From: ygmir (ygmir@onemain.com)
Date: Thu Jan 05 2006 - 19:33:04 PST
ya,
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> All I'm saying is that it sounds like such a small PSI for a vehicle that
But, if you put that 100 lbs. in a 1" block of wood, on your foot, you'd be
hurtin'.....
Total weight is different than psi. If you had a 100 lb. thing on two
wheels, with 5 sq. in. of area on the ground each, that'd be 10 lb/sq.ft.
not to bad.
If we could get the dimensions of the footprint of a track for said tank,
calculate surface area in contact with the ground, in inches, double that (2
tracks), and divide that into the weight of the tank, it'd be clear.......
Anyone got that info?
It's surprising how much area there is on something like a track.
A fellow I know has a snowcat. it weighs about 4k lbs. he drove right over
his wife (in the snow, of course), centered right under on of the
tracks,and, all it did was put some minor scratches/bruises on her, and ruin
here attitude for the day. He even stopped (on her), to see what everyone
was yelling about.....
"Of course, it was an accident, dear..........."
It was a great story, she even laughs about it, now.......
MV content:
I'd sure like to buy (one that I can afford), an SUSV, or, Weasel, to try a
similar experiment.
Any one got one for sale?
Thanks,
Henry
From: "Sonny Heath" <sonny@defuniak.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 7:09 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] tiger tanks
> weighs, I believe someone said 160,000 pound, is that right?
>
> I fully understand that track laying vehicles have a small amount of Pound
> per square inch against the ground but this seems like such a small
> amount. I believe that I could let you roll an object over my foot that
> weighs as much as a hundred pound or so and it wouldn't break anything
> but I'll be dammed if I'll let you roll a combat tank over my foot which
> should be about the same, right?
>
> I read in the manual for my 1943 Cletrac crawler tractor that it puts 17
> pound per square inch on the ground and it only weights about 3000 pound.
> I think somethings wrong here fellers.
>
> Straighten me up, PLEASE!
>
> Sonny
>