A car has gone through lake ice, and the people beside it are faced with the problem of bringing it back out. Yuri Danilov's recovery clip is compelling because the object is so familiar and its position so wrong: an everyday vehicle sits partly in the water, surrounded by a surface that has already failed. The film records the response to that problem.
The failed ice is part of the story
The opening in the ice is the most important part of the setting. It prevents the surrounding white surface from being read as an ordinary work area or a road. The people, the vehicle and any equipment all occupy a place whose condition cannot be assessed from the video alone. A successful-looking movement of the car does not resolve those uncertainties.
A visible result does not explain the whole recovery
The group’s effort to bring the car back out gives the sequence its momentum. The recording can support a description of the visible effort, but it does not establish equipment limits, professional oversight or a full assessment of the site. Those missing details make it unsuitable as a step-by-step recovery lesson, even if the outcome in the edited sequence appears encouraging.
Explore more: why ice-driving footage is not route approval; winter vehicle preparation on ordinary roads.
Video: Дубинушка или русская смекалка (published by Yuri Danilov).
People, equipment and the surrounding water
There is also more at stake than the vehicle's position. People have to remain out of danger, and a submerged car can raise questions about fuel or other fluids entering the water. The clip does not document whether contamination occurred or what happened afterward. A responsible recovery has to address the wider scene, rather than treating the moment the car moves as the whole job.
The original upload and its limited context
Yuri Danilov’s Russian-language upload is the original recording linked here. Watch it as one recorded incident, with its particular circumstances only partly known. The related winter-vehicle features offer a more useful direction for everyday drivers: preparation and current local conditions, instead of assuming an improvised lake recovery is a skill to pick up from a short video.
Sources, photography and further reading
Original feature and image attributions:
- Unofficial Networks
- I Thought Winter Where I Live Was Bad… Then I Saw This SNOWPOCALYPSE. Unbelievable.
- Ice Driving On Frozen Lake In Western Norway
- The World's Largest & Deepest Lake, 25-million-Years Old Is Really Pretty When It's Frozen
- The Coolest Music in the World: Listen to Siberian Ice Drummers Use Frozen Lake Baikal as an Incredible Musical Instrument
- Kamchatka, Russia! Is This the Most Magical Cave in the World?
- why ice-driving footage is not route approval
- winter vehicle preparation on ordinary roads
- Дубинушка или русская смекалка
Incredible!!! No health and safety unnecessarily complicating the recovery and at very little cost. Hats off to them
ReplyDeleteI read that Post and got it fine and informative.
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DeleteI'd like to know why the rope they reeled up isn't gathered around the pivot they were turning?
ReplyDeleteand why it didn't look very taut!
DeleteDumb ass conspiracy theorists always looking for some complicated answer. Google Occam's Razor you profound idiots and try to wrap your minds around it.
Deleteropes is coiling just under the ice given the angle of the pivot had to be in relation to the pull needed,, if the pivot was completly upright i should imagine it would have pulled out,,
DeleteHow can you get all doubtful about this and say the rope is not taught and that the rope isn't even reeled up at the pivot????? go to 0:38 then check 2:42 you dunces, the pivot has raised up, and you can see the nice coiling that is PERFECT - the rope is very taught, you are blind to now see that, especially for how tightly wrapped around the pivot it is. Did you expect it to be a wild messy loose coiling around the pivot? Come on, if you have the mind to do this, it's not going to be some slop job. The angle of the pivot is just-so in that it causes the rope to slide down constantly in towards the ice and in the process pull the pivot out as it coils around the pivot. Come on!!!!!!!! And if they are driving on ice it is OBVIOUSLY an ice/snow town that has it's feet well grounded in the utilization of technology with ice/snow. User your fcking heads!
DeleteTaught? User your.. heads? You are unintelligible>
DeleteI agree with Mike and there is no need to abuse people because they may not understand engineering.
DeleteMy goodness, my words were unintelligible due to 2 auto-fills? Are you kidding me? You are that narrow minded to not understand because I made two obvious mistakes? You cannot see that "taught" obviously meant "taut", and "User" meant "Use". Just like all the other internet newfags that make an argument based off of spelling mistakes, as if it denotes the validity of it entirely and gives you some upper hand - when it's not about that at all. Great point there sir Mike, you disagree with my words or don't like that I have an opinion towards those that were calling this out as fake - so you call me out on two very blatantly obvious grammatical mistakes? Seriously? So I defended that this video is real, and you can only say my words go unreadable, because of TWO auto-fills, and you are too narrow minded to see the most obvious intended words using your programmed english syntax? If you're going to make an ass of me, at least have a genuine reason jackass.
DeleteI have to agree with H4, he's made an excellent point and you used grammar mistakes to make him seem like a moron. Mike, it's internet pedants like you that contribute absolutely nothing but go around acting like some esteemed intellectual because you are able to police everyone's words and use that to disprove them solely on the grounds of grammatical mistakes, dismissing any great points laden in their opinion. If you want to believe this video is fake, then go right ahead, but at least have the grounds to back it up with, and not just expect that pointing out grammatical errors makes you right, him wrong, or you any smarter.
Deletesure h4rk4t was brash, but his point is good. Mike, get a life.
Deleteand he wasn't being abusive, just brash, overly assertive. I can see why though - how can you call this fake? Even one not familiar with physics/engineering/mechanics can see this is not fake, unless your observational and picture memory are just utterly not there.
MIKE GET A LIFE.
DeleteH4RK4T, BE MORE PASSIVE WHEN MAKING THESE POINTS! dumb ppl are less willing to understand if you attack them. DO NOT ARGUE WITH A DUMB PERSON LIKE MIKE, THEY WILL JUST PULL YOU DOWN TO THEIR LVL!
h4rk4t do not listen to him! He is trying to troll you do not take the bait!
