Bulldozers on Antartica

[Anonymous Poster]

New member here. A link to this thread was posted at the DHS forums. Thought you folks would also like to see some more photos of dozer operations at the South Pole. I have located an amazing series of photos of the absolutely extreme conditions.


Note the insulated lift cylinders
D7H Traverse Special

Extreme cold

Here one of the tractors has fallen thru a crack in the ice!

Rescue

Bet these crank on the first try...LOL!

Wake Up Tractors!

Hope everyone enjoyed these as much as I did. This thread sent me searching the net for more information about a fascinating subject.

 

[DarinRay]

Awesome P389. Do you have more?? We sure like to see pics.. Well I sure do at least.. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Darin

 

[Chief]

ScottAR & P389 great and very interesting pic! Thanks for posting them.

 

[cdcole]

Excellent. I watched a special on Discovery about Arctic and Alaskan truckers. They even showed them save a stuck unit 1/2 through the ice.

Check it out. thx for sharing

Cliff

 

[polecat]

bbbbbbbbbbbbrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr is all i have to say to htat one ...i hate winter now even more!!!! /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif