Manufacture and testing of the Sd.Kfz. 2 "Kettenkrad" half-track motorcycle in 1943

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@Lockbar 6 ай бұрын

The Kettenkrad was so useful the factory was kept running several years after the war.... good as a farm hauling vehicle.

@dr.wilfriedhitzler1885 6 ай бұрын

Its ZÜNDAPP and it run till the 80s.

@Bailbondello 3 ай бұрын

Nope...it was nsu@@dr.wilfriedhitzler1885

@martinjohnson9316 6 ай бұрын

You are coming up with some amazing war footage. I've never seen this before. Thank you!

@actonman7291 6 ай бұрын

I want one for Chritsmas.

@user-ot4ip1wl2j 6 ай бұрын

自分も欲しいです🙋👮🙌バイクと戦車、同時に楽しめる❗️

@harryhanz1690 6 ай бұрын

Good ol' Chritmas, the holiday for very bad spellers.

@actonman7291 6 ай бұрын

@@harryhanz1690 grammar cop and a spatz lol

@FroggyFrog9000 6 ай бұрын

better toy than any iphone

@dennisyoung4631 6 ай бұрын

Just what is wanted for a small farm of some kind - what you use for hauling supplies to the barn, say.

@StevieSantosia 6 ай бұрын

One of them cost about 150.000 - 180.000 Dollar today

@Luftwoller 6 ай бұрын

lol for a pile of rust. try again

@StevieSantosia 6 ай бұрын

@@Luftwoller in good condition

@j.bradleyheck1589 6 ай бұрын

That's Gelandewagen expensive!

@janb.2025 6 ай бұрын

25 years ago you could find them for 9000$ (15-18.000DM) in the weekend newspaper "Reviermarkt". By 1998 I also found an "Enigma" machine for 800DM (400$) and I didn't buy it because I was on my motorcycle. Today, I would throw away the bike and carry the enigma 40km home by hand....

@Surv1ve_Thrive 6 ай бұрын

What was the sales price in 1943?

@user-nt9nd8uk3m 6 ай бұрын

Молодцы немцы головастый народ!!! Собственные разработки и собственные возможности ( не крадут, не воруют, ни копируют все своё) !!!

@olegk8096 6 ай бұрын

А то

@redtobertshateshandles 6 ай бұрын

A heavy duty tow vehicle, I think. They would have some awesome pulling power.

@martinjohnson9316 6 ай бұрын

@j.bradleyheck1589 6 ай бұрын

They used them for towing Me 262's.

@charlesburgoyne-probyn6044 6 ай бұрын

@@j.bradleyheck1589apparently when the fuel shortage became acute used 🫏 instead. Quite a cool buggy though

@user-sv9zx5pl7t 6 ай бұрын

@@j.bradleyheck1589Not only for towing ME 262s.They made Service the whole Wartime on the German Airfields👍

@email4664 6 ай бұрын

@@martinjohnson9316Aside from the Carb, it is the same engine as used in the later Opel GT

@MrPzrMeyer 6 ай бұрын

Fantastic post! Seems that you have a nice stash of unique footage , keep it up! Watching the production section i think to myself if only those fellows had a production line in the US ie. Willow run, they would quickly see how over the war was for them, and yet held so long.... Forget showing off in a Himalya Defender, i want to drive chic-fil-a in Ketten!

@JohnSmith-ei2pz 6 ай бұрын

We could do with this vehicle in the UK, judging by the pot holes!

@61diemai 6 ай бұрын

Here in Germany, too, our governments do not like to spend taxpayers money on our own native needs anymore.

@charlesburgoyne-probyn6044 6 ай бұрын

True and the rain has led to a woeful state of repair

@andrewallen9993 6 ай бұрын

What you need is a T2 VW Kombi, preferably a splittie, it's fun when the arsehole in the MBW or Audi six inches from your back bumper falls into the huge deep pothole your 15" high profile tyres and torsion bar swing arm with rubber bump stop suspension has just laughed at 😂 After all it was designed for use on roads the UK government had been maintaining with Lancaster bombers and the US 8TH.

