From: ygmir (ygmir@onemain.com)
Date: Fri Jan 06 2006 - 08:39:16 PST
If I had a wife..........
I guess she'd think it's funny, since, I'd never (again) marry someone who
didn't like my jokes........
Henry
----- Original Message -----
From: "V SCHWARTZ" <vsaws@optonline.net>
To: "ygmir" <ygmir@onemain.com>; "Military Vehicles Mailing List"
<mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 6:26 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] tiger tanks
> Hey Henry wonder what your wife has to say about that idea. I once
> dragged my wife about 400 yards behind a snow mobile . she fell off and
> got her foot caught in the foot hold and since I can't hear well.
> Icoulden't understand what every one was hollering about. Istill got a
> beating when she got up though.No sense of humor that one.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "ygmir" <ygmir@onemain.com>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 10:33 PM
> Subject: Re: [MV] tiger tanks
>
>
>> 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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