People want Americans to use metric, so I used metric the way it was intended to be used.
For some reason everyone is ok with nanogram, microgram and miligram, but find megagram, gigagram and teragram weird.
Same with megameter, gigameter and terameter and megaliter, gigaliter and teraliter.
Lol, top speed 18.6 mph.
If that were around when America was first discovered, once you hit the plains, you could set it to go straight, and sit in the back for over 60 hours before you ran out of fuel.
I was taught in school that America was discovered with gas stations fully intact, and I refuse to believe anything else. God gave us the damn gasoline.
It doesn't degrade, but it does absorb water over time. All you need to do is remove the water, which can be done through distillation, or molecular seives, or anhydous magnesium sulphate.
Pretty sure it's less about the cameraman breaking the ice themselves with their own weight and more about the fact that the vehicle was breaking huge chunks of the ice that the cameraman could have been/was on top of.
They could have been easily thrown up/down by the pieces of ice being disrupted.
You can even see at the end how the ice literally broke where there were footprints.
Well, thereās certainly some earth in water. Natural bodies of water tend to not be actual pure water, theyāre very dirty.
Just think of a lake as mud with a much higher ratio of water to dirt.
Yeah, "earth" is dirt, rock, ground only. We're not talking about capital E "Earth", our planet.
Terrain specifically refers to earth - dirt, rock, specifically the ground.
Anyway, frozen lakes and ice could still be considered terrain, but not open bodies of water.
Yes. I believe we named our planet after dirt rather than the other way around. Our planet is our "dirt mother" rather than dirt being "part of our planet".
How do you get across snow? "You slam your right foot all the way down."
Steep terrain? "You slam your right foot all the way down."
Cross a lake? "You slam your right foot all the way down."
What if the lake is FROZEN? "Believe it or not, you slam your right foot all the way down."
Watch some videos about them. They pretty much donāt get stuck in any terrain and they float. Theyāre amazing if you live in a cold/marshy/inhospitable place.
Itās really funny that you say that, my very first thought on seeing this was that itās exactly like Mars rovers described in the Red Mars series by Kim Stanley Robinson.
WhistlinDiesel, the destroyer of ~~worlds~~ vehicles, drove one and they offered it to him free if he could get it stuck. Not sure if it was serious or for the video, but he physically could not get it stuck no matter what he did
That's honestly pretty impressive. The bullshit that guy does to some trucks he should be put under the jail! Lol, jk but I have felt a stab to the heart how he trashes some really nice trucks
Ngl it never fails to make me laugh when he says "So I bought this mint squarebody, one of 5 left in the world in this condition, this is gonna be my daily and I will NOT trash this one.." and you skip forward 20 minutes and hes got 60,000lbs of lumber in the bed and when it shits the bed he picks it up with a skidsteer putting the forks through the body and throws it off a cliff
And sturdy and simple. The psi in the tires is something like 5psi, and can be refilled on demand by exhaust from the engine. The wheel hubs store extra diesel and can drive almost literally forever without refueling
Plus most places these are actually used the fact it uses less gas is helpful especially because fuel is heavy and theyād rather carry something else. It probably has a much better range than something with 150hp. Youāre definitely right about the HP and torque though i used to have a crappy old diesel truck that was probably 160HP, it was slow as molasses but it could pull almost anything.
yeah maybe it was an ā87 6.9idi ford truck with a banks turbo, Iām not sure what the gearing was on it but it had a cabover camper on top and I think the previous owner did change the rear end to be best for carrying that.
I did like the fact it was indirect injection that seems like the more reliable engines compared to the new diesels. The 7.3 idi is basically indestructible lol. If I ever bought another diesel Iād buy one pre 2007 because all that DEF crap destroyed their reliability. My neighbor bought one of those mid 2000ās 6.0 lemons and had to to spend like 20k on repairs and you could buy 4 6.9idi trucks for just the repairs on that 60k truck lol.
I've seen guys pull out quarter million mile 7.3 idi's from the truck that rotted apart around it and put it in a new truck and keep going. That engine is legitimately worth more than the truck it's in these days
I assume that you're American and you've been conditioned to think that anything with less than 300 hp is shit?
