Rusted relics

[moose]

Nice picture of the German Jagdpanther, the Tank destroyer

 

[dobbslc]

The old railway tracks I used to play on when I was a kid.
They had only just been closed down back in the mid eighties.
This picture was taken in 2016.

 

[brightspark]

The old railway tracks I used to play on when I was a kid.
They had only just been closed down back in the mid eighties.
This picture was taken in 2016.


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get the stihlsaw out and knobble a bit of railway track

 

[dobbslc]

It's a bit of a climb up there through loads of undergrowth.....

 

[RichardM]

Nice picture of the German Jagdpanther, the Tank destroyer

I think it's an SU85 not a Jadgpanther

 

[pedrobedro]

SU85 is a Jagdpanzer isn't it?

 

[RichardM]

SU85 is a Jagdpanzer isn't it?

SU85 was Russian, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SU-85

Jagdpanther was German, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagdpanther

sloping sides, no front hatch, same purpose.

 

[dieselsamurai]

this has been now restored after a little bit of attention !

 

[slim_boy_fat]

this has been now restored after a little bit of attention !

By you?

 

[pedrobedro]

SU85 was Russian, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SU-85

Jagdpanther was German, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagdpanther

sloping sides, no front hatch, same purpose.

Jagdpanzer is what it is though isn't it ? It translates to mean tank hunter.

 

[dieselsamurai]

My friend did it over about 2 years the whole tank was filled with concrete and buried after being shot at for many years

 

[RichardM]

Jagdpanzer is what it is though isn't it ? It translates to mean tank hunter.

Yes, still a Tank Hunter

 

[selectedgrub]

Nice photos dieselsamurai

 

[selectedgrub]

 

[dobbslc]

Saw this outside an arts college that was getting demolished

Missing some parts but looked almost unused!

 

[moose]

SU85 was Russian, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SU-85

Jagdpanther was German, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagdpanther

sloping sides, no front hatch, same purpose.

Yes you are right I think the clue should have been in the title, but I did not realise the Russian' s had a version live and learn

 

[Dieselman 63]

Saw this outside an arts college that was getting demolished
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Missing some parts but looked almost unused!

Tailstock would have been worth pinching. So many lathes out there and the tailstock has gone walk about

 

[Screwdriver]

Tailstock would have been worth pinching. So many lathes out there and the tailstock has gone walk about

Do you not see the irony of that statement?

 

[Dieselman 63]

Do you not see the irony of that statement?

Lots more missing on that one though, scrap iron.

 

[selectedgrub]