RE: Engineers Was Re: TOE

At 5:33 PM +0200 7/3/04, Oerjan Ohlson wrote:
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>If you want an example showing that "adding an 
>extra hydraulic component isn't so hard", you'll 
>have to look somewhere else than the S-tank. 
>While it shows you is that you *can* design 
>extra hydraulics into a tank if you're really 
>really determined to do so, it is also an 
>excellent example of just how !#!¤&/# difficult 
>it can be.

Again, I site my examples of folks on the MV list 
that have hacked new larger or additional 
hydraulics into their very spartan Military 
Trucks. Bjorn has a knuckle boom on his Deuce. 
Another chap added power steering and a hydraulic 
winch to his. Another has fitted a dump hoist to 
his deuce. It's easier to add hydraulics because 
you can route hoses around obstructions vs having 
to move things around for power take off shafts 
and gear boxes. Sure, you have to fit a tank and 
a cooler somewhere but an odd sized tank is 
easier to shoehorn into a given space for a total 
x volume vs a gearbox that has to be a certain 
size and arrangement due to mechanical 
restrictions. High output Hydraulic pumps are 
also nice and compact.

>According to those Swedish ex-S-tank crew 
>members I've talked to, the S-tank's hydraulics 
>were very nice on the occasions when they 
>actually worked as they were supposed to... but 
>unfortunately that wasn't too often even in 
>garrison, and of course field conditions made it 
>a lot worse :-(

Well, granted, the whole tank was hydraulics but 
there are enough dozers out there that hydraulics 
make for easier bits of kit than say, autoloaders 
in small spaces. Just look at the profusion of 
smaller sized hydraulic cranes on service trucks 
and military logistics vehicles.
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