From: Joe Foley (redmenaced@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Jan 05 2006 - 15:28:37 PST
Yes, the pressure is not very much but there is a sort
of "WAVE" action that goes before anything that heavy
that will cause problems with buried things, too.
Joe
--- David Prall <dcp@dcptech.com> wrote:
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> As everyone has already said 15 psi seems low, but
> it is spread out over a large number of wheels.
> Where as a truck has fewer wheels, and truly needs
> pavement for easy movement. A person who weighs 200
> pounds and has feet about 2 1/2 inches wide by about
> 12 inches long gives us, 60 square inches which
> would be 3 1/3 psi. These would be rectangular large
> feet, but it gets the point across. This number is
> most likely double.
>
> David
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Military Vehicles Mailing List
> > [mailto:mil-veh@mil-veh.org] On Behalf Of
> Hutterer, John (MPAU)
> > Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 8:26 AM
> > To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
> > 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 -----
> > From: <l51940@aol.com>
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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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