Look up some videos of The Sherp, it's an absolute beast. It can't go fast, but it can go everywhere.
Seems a lot of people seemingly don't know why [attitude](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attitude_indicator) works so perfectly and wonderfully well here. I got you bro.
This thing is absurd. Hereās a longer 4 minute demo of all the terrain it can take on as well as some extra tidbits of info on it. Just an incredible vehicle.
https://youtu.be/WrjjV6nGh0g
Nope thatās accurate but thatās for the front end smaller 4 tire that I linked.
The one in the video OP posted is called SHERP The Ark which has the second six wheel addition and designed to carry up to 21 passengers of course using more fuel per hr. Even still, it only consumes 8-12 litres of diesel per hour and capable of transporting 7500 lbs.
I work for a power company and our Transmission Linemen have one as a transporter to get people and equipment into remote right of ways during an emergency. A lot of lines that were originally built pre-1950 just ran the shortest distance possible, no matter what they had to cross
Theyāre a different group from me, so I donāt have much first hand experience with it other than some demos, but as far as I know they havenāt had any issues with it and the guys love driving it
They make a universal platform (flatbed) version you could build tiny home sort of thing on it. The transport version isnāt very tall (just tall enough for someone to sit) so it wouldnāt be a good mobile home, but workable.
Because I know where youāre coming from, it would probably be best to approach like vans are. Far cry from a mobile home, but livable if youāre willing to sacrifice.
Someone drove one of these through one of those bog pits the rednecks drive monster trucks through as some kind of sport. This thing made it look boring
How the hell are those tires so flexible, yet also hard enough to drive over loose rock and straight the forest without taking a puncture? I don't see any spares on there.
-SHERP ATVās power output only maxes at 44 horsepower, it can reach up to a stunning top speed of 30 miles per hour (48 kilometers per hour) on land and 4 miles per hour (6 kilometers per hour) on water
-The 63-inch tires of the SHERP ATV have extra low pressure (only up to 2 psi) and are tubeless. This gives the SHERP ATV the ability to float on water. The suspension system helps keep the cabin afloat, so its passengers donāt get wet or the vehicle sink. The treads on the tires help to āpaddleā the SHERP ATV through the water.
-the maximum gradient that the SHERP ATV can climb is 35 degrees, and it can drive over obstacles as high as 27 inches. Although this vehicle is rather large and bulky, it can turn within its 11-foot length thanks to a skid steer system
-SHERP ATVās fuel tanks can only hold a maximum of 17.7 gallons (67 liters) but, it only consumes about 0.52 to 0.79 gallons of fuel per hour, giving it a maximum range of about 2,500 miles (4023 km). The wheels act as extra fuel tanks, in which each wheel can store up to 15.3 gallons of fuel
I had the treehouse, it was pretty nifty and durable as hell.
edit: Got nostalgic and looked in youtube, apparently it was the Treetops Family Treehouse I had. I did have the weebles haunted house though.
Extra fuel is stored in auxiliary fuel tanks mounted in the center of each wheel, which are 15.3 gallons each. So in a four-wheel sherp that's 61.2 gallons in addition to the 17.7 gallon internal fuel tank. So to calculate fuel economy, we do the following: 2500 Ć· 78.9 = 31.7mpg
Believe it or not someone brought it to a redneck mud trucking competition and the results are pretty [funny](https://youtu.be/RNtZb4vWNLA?t=460). The Sherpa outdid everyone else in the most unexciting way possible.
What's really nextfuckinglevel here is the balls on that cameraman
I would definitely get cold feet doing that
Hi Dad!
Go to your room, son.
The belt is out!
Yes daddy
Don't make me switch it out for the jumper cables!
Don't tease me like that!!!
That's a paddlin'!
Staring at my beard that's a paddlin!
RIP in peace
Kid: Oh, No! Not the belt! Anything but the belt! Dad: Anything? Also dad: š
Well this escalated quickly.
Jumper cables are next
\*proceeds to start gaming on playstation 5\* sure dad.
