Diesel vs gas......................
OK folks, there have been a few to many diesel vs gas threads that have shall we say gone to "Hell and a hand basket"! So if all of you would put in you BEST, no flaming reasons for going gas vs diese...
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I saw an item on the news last night that I thought was applicable to this thread.
With all of the fighting in Iraq, a US Army Abrahms tank was disabled in Baghdad. They didn't say what had happened to it, but it appeared that it had hit a mine and blew the track off. Without the track, the tank was completely immobilized. So, the Army sent a tank recovery vehicle, which is basically another Abrahms tank with the armament removed and replaced by "tow truck" type stuff, to get it back to base. A tank recovery vehicle showed up and backed up to the tank. They then attached some chains from the recovery vehicle to the disabled tank and towed it back to base. As I watched it go down the road, it occurred to me that they had a 70 ton "tow truck" towing a 70 ton tank. There was a rig with a GCVW of 280,000 lb being propelled down a Baghdad street by an engine developing less than 300 lb-ft of torque. Amazing.
Cdog - Interesting info. Do you have any idea why they are having such a hard time getting it to work?
Bert
With all of the fighting in Iraq, a US Army Abrahms tank was disabled in Baghdad. They didn't say what had happened to it, but it appeared that it had hit a mine and blew the track off. Without the track, the tank was completely immobilized. So, the Army sent a tank recovery vehicle, which is basically another Abrahms tank with the armament removed and replaced by "tow truck" type stuff, to get it back to base. A tank recovery vehicle showed up and backed up to the tank. They then attached some chains from the recovery vehicle to the disabled tank and towed it back to base. As I watched it go down the road, it occurred to me that they had a 70 ton "tow truck" towing a 70 ton tank. There was a rig with a GCVW of 280,000 lb being propelled down a Baghdad street by an engine developing less than 300 lb-ft of torque. Amazing.
Cdog - Interesting info. Do you have any idea why they are having such a hard time getting it to work?
Bert