DeleteI love how clear you made that! People are just thin skinned these days and can't take any criticism, even soft criticism (yours wasn't so soft, but still, this is the internet, how can you get so butt-hurt haha!)
I agree with Mike...................that h4rk4t made mistakes. But Mike, you're sillier than a chicken in a chicken suit to be unable to understand him because of those two mistakes. English must not be your native language :(
DeleteFUCK U MIKE, U R NOBODY!
Delete"I agree with Mike and there is no need to abuse people because they may not understand engineering."
DeleteGROW SOME THICKER SKIN YOU PUSSY!
hhahaahhaha "no need to abuse people because they may not understand".
DeleteJust like there is no need to abuse certain people that don't understand why killing is bad.
Are you kidding me? He was being abusive? Go crawl under Obama's dick and keep sucking you little politically correct child. This isn't A Brave New World, this is a world where we speak our mind. Offending people is a necessary and healthy act... EVERY TIME YOU SAY SOMETHING THAT'S OFFENSIVE TO ANOTHER PERSON, YOU JUST CAUSED A DISCUSSION. YOU JUST FORCED THEM TO HAVE TO THINK.
KEYWORDS: FORCED THEM TO HAVE TO THINK.
If you can't grow some thicker skin to bare the offense, keep living your life with complete bliss and mindless contentment. No need to use your brain or opinions, or show passion in your words, just keep on chuggin' like the tool you are.
A few ladies from the tractor factory could have "wenched" the car up faster.
Deleteengineering at it best..gj guys
ReplyDeleteIt is gathering, just on a single neat layer, so it's hard to see. The pivot seems to be actually rising slowly and each new round of the wire right next to the previous one.
ReplyDeleteU.S, still riding in Former Soviet Union engineered rockets to the International Space Station!
ReplyDeleteRussians are very good at "poor man solutions" than the Americans!! You know that!
ReplyDeleteLooks like the Obama space program. The guys will need to run in circles to get the car in orbit.
ReplyDeleteGood old Russian Know How.
ReplyDeleteНе бит, не крашен, ездил дедушка на дачу
ReplyDeleteGood old Russian know how? Is that what put it in the lake in the first place!? Crazy Russian Drivers :-D
ReplyDeleteum, that might have something to do with the can(s) of beer (see 3:15).
DeleteQdos to the guys, they knew what they were doing and did it well.
if you had noticed it is an english car, crazy english driver lol
DeleteGreat music - Anybody know who it's by?
ReplyDeleteThey probably did this already 100 times
ReplyDeleteGlobal warming is a bitch ain't it...
ReplyDeleteWhat I'd like to know is how they got the rope tied on to the vehicle. It had to be secured to something solid, and that was all submerged under water.
ReplyDeleteLast time I fished a truck out of the mud I duct taped the hook to a piece of pipe and fished until I hooked an axle, then pulled the tape loose. Surely they did something compairable.
DeleteI would say they did pretty dam good.....lol
ReplyDeletealiens did it.. lol
ReplyDeleteDoes nobody think how much rope it should be on this poll when they are finished? Where did the rope go???? Should have been much thicker poll than in the beginnig.
ReplyDeleteEven the rope is less in the end than in the beginning and the poll is higher. Taken the angel it's impossible togo up. The poll is just a "middel man" the pulling is done by a mechanical winch longer out..
ReplyDeleteOne thing for sure,, no Engineers in on this job.... plain and simple roughneck technology..
ReplyDeleteHow did it come there in the first place?
ReplyDeleteVODKA VODKA FOR EVERYONE!!!
ReplyDeleteSmart folks but nothing but salvage i'm afraid.
ReplyDeleteYes, I'm wondering the same thing. Why! Must have had something valuable in the car?
DeletePerhaps to keep the junk out of the lake and keep anything that hadn't leaked out already from doing so.
DeleteNice job but the car aint worth a crap now.
ReplyDeleteNote the beer can next to the driver's seat. Hmmm
ReplyDeleteA little wax and Armor All and she'll be just fine.
ReplyDeleteAgree with your point - very smartly done! Like how three people were used to pull the vehicle out.
ReplyDeleteGood work by the people! Wonder what was the car doing there?
ReplyDeleteWould the car still be drivable? Doesn't the water wreck the whole electrics?
ReplyDeletebravo les russes, on a pas d'argent? mais de belles idées, vive le systeme D
ReplyDeleteEngine will be fine, if things were not left running. Electrics maybe.Needs some serious TLC though.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't look like an English car to me. Which make exactly? RHD yes. But then that includes Japan, Australia, India, South Africa, New Zealand, Malaysia and Australia I know of. Not Russia though. I As a point of fact there is too much ignorant opinion from people with no understanding through education and experience of what they write here. Pointless waste of time to scan though uninformed opinion.
Study the subjects involved and validate your data before you express an opinion. Everything is possible when you understand nothing.
In a world of Health & Safety , they would be unlikely to be able to use this method of getting it out . But then in this world of Health & Safety it is unlikely to have gone in to start with ! Love the ice bearing capstan .
ReplyDeletehow did the van go from 1/2 way up the posts to completely. It is tied off to the cross bar yet mysteriously climbs the wooden supports.... and where is the part where someone gets into the water to attach the cable from the crossbar to the vehicles undercarriage.....staged.....
ReplyDeleteAmazing one. This seems like when someone try their hard no matter what circumstances they are facing they will achieve success. :) Thanks sharing.
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Incredible post you are shared very smartly done! Like how three people were used to pull the vehicle out with Frozen Lake
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ReplyDeleteIncredible resourcefulness! Watching those Russians pull the car from the frozen lake showcases their determination and creativity. It’s a thrilling reminder of the unexpected challenges winter brings. Great video.
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