DETAILING AN ABANDONED TANK - LEFT TO ROT IN A BUSH FOR 10 YEARS!

[@PartridgeExteriorCleaning]

Whoops accidently left a double clip in there by accident, sorry about that, 7 hours of footage on this one so human error got me :D Hope you all enjoy this filthy cleanup! It's also an Abbot self propelled gun.. not technically a tank, but close enough :D And once again big up to www.youtube.com/@MrHewes for letting me clean it!

[@QuentinStephens]

Those Abbots are actually road legal if memory serves!

[@Sneddz1]

I forgive you.

[@Andrew-qo2jg]

SPG is technically considered a tank so.

[@castingshadows282]

FYI. It's an Abbot 105mm SP Gun. Not a Tank. 🙂 🖖

[@guarmiron5557]

@@Andrew-qo2jg There is a friendly war going on between Arty and Cavalry in the commonwealth (for hundreds of years). You just made every dead tanker scream from the grave and every living tanker is now holding their guts in. An SPG is an armoured vehicle BUT IT IS NOT A TANK. I almost fell on my sabre because of you! LOL.

[@plastictsubasa1390]

My hobby involves me spending hours carefully replicating the paint chips, fading, rust, dust and caked mud in micro scale that you just spent hours obliterating full-size! It’s really cool to see a “de-weathering” job done on some armor for a change. Great work!

[@mala3isity]

LOL Did the before close-ups help you with realism?

[@justfly7730]

De-weathering

[@plastictsubasa1390]

@@mala3isity Honestly, yes! The UK has easily some of the best lichen and moss in the world, not to mention rust.

[@raphaellauf7786]

Gives you a great frame of refrence for diffring stages of weathering

[@2dsteve1]

is your next tank build gonna have that much mud build up?

[@HannahMattox]

The Detail Geek would be so jealous of those fender wells 🤣

[@katie_rocs]

And no personal belongings to comment on!

[@HannahMattox]

@@katie_rocs 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@denisegregory2092]

@@HannahMattox No cat or dog hair either! I like Detail Geek!! He would be in detail heaven!

[@HannahMattox]

@@denisegregory2092 man yeah! 🤣

[@exlibrisas]

Certainly not carpeted!

[@lhmcd5538]

You have done a great job. You certainly can see the difference. I’m an old lady and was fascinated by it all. I couldn’t get over how tiny it was in the turret when you were winding the gun around in your last video. You really stripped it back on this tank. It’s was so good to see. I appreciate your effort. Thank you. May you please take care and stay safe.

[@EdwardJobling]

Awesome Job fella! your attention to detil does you great credit! A major restore starts with the initial clean and perfection is the grand sum of how the finishing product is. You are the man for the job!

[@shotgunbettygaming]

Dude. This is cool. I thought watching patios was soothing.... Cultivating new business relationships as you've done with Joe is going to open so many doors! I caught it when you said, 'around the country' ....I would bet there are LOADS of cool stuff private people need washed that've been sitting for a long time! England is an old country...Can't wait to see what you find next! Gonna need a personal assistant/secretary type person to do all the chasing of bizarre items to wash pretty soon! THE FLEET EXPANNNNDS!!!

[@ched999uk]

Well a tank and a self propelled gun - Abbot, I think, in 2 days! Nice, brings back memories seeing them when I visited Chertsey. It came up very well, will make the rebuild so much easier for them.

[@castingshadows282]

Correct. It is an Abbot 105mm SP Gun. Circa 1965 & I think still in service today. Not a Tank as the OP suggests.

[@josephhudson8829]

SP Arty

[@AnthonyTobyEllenor-pi4jq]

@@castingshadows282 I think the MOD disposed of the Abbots, there may be some still in service with the Indian army.

[@TrailRat2000]

I've cleaned heavy plant so it was ready to be shipped overseas, so I feel your pain. Getting the dried mud off was a nightmare, we found using an air powered needle thingy majig was a boon!

