Weasels in the Antarctic

[Aussie Hawk]

The Australian Antarctic Division use of Weasels for exploration in the '50's

http://www.antarctica.gov.au/about-antarctica/history/transportation/ground-transportation/weasel

Click on the photos on this page to get more Weasel shots.

http://www.antarctica.gov.au/magazine/2011-2015/issue-22-2012/stations/founding-mawson-australias-first-antarctic-station

[HAWK64]

Years ago a couple of our Melbourne members experienced the Weasels on their business trips down there & both dreamt of bringing a Weasel home. Alas,it remained a dream.

[Studebaker Wheel]

Enjoyed the history. Great to see Studebaker's in use.

Below: Did this Weasel just climb that steep hill or is it going to back down?

[Milaca]

Enjoyed the history. Great to see Studebaker's in use.

Below: Did this Weasel just climb that steep hill or is it going to back down?

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Tell me if you have heard this joke before...."Is that Studebaker coming or going?"

[GrumpyOne]

When I worked as an expat on Kwajalein in the early 1970's, one of the guys in the photolab was a retired navy chief who spent time on Antarctica where he and others would knock off the tracks on a not-so-popular retired navy captain's weasel. The only reason that he brought that up is that I mentioned the name of Captain Finn Ronne and he almost went bonkers. Seemed that the captain was sort of a butt head that nobody liked...

[Aussie Hawk]

Enjoyed the history. Great to see Studebaker's in use.

Below: Did this Weasel just climb that steep hill or is it going to back down?

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I don't have the info to answer that, so lets just take it as it went up.

[Skip Lackie]

In 1962 I spent a few months living in a plywood hut close to the North Pole (the ice was a lot thicker then), and we had two Navy-owned Weasels that were used to ferry supplies to our camp from the landing strip that the Weasels had graded out on the sea ice. They were painted international orange for visibility. One had a hard top and the other was open. I rode in them several times, but never drove them, as the University of Alaska employed an Inuit mechanic who was responsible for them. It is my understanding that about a year after I left, one of them fell through thin ice and now lies on the bottom of the Arctic Ocean. The other was left behind when the camp was abandoned, and now is on the bottom of the Denmark Strait. Somewhere I have some color slides of the Weasels and will try to find them.

[JRoberts]

I appreciate the historic look at the Weasel in action in the Antarctic (and Arctic as well). It is absolutely amazing how many jobs Weasels were put to work on after their war time duties.

[Buzzard]

Mine has a hand made top made from wood strips covered in canvas. On the wooden sides, if you get the light right, can be seen" Spokane Emergency rescue". This quite plausible as I bought it in a small town in Idaho, and not far away from Washington state.
Thanks for the post.
Bill

[Mrs K Corbin]

I missed one "By That Much" about 5 years ago in N Florida. Wish I'd bought it now. Needed tracks rebuilt, but otherwise in good shape.\
It was $2500 and I couldn't figure out how to load it, but I've figured that out now.... Of course the weasel is long gone.

[M15 Trucker]

Anybody know why the "production" Weasels run backwards as opposed to the prototypes I've seen in videos being tested in the snow