You Tube finds

[Wulf]

How on Earth does a battery hold any sort of charge for 60 years ? Or did they 'jump start' it ?......(I didn't watch the whole clip)

I don't know what they did with the original battery, but later in the video they bring in a tractor towing a generator on a trailer to jump start it.

Here's a longer version with subs, I haven't watched it yet.

EDIT: at one point before the generator is brought in the subs say "Two batteries of a KAMAZ have been connected"... whatever a KAMAZ is...

[mollinary]

I don't know what they did with the original battery, but later in the video they bring in a tractor towing a generator on a trailer to jump start it.

Here's a longer version with subs, I haven't watched it yet.

EDIT: at one point before the generator is brought in the subs say "Two batteries of a KAMAZ have been connected"... whatever a KAMAZ is...

I think a Kamaz is a Russian truck brand?

[Techno II]

I don't know what they did with the original battery, but later in the video they bring in a tractor towing a generator on a trailer to jump start it.

Well.....That's just bloody cheating ! 

(I wonder if they put in any oil into the engine. )

It's still astonishing that they managed to 'fire it up' after all those years.....If only those guys only lived closer...I'd bet they could get our lawnmowers going again in two minutes, flat !

Cheers - Phil

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Phil I thought you had biological lawn mowers !  

[Techno II]

No, Matey.

All the organic lawnmowers have gone to that great field in the sky.

Good riddance.......Bloomin' pains.

Cheers - Phil

[steve_holmes_11]

Great video.

Good view of the breech of the 152 showing changes from the field artillery piece to tale less space in a fighting compartment.
Slightly shocked at the lack of assessment of transmission and tracks before attempting to unditch it (what would the cheiftain say).
Tip hat to the driver for some fine precision parking; It puts the school run and local supermarket parking to shame.

[Wulf]

Slightly shocked at the lack of assessment of transmission and tracks before attempting to unditch it (what would the cheiftain say).

Definitely some track tensioning needed, yes.

[Raider4]

Levitation in action:

[Steve J]

Very good .

[pierre the shy]

Great video.

Good view of the breech of the 152 showing changes from the field artillery piece to tale less space in a fighting compartment.
Slightly shocked at the lack of assessment of transmission and tracks before attempting to unditch it (what would the cheiftain say).
Tip hat to the driver for some fine precision parking; It puts the school run and local supermarket parking to shame.

I think the 152 might have been used as a war memorial or something like that as you can see what appears to be a concrete slab underneath it after it is moved? Still looks like Russian H&S standards are a bit more relaxed than modern Western practices  

Note the sledge hammer at the start of the video and the fact that the guys moving it actually read the relevant manual before start up  

[steve_holmes_11]

I think the 152 might have been used as a war memorial or something like that as you can see what appears to be a concrete slab underneath it after it is moved? Still looks like Russian H&S standards are a bit more relaxed than modern Western practices  

Note the sledge hammer at the start of the video and the fact that the guys moving it actually read the relevant manual before start up  

The dialogue says it had been intended for a memorial (plinth) which was never built.
The vehicle then saw use as a forestry tractor (dragging out stumps and roots).

From that I inferred the tank had been parked on a bit of hard-standing which succumbed to the marshy ground.

[Raider4]

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Interesting find. The Cents seem to be painted in a flat green and have a mix of A and B barrels. Thought they were Deep Bronze Green at that period

[John Cook]

Interesting find. The Cents seem to be painted in a flat green and have a mix of A and B barrels. Thought they were Deep Bronze Green at that period

Look at the 3 RTR RHQ sign, the colours are not right.  The green is very grey and the brown almost black.  I suspect that the colour rendition in this film is a bit skewed.  The mention of Conquerors and pounds shillings and pence places this as mid-1960s at the latest I'd say.  There were two DBR shades, the early one was discontinued because of lead content but I'm not sure exactly when. 

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

I'd place it as late 50's - 20pdrs were replaced as soon as the L7 became avaliable.