From: Rick v100 (rickv100@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Jan 05 2006 - 07:21:04 PST
12.28 psi.
Rick
--- "Hutterer, John (MPAU)"
<john.hutterer@smiths-medical.com> wrote:
>
>
> Sonny,
>
> I volunteer at a museum located on a military post.
> The Command here
> wanted to put an M60A3 on display, on a concrete
> pad. The contractor
> hired to do the job wanted to know how thick he
> would have to make the
> pad, in order for it to be strong enough to support
> the weight of the
> tank. The Command Historian and I looked the
> information up in the TM
> for that tank. I haven't actually measured the
> tracks on the tank, and
> done the math, but the tracks are quite wide and
> very long, so it isn't
> hard to believe that they spread the weight out as
> much as they do.
>
> John H
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sonny Heath [mailto:sonny@defuniak.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 7:49 AM
> To: Military Vehicles Mailing List; Hutterer, John
> (MPAU)
> Subject: Re: [MV] tiger tanks
>
> That may be true but I find it awful hard to
> believe. How can this be
> verified? Did you read this in the vehicle manual?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sonny
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hutterer, John (MPAU)"
> <john.hutterer@smiths-medical.com>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List"
> <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 7:25 AM
> 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-----
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> [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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