Skidders TDT-55 - equipment for hauling and stacking timber

Skidders from the USSR are equipment that operates in the most difficult conditions. A typical example of this class is a tracked tractor TDT-55, manufactured since 1966 at the Onega Plant. The equipment survived the collapse of the Soviet Union. Due to its uniqueness, it was assembled until 2003. But what is so unusual about the old Soviet skidder, which looks like military equipment? Of course, military reliability and simplicity of design!

Despite the fact that after the collapse of the USSR, the TDT-55 was produced in single copies, the equipment continues to work in the most remote forest corners of Russia. Most caterpillar tractors are still Soviet-made, that is, a colossal margin of safety was laid in them.
To the author of the channel "Ivan Zenkevich PRO cars» managed to find one of the now rare TDT-55 in the forest thicket. Of course, the equipment suffered after several decades spent in an unequal fight with forest plantations, but the Soviet skidder is not afraid of anything - it is still functional and efficient.

The tractor is started in the old fashioned way - from the launcher. Well, how else is it guaranteed to revive a powerful diesel engine in all weather conditions?
Ivan Zenkevich did not lose face - he not only told about the skidder TDT-55, but also managed to ride on it.