Bill George schrieb:
> Last night I went to a mud drag/monter truck show in Petaluma, CA.....
>
> ...Had that cable snapped, you can bet someone would have been
> ecapitated! There was several people no more than five feet from the cable,
> n the other side was a crowd of about 50 people.... Can you imagine
Dear Bill,
this is a well-known problem. When I was at the MV event at Poland in
1999,
a LEOPARD MBT towed a Polish T55 MBT out of a mud pit. The T55 sat
with its belly on the mud, the tracks rotating. They used a 1 1/2" steel
cable and you can be sure, that there was really tension on the cable.
Ask where the spectators were? Not more than 3 metres away from the
cable and the tanks.
If you want, have a look at:
http://www.kettenkrad.de/poland.htm#recovery
There you'll find a picture of the two tanks after the recovery.
> Hear The Diesel, See The Diesel, Smell The Diesel...Be One With The Diesel.
Really. Have you ever heard a platoon of LEOPARD II MBTs (1500 bhp
Diesel each)
accelerating full throttle on the road in front of your house? That's
the
sound we like!
Best regards from Germany (home of the Diesel)
Andreas
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