[@PartridgeExteriorCleaning]

Yeah that’s what the owner said he was gonna use after I’ve got the bulk off 😂

[@CombatantArms]

Needle guns have now been rendered largely obsolete it seems by aqua blasting (ground glass under pressure) - the owner of this Abbot has done his T-34 by aqua blasting.

[@rodkennedy9800]

Nice to see Ted supervising as usual!!!

[@kevinguitar1224]

What a tankless job but Tanks for doing it!

[@southjerseymountain]

Wow, I got to watch 2 tank videos of yours today. Being a military enthusiast I must say I was standing at attention watching this. I would have loved to help you. Great job. New Jersey USA

[@04williamsl]

4:39 "oh my God, this is nuts". Said, whilst recording quite a few actual nuts. Nicely done 👍

[@RickyJ718]

When you were cleaning under the tank, you looked like a sniper with your pressure gun. What an amazing opportunity. From front yard to front line cleaning. The growth!

[@bevm1938]

Amazing Sid, what a difference, great to have some different content to watch. Variety is the spice of life

[@coppertopjohnson9782]

Another check off the bucket list. That was a blast. Thanks for sharing with us. Joe seems like such a nice guy!!! Happy New Year. 🥂🥂

[@suzanneyoung6273]

If you hear a lot of loud noises thru’ the night, don’t be alarmed, it is just this little tank, jumping for joy, and singing out “I’m clean, I’m clean! Hurrah!! Thanks Sid, this little tank and I are well pleased with your work. 👏👏

[@laakona8381]

It isn't a Tank. It is a self-propelled artillery piece.

[@chrishexx3360]

That was phenomenal. Great uploads the pair of them. Keep the content coming, you're on a roll.

[@Topper-gf8xl]

Great to see the work you are doing. Reminds me of the guys in the Netherlands, Milo, working on a T72. I got to see the Littlefield Collection just before they sold off most of them to the Collins Foundation. Thanks for posting.

[@blxtothis]

Speaking as somebody who gets bored after 5 minutes jet washing the patio, I thoroughly enjoyed that.

[@haggielady]

Thank you for the marvelous job you did on these. It's nice to see something so different.

[@suzymatwetwe]

Man oh man 😯!!! What fun to clean something completely different for a change. PS I think there's quite a lot of roof cleaning on the farm too 😉.

[@nickieweinman5131]

Turned out great👍 -it looks like they have a roof or two that need a clean up when the drone was in the sky- the dog was cute😊

[@johnnunn8688]

So when the drone isn’t in the sky, the dog isn’t cute; why?

[@nickieweinman5131]

@@johnnunn8688 lol. Dog is still cute without drone in the sky😊

[@andrewphillips9123]

You are making a nice job of that. Its not easy with all the angles. You always think you've got it finished and see something from another angle and need to hit it again. Its the curse of the job. During my career as a mechanic i spent a while cleaning earthmoving equipment for repainting and selling.. We hired a high pressure steam cleaner. It could lift the powdery clay off easily along with grease around suspension and engine bays which minimises the use of degreaser saving a lot of money. It was a heavy duty commercial one. It ran a diesel boiler that drank fuel but did a fantastic job. You could turn the pressure way down and still have the heat and clean radiator cores that were full of dirt and grass without blowing out the cores (fins). I learned quickly with the heat you dont need as much pressure a lot of the time. You've put a lot of time into that job and it looks good.

[@kaseym4033]

This was so cool! Definitely a unique clean 😊

[@carrieriley4931]

This is awesome! Highly enjoyed watching the change. Excellent job Sid!

[@simpsonservices6463]

great job mate it looks loads better and your attention to detail

[@thewhitefamily4020]

Now this is something else! Wow, such a neat item to clean!

[@eraldorh]

Looks like an fv433 abbot, Nice!

[@sandgrownun66]

Correct. It's not a tank, its an Abbot self-propelled gun. There's a big difference.