@Mal0Imperzia 25 күн бұрын

@@61diemai same in Italia, but the EU bearaucrats will gladly spend money on random climate acts and immigrants!

@McRocket 6 ай бұрын

I really like this little vehicle. Thanks for posting this. ☮

@trickydicky2908 6 ай бұрын

They'd still be useful in farming or ranching applications. It would be popular in Sturgis, lol.

@leelandlagasse6517 6 ай бұрын

Exactly what they where used for after the war, recently one was found with a converted hitch and plow

@reverseuniverse2559 2 ай бұрын

So advanced technology that’s fantastic

@stogmot1 6 ай бұрын

amazing footage ,thanks

@sheepdip6452 6 ай бұрын

Note the Kettenkrad race track in the end ... the precursor to modern-day lawnmower races

@reynaldolopez8902 6 ай бұрын

Deberían sacar al mercado estos excelentes vehículos.

@edefuchs7085 6 ай бұрын

Die Dinger sind heute noch hammer-gut

@nw8000 6 ай бұрын

I have seen these in action they are great!

@JRCinKY 6 ай бұрын

Just an awesome vehicle

@Orgelfan62 6 ай бұрын

For this Time was the Kettenkrad a good all Terrain Vehicle

@MGB-learning 6 ай бұрын

Great video

@mrvn000 6 ай бұрын

A superior race makes superior machinery!!

@alexandre210613 6 ай бұрын

😀😀😀

@suhericoba911 5 ай бұрын

Defeated by chosen race

@Zedinator593 5 ай бұрын

That’s the mentality that makes it difficult for people like 👍🏼 that who don’t have the ability for self respect and empathy to understand what is wrong and what’s going to change when people don’t know what’s right in their own way to make it better than others who don’t understand what they don’t have and what they can’t control or what they’re supposed to be capable of

@Mal0Imperzia 25 күн бұрын

The amount of failed German tanks and weird prototypes combined with questionable reliability would like to say otherwise.

@mrvn000 25 күн бұрын

@@Mal0Imperzia Nein!!

@omega14239. 6 ай бұрын

Захоплююсь німецькими технічними засобами часів війни. Шкода, що ми так мало знаємо про творців цих технічних див.

@j.bradleyheck1589 6 ай бұрын

A lot of the technicians went to Gulags & most were swept up by "Operation Paperclip" ,e.g. Werner von Braun !

@wolframherzog636 6 ай бұрын

Kettenkrad wurde bei NSU Werken in Neckarsulm gebaut, heute ist es eine Fabrik von Audi. Die letzten originalen NSU 1:45 Hallen wurden 2007 abgerissen. Google Earth: maps.app.goo.gl/Wyt5rqigqFRfY9dC6?g_st=ic

@user-js7wh4ub9i 6 ай бұрын

Gulags is - Administration.

@Danila_Korotkov02 6 ай бұрын

@@j.bradleyheck1589, the Gulag was created for political reasons. The Germans were used after the war to rebuild houses, factories, etc. Scientists and engineers were involved in the production process

@212th 6 ай бұрын

Impressive

@boathemian7694 6 ай бұрын

I saw this at a museum in Norway

@Bailbondello 3 ай бұрын

NSU werke, aktiengesellschaft, Neckarsulm....same plant that made my 2 NSU prinz cars...i had a 1959 and a 1960....although the engines on the kettenkraftrad were Opel olympia engines, the manufacture overall was by NSU

@salamander163 6 ай бұрын

looks like they are painted dark green or dark grey, but they look awesome!!!

@softsofasoftsofa 5 ай бұрын

"Girls Last Tour": an anime of 2 girls using a Kettenkrad to wander a world destroyed by war.

@r_paleoart 3 ай бұрын

That's an absolute Masterpiece Anime

@mjlotus 6 ай бұрын

Very cool.

