What's the biggest/most unique vehicles you've driven?

50 ton capacity dump truck used in open pit mines. Spent a summer sandblasting industrial equipment, we would then drive it over to the paint area. graders, bulldozers, 4 wheel steering skid loaders, all kinds of stuff. But nothing like having to climb a ladder to get into the cab. Or stand on a 55 gallon drum, reach up as far as you can to touch the fender.
 
I can drive a team of draft horses :D Pulled all kinds of stuff from haywagons to harrows:cool: I ride horses too.

Biggest on the road is probably our crew cab dually pulling a 5 horse trailer. Comes in at about 50' total length.

Have also driven farm tractors, skid steers, a sky welder with about a 50' boom on it, forklifts and all kinds of stuff.

No half tracks or jets though :eek: :D
 


The first one is a Gradall. It's a 4 wheel drive fork lift with boom that has the ability to drivel level on different grades.

The second is just a good old backhoe. ;)
 
Dump truck was wierd, rear wheel steering, turn left to go right.

4.8 litre V12 E-Type Jag Convertible was fun especially for burning rubber when you are 6" off the tarmac and only 19 years of age.

4 ton removal van for wondering where the back is when reversing or turning.

Rolls Royce Silver Shadow 11 for wondering how short a distance 5 pounds of gasoline take you, and why you get better treatment in take aways :) I went to a night club opening and the door staff told me to park right in front of the entrance!

Kawasaki Z1300 for wondering how a big bike can get to a 100 so quick.

Kawasaki H1 500 for what 0 - 60 in 3.8 seconds is like.

KTM 500 Enduro bike with 12" of suspension for riding across a ploughed field at 60 and not feeling a bump.

Husqvarna 390cc Automatic Gearbox Enduro bike for not having to change gear. how wierd is that!

Triumph Bonneville 650 for wondering where vibration that makes it jig up and down at tickover on the sidestand, and makes your hands go numb comes from.

I have always tried to ride and drive everything I have come across especially when I was young.
 
During my time in the Army as a 12-B

Other than the the standard Hummer, 5ton and such...

Armored 'dozer
20 ton dump
Front loader
AVLB
Blue-bird 44 passenger bus
 
Let's see....

Duece-n-half
It was the first time I had ever drove a stick--and I was hauling drunks from the front gate of Camp Casey Korea, up the hills to their barracks, so they would'nt freeze in the winter.
All of the alcohol combined with my horrible driving caused lots of guys to puke in the bed of the truck that night.:o

M113 APC
Uncle Alan is right--hot as hell in the summer and cold as a cast-iron toilet on the shady side of an iceberg in the winter.
And if you want to see people jump out of the way of the ramp, just yell "Free Fall"!:D

M88 recovery vehicle
The Cadillac of tracked vehicles.:thumbup:

M60 tank
Actually not very exciting until you hit some ice--then it becomes a 56 ton bobsled!:eek:

Hummers galore.:yawn:
 
M88 Recovery Vehicle back in the late 80's early 90's. This is what the Army uses to tow other track vehicles like tanks.

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Cement mixer truck, semi tandom axle tow truck, cat and JD dozer's ,articulated JD 650 wheel loader, cessna 180....
 
LOL, this is a fun one. Let's see, largest vehicles I've driven...

Wheeled vehicle- I don't think I've ever driven anything bigger than my F-250 crew cab pick-up

Rotary wing- TH-57

Fixed wing- T-2C (Looks a tad bigger than the A-4 although it actually weighs less)

Surface vessel- USS Semmes (DDG-18)

Subsurface vessel- USS James Madison (SSBN-627)
 
i have driven/flown:

*cessna 152 & 172RG

*robinson R22 (well tried anyway lol)

*std army "deuce & 1/2" truck

*BMW 750il V12

*suzuki GSX/r 1300 (all i can say is "wow")

*'70 BOSS 302 mustang

*'70 Z/28 camaro

*69 Z/28, black int and hugger orange/white stripes/4 spd/a really neat car imho.

*'70 SS454 chevelle 454/450HP LS6 engine/fastest stock car i've ever driven

*'70 AAR cuda 340/6bbl. my bud sold it in '77 for $2000 i'd wager its worth a little more now lol.

*'john deer 4010 tractor

*lotsa corvettes, several vipers

*a shelby cobra kit car w/a 5 litre ford engine with N2O (that was fun)

*my '72 nova SS street car/383 stroker engine/456 gears/BM 400 automatic/all the good stuff/headers/etc wish i woulda never sold that car everyone at my high school reunion had a story about me racing someone, most i didnt remember lol.

*95 toyota supra w/a bunch of HKS goodies ie 16 lb boost turbos IIRC, etc, etc, the fastest car i've ever driven couldnt believe its a inline 6 cyl it pulled harder than any V8 or V12 i've driven, ever.
 
Drove a Scorpion tank (or Reconnaisance Vehicle as I think theyre called!) on one of those Experience Days. Surprisingly fast & agile & very easy to operate. Shouldve been driving a Chieftain tank but that was "in the shop"!
 
biggest: M1A1 abrams tank, I got to drive one about 4 feet at Fort hood on a boyscout trip we took there.
most unique: 2000 Triumph Speed Triple
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got a better list of what ive wrecked in no perticular order
Volvo s40 (got a little close to a curb while spining 180's)
BMW Z3 Roadster (lost traction cresting a hill in a turn in light rain)
GMC sonoma(hit everything in texas because it had NO breaks)
Triumph TT600(slid off track, slid under car that cut me off at highway on ramp, looped backward off wheelie)
Speed triple (speed wobbles)
 
M-1 Abrams tank back in the mid-80s. We were the first unit in Germany to get them. I remember I had number 127 off the Chrysler assembly line. A few teething problems as with any new equipment but I thought it was great! Fast enought for the autobahn!
 
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