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Une fois n'est pas coutume, ce post sera complètement en anglais : il s'agit d'une traduction de chacune des réponses que nous avons reçues en anglais, pour que tout le monde puisse en profiter (c'était trop chiant de tout traduire en 3 langues, d'où le tout anglais).

Here you will find an English translation of each one of the dozen answers we got for our little game, so that the ones who don't speak French or German can have some fun too.

Moin ihr Lieben. Hier kommt die Uebersetzung aller eurer Vorschlaege ins Englische, damit auch alle Teilnehmer ihren Spass an den Antworten der anderen haben koennen!


nichka said...

The truck is so heavily loaded at the back that its front wheels are lifted up and it's driving on its rear wheels

nichka said...

(Second proposal, even though we are not quite decided if one person can have more than one go....) Mayby this truck is simply a tipper without its back tip or a truck that transports cars and instead of lowering its tip to load and unload things it just raised the front wheels in order to charge, for example an elephant?

Suse said...

It is worshipping the sun? Or, it is discharging its load (a flock of sheep)? Or, this is just a truck simulator for driving lessons without mishaps?

Feli said...

To park-in backwards

Dani und Sebastian said...

Our idea, this is not the "true" front of the truck, it is only welded to the back of it.

Grégory said...

With a rapid analysis of the picture, one can see that the truck has got 2 rear wheel-axle units of 4 wheels each. It is thus completely balanced and stable on its 8 rear-wheels, the shadow seems to confirm this assumption. Moreover, the front-wheels appear much less used than the rear-wheels, which tends to prove their utility...
So, to answer the question: "it is doing nothing, it is just stopped". The question to pose would rather be: but of what use can be these 2 front-appendices (wheels)? A priori, of no use. It is just those insane Thai people who attached this front-“cockpit” (coming from a 4x4 pick-up) to this not very orthodoxe means of transport :-D If my German has not left me completely this is in substance the answer which is given above, isn't it? Anyway, is this a bus? This thing actually transports passengers?

NB de David : Greg salaud, j'en ai chié pour traduire ça... et pour répondre à ta question, non ce truc n'est pas un bus, et ne transporte pas de passagers. C'est un camion normal. cf. la réponse au jeu en bas de ce post

inox 41 said...

Obviously,
it is a truck for hunting the "dahu" (legendary animal in France, see picture below).
In our mountains in France, the dahuts (a kind of "goat")have left legs that are shorter than their right legs in order to be able to move on the mountainside without any problems (of course, they can only move around the mountain in one direction, with the shorter legs facing the top of the mountain and the longer ones facing the valley). I supose that in your remote mountains, the dahuts only go up, they thus have the front-legs shorter. On the same principle, for hunting for the dahu the trucks have the front-wheels smaller so that the driver is always placed horizontally.

NB de David : super... et comment j'explique ça aux angliches moi ?? hein ?? -_- en passant, dahu s'écrit sans "t" :-p

Anne said...

Mayby this truck is called "Herbie" ("Choupette")and is saying "hello" to the truck on the opposite? Or a poor working elephant has gone crazy and is trying to turn over the truck?

Tine said...

In memory of a very hot day in the Grand Canyon, I would guess that a pregnant horse (or rather a pregnant elephant in this case) has collapsed on the road and the truck is trying to get it away.

Erwan said...

Greg was too fast for me. But I will suppose that the front of the truck is its back. That is to say that this artistic addition was made at the back, if not I do not see how the driver drives. Hence this photograph is that of the back of the truck!
The original answer could be: it is a gangsta truck, the driver having put music at its loudest. The truck thus jumps on its wheels, like any vehicle gangsta-made. Moreover, if one looks closely, it is not dirt on the windshield, but smoke inside (reason why one does not see the driver, being smoking a huge joint in the cabin). And undoubtedly you will post us the photograph of the interior, with fur everywhere.

NB de David : putain sérieux Greg d'abord, papa ensuite et Erwan maintenant... Je vous dis pas la joie pour traduire vos conneries ... :-p

Pete said...

It's a low rider? ...bouncing your wheels up to show other cars how cool you really are not. LOL

Erik said...

My first reaction like many people: it is too heavily loaded. This beeing said, Greg's answer is interesting (I'll skip the case of the dahu). After an in-depth study of the photograph under the microscope, and considering the shade, I would say that the front is really the front (as the mosquito crushed on one of the headlights testifies, yes yes: look well). But what could it transport? An elephant? At the same time, the decoration looks more like that of a bus… Hum, in fact I would go for a truck transporting another truck. Even Google does not help us, not giving relevant answers according to the number plate :)

Michi said...

Of course, it was built like that to ease the load of the front axle! Well, but then it would be difficult to steer... Mayby it was built for extremely steep mountain slopes so that it keeps on the ground with all four wheels when taking extreme bends... but then, I don't see any mountains in the picture... I am sure the solution is that is was built like that in order not to run over anybody with its front wheels (but if it breaks hard it'll definitely tip over!)