@robertdawson8522 6 ай бұрын

I knew an old guy back in the early 80s that had a yard full of antique motorcycles as well as a museum named Bergan who traded an old Sportster for one of these.I asked him if he would sell it but the $5,000 price tag was too rich for my blood🙄

@greekthenick 6 ай бұрын

Great video ,i wish it was longer with more stages of the poduction ! I saw and some women in the start of the video and pushing them in the production line at 0:28 - 0:37 !!

@jjw2632 6 ай бұрын

WOW German workers on a production line . Gosh those quality controls levels would have been through the roof back then.

@hamansutra 5 ай бұрын

Masters of the Universe!

@derevenskyi_live 5 ай бұрын

Даже звука тогда не было. Теперь ты такой это телефона смотришь😮

@carlowingfield7743 6 ай бұрын

Just what you need to get to work riding over all the other traffic .

@nazarenosilva4478 6 ай бұрын

The only halftracks advantage is they are cool.

@Tempestzzzz 6 ай бұрын

I want one.🥰

@stevenhershman2660 6 ай бұрын

I like the model where it drives like a car but will float on water and is motorized.

@Surv1ve_Thrive 6 ай бұрын

What was the sales price in 1943?

@filzlaus9515 5 ай бұрын

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

@martinmiessler5025 6 ай бұрын

What a Gang 😂 Fantastic Material 👍

@Litauen-yg9ut 6 ай бұрын

I'd love to have one. Be probably the only German war equipment I could afford, except maybe a kubelwagen

@charlesburgoyne-probyn6044 6 ай бұрын

Fun buggy

@jonowens460 6 ай бұрын

The Koolest bike ever built😮😂❤❤❤

@av8bvma513 5 ай бұрын

Um, Why is it reversed Left-To-Right? Or is that Right-To-Left???????

@happyhome41 6 ай бұрын

That testing in the latter half looks like a TOUGH job, but, someone HAS to do it. Most excellent footage. I’m curious, do you ever have a sound track ? It would seem, if any, this film would have had a sound track. Of course, I can make vroom vroom noise while watching.

@marianklysz1784 6 ай бұрын

fur Deutschland !

@bluedragontoybash2463 6 ай бұрын

Is today's ATV better than kettenkrad ?

@mh53j 6 ай бұрын

That would be interesting to see. Obviously, each would have its own strengths and weaknesses. I think current use of ATVs in the military is for their speed and maneuverability, the kettenkrad for its cross country (ie. Russian mud) abilities. Both routinely use trailers as well, so not sure what load limits would be for each.

@rosbifke 6 ай бұрын

I’d say the comparison is nonsensical since they both perform really well in their respective, different niches. There’s no competition here.

@redtobertshateshandles 6 ай бұрын

Kettenrad is much more industrial. Can a quad tow a multi ton artillery piece and 300 kg of ammo ?? Can a Kettenrad go where a quad can ??

@jonowens460 6 ай бұрын

No, not as Kool😮😂

@user-zr4fc2zd2v 6 ай бұрын

That looks lit and funny af

@augustiner3821 6 ай бұрын

made with the friendly support of GM.

@dukenukem8381 6 ай бұрын

Thales help make t-90, mercedes benz helped making kamaz engines

@riff2072 6 ай бұрын

And happily destroyed by Boeing.

@jonowens460 6 ай бұрын

Buick was in bed with them, first practical valve in head design...

@oxanafedler5599 6 ай бұрын

Warum werden diese super geilen teile nicht mehr gebaut?🤔

@porsche911s9 6 ай бұрын

macht die strassen kaputt. deswegen.

@oxanafedler5599 6 ай бұрын

@@porsche911s9 die kriegen Gummis drauf dann geht das ☝️👍

@jochensch8821 6 ай бұрын

@@oxanafedler5599 Die haben auch Gummis drauf und man hat sie bis 1948 noch für die Landwirtschaft gebaut. Die Gegend um Neckarsulm ist Weinbaugebiet, in einer Zeit ohne Schmalspurtraktoren waren die im Weinberg eine gute Lösung.

