Remained in the Shadows ▶ The Sterling T26 8x8 V12 Story
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    Without a doubt, the great stories of manufacturing highly powerful and capable trucks have been directly or indirectly influenced by the needs of wartime. In times when technology is forced to advance by leaps and bounds, new transportation solutions emerge that leave a mark and even create stories that remain interesting to this day.
    Today, we present the story of the Sterling T26 truck, whose innovations and peculiar solutions were never fully realized in demonstrating what it was capable of.
    The content of our videos is for entertainment and the information contained is for you to know what is happening on the screen and has some educational value.
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    Timeline
    00:00 Intro
    00:53 Wartime Needs
    02:16 Sterling T26
    03:17 Unusual Solutions
    04:34 A Very Late Appearance
    05:34 Conclusion
    06:20 Outro
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Komentáře • 75

  • @fraserhenderson7839
    @fraserhenderson7839 Před 4 měsíci +23

    Also known as "Draggin' Wagon". The armor was a late add-on and was deleted pretty quickly as it heavily overloaded the front suspension and sterring parts. The idea was: don't do recoveries under fire... Tamiya produced an amazing model of this super carrier, extreme detail and function.

    • @brianb-p6586
      @brianb-p6586 Před 3 měsíci +2

      The M25 was the "Dragon Wagon" (obviously a pun on "draggin'").

    • @armoredsaint6639
      @armoredsaint6639 Před 2 měsíci

      I have the dragon wagon by Tamiya as well! Very cool kit!

    • @codyfoster7981
      @codyfoster7981 Před 2 měsíci

      Just watch the video to see how stupid your comment is

    • @CarLos-yi7ne
      @CarLos-yi7ne Před měsícem

      The M26 had no "add on" armour: the armoured cabin was there from the start of production (1943).
      Lateron (1944) they switched over to an unarmoured cabin (M26A1) because it was found that the armour was not needed.

  • @josephlannert969
    @josephlannert969 Před 3 měsíci +17

    As ex military I can confirm that cutting programs with enormous potential like this is still a reoccurring theme...

  • @Trucksusa
    @Trucksusa Před 4 měsíci +11

    Love these giant machines!

  • @davidduro974
    @davidduro974 Před 3 měsíci +11

    This Truck Looks so cool with its 8x8 double tyres and complety ahead of its time it Looks like From the 70s or 80s and still modern… the MAN Military Trucks got pretty much the same optic and are great truck too but they came out in the late 70s and this Truck is from 1943 !

    • @philsalvatore3902
      @philsalvatore3902 Před 2 měsíci

      Tatra made the 8x8 truck practical with the model 813

  • @robertoinsaurralde2494
    @robertoinsaurralde2494 Před 2 měsíci +4

    VERY GOOD

  • @lewiemcneely9143
    @lewiemcneely9143 Před 2 měsíci +2

    Ended up with 6x6, 10-ton tractors and same Draggin Waggon trailers. Favored the G.I. 2 1/2 and 5-ton trucks but bigger. 903 Cummins V-8 with a 5 speed behind it with hi/lo range and an air controlled p.t.o. Garwood winch on each side right behind the cab for pulling tanks from each side up on the trailer. The trailers had extensions at the front with pulleys on top for the dual winch lines to run through so it could load from both side with equal pulling. Engineers had them.

  • @marcleblanc3602
    @marcleblanc3602 Před měsícem +1

    Merci, intéressant, les jouets des hommes.

    • @GearTechHD
      @GearTechHD  Před měsícem

      Merci ! Oui, tout à fait, les jouets ultimes pour les grands. Heureux que vous l'ayez trouvé intéressant !

  • @christopherallen9615
    @christopherallen9615 Před 2 měsíci +3

    They do obstacle courses in mud runs with these trucks in russia. You guys should look it up it's cool.

  • @ozzy7763
    @ozzy7763 Před 2 měsíci

    Great video. I had never heard of this vehicle!

  • @deborahchesser7375
    @deborahchesser7375 Před 3 měsíci +3

    Form follows function and these HD spec built trucks are beautiful. I learned in square fender all steel Mack’s, very spartan and strictly business but redundantly built and ever capable. By the time you hit top gear you needed a break and a samich 😂

  • @jethro784
    @jethro784 Před 2 měsíci +1

    Snowrunner please add

  • @generaldisarray4146
    @generaldisarray4146 Před 4 měsíci +3

    I actually drive one of these in a game called Snowrunner. Very interesting truck.

