RE: Engineers Was Re: TOE

At 5:43 PM -0700 7/4/04, John Atkinson wrote:
>
>There is a huge difference between a single enthusiast
>playing games with his (ONE) truck as a friggin'
>hobby, and trying to do the same thing inside a
>verdammt tank, a couple hundred times, and then having
>it maintained by 19-year old privates.
>

Hehe. Sounds kind of like a friend in Austrailia 
that has 5 Matilda Tanks including one that has 
the hydraulics routed through one of the two 
driver's vision devices for the Dozer blade.

>Sure.	If you have something nice and roomy and
>unconstricted like a verdammt truck.  Try it in a real
>fighting vehicle sometime.

Heh...You forget, I have three AFVs...Yes its a 
hobby, but I'm paying with my own funds and I 
don't have the resources of the Queen or Unclesam 
to cover the costs so I do have a small clue here.

Besides, it's basic mechanics. Hoses and cables 
are easier to route than pushrods and power take 
off shafts. Far easier. If it can be jury rigged 
into a matilda (with less driver space than an 
M1), then it can work in something designed to 
take it.

OH and Bjorn uses his deuce to assemble log cabins as part of a job.
http://www.mayapplebrandstedt.com/maybrand4.html
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