Tank made temporary mobile !

On saturday when everyone was back from holidays and at the same time available Bert, Dirk and Herman did make the tank temporary mobile. Let me remarkt this in indeed a temporary solution in order to get it out of the workshop and get it shown to the public in the next month. Our final solution should be as a real tank ...
We had a lot of help and hospitality of Georges also who owns the workshop. Jef provided most of the material for free, a wheel came from Luc and Kristof helped fixing a flat band. Without all these people we would not stand where we now are. As a bit the promotor of the tankbuilding I was very glad seeing the tank changing without my effective help.
We made the images below that day that speak for themselves.
If anyone is interested seeing the tank in realtime you can make an appointment.

Bert in action

Herman watching for some time

Dirk and Johan talking

a visitor

a sponson

difficult corners ...

Bert dreaming of conducting it ...

Berts wife and childeren with coffee and cookies

Johan already thinking about the following step ...

making it mobile

In order to make the tank a bit more mobile, but having not much money we finally find old pieces we can use. In a project like ours you have to be very inventive and not being feared of doing something with your own hands getting dirty. Besides this wheels are only temporarily waiting for real tracks ! Many thanks to Jef uncle of Olivier !

building the tanksponsons

The two same Stijn and Johan with the help of Herman who did the former construction were on july 1st, 3rd and 10th working on the difficult framework for the sponsons !

little tank finished

At the end of the schoolyear students at VTI Ieper have to propose and defend their thesis :
Stijn and Armand did a marvellous job !

small tank is being made

Stijn, who did most of the constructing work, a student at VTI Ieper, made his thesis together with Armand around the Mark IV tank ! This is at the openschooldays, the tank not yet finished, Stijn already being very proud.