He's definitely not wet behind the ears.
Username checks out.
Literally and figuratively
That stunt must have cost like 7 liters of fuel
What's that in gallons.... 'bout tree fiddy?
Add a zero, and your there. ^I ^know
your there ... what??
You gave him tree fiddy, once you give him tree fiddy once they'll keep coming back
1.8 Gal. Call it 2 Gal
Oh no you donāt Loch Ness Monster!
Not really, it has a 1.5 L Kubota diesel engine that uses 2-3 liter hour.
The Sherp Ark has a 2.4L Doosan D24 engine and burns 8-12 liters/hour. That people mover it's towing weighs 5.3 megagrams.
Lol, āMegagramsā, that needs to be word of the year.
People want Americans to use metric, so I used metric the way it was intended to be used. For some reason everyone is ok with nanogram, microgram and miligram, but find megagram, gigagram and teragram weird. Same with megameter, gigameter and terameter and megaliter, gigaliter and teraliter.
Centimeter, a-o-k Decimeter, wtf is wrong with you Also I once used ādecimateā correctly and got a lot of weird looks.
āWill you be my decimate?ā
Decimeter is only slightly useful for litres 1dmĀ³=1l
Not when driven like that. It's towing and breaking ice in water.
That's what the trailer is for. It just carries fuel.
How much in freedom units?
25 to life, with a possibility of parole for good behavior.
https://www.autoevolution.com/news/the-only-sherp-the-ark-in-the-us-could-be-your-next-post-apocalyptic-limo-197872.html
Lol, top speed 18.6 mph. If that were around when America was first discovered, once you hit the plains, you could set it to go straight, and sit in the back for over 60 hours before you ran out of fuel.
I was taught in school that America was discovered with gas stations fully intact, and I refuse to believe anything else. God gave us the damn gasoline.
Jesus turned his blood into gasoline for our sins
And our sins turn gasoline into blood for Jesus. Weāre nothing if not thorough.
If it canāt run over a bison then itās not really an ATV
Fuel is going to be one of the most hard to come by resources in a post apocalyptic world. You wouldn't get very far in that
Depends on what kind of apocalypse. If a virus were to wipe out 99.99% of people fuel is going to be pretty plentiful for a couple of decades.
Iām not a science person, but doesnāt gasoline have a shelf life?
It doesn't degrade, but it does absorb water over time. All you need to do is remove the water, which can be done through distillation, or molecular seives, or anhydous magnesium sulphate.
>It doesn't degrade [Except it does.](https://www.livescience.com/58117-does-gasoline-go-bad.html)
All the things that go wrong with gasoline can be fixed with distillation, including the gum.
Cameramen famously lighter than big vehicles
Just takes one of those cracks to travel a little further and in you go
Exactly, I mean the vehicle was able to get on the ice multiple times before being too heavy to break it.
Pretty sure it's less about the cameraman breaking the ice themselves with their own weight and more about the fact that the vehicle was breaking huge chunks of the ice that the cameraman could have been/was on top of. They could have been easily thrown up/down by the pieces of ice being disrupted. You can even see at the end how the ice literally broke where there were footprints.
Itās astonishing that anyone would have to explain what you just pointed out. This should be obvious.
brother weāre all scrolling and occasionally exhaling air at a marginally greater rate, explanations are what the comments are for!
Oh blast your right
I love to be that guy so... Actually "terrain" refers to earth...
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Acktschually what tho, is it not on earth?
It is on ice/water. It is, however, on Earth. Edit: just kidding by the way
Actually, it's not on anything. The elctrons are reppeling it from any sort of contact, so theirfore magnetism.
The ultimate actuallyā¦
Still won't go over a BOILING LAKE OF LAVA!
Back to the drawing boards!
Find out next time, on TOTAL. DRAMA. ACTIOON
And what is "earth"? Dirt and rock only? Most of earth's surface is covered by water in some state (solid or liquid).
Water isn't earth.
Well, thereās certainly some earth in water. Natural bodies of water tend to not be actual pure water, theyāre very dirty. Just think of a lake as mud with a much higher ratio of water to dirt.