@terepember512 6 ай бұрын

According to an American military study, it would have been better if the front wheel didn't get on it.

@anadosek 4 ай бұрын

Ugoku, ugoku...

@chapiit08 6 ай бұрын

I'd give a kidney to own one.

@parteitagkonstantinthernen5191 Ай бұрын

OVER 8000 pices bueld!

@ChupakabraIvanova 6 ай бұрын

Непонятно зачем ему переднее колесо очевидно что это декоративная функция 🤔

@sweeneytod1 6 ай бұрын

Why the motorcycle front? Pointless addition to an otherwise solid vehicle.

@Ba_Yegu 2 ай бұрын

I think it was for fine tune the steering without bothering the track clutch system. The manual of Kettenkrad stated that if the terrain is really rough with large stones or tree stumps, the front wheel should be removed and then drive the vehicle exactly like a full-blown tracked vehicle.

@guyfawkesuThe1 6 ай бұрын

Great machine but why not just build a cheaper side-by-side? That is all the Jeeps were back then.

@akhan9669 4 ай бұрын

DAS OPEL

@andymckay7803 5 ай бұрын

It looks dangerous, like it could turn over and pin the riders under it.

@DougguoD 6 ай бұрын

1:12 Oh noes, who could withstand such an assault 😼 1:34 I'm kinda missing the carnival music here, though 😞

@nord5348 6 ай бұрын

Покруче квадриков нынешних...

@lostmoose9994 6 ай бұрын

Just wondering: US invented ATVs ? 😎

@EU-hj7xe 6 ай бұрын

Да уж, квадрики это давнишняя тема.

@user-gi8kz6mo8b 5 ай бұрын

эх в Украину б технику такую ,ато в черноземе вязнет современное авно

@jameslester3861 6 ай бұрын

I could never see the practicality of them.🤔

@adnninadnnin7967 6 ай бұрын

Лица у рабочих не радостные.. Враг у ворот! Промышленность должна обеспечить фронт всем необходимым! А рабочих-специалистов мобилизуют в армию.

@o_tinpo 6 ай бұрын

かっけー

@user-qh7fj9vu7u 6 ай бұрын

Все это уже сгнило на просторах России😂

@user-vv7zi7bd1x 6 ай бұрын

Ночные волки на пакатушках😂😂😂😂

@panzplayer2160 6 ай бұрын

Dlaczego teraz nie robią takich fajnych zabawek? To jest lepsze od Quada.

@lordvalentine471 4 ай бұрын

Can you operate one of these if you have a man bun

@kobusdutoitbosman6240 6 ай бұрын

Yip ‼️‼️ me too…😳❓🥂 🪖

@aco4ka 6 ай бұрын

Perfect for two girls to go on a (last) tour

@r_paleoart 3 ай бұрын

A perfect vehicle for exploring a post-apocalyptic world

@MallimPallim 6 ай бұрын

ATV

@geoffbenoy2052 4 ай бұрын

Why don't China start producing these instead of those stupid electric cars!

@alexeyp9142 6 ай бұрын

And then they came to Russia....

@dukenukem8381 6 ай бұрын

Whats even the point of the front wheel

@PauloPereira-jj4jv 6 ай бұрын

Change direction. Making turns. Obvious.

@drott150 6 ай бұрын

I wondered the same thing. Maybe on dry ground it offers more nuanced steering ability. Or also approaching a near vertical incline it may help roll the front end upward before the tracks make contact? Not sure. But it would have to have a differential steering system on the tracks, so the front wheel isn't the prime mover for steering.

@NonSektur 6 ай бұрын

For minor changes in direction. For large ones it engage the tracks. Tank Museum has a very nice video about it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pWO9moifncmLnJosi=JI6T62fVIQCAJ8hj

@zahfa7608 6 ай бұрын

The same function with half-track.

@Dr.W.Krueger 6 ай бұрын

Helps to prevent flip over after driving over raised obstacles. You can take it off and the steering works just fine.