Hi guys, as usually its me just a voice over and you are watching review machines.
Today we’ve gathered many people and machines to arrange an exciting battle and find out
what atv is the most capable.
By the way we’ve got the first snow!
And we prepared a very interesting route for this material, there will be many various
exciting obstacles.
The final point of today’s trip is a the severest and gloomy swamp.
It is definitely dangerous to go there by only one ATV, that is why we’ve gathered
three machines to overcome that swamp.
Well, get comfortable my friends and take some tea, its time to begin lets go!
First of all I would like to introduce to you all the people and machines who are going
to take part in the competition today.
Meet Evgeniy and the ATV Dobrinya bulat, you may know it.
Ilya and his new ATV Taiga 4x4.
Kirill and his ATV Argo Avenger 800.
And our guide for today Sergey, he will show us the most interesting obstacles.
Well and me finally, Hi there!
In fact many more people will help us today in out shootings, and I’d like to thank
all of them.
Huge thanks for coming today guys!
Before starting our trip lets have a closer look at the machines.
Dobrinya ATV – you may know this machine, the other day we made a video about it.
It is a tracked atv 700 kilos weight with two cylinders engine 24 hp.
There is an antiroll cage and a tent.
Taiga 4x4 ATV.
The machine has an articulated frame and big low pressure wheels.
The weight is 450 kilos.
There is also an antiroll cage.
The engine is more powerful two cylinders 29 hp.
Argo Avenger 800.
It is a Canadian 8 wheels atv which is equipped with additional tracks.
The weight is about 600 kilos.
The body is made of a plastic.
The engine is 2 cylinders Kohler 30 hp power.
Also we tried to find out what is under the hood of this quad, but we didn’t manage
to open the hood.
Well let it be so.
It is high time to hit the road!
Well as I said we are facing the most exciting route today.
There will be various obstacles, that will help us to show up the difference between
the machines.
The ground is already frozen on the field, but it is still swampy in the forest.
And the main our goal – a big swamp never gets frozen in any season.
While we are moving on a flat ground lets make some kind of a drag racing to find out
what machine is the fastest today.
Well the maximum speed is approximately the same.
The first is Argo, then Taiga and Dobrinya, but the difference is not so signfifcant.
Now lets do some hill do some hill climbing.
The first ascent is the simplest lets do this.
It is a pice of cake for all the machines, so we made this test a little bit harder.
This hill is more difficult.
But again no any problems at all for all the atvs.
And this is the steepest ascent, I think it is almost impossible to get over it.
Yep…it is too much for the machines.
But if we slightly change our way the task becomes much easier lets try this.
And Argo is just few cms short to get over this hill.
And Dobrinya is trying.
Well it was a tough task but Dobrinya manages to climb on this hill showing us advantage
of metal lugs on the tracks.
As to the Taiga ATV, it couldn’t even try to move here, cause there were many such thorns
that could puncture the tires.
Meantime Argo shows us a really extreme descent, and it was frightening even just to watch
it, I should say.
To proceed our trip to the grand swamp we have to cross this small but deep river.
Frankly speaking we even didn’t consider this river as a serious obstacle, but in fact
it proved to be even harder than just a serious.
The matter is it is very deep and the are steep banks, so it was quite tough task to
get out from there.
As we can see all the machines can float, but none of them is able to get on the bank.
Even Dobrinya with its metal lugs can’t get over this obstacle.
After about half an hour of numerous tries to escape from this trap we started realizing
that we were just loosing our time.
Thanks there was a quad with a winch, that helped the atvs to escape from the river.
Well all the machines are on the ground again, but the matter is we didn’t manage to cross
the river.
It seems that we have to find any ford to proceed our trip to the swamp.
So lets go and find it!
While we are moving lets speak in a word about the transmissions in the vehicles.
Dobrinya is equipped with both gear box and CVT.
The gearbox provides a wider range of gears, from the lowest to the fastest.
In this way it has a very slow low range but the maximum speed is pretty decent.
There is the same construction in the Taiga 4x4 ATV, so it is also usable in the wheeled
ATV.
As regards Argo it uses its own transmission called Admiral.
It is equipped with a special gearbox, there ale low and high range, and as we can see
it works quite effective.
Meantime we finally found the ford!
We managed to cross the river here without any difficulties and then we were able to
keep on moving to the swamp.
But then we faced another interesting obstacle.
There is a huge deep ditch, and certainly we decided to overcome it!
Taiga is trying…So slow and neatly but it crosses the ditch.
And now I will show you the wrong way of doing it.
If you decide to cross it with a speed, you’ll get such a result.
We broke a steering link in this episode.
And while the crew of this machine is trying to fix it, the other tracked atvs also overcome
this ditch without any difficulties.
Well Taiga is ready to get back to our tests again, but firstly lets check the tire pressure.
By the way it is interesting solution to inflate the tires by the exhaust.
It is very quick way to puff up the wheels.
And now lets move on.
Here it is…we finally got it!
The grand swamp!
I think it is an ideal scenery for a horror film isn’t it?
But we are going to cross this swamp, and I hope it will be not a horror!
Lets go!
Frankly speaking I am sure it won’t be a horror cause we are moving here by three machines
at one time.
And if something goes wrong there will be other machines to help.
The main rule here is not even trying to overcome such a swamp alone without any assist.
When we are moving across the swamp it seems like it is alive.
Look how it breathes under our wheels.
The main task here is not to tear this carpet and not to fall through it.
That is why weight and pressure on the ground is very important here.
And I should say Argo definitely looks better than others here.
Its weight is 600 kilos, but it has long and wide tracks so the pressure on the ground
is minimal.
As a result Argo literally flies above the swamp.
Nevertheless Dobrinya and Taiga also move here quite confidently but much slower.
Dobrinya weighs 100 kilos more than Argo, and its tracks are shorter, so it is more
difficult for it to move on the swamp.
Taiga doesn’t have tracks at all, but its wheels are quite large and low pressure, so
it is able to overcome the swamp with the same performance as Dobrinya.
At this moment Dobrinya gets into a hole – there is no carpet here, and the machine just floats
and can’t move further.
But Argo is near and it rescues Dobrinya from a trap with the help of the winch.
And now the same thing with Taiga…
And again Argo helps to get out from the hole.
Well, riding across the swamp it is quite an emotional process, but we should discuss
a practical thing.
Lets speak about the prices now.
The cheapest ATV is Taiga its price is 4000 dollars.
Dobrinya costs about 5000 dollars.
And Argo costs about 25 thousand.
Well lets call it a day guys.
Thanks for having a trip with us today!
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