From: Hutterer, John (MPAU) (john.hutterer@smiths-medical.com)
Date: Mon Jan 09 2006 - 06:17:53 PST
Sonny,
I took some rough measurements of the tracks on an M60A3 yesterday. The
tracks are 2 feet wide and have about 15 feet in contact with the
ground. That may increase slightly if the tank is sitting on soft
ground, as it sinks in some, but this one is sitting on frozen asphalt.
2 feet x 15 feet = 30 square feet x 2 tracks = 60 square feet x 144
square inches per square foot = 8,640 square inches. The approximate
weight of an M60 is 55 tons or 110,000 pounds. 110,000/8,640 = 12.73
pounds per square inch.
Hope this helps.
John H
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Behalf Of Sonny Heath
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 9:10 PM
To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
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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From: "David Prall" <dcp@dcptech.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 11:52 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] tiger tanks
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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
>
>
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> From: <l51940@aol.com>
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> 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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