From: Bruce C. Beattie (bruce@EECS.Berkeley.EDU)
Date: Thu Jan 05 2006 - 19:59:47 PST
Why Henry, Are you having problems with your wife?......:-)
Bruce
ygmir wrote:
> ya,
> 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
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 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
>
>
>> All I'm saying is that it sounds like such a small PSI for a vehicle
>> that 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
>>
>
>
>
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