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Ah, German engineering, is there anything you cannot do?

evidently build a car to survive that much water

Ahhhh, Leibherr! The finest example of German over-engineering I have ever had the pleasure of operating!

There are buttons for EVERYTHING in those things. I am convinced that if you looked hard enough, you'd find the button for the automatic rectal flusher and the instant butt wiper.

Hmmm, the car? Not so much.

I dunno, that roof-line where it sorta curves down to the rear hatch doesn't look like any jerrymobile I can think of off the top of my head. A Toyota maybe?

DerGolgo wrote:I dunno, that roof-line where it sorta curves down to the rear hatch doesn't look like any jerrymobile I can think of off the top of my head. A Toyota maybe?

Maybe a Puegeot? It doesn't look German to me either.

Here's a better video (the action is from 3:23 onward).
Turns out it's a Ford Escort, so probably made in Germany.

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How many cubic yards(or however you measure bucket volume in metric) in that bucket?

Driving a three yard front end loader is a chore, I can't imagine the awesome it'd be to operate that thing.

Thanks for posting the full vi. Pretty amazing that the car was relatively intact after the first dousing from the smaller loader.

UndertheGun wrote:How many cubic yards(or however you measure bucket volume in metric) in that bucket?

Driving a three yard front end loader is a chore, I can't imagine the awesome it'd be to operate that thing.

I believe he said over ten thousand cubic meters...? Or ten thousand litres. It's too fast for me to understand.

Sisyphus wrote:

UndertheGun wrote:How many cubic yards(or however you measure bucket volume in metric) in that bucket?

Driving a three yard front end loader is a chore, I can't imagine the awesome it'd be to operate that thing.

I believe he said over ten thousand cubic meters...? Or ten thousand litres. It's too fast for me to understand.

Yeah, ten thousand cubic meters would be a little over 8 acre feet.
It's "over 10.000 liters", or over 2641 gallons for you yanks.

For those unfamiliar with the terror of metric:
If you have been to a fair, open air concert or the like, you may have some of these, filled with water, used as ballast to secure lighting towers, stages, fairground rides, that sort of thing, roughly just over three feet on each side:


Those things hold 1000 liters, or 1 ton. Ten times that came out of that shovel.

Caliann wrote:Ahhhh, Leibherr! The finest example of German over-engineering I have ever had the pleasure of operating!

There are buttons for EVERYTHING in those things. I am convinced that if you looked hard enough, you'd find the button for the automatic rectal flusher and the instant butt wiper.

Hmmm, the car? Not so much.

I am SOOOOOO jealous of you right now.

It's like getting caught inside at Steamer Lane.

DerGolgo wrote:It's "over 10.000 liters", or over 2641 gallons for you yanks.

Let's get off into semantics, shall we?

"10.000 liters" equals "ten liters"
"10,000 liters" equals "ten thousand liters"

So "10.000 liters" would actually equal 2.64172052 US gallons.

guitargeek wrote:

DerGolgo wrote:It's "over 10.000 liters", or over 2641 gallons for you yanks.

Let's get off into semantics, shall we?

"10.000 liters" equals "ten liters"
"10,000 liters" equals "ten thousand liters"

So "10.000 liters" would actually equal 2.64172052 US gallons.

Europeans are funny like that.

calamari kid wrote:

guitargeek wrote:

DerGolgo wrote:It's "over 10.000 liters", or over 2641 gallons for you yanks.

Let's get off into semantics, shall we?

"10.000 liters" equals "ten liters"
"10,000 liters" equals "ten thousand liters"

So "10.000 liters" would actually equal 2.64172052 US gallons.

Europeans are funny like that.

Hey, if you can't figure out the proper use of commas and points, that's not my problem.

And start writing your dates in the proper order!
It's day - month - year, not month - day - year!

So what happens if you add another quarter of a liter to that? 10.000.25 liters?

guitargeek wrote:So what happens if you add another quarter of a liter to that? 10.000.25 liters?

10.000,25 liters.

DerGolgo wrote:

guitargeek wrote:So what happens if you add another quarter of a liter to that? 10.000.25 liters?

10.000,25 liters.

Seriously?

guitargeek wrote:

DerGolgo wrote:

guitargeek wrote:So what happens if you add another quarter of a liter to that? 10.000.25 liters?

10.000,25 liters.

Seriously?

What? You've never seen proper mathematical syntax before?

DerGolgo wrote:

guitargeek wrote:

DerGolgo wrote:

guitargeek wrote:So what happens if you add another quarter of a liter to that? 10.000.25 liters?

10.000,25 liters.

Seriously?

What? You've never seen proper mathematical syntax before?

Holy fuck, no wonder we went to war with y'all. Twice.

This has been bugging me for years, and today I finally read the wikipedia article. Thanks to you, DG, I've learned something today.

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Holy fuck, no wonder we went to war with y'all. Twice.

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Sorry, was that with us or after us?

Monty was a poof.

guitargeek wrote:Thanks to you, DG, I've learned something today.

You're welcome!

guitargeek wrote:Monty was a poof.

A poof that whooped the Africa Corps at El Alamein and led the grunts of the allied invasion force into Europe against one of the most evil and brutal military forces in history.