[@fannycraddock99]

Goodness gracious great balls of fire Sid and you sure have some! How could you tell the mud from rust, it was filthy. Crazy job man. Thanks.

[@PartridgeExteriorCleaning]

haha it was hard to be honest!

[@smeghead765]

Some kind of British SPG that I'm not familiar with. Not a tank but still really cool.

[@cheryleking6543]

You did a great job on this 1. Looks so much better now. Hope you can do some more of these vids, would be awesome. Stay Safe my friend ❤🙏👍🤗

[@janesynnot7446]

Great fun and good work Sid.

[@noahzark7975]

Wow! Cleaning a tank is an all day job. I used to be a tank mechanic in the 1st Cavalry division. I think you would appreciate the wash racks down there at Fort Hood Texas. We would drive the tracked vehicles through the “bird bath”, followed up by hours under the vehicles doing the tracks, roadwheels and suspension, with a firehose. The packed southern clay and gravel was murder. A de-scaler makes quick work of that stuff when it’s dried out. Enjoyed watching!

[@sandgrownun66]

Except, that this isn't a tank. But you knew this, didn't you?

[@noahzark7975]

@@sandgrownun66 I did. Lol. In my opinion, any tracked vehicle is a tank of some sort. I also used to work on M109 Howitzers but everyone on the program called them “Tanks”

[@sandgrownun66]

@@noahzark7975 "In my opinion, any tracked vehicle is a tank". Would that non-military tracked vehicles? Of course not. You might have called a self-propelled gun, a tank. However, it still isn't. Tanks have a completely different role to a howitzer, as you will be aware. Tanks are an optimal balance between, mobility, armour and firepower, different to any other type of vehicle.

[@haydenuk02]

Amazing work and thanks for sharing this with us that looked like a lot of hard work. Take care

[@anthonywilson4873]

We used to do similar to off road trucks. Give them a soak foam them let it soak and blast it off. Wellies yellow bottoms yellow top and face mask screen and get stuck in. We had a powerful jet washer so long as you keep them descaled.

[@BobSmith-mj7ik]

That's the coolest thing I've ever seen you clean

[@IsoPreP089]

I’m really surprised that your turbo nozzle and 4000PSI wouldn’t remove that mud!!! Awesome work Sid love the change of content!!!

[@luannvondracek439]

Quite a change from driveways, buildings and such. Nothing like some military kit to change things up. You could hear in your voice how excited you were too!

[@debraanntaylor5472]

Amazing Sid …you sure clean some different things! Love the content❤ Happy days

[@pedropete1833]

Your a good hard worker by the look of things, I think you deserved to have been payed something for all your effort and Mr Hewes should have made some effort to do so in my opinion.

[@normplatt7549]

Great VLOG, Look forward to more!

[@_Julie_Bee]

Holy crap this is beyond awesome!!!!!

[@_Matsimus_]

ARGHHH you said TANK! 😁😁😁 great video by the way

[@robjmck]

Definately an Abbot Self Propelled Gun, 105mmm, not a tank, although Wiki stated their demise in the 1990 they were redundant in the late 70s. Great reliable gun and vehicle but had an old radio system and fire control that was to expensive to update so the army scrapped them when the new radio system was adopted. Shame because of those rare AFV that was reliable engine and gun, the armour was relatively thin as it was an SPG not a tank.

[@3gunshooter60]

You can certainly see the difference from before and after. That took a while I'm sure. Great job.

[@denises9426]

So cool 😎 Love this content Sid! 🥰❤️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[@PartridgeExteriorCleaning]

thanks denise!!

[@maggieyake8054]

That mud in the undercarriage was a tough job. Glad he had the pry bar to let you use. You’d still be there if you had to keep using your screwdrivers! Thanks for a fun video!

[@almosthome5971]

That was a good amount of work for sure! Nicely done Sid.

