RE: Engineers Was Re: TOE

At 10:00 PM -0700 7/1/04, John Atkinson wrote:
>
>The Traveller assumption was that your ARV would open
>the bay door below, and settle down over the disabled
>vehicle.  Then it would chain the wreck to the
>recovery vehicle, and lift, closing the doors as soon
>as it lifted up.  Since it assumed that the bay would
>be inside the 'contra-gravity field' and therefor be
>pretty lightweight.

Sounds like a dedicated vehicle chassis vs an 
adapted chassis also, sounds more like a 
transporter.

>Oh, you mean HETs, the low-boys.  Yeah, they almost
>always do if they are purpose-built military ones.
>Ted could be more enlightening about contracted
>civillian HETs.

Even the 10 Ton Semi-tractors in military service 
have a bloody huge winch. I think the one that 
Eastern Surplus had for sale had a 20,000 lb 
front winch and a 50,000 lb rear winch. Even the 
5 ton wreckers have a 45,000 lb rear winch in 
addition to the crane and front winches.

>
>>  Depends. A Blade is easy to tack on. The Abrams
>>  can carry a blade no problem. ITs the bigger
>>  stuff that costs more space. Screw auger,
>>  backhoe, front end loader, etc.
>
>A blade is easy to "tack on" but the hydraulics needed
>to dig properly with them is no joke.	A bladed Abrams
>might be good for pushing spoil.

I dunno. If it's designed in as a feature and the 
hydraulic pump is large enough, adding an extra 
hydraulic component isn't so hard. Look at the 
Swedish S tank. They have a fully retractable 
blade for digging their own scrapes sans engineer 
support.

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