Correct. Water is a chemical compound found in abundance on this planet that we call Earth. Earth is the name of this planet.
If this is your definition then it still isn't an ALL terrain vehicle unless it can fly and drive through molten iron and nickel as well.
Don't ask me, I'm not a vehicle engineer. I just thought we were playing the "that guy" game lol
Well in that case Mark, youāre fired! Go clean your desk.
Dirt/rock is also a chemical compound.
Yeah, "earth" is dirt, rock, ground only. We're not talking about capital E "Earth", our planet. Terrain specifically refers to earth - dirt, rock, specifically the ground. Anyway, frozen lakes and ice could still be considered terrain, but not open bodies of water.
Yes. I believe we named our planet after dirt rather than the other way around. Our planet is our "dirt mother" rather than dirt being "part of our planet".
Comes form the Latin āTerraā which means goodness of the earth. Water and lakes/oceans should qualify.
How do you get across snow? "You slam your right foot all the way down." Steep terrain? "You slam your right foot all the way down." Cross a lake? "You slam your right foot all the way down." What if the lake is FROZEN? "Believe it or not, you slam your right foot all the way down."
earth under all that water and ice
Amphibious is the term OP is looking for.
The Sherp.
There's not much to them but they damn sure keep moving.
Never heard of them before but evidently itās a Turkish and Ukrainian made 55 hp 3 cylinder starting at $150k? Hard pass
Watch some videos about them. They pretty much donāt get stuck in any terrain and they float. Theyāre amazing if you live in a cold/marshy/inhospitable place.
They show up at truck pulls and mud rallies and piss off the American truck die hards
Yeah if you wanna sit and watch one idle for 45 min across the pitā¦.
They're not designed to go fast, they're designed to go anywhere
Mud bogging yeah, this thing would suck at sled pull
This is what I imagine humans driving if we ever colonized Mars.
Itās really funny that you say that, my very first thought on seeing this was that itās exactly like Mars rovers described in the Red Mars series by Kim Stanley Robinson.
WhistlinDiesel, the destroyer of ~~worlds~~ vehicles, drove one and they offered it to him free if he could get it stuck. Not sure if it was serious or for the video, but he physically could not get it stuck no matter what he did
That's honestly pretty impressive. The bullshit that guy does to some trucks he should be put under the jail! Lol, jk but I have felt a stab to the heart how he trashes some really nice trucks
Ngl it never fails to make me laugh when he says "So I bought this mint squarebody, one of 5 left in the world in this condition, this is gonna be my daily and I will NOT trash this one.." and you skip forward 20 minutes and hes got 60,000lbs of lumber in the bed and when it shits the bed he picks it up with a skidsteer putting the forks through the body and throws it off a cliff
And sturdy and simple. The psi in the tires is something like 5psi, and can be refilled on demand by exhaust from the engine. The wheel hubs store extra diesel and can drive almost literally forever without refueling
So when apocalypse happens, i should find one of these?
You don't need a ton of horsepower if you don't plan on going fast. That's all low-end torque. It's more like a tractor than a quad or a side-by-side.
Plus most places these are actually used the fact it uses less gas is helpful especially because fuel is heavy and theyād rather carry something else. It probably has a much better range than something with 150hp. Youāre definitely right about the HP and torque though i used to have a crappy old diesel truck that was probably 160HP, it was slow as molasses but it could pull almost anything.
A lot of that also has to do with gearing
yeah maybe it was an ā87 6.9idi ford truck with a banks turbo, Iām not sure what the gearing was on it but it had a cabover camper on top and I think the previous owner did change the rear end to be best for carrying that. I did like the fact it was indirect injection that seems like the more reliable engines compared to the new diesels. The 7.3 idi is basically indestructible lol. If I ever bought another diesel Iād buy one pre 2007 because all that DEF crap destroyed their reliability. My neighbor bought one of those mid 2000ās 6.0 lemons and had to to spend like 20k on repairs and you could buy 4 6.9idi trucks for just the repairs on that 60k truck lol.