[@QuentinStephens]

What a fun start to the new year. Thank you Sid.

[@1701enter]

A word of warning don't let the lads drive over your hoses! they will burst when you least expect it! . enjoyed the content thanks!

[@beckyirvin2504]

Really cool to restore a bit of history.

[@traceyhoyle1816]

Well done happy days 😘

[@johnjmmyles]

Great Video Sid! What a way to begin the year!

[@ButacuPpucatuB]

Realllllly really nice! This is very exciting 🙌🏽

[@earljohnson2676]

Get yourself a 4’ pry bar to use for the gunk inside the tracks . That’s what we used on the excavators etc

[@robylove9190]

WOW! Great job, Sid 👌

[@davidbarr9343]

Fantastic job. Well done!👏☺️

[@markelliott7509]

What you have is not a tank,it is an abbot self propelled gun,it had a diesel engine,the muzzle brake is missing,this was used by field regiments of the Royal artillery the main gun was 105mm on turret top would have been a 7.62 machine gun. The difference between a gun and a tank is a tank shoots at targets it can see an artillery gun shoots at targets it cannot see.also it has to stop to shoot ,atank can fire on the move

[@NeroKosonen]

Lesson learned! Tanks are muddy! Such a satisfying video

[@sandgrownun66]

It's not actually a tank.

[@HeatherLynch555]

I’d watch all 7 hours of this clean up! ❤

[@JinxedFaythe]

I don't think I ever realized just how big tanks are. Like I know they are big but MAN haha props to you for taking this on! Looks fantastic

[@njgamer1652]

You think that vehicle is big? Wait until you stand next to the MAUS, you’ll be surprised how much it dwarfs you.

[@hilaryandbrianreid9876]

Looks amazing! Seems like youve got a job on those roofs too !!

[@kevindelaney1951]

Interesting find. It isn’t a tank it is a self propelled UK Artillery piece known as an Abbot. Part of a whole family of light UK armour.

[@crazyhaller]

The wall of dried mud tho holy moly 😂

[@PartridgeExteriorCleaning]

was mad thick!

[@crazyhaller]

@@PartridgeExteriorCleaning bet

[@katelights]

need a raised platform to get the tracks up to good work height and allow the water and mud to drain away easily. I wonder if the Army has something like that, since they would be cleaning tanks regularly.

[@pmyhill]

Another fantastic video Sid !! Awesome project for Joe to allow/invite you to be part of !

[@ednahawkesworth7551]

Wow Sid. What a job!! Loved it 🤩

[@johnhicks735]

It's is awesome.& It'll will come out looking like brand new again to after it's all been repaired.& Replaced as needed to be. Then repainted to. I think it'll look just like brand new again myself. Cause that clay mud helped out majorly with helping preserve the body parts.& Frame to over the years of setting up. I believe if it would have sat any longer than that though it would be ave started rotting out from the weather.& Paint peeling off of the body structure of that military tank though for sure guys. I think it's Awesome job that you guys are doing on it to.& With that fine piece of history as we'll to keep up the good work. It'll sure enough pay off to especially now with everything going on now days to. You never know what you'll need.,or might half to have.,or fix back up to reuse.& Repurpose again to no matter for what.

[@mirtharuiz5358]

Wow what a job. So cool.. great job 👏👏👏

[@EdwardJobling]

You may laugh but as an X-Caver I used to wear a suit similar to yours but in yellow. I was immersed in water quite often up to my chest and to seal the water out as much as possible I used to use a 2" cross section of a 5"plastic drain pipe in the top of my Wellies and then slid the suit legs over the Wellies and insert my leg in to a 2: cross section of rubber inner tube to seal the suit to the drain pipe. The suit let in a small amount of water but not much to complain of :)

[@susiejones3634]

Great work, Sid!

[@dbracer]

The barn roof looks like it could do with your treatment!

[@haggielady]

I noticed it too.