  • @karlk6860
    @karlk6860 Před 4 měsíci +5

    Got my answer it was chain driven! thats NUTTS!

    • @deborahchesser7375
      @deborahchesser7375 Před 3 měsíci

      The designer said there was no metal tough enough to make driveshafts out of ? With the Ford GAA Sherman tank motor it made 500 hp and 1100 torque that’s beastly as F especially for 43’

  • @tristanconnolly5675
    @tristanconnolly5675 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Nice.

  • @scpvrr
    @scpvrr Před 4 měsíci +7

    Much better narrator. Thank you.

  • @user-hk1yc5gp1j
    @user-hk1yc5gp1j Před měsícem +1

    Snowrunner please add❤ ‏‪0:52‬‏

  • @adriantowe278
    @adriantowe278 Před 2 měsíci

    I love it i want one as soon as I seen it i turned in to a kid going i want one i want one anybody else want one

  • @Siddharth_joshi_Abhivachan
    @Siddharth_joshi_Abhivachan Před 2 měsíci

    Damn that truck looks monstrous 😍 enemy would loose half a battle if they see this bad boy coming at them growling

  • @chriszumsch47
    @chriszumsch47 Před 4 měsíci +9

    Only 56kmh?? its very fast for such a vehicle at this time!

    • @jamiebray8532
      @jamiebray8532 Před 4 měsíci +4

      It wasn't going anywhere in a hurry, now was it?😂 But it's still a beast of a truck.

    • @V8AmericanMuscleCar
      @V8AmericanMuscleCar Před 3 měsíci +1

      ​@@jamiebray8532 100 liters per 100 kilometers, it was not exactly the most economical military truck either. 😁

  • @meltdownshark8812
    @meltdownshark8812 Před 4 měsíci +2

    yay

  • @jamiebray8532
    @jamiebray8532 Před 4 měsíci +6

    I would love to find & own a dragon wagon. I hate it when you hear none survived. 😢

    • @SF-fm9hs
      @SF-fm9hs Před 4 měsíci +1

      there around. But I've only seen maybe 2or 3 in the past 20 years come up for sale. More are over in Europe.

    • @brianb-p6586
      @brianb-p6586 Před 3 měsíci +1

      M25 Dragon Wagons are presumably still around; the T26 is not.

    • @philsalvatore3902
      @philsalvatore3902 Před 2 měsíci

      @@SF-fm9hs You probably saw Tatra 813s or 815s.

    • @CockadoodleDont
      @CockadoodleDont Před 2 měsíci

      The T26 8x8 is extinct since only a few were built. The M26 dragon wagon is still around I’ve seen a few, plenty of videos of them on CZcams as well

    • @CockadoodleDont
      @CockadoodleDont Před 2 měsíci

      @@philsalvatore3902There are a few dragon wagons in France

  • @piperp9535
    @piperp9535 Před 2 měsíci +1

    Just wanted to point out that a tank being classified as a Medium tank does not mean that's it's intended role is Infantry Support.

  • @najlitarvan921
    @najlitarvan921 Před 2 měsíci

    now i kinda wanna see this in snow runner

  • @Leonidbuzov1984
    @Leonidbuzov1984 Před 4 měsíci +1

    👍👍👍👍👍

  • @dalekrinke2674
    @dalekrinke2674 Před 4 měsíci +4

    Very interesting. I was working in the arctic in the 1960 s to the late 1970 s. Around 1975 the oil company we were working for brought in a giant sized 8x8 machine called a Dragging Wagon?? Not sure if was this machine ?? They used it for a very short period of time for pulling freight sleighs. Then it disappeared and I never saw it again!

    • @fooseballs308
      @fooseballs308 Před 4 měsíci +1

      There was a machine called a Dragon Wagon but it wasnt 8x8.

    • @fraserhenderson7839
      @fraserhenderson7839 Před 4 měsíci +3

      Draggin' wagon was the first vehicle, the American M25 / M26. It had a lot of unique engineering and excellent self loading and carrying chops. It was engineered for easy maintenance in the field and mechanical redundancy. It used one enormous differential and independent sacrificial drive chains for each rear driving wheel

    • @brianb-p6586
      @brianb-p6586 Před 3 měsíci +1

      They were probably applying the military name to an unrelated industrial machine. If it had extremely wide tires, it might have been something like a Rolligon Brute.

  • @BEHNAZahmadi-pk9ht
    @BEHNAZahmadi-pk9ht Před 4 měsíci

    Ok .❤❤

  • @paulinosantana2490
    @paulinosantana2490 Před 4 měsíci +1

    E verdade

  • @staremmitor7946
    @staremmitor7946 Před 2 měsíci +3

    My cook dish, allows the🌄 concentration of sunlight to melt a beautiful cave smooth&samitary, anywhere 📻🎶

  • @Colorado_Native
    @Colorado_Native Před 4 měsíci

    They had a lieutenant driving. I was expecting a grizzled sergeant.

  • @haidenthomas6002
    @haidenthomas6002 Před 3 měsíci

    It looks like something ive built in crossout

  • @brianb-p6586
    @brianb-p6586 Před 3 měsíci +1

    It's too bad that there are none surviving, so only historical images can be used. It would be interesting to see how the drive gets from the transmission through the bogie pivot to the front axles.
    The front bogie is shown at 3:25, without the chains and with a bogie-mounted sprocket, but the drive connection between the bogie and the rest of the truck is not apparent. I assume that there was a vertical shaft through the bogie pivot axis. Regardless of the details through the bogie connection, the system was obviously chain final drive, not entirely chain drive.

  • @cesarcardenas3893
    @cesarcardenas3893 Před 2 měsíci

    👍 solo si sus cadenas delanteras estuvieran totalmente cubiertas y tuviera reductor de fuerza/rueda libre en las ruedas de dirección, hubiera sido una máquina muy fuerte y durable

  • @jamesocker5235
    @jamesocker5235 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Chain drive front end would have been problematic wear item in mud

  • @karlk6860
    @karlk6860 Před 4 měsíci +1

    If you look at the pics of the axle assemblies on the T26 it sure as heck looks like it was chain driven? Is this a driving chain or is it to run something else?

    • @jacksmith7726
      @jacksmith7726 Před 4 měsíci +3

      So you didn't listen to the video then ? Because he says that

    • @karlk6860
      @karlk6860 Před 4 měsíci

      I listened to it and heard it was fully chain driven. Seems an insane way to do it.

    • @alangordon3283
      @alangordon3283 Před 4 měsíci

      Try watching it

    • @CockadoodleDont
      @CockadoodleDont Před 2 měsíci

      The M26 dragon wagon they were using had chain drive for the rear axle. The plan for the T26 was to have the front and rear axles chain driven since they were both double axle in the front and rear on the prototypes. They used sprockets and chain to drive the 2nd axle off of the main driveshaft/gear driven axle.

  • @jamesrecknor6752
    @jamesrecknor6752 Před 4 měsíci +4

    I want one if it has cup holders and USB ports

    • @GearTechHD
      @GearTechHD  Před 4 měsíci +1

      Absolutely, and it even syncs with your playlist for that V12 bass boost! 😅

    • @Colorado_Native
      @Colorado_Native Před 4 měsíci

      It carries its own cup holder factory. How many did you want. Now, about those USB ports...

  • @stevecallagher9973
    @stevecallagher9973 Před 3 měsíci

    the subtitles on your videos are annoying, you should make them an option going forward.

  • @AncientRylanor69
    @AncientRylanor69 Před měsícem

    w

  • @arjancornelissen9634
    @arjancornelissen9634 Před 3 měsíci

    It's not even clickbait? LOL

  • @BEHNAZahmadi-pk9ht
    @BEHNAZahmadi-pk9ht Před 4 měsíci

    🇮🇷

  • @Neil-ru7kw
    @Neil-ru7kw Před 4 měsíci

    That piano player on the AAA commercial is disgusting . Tell CZcams .

  • @bm4751
    @bm4751 Před 4 měsíci

    Sterling, hardly. Seems a waste of sterling

  • @sophiaherschel567
    @sophiaherschel567 Před 2 měsíci

    Ridiculous vehicle.

  • @IgrejaBrasilBem-aventurado8193

    BR trans-cargas. 💛 💚 🤍 💙