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antarmike

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  1. Am i looking at at a T34/85 being winched onto this Russian Daimond /T Rogers M19 combination? And what use are the chocks doing there? The trailer can't pull forward, since the drawbar is coupled to the M20. Surley if anything where to move when winching the whole M19 combination would be dragged backward when the T34 is on the ground and starting to climb the ramps. Surely chocks behind the rear wheels of the M20 make more sense? Is the winchman also the driver? Was this normal, or was it more normal to have a driver with foot over the clutch, and a separate winchman who could concentrate solely on what the winch was doing?
  2. How long before suicide bombers are wearing them internally with just a pacemaker scar showing?
  3. Yes must have been very crowded.....even the ones built in 1945 were there too.....
  4. Ground pressure depends on tyre pressure. Let down the tyres a bit, more tread contacts the ground, ground pressure is reduced. (off roaders do it all the time, and many Military and Emergency vehicles can alter tyre pressure on the move) The best you can do is work out theoretical values, but how accurate these are going to be is questionable since different versions of manuals for military vehicles often contain totally different tyre pressures. A vehicle with Run flat tyres (RF) will have far thicker sidewalls, so for the same tyre pressure there will be less deflection hence RF's always have a higher ground pressure than a normal construction tyre of the same size. Secondly your formula only works if weight is evenly distributed front and rear, which is unlikely. Ground pressure for front axle will not be the same as ground pressure for rear axle. You need to divide each axle loading by the tyre contact area for the wheels on that axle, and work on the highest figure as being the ground pressure. Lastly if your tyre is a bartread for example, at low ground loadings on hard ground the contact area is totally on the bars of the tread. At higher loadings or on on soft ground, the bars forming the treads sink totally into the ground, and weight is then taken also on the valleys between the bars. How long is a piece of string?
  5. Yes, but you invited us to the picnic, I have pulled up my chair and I still have some sandwiches left........and there are still a few names I haven't been called,,, Besides which the original posts where "temporarily removed"a year ago and have not as yet been re-instated so this information isn't still on the Forum and no-one can link back to it as you suggest. The only place for this discussion, in anything like its entirety is here.....
  6. Don't worry about it bleeding a bit, It looks right if it does!! I use interlocking brass stencils quite often and they always bleed, but so what.....
  7. Ah I agree , he does not say it was fitted to the vehicle at the time it landed at Omaha. He says the vehicle it WAS fitted to a vehicle that was at Omaha. This could mean it was first fitted to the vehicle only last week it stayed there for five minutes and now he has taken it off to sell it... So the claim could well be true and he could have a digital image to back up his claim, even though the image is dated June 2011....... The secret is in what you don't sat, not in what you do......
  8. I wish my broadband was faster.....
  9. http://milweb.net/classifieds/large_image.php?ad=57966&cat=8
  10. The post to which I referred was only up for a day at the most, so yes maybe many of you didn't see it. But thanks again everyone, I am glad I went for the procedure but I am a bit miffed. I was told before the procedure I had a 1% chance of dying, a 2% chance that they would burn a hole through the heart and have to take some pretty quick action to prevent me dying, and a 1% chance that I might end up having a pacemaker fitted. That left about a 96% chance of success without complications. However on the recovery ward, they wheeled in a guy who had just had to have a pacemaker fitted and they were explaining to him the implications, which included the fact that he might have to stop welding, since an investigation would have to be carried out to see if in his circumstances, doing the particular welding he was doing, whether it was compatible with a pacemaker. Seeing that I am a professional welder and my livelihood depends on being able to weld, I think I should have been told at the assessment stage that if the operation went wrong and I ended up with a pacemaker, then I might also end up out of a job and un-employable in that field. That might have altered the decision I made. But all has worked out well so no problem, it is just I wish the full consequences had been spelled out to me before signing the consent form.
  11. My wife was with me during my Hospital stay! Thanks again everyone...
  12. I am not an expert, but my understanding is that CVR(T) meets braking standards, and is probably the best Tracked Armour to run on the road, if running on the road is your choice.
  13. Thanks all, Rules say I have to take two weeks off from HGV driving, as a result of the surgery, but I can drive the car again on Monday
  14. Fitted in Civilian ownership it is a ground anchor for winching. Although in complete disregard of the manual which says rigging the winch to come out of front rollers, rather then to the rear, is only to be used for self recovery, and not to be used for the recovery of other vehicles.........