[@chrishagberg3420]

My thoughts exactly!

[@mark77193]

Except it's asbestos. Best left alone!

[@anthonygregory3022]

I had an Ingasol Rand needle gun for the tug boat caked rust.

[@vex_mistaken]

this is a fv433 abbot self-propelled artillery. from the pictures ive seen there is supposed to be a mesh screen over the exhaust pipe on the side.

[@Miss_Toots]

More of this please Sid x

[@raytheron]

Great job!

[@lesdodson9134]

Partridge Tank Detailing LLC.. 😁

[@PartridgeExteriorCleaning]

xD i'd be dead in a week it's tiring work!

[@sandgrownun66]

In the UK it would be LTD.

[@wideyxyz2271]

Its Dianne !!! Well played chaps!

[@RegCleeton]

Looking good ! Hope to see lots more ex Military vehicles in your videos under going restoration

[@gailpalmer1926]

Love watching your videos. This is exciting to me , did a great job. Can't wait for the next. 👍👍👍👍

[@Itssam89]

Another tank cleaned! Great job 👌 his roof could do with a clean...😉

[@tinachambers4887]

Hello mate enjoyed the series have a day love from TEXAS

[@nancythomas1954]

Nice job Sid! All the algae is gone! lol Looks like you had a great time!

[@Hector_Malot]

It's an Fv433 Abbot 105mm self-propelled gun.

[@tonylaut585]

Yep, your right. You beat me to it by 10 minutes.

[@normataylor3124]

Nice adventure hope u made sure it didn't have lead n the paint

[@Mikeexteriorcleaning]

Looks great, time to do the shed roofs next

[@ChakatNightspark]

You should do the buildings and the roofs next

[@kittyhawk9707]

Looks like the gun barrel is bent .. more then likely done when it was demilitarized ..also the muzzle brake at the end of the barrel is missing.

[@mala3isity]

Would the pressure washer not've worked on the mud/clay piles? Great job, the green behind the tracks is so pretty.

[@johnnunn8688]

Deffo.

[@davidstover5651]

A cold water truck/ track wash couldn't do the job you did, great job!

[@milesfinch]

Mr Hewes is such a lovely bloke, even if he does still have his label on his hat!! ;-)

[@davidgibbings6085]

I’m just like yourself , I just have industrial greens mowers to clean , tfr is the dogs bollocks , it’s so satisfying to get a clean machine , ,worst bit is splash back o yer glasses , glad you sorting joes stuff ,keep in with him fr sure 😉👍

[@janhanebeck4203]

You took off all the camouflage! ^^

[@Smiff1066]

Use to drive one of them suckers and load em in the 70's, great platform to drive!

[@EmeroDotNet]

Have you thought of starting sand blasting as part of your job? It is super fun to do on something like this before painting. :)

[@superianmuir]

Lol its not a tank. Its a self propelled artillery piece called an Abbot. I think based on the 433 series. Our Regiment had them in Dortmund Germany .

[@pristinekleencleaning]

Another banger sid 💥 looks absolutely brilliant, there’s a lot more to cleaning these tanks than meets the eye. I also thought that drone was departing for good then 😂

[@mrwick7961]

my dad use to have a saracen tank in our garden lol he was rebuilding the gearbox and engine one it, unfortunately he had to get rid of it because it litterally took up our whole garden and the council we not bes pleased that he removed the hedge and fence to get it in xD and my mum wasnt very happy to find him stripping the gearbox on the kitchen table hahaha

[@sandgrownun66]

The Saracen is not a tank. It's a six-wheeled armoured personnel carrier. Tanks also have tracks,

[@crazyhaller]

Yesss Sid let's go ✨🤝

[@Brigadier9]

Alvis Saracen on the right at 13:00 I think?

[@HKpanzer]

I've been playing a game called tank mechanic simulator, and I was just waiting for you to get done cleaning it down to get ready to disassemble, but then forgot this isn't a game xD