La réponse que tout le monde attend avec impatience maintenant : (certains en étaient arrivés assez près). Il s'agit d'un camion de transport de la DDE locale, et que transporte-il donc ? un tractopelle ! jusque là, rien de bien sensationnel. Là où ça le devient, c'est en ce qui concerne la méthode de chargement du tracto sur le camion... Ici, ils ne connaissent manifestement pas les rampes de chargement/déchargement pour les tracto comme ça se fait dans les pays civilisés... et après tout, pourquoi se faire chier avec une rampe ? il y a bien plus simple ! (quoique....) la méthode locale consiste tout simplement à choper l'avant du camion avec la pelle du tracto, lever l'avant du camion en tirant (donc baisser l'arrière) et monter avec les chenilles. Une fois à mi-trajet, pour pas trop esquinter le camion, on passe la pelle du tracto de l'autre côté et au lieu de tirer le camion, on pousse sur le sol pour finir de monter... de cette manière, les Thaïlandais arrivent à charger un tracto de quelques tonnes sur un camion dont la remorque est à en gros 1m50 du sol... même pas peur !! par contre je vais décevoir tout le monde : je n'ai pas de photo pour illustrer la réponse : on était en train de marcher sur le bord de l'autoroute avec nos gros sacs quand on a vu ça, et le temps que je sorte l'apn, cette photo est la seule que j'ai pu prendre... désolé ! j'espère que ce petit concours vous aura amusé autant que nous, on vous remercie en tous cas pour toutes vos chouettes réponses !


Finally, here comes the long awaited answer to our riddle. Some of you have come quite close, in fact the truck is actually loaded with something very heavy, a digger. Rather unspectacular you think? Well, wait for the clue, which is the actual answer to why the truck has its front wheels in the air. Apparently, here they don't know ramps to charge and discharge trucks as we do in civilized countires, and they teach us that they actually don't need them either! Here, the digger just grabs the front of the truck with its shovel, pulls it towards itself and thus raises the front of the truck of the road and pushed the back of the truck to the round. Then, the digger can drive onto the truck without any problems! Halfway, the digger stops, turns around 180 degrees, puts its showel to the ground, pushes hard and thus lifts the back of the truck and descends the front wheels back to the ground! Unfortunately, we only have this one picture of the whole affair because we were walking along the road with our huge backpacks and the time it took to get the camera out of the pack, the truck was already starting to come down again....

So, und jetzt gibt es endlich auch die lang erwartete Antwort! Einige von euch sind der Sache schon recht nahe gekommen, es handelt sich um einen LWK, der schwer beladen ist, naemlich mit einem ganz unspektakulaeren Bagger. Warum aber haengt der LWK halb in der Luft? Das ist der eigentliche Clue. Hier scheinen sie naemlich keine Be- und Entladerampen zu kennen wie in zivilisierten Laendern, nein, hier funktionniert alles ganz unkompliziert. Der Bagger schnappt sich das Vorderteil des LWK mit seiner Schaufel, zieht es zu sich heran, hebt damit die Vorderraeder in die Luft und drueckt die Ladeflaeche des LWK hinten bis zum Boden. Schwupps, kann der Bagger auf die Ladeflaeche fahren. Damit der LWK aber nicht zu sehr belastet wird, hoert der Bagger auf halber Strecke auf, dreht sich um 180 Grad, stemmt seine Schaufel in den Boden und drueckt so den LWK (mit sich beladen)wieder auf alle Viere zurueck! Leider koennen wir euch keine weiteren Photos von dieser grandiosen Aktion liefern, weil wir naemlich gerade selbst bepackt wie die Esel an der Strasse entlang liefen und bis wir den Photoapparat hervorgekramt hatten, war der Bagger schon beim letzten Teil seiner Aktion angekommen, sprich, auf dem Photo ist der LKW schon dabei sich wieder gegen Mutter Erde zu senken!


AND THE WINNER IS.................
hm, that was a difficult one. All you answers made us laugh so much and they were so creative. But, as we had to decide...
The closest guess was/were: Suse and Nichka, who acutally figured out that something was being charged or discharged from the truck! (Obwohl ich persoenlich ja die Sonnenanbetung viel genialer fand :)!!!)
And the most creative was/were: M. Durand (David's Dad) and Michi (my chaotic brother) with their idea of the truck being built that way to go up steep mountain slopes! Hilarious!

In any case, it was awesome that you all participated in our litte riddle and that you shared your great ideas with all of us. THANKS a lot! Our game would have been no fun at all without you!

Natuerlich das Ganze noch mal auf Deutsch! Super vielen Dank, dass ihr alle so fleissig mitgeraten habt! Sonst waere unser Spielchen echt langweilig gewesen! Ich fand alle Ideen genial, besonders die Sonnenanbetung und Herbie!