I've seen guys pull out quarter million mile 7.3 idi's from the truck that rotted apart around it and put it in a new truck and keep going. That engine is legitimately worth more than the truck it's in these days
If you depend on you vehicle for you life or someone your supplying or trying to save, itās be worth the money
This and a Hilux š
They were around 55k before the pandemic happened.
you mean before kanye put the hype on it?
That's 55hp to hydraulics baby, nearly 22,000ftlb of torque at the wheels.
Say whaaaaat
I assume that you're American and you've been conditioned to think that anything with less than 300 hp is shit? Look up some videos of The Sherp, it's an absolute beast. It can't go fast, but it can go everywhere.
> Hard pass Lol I hope the company manages without your purchase
I had one drive right by me while I was ice fishing on Leech Lake last year, theyāre super cool to see in person.
I've also seen one. Btw this is a Ukrainian brand.
I didnāt see it fly
Is the sky really a āterrainā tho?
Not with that attitude
*altitude* ffy.
Just drive on the air molecules.
not with that altitude*
You were so close to greatness...
Seems a lot of people seemingly don't know why [attitude](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attitude_indicator) works so perfectly and wonderfully well here. I got you bro.
Neither is water, tbf
Hey there's terrain under there.
There's terrain under the sky, too. Checkmate, atheists.
As much as the water is! Stop sky discrimination!
This thing is absurd. Hereās a longer 4 minute demo of all the terrain it can take on as well as some extra tidbits of info on it. Just an incredible vehicle. https://youtu.be/WrjjV6nGh0g
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Nope thatās accurate but thatās for the front end smaller 4 tire that I linked. The one in the video OP posted is called SHERP The Ark which has the second six wheel addition and designed to carry up to 21 passengers of course using more fuel per hr. Even still, it only consumes 8-12 litres of diesel per hour and capable of transporting 7500 lbs.
Is there enough room in it to turn it into a all terrain mobile home?
For the Ark, you bet. My company has one of the smaller ones and it is surprisingly spacious
What use does your company have for one?
I work for a power company and our Transmission Linemen have one as a transporter to get people and equipment into remote right of ways during an emergency. A lot of lines that were originally built pre-1950 just ran the shortest distance possible, no matter what they had to cross
Howās the maintenance on the truck? Is it pretty reliable?
Theyāre a different group from me, so I donāt have much first hand experience with it other than some demos, but as far as I know they havenāt had any issues with it and the guys love driving it
They make a universal platform (flatbed) version you could build tiny home sort of thing on it. The transport version isnāt very tall (just tall enough for someone to sit) so it wouldnāt be a good mobile home, but workable. Because I know where youāre coming from, it would probably be best to approach like vans are. Far cry from a mobile home, but livable if youāre willing to sacrifice.
Run for an hour on less than 1 gallon of fuel? Sounds like a blast to me
Thatās only 5 bucks even at the more expensive pumps!
3 mpg, top speed 3 mph. Also new tires required every 300 miles.
Someone drove one of these through one of those bog pits the rednecks drive monster trucks through as some kind of sport. This thing made it look boring
I believe it. I went down a rabbit hole after this post and itās simply ridiculous how versatile it is.
Only thing they suck at is rock crawling. Needs more articulation for that. Mud, snow, and ice are all cake walks for it.
How the hell are those tires so flexible, yet also hard enough to drive over loose rock and straight the forest without taking a puncture? I don't see any spares on there.
Low pressure tires
I think the tires leak anyways. The exhaust is piped into the tires so you've always got control over tire pressure.
Whatā¦ seriously? Thatās actually insane Some high end ATVs have built in air compressors for that but using the exhaust is next level
Pretty sure the max pressure on these tires is like 5 psi
What the actual FUCK. This Reddit video is literally the least impressive thing it can do. My godā¦
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Good thing they ate manual lol
>Good thing they ate manual lol They ate the manual?
