There was a small salvage yard up in northern Minnesota that used a tank retriever when they wanted to flatten a vehicle shell with frame.

They had the old military tank retriever for one of their other businesses of cutting trees for wood pulp. That is what I was doing there. I was helping with the harvest of trees for pulp.



In case you didn't know, a tank retriever is basically a tank without the gun turret and it has a boom and winch much like a vehicle tow truck.

I always found the term tank retriever sort of humorous when you think of a dog that retrieves ducks and such, and a big tow truck with tracks that retrieves stuck tanks.