From Russia with love...

[Christian P.]

Lately there seems to be a proliferation of insane 4x4 videos from Siberia and other corners of Russia.

this one is pretty disturbing, I am not sure if I am happy for the truck/driver or sad for the river bed...



Post yours!

[NothingClever]

Starting at 1:25, I'm thinkin' Russia isn't doing that ULSD thing yet.

[Christian P.]

Starting at 1:25, I'm thinkin' Russia isn't doing that ULSD thing yet.

I would say it's a safe bet.

Here's another classic:

[Christian P.]

One last...these are too much fun to watch...maybe it's the music...

[shortbus4x4]

Actually any diesel engine will do that whether it is running ULSD fuel or not. You would need to either get more air in the cylinders to complete the combustion process or put less diesel in to control smoke. The first video showed a pretty skilled operator behind the controls in getting that thing out. Next to Chernobyl that riverbed is nothing.

[grimbo]

The music certainly helps. Love the last wheels in the air action, yep a single person will counter balance 20 30 foot logs

[Christian P.]

this one did not get as lucky....well, he survived, but not the truck.

[McZippie]

Lately there seems to be a proliferation of insane 4x4 videos from Siberia and other corners of Russia.

this one is pretty disturbing, I am not sure if I am happy for the truck/driver or sad for the river bed...

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Looks like normal extracting of raw materials and road building in a wilderness area, what's so "insane and disturbing" about it?

[Flounder]

Looks like normal extracting of raw materials and road building in a wilderness area, what's so "insane and disturbing" about it?

Ha! At first I thought you were being serious.

[bob91yj]

I'm not sure that I see the difference in what that truck in the first video is doing vs one of us fording a creek/stream in our vehicles, only on a grander scale. The Sierra Club would have you believe that we do just as much damage.

I have been in a situation where a group of us hit a soupy/sandy wash. It was a marked road, had not been used in a while (or at least since the last storm). There were 8-10 vehicles in our group, approx 1/2 got stuck. We made a mess of the crossing that we got stuck in, but we didn't have many options considering the circumstances. Camel Trophy addicts would have been proud of how we recovered our stuck vehicles with no damage, environmentalists would have had a coniption fit about the tire ruts we left. Video of the event would have been disturbing to some. We were laughing and joking as we waded through thigh deep silty/peanut butter mud to hook up recovery gear and extract vehicles. You had to be there to understand the humor of our predicament. No one in the group was proud of the mess that we made, but knew we did what we had to do, hoped that another storm would come through soon to wipe it clean again.