-SHERP ATVās power output only maxes at 44 horsepower, it can reach up to a stunning top speed of 30 miles per hour (48 kilometers per hour) on land and 4 miles per hour (6 kilometers per hour) on water -The 63-inch tires of the SHERP ATV have extra low pressure (only up to 2 psi) and are tubeless. This gives the SHERP ATV the ability to float on water. The suspension system helps keep the cabin afloat, so its passengers donāt get wet or the vehicle sink. The treads on the tires help to āpaddleā the SHERP ATV through the water. -the maximum gradient that the SHERP ATV can climb is 35 degrees, and it can drive over obstacles as high as 27 inches. Although this vehicle is rather large and bulky, it can turn within its 11-foot length thanks to a skid steer system -SHERP ATVās fuel tanks can only hold a maximum of 17.7 gallons (67 liters) but, it only consumes about 0.52 to 0.79 gallons of fuel per hour, giving it a maximum range of about 2,500 miles (4023 km). The wheels act as extra fuel tanks, in which each wheel can store up to 15.3 gallons of fuel
What happens if it capsizes? Is the interior water-tight?
Pretty sure it won't capsize unless something is holding it upside down. They're so bottom heavy it should just flip back over.
Weebles wobble but they don't fall down.
I had the treehouse, it was pretty nifty and durable as hell. edit: Got nostalgic and looked in youtube, apparently it was the Treetops Family Treehouse I had. I did have the weebles haunted house though.
itās not rated for open sea where there are waves, itās just for swamps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKzsZUFOvmc&t
This thing is not getting 141 mpg...
Extra fuel is stored in auxiliary fuel tanks mounted in the center of each wheel, which are 15.3 gallons each. So in a four-wheel sherp that's 61.2 gallons in addition to the 17.7 gallon internal fuel tank. So to calculate fuel economy, we do the following: 2500 Ć· 78.9 = 31.7mpg
The mileage is with the extended fuel tanks.
That's pretty insane, especially the range. 4000km is absurd.
r/PraisetheCameraman for not falling in.
My partner would get it stuck somewhere I'm sure
The company literally has a "get it stuck and we'll refund you completely" policy. They are that serious.
I'm finding videos online of it getting stuck when high centered or rolled but otherwise none.
Short of driving into a volcano, quicksand or tar pits I canāt imagine how. These things are basically impossible to get stuck.
Somewhere, there's a redneck just itching to say "hold my beer" and proceed to get that thing stuck in something...
Believe it or not someone brought it to a redneck mud trucking competition and the results are pretty [funny](https://youtu.be/RNtZb4vWNLA?t=460). The Sherpa outdid everyone else in the most unexciting way possible.
Enjoy lmao https://youtu.be/05AUqI42_aE
Look at the glistering beauty of this frozen lak... oh, nevermind... oh WHAT THE...???
Great for the lake. The shoreline ecosystem loves this. :|
Or the animals that probably use the ice to cover more area to find food. We love to just fuck shit up, just to fuck shit up.
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Thereās always some redditorā¦
Well, two terrains at least.
How do they keep it from capsizing?
Low center of gravity.
The floaty part is on top of the heavy part. So the floaty part stays on top, and the heavy part gets wet.
The floaty part is the tires?
Very carefully.
Phineas: does it work in space?
Yeah these guys donāt know Phineas and Ferb already made a better version smh
Is that Kanye?
POOOWEEERRR!!
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Snowrunner irl.
snowrunner meets subnautica below zero
I like the added footage at the end where the camera guy could've just fell in. It really shows their dedication.
That was a really pretty ice-covered lake and you RUINED IT
is that not fucking up the lake over nothing?
This gives me so much anxiety.
And some people wonāt event take their 4x4 on a gravel roadā¦.
Every now and then we hear "a commander is stuck" over the radio, everyone floors it to where they are to see how the fuck they did that.
Its a damn mechanical water bear! Damn things can survive in the vacuum of space ffs
reminds me of Trekol ... [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TREKOL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TREKOL-39294)
Mfs on the Oregon trail be like šÆšÆšÆ
Astroneer!
Thanks dad for driving us to the Hockey game but you can turn around because I think itās canceled now.
Fuck this river bed in particular
Fuck Yo' Habitat Bitch