Re: tiger tanks

From: Rick v100 (rickv100@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Jan 05 2006 - 07:38:33 PST


Now the wrinkle to this is which track is fitted to
the M60a3 in question.

Do a google on M60 and ground pressure and a number of
numbers come up as different tracks were fitted to
bring down ground pressure.

Remember the other reason to lower ground pressure is
not to set off pressure fuzed anti-tank mines.

Rick
 

--- "Hutterer, John (MPAU)"
<john.hutterer@smiths-medical.com> wrote:

>
>
> Well Rick,
>
> I was going from memory, from a couple of years ago.
> If the books say
> 12.28 psi, I won't argue.
>
> John H
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick v100 [mailto:rickv100@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 9:21 AM
> To: Hutterer, John (MPAU); Military Vehicles Mailing
> List
> Subject: Re: [MV] tiger tanks
>
> 12.28 psi.
>
> Rick
>
> --- "Hutterer, John (MPAU)"
> <john.hutterer@smiths-medical.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Sonny,
> >
> > I volunteer at a museum located on a military
> post.
> > The Command here
> > wanted to put an M60A3 on display, on a concrete
> pad. The contractor
> > hired to do the job wanted to know how thick he
> would have to make the
>
> > pad, in order for it to be strong enough to
> support the weight of the
> > tank. The Command Historian and I looked the
> information up in the TM
> > for that tank. I haven't actually measured the
> tracks on the tank, and
>
> > done the math, but the tracks are quite wide and
> very long, so it
> > isn't hard to believe that they spread the weight
> out as much as they
> > do.
> >
> > John H
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sonny Heath [mailto:sonny@defuniak.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 7:49 AM
> > To: Military Vehicles Mailing List; Hutterer, John
> > (MPAU)
> > Subject: Re: [MV] tiger tanks
> >
> > That may be true but I find it awful hard to
> believe. How can this be
>
> > verified? Did you read this in the vehicle
> manual?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Sonny
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Hutterer, John (MPAU)"
> > <john.hutterer@smiths-medical.com>
> > To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List"
> > <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 7:25 AM
> > Subject: Re: [MV] tiger tanks
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Everette,
> >
> > For what it's worth, the weight of a loaded M60A3
> is
> > 15 psi on the
> > tracks, per the manual.
> >
> > John H
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Military Vehicles Mailing List
> > [mailto:mil-veh@mil-veh.org] On
> > Behalf Of Everette
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 5:01 PM
> > To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
> > Subject: Re: [MV] tiger tanks
> >
> > The national guard unit here used to be tank unit
> they had M60s and
> > the state highway department asked them to stop
> putting them in
> > parades because of fear of what the weight would
> do to underground
> > stuff in road
> > -- water, gas, etc. but was BS according to
> fellows who work for city.
> >
> > They had rubber pads so did not damage road
> surface and I think
> > highway department was not smart enough to measure
> actual pressure per
>
> > square inch, my undeducted guess is that they
> would be less per square
>
> > inch than a loaded truck / trailer.
> >
> > Everette
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
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> > <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 4:49 PM
> > Subject: [MV] tiger tanks
> >
> >
> > >I was thinking about getting a real Tiger Tank to
> > park next to my
> > Atomic
> > >Annie. In my dreams anyways. Seriously, how
> many
> > Tiger tanks survive
> > >today? I know about the one that runs in the
> > Bovington museum. Also,
> > would
> > >I need a CDL to drive my Tiger to town if I was
> > only buying milk and
> > bread
> > >for personal consumption?
> > >
> > > Dave McConnell
> > >
> > > M35A2 w/w and 50 cal ring
> > >
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