With their very high ground clearance and a flexible frame that is essentially a part of the suspension, Unimogs are not designed to carry as much load as regular trucks.

Unimogs are available with short wheelbases for tool carrier operations or long wheelbases for all-terrain cargo carrying operations.

The Unimogs are used as troop carriers, ambulances, and mobile command centers equipped with radios ( radio boxes ).

Unimogs are used by German disaster relief organisation Technisches Hilfswerk ( THW ), by Fire Departments and municipalities as utility vehicles.

In construction, Unimogs are used as carriers of equipment and, with the optional extended cabin, also of workers.

On railroads, Unimogs are used as rail car movers and road-rail vehicles.

In agriculture, Unimogs are used to operate farm equipment.

While most farm field implement operations are now performed by a tractor, Unimogs are used to haul produce, machinery and animals.

Unimogs are also used as a prime mover, to pull heavy trailers, large wheeled conveyances or even Jumbo Jets.

Unimogs are used as tourist transport for jungle ecotourism or safaris.

Unimogs can be equipped with front and rear tool mounting brackets and hydraulic connections to allow bucket loaders and hydraulic arms to be used.

Apart from the Bundeswehr, Unimogs have been used by many different militaries, including the Argentinian, British, Belgian, Danish, Dutch, French, Irish, Indonesian Army, Portuguese, Finnish, Estonian, Greek, Swiss, Chilean, Bolivian Naval Force, Mexican, Pakistani, Rhodesian and Singaporean armed forces.

High-powered factory-sponsored entries of truck companies aiming for the overall win have since taken the laurels, with Unimogs mainly used for service purposes.

Unimogs were developed in post-war Germany to be used as agricultural equipment.

European militaries and utilities have used Land Rover Defenders, Haflingers, Pinzgauers, Volvo L3314, and Mercedes-Benz Unimogs for all-terrain transportation.

This was mainly for two reasons: Erhard und Soehne did not have the capacity to build the Unimogs and Mercedes Benz was not permitted to build all-wheel drive vehicles at that time.

Background vehicles included a Volkswagen Beetle, Volkswagen Variant, Mazda MX5, Jeep Comanche, Volkswagen Transporter, Yellow School Bus, Citroën 2CV, Jeep YJ, Toyota Landcruiser, Audi 100 Quattro, two Unimogs, BMW 520i, Mercedes-Benz SL 500, and Volvo 850 R station wagon. You could also drive various parts of the scenery including a large green T-rex, a little wooden kiosk and a western style wagon.

Due to their off-road capabilities, Unimogs can be found in jungles, mountains and deserts as military vehicles, fire fighters, expedition campers, and even in competitions like truck trials and Dakar Rally rally raids.

Unimogs have won the truck class of the Dakar several times in the 1980s, often by accident as their main purpose is usually to provide support for cars and motorbikes.

Unimogs also feature a flexible frame that allows the tires a wide range of vertical movement to allow the truck to comfortably drive over extremely uneven terrain, even boulders of one metre in height.

plant assembles Unimogs in Aksaray, Turkey.

Unimogs were also built in Argentina until the first years of the 1980s, in the González Catán factory.

New Unimogs can be purchased in one of three series.

Unimogs have very high ground clearance made possible by portal gears that allow the axles and transmission to be higher than the tires ' centers.

Unimogs have been uncommon in North America because of differing vehicle regulations and requirements from those in Germany, and due to the lack of a North American sales and support network.

After 5 years and selling only 184 Unimogs, Freightliner LLC has exited the market.

The prototype looked almost like the Unimogs that were built later.

The 25-hp ( 19 kW ) OM636 Daimler Benz diesel engine became standard equipment in the first production Unimogs at the end of 1947.

The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.

Then, with staring eyes and lips drawn thin, Miriam said to the young woman, `` You are ugly -- uglier than you used to be, and you were always very ugly.

She used to tell me, `` When I stand there and look at the flag blowing this way and that way, I have the wonderful, safe feeling that Americans are protected no matter which way the wind blows ''.

The decision maker who acts for the community as a whole must decide whether the objectives pursued and the methods used are appropriate to public policy regarding cultural groups.

his broad but little used investigative powers are confirmed.

When different colors are used, she is just as likely to color trees purple, hair green, etc..

One cannot help wondering whether Molotov and the rest of the `` anti-party group '' are not being used as China's whipping-boys by Khrushchev and his faithful followers.

Proceeds realized from these pageants are used by the Jaycees to help support their various youth, health, welfare and community betterment activities throughout the state.

Since conventional methods are insensitive at the low frequencies of these molecular transitions, the paramagnetic resonance method is being used instead.

The funds recouped by reductions in item 12 above are used: first, to increase the unadjusted allotments to the specified minimum in those States where the unadjusted allotment is less than the minimum allotment ( item 13 above ) ; ;

Solid concrete blocks, relatively heavy and dense, are used for this shelter.

If they are used, the walls and roof should be 10 inches thick to give the same protection as the 8-inch solid concrete blocks.

It is thick, much like an egg plant's skin, so that poison sprays, if they are used, present no hazard to the consumer.

Such locks are nearly always used where the switch points `` face '' oncoming traffic.

Derails -- mechanical track devices that actually guide the wheels off the rails if a train passes a `` stop '' signal -- are used in many instances.

However, some formulas are used more than others.

The compression ratio arrived at with the formula will be the same regardless of whether cubic inches or cubic centimeters are used.

The only way to determine the final combustion chamber volume when such pistons are used is by measuring it with liquid while the cylinder head is bolted to the cylinder block and the piston is in top dead center position.

Photos of Conference Rooms and the General Assembly Hall can be made when these rooms are not being used for meetings.

Besides flathead bronze screws, silicon bronze Stronghold nails ( made by Independent Nail & Packing Co., Bridgewater, Mass. ) are used extensively in assembly and Weldwood resorcinol glue is used in all the joints.

After the frames and transom are set up on the jig and temporarily braced, a piece of three-inch-wide mahogany ( only widths will be given since the 13/16-inch thickness is used throughout ) is butted between frames one and two below the line of the keelson.

One-inch, No. 10 screws are used in both cases.

Glue and 1-1/2-inch, No. 10 screws are used.

Four pieces are used.