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That 535 is amazing; the front wheel weights and suit case weights make for a tough looking package!
It amazing what these big 4X4's can pull now days. Here's a link to a little video I watched a couple days ago. C/IH STX 440 Quadtrack versus WW II German PANZER tank. http://www.redpowermagazine.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=76059
Guess which one wins? ;=)
Guess which one wins? ;=)
And then there's the Quas Trac vs Abrahms............
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk7QG3-6fbA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk7QG3-6fbA
TOM - I think that's a Bradley Fighting vehicle. Which makes it even more impressive because it's smaller & lighter than an Abrams. Only 30 tons and has a Cummins VTA-903 V8 rated @ 600 HP. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Fighting_Vehicle
I hate to think how short a fuse a 600 HP 903 has, my 320 HP engine in my old RoadBoss II only made it to around 250,000-275,000 miles when it swallowed some water thru a leaky intake manifold gasket during a huge rain storm while unloading and when I started it, bent two conn rods. Dad drove a N/A 903 rated around 270 HP and got over 400,000 miles out of it before the whole truck was scraped.
The Abrams tank weighs over 67 tons and has a 1500 HP Honeywell turbine engine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1_Abrams
My neighbor years ago when I lived in East Moline, IL was working over at the Rock Island Arsenal for some reason one day. A contractor was doing some dozing on the bank of the Sylvan Slough between Arsenal Island & Rock Island with a D7 or D8 CAT and some how got into too deep of water and got hung up & stuck. Had to shut the engine off before it hydraulic'd. The Army Corps of Engineer's heard about it and wanted to help. They came down and surveyed the situation. Then came back a few minutes later with a TANK RETRIEVER, may have been an M88 like this, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M88_Recovery_Vehicle
The corpsmen waded out and hooked heavy steel cables to the CAT and dragged it SIDEWAYS back up onto dry land. Like Dad always used to say... "When something's struck, get the BIGGEST thing you have to try pulling it out FIRST".
I hate to think how short a fuse a 600 HP 903 has, my 320 HP engine in my old RoadBoss II only made it to around 250,000-275,000 miles when it swallowed some water thru a leaky intake manifold gasket during a huge rain storm while unloading and when I started it, bent two conn rods. Dad drove a N/A 903 rated around 270 HP and got over 400,000 miles out of it before the whole truck was scraped.
The Abrams tank weighs over 67 tons and has a 1500 HP Honeywell turbine engine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1_Abrams
My neighbor years ago when I lived in East Moline, IL was working over at the Rock Island Arsenal for some reason one day. A contractor was doing some dozing on the bank of the Sylvan Slough between Arsenal Island & Rock Island with a D7 or D8 CAT and some how got into too deep of water and got hung up & stuck. Had to shut the engine off before it hydraulic'd. The Army Corps of Engineer's heard about it and wanted to help. They came down and surveyed the situation. Then came back a few minutes later with a TANK RETRIEVER, may have been an M88 like this, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M88_Recovery_Vehicle
The corpsmen waded out and hooked heavy steel cables to the CAT and dragged it SIDEWAYS back up onto dry land. Like Dad always used to say... "When something's struck, get the BIGGEST thing you have to try pulling it out FIRST".
proessler
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Denny, Back in'72 when stationed in Darmstadt, West Germany , one of our Battalion's D7's got Stuck,Big Time! None of our engineering equipment could budge it, so we called in one of 3rd Armor's M88's to retrieve our D7. Awesome machine!
Paul,
Did you ever wonder why the military always used D7's?? We were working at the Glenview Naval Air Station many years ago and I ask one of our Fighting CeeBee's, and they told me that the D7 is just small enough to be loaded on a C-130. Can you imagine a D7 falling from the sky.
Did you ever wonder why the military always used D7's?? We were working at the Glenview Naval Air Station many years ago and I ask one of our Fighting CeeBee's, and they told me that the D7 is just small enough to be loaded on a C-130. Can you imagine a D7 falling from the sky.
proessler
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Tom, no I can't imagine a D7 fallin' out of the sky! Before our battalion had the D7's we had a total of ten HD-16's (AC). And our blades went from Huber- Warco
to new Cat 140's
,but no cab. Units finally getting upgraded since 'Nam was starting to wind down!
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