  15. Some time ago an incorrect statement regarding my health was posted on this forum. Although I am glad it has been removed, probably a lot of you saw it, and you can still remember what what alleged. I have been suffering with SVT (Supra Ventricular Tachycardia,) or periods of increased but regular heartbeats. I have been in full and constant contact with my GP, my Consultant at Lincoln County Hospital, and the team at Leicester University Hospital, a centre of excellence for heart problems, together with those companies that insure me to drive vehicles. All concluded that under Government guidelines this particular form of arrhythmia (actually now confirmed as AVRT or Atrio Ventricular Re-entry Tachycardia, (rather than AVNRT,) which never caused me to black out, and was not likely to cause me to black out meant that I did not have to notify DVLA of the condition. The suggestion made on here was that DVLA ought to be notified and that to continue to drive large vehicles might be irresponsible. By way of an update, and some of you know this already, I have undergone Catheter RF Ablation, and the indications are that this has been successful and will end the occurrence of the arrhythmia, but even if it does not the team at Leicester University Hospital, who have been treating me, have again re-affirmed to me that I can continue to drive, under DVLA rules for HGV driving, without the need to inform them, because it is still the medical teams view that this condition will not cause me to become incapacitated. I trust that those people on here who personally know the originator of the original rumour, will take the opportunity to keep him updated, since I would like him to know of my successful progress and the Leicester University college's teams take on the situation. Thanks.
  16. Except most plant contractors are in the financial position that they can move plant on low loaders. The problem is many MV'ers either buy lots of tracked vehicles, or struggle financially to buy just one 432, and have no money left to afford a loader or have spare cash to pay a haulier. Therein lies the problem. The Army's preferred method of moving tracked armour is by Tank Transporter, The Civil engineers preferred method of moving a dozer or excavator is by low loader. Incidentally Civil engineering plant is covered by STGO rules for Engineering plant. The circumstances in which they can be driven on the road is strictly limited and the rules for construction are not the same as for normal vehicles not operating under STGO. FV432 cannot generally be run under STGO rules. There is, around my area at least, an increasing trend for Farmers to move steel tracked equipment around on trailers behind wheeled tractors or Fast-Tracs. Tracked armour owners bleat on about the cost of low loading and saying the only affordable way to own the vehicle is to move them by road. If you can't afford a loader, which is the only legal method of moving wide (by which I mean anything exceeding the legal maximum width of 2.55m) tracked armour or the only legal method of moving tracked armour that cannot meet braking standards, then don't buy such armour in the first place. Fortunately there are people out there who can afford the Armour and their own transport, so we get to see these machines driven round fields and on on open private land, their natural habitat, and where they were designed to operate. Certainly when it comes to tracked agric tractors, not all are the same The Fiat Quad-Trac for example could throw one track and I guess the driver could still stay in control and brake to a safe halt. I am not familiar enough with construction and Use regulations to know how specifications for brakes on Agric machines varies from the specification for other road going vehicles. It would seem logical that seeing as these Agric tractors (Challengers etc) are sold in large numbers, that they comply with the braking standards for that class of vehicles. They therefore are probably road legal in terms of construction and use. 432s are not agric machines, they cannot be taxed as such (generally) and as such they are governed by other construction standards, They do not meet those standards and they are illegal.
  17. Previous related topic? http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?22631-LED-Lightning-on-US-Vehicles
  18. Okay taken as being light hearted....but my point is that illegal is illegal is illegal, and can any amount of justifying to yourself that a) the vehicle is actually safe b) the law is an ass c) the Army does it, therefore I should also be allowed to be a good enough reason to go out and do something you know to be illegal, when doing so puts you at odds with the law, in a very sticky situation in an accident/ fatality, and could have great consequences for the rest of the vintage vehicle movement that tries to stay within the law?
  19. No cover up, The Driver's name was Kerr Hill, Do you wan't contact details so that you can confirm the incident with him?
  20. That is true. (and that may make it very sensible not to drive any tracked armour on the road) But ultimately my point is not that it may or may not happen, or that a vehicle is safe or it is unsafe. We have a situation where we know that un-modified an FV432 does not comply with Max width of 2.55m for a vehicle, and its brakes do not comply with requirements for a secondary service brake that will offer sufficient braking to remain safe should the primary braking system fail. This makes use of FV432 on UK roads illegal. I cannot see how that can be disputed. The original question was is FV432 legal, the answer is no. What anyone chooses to do about that is up to them. I am only answering the original question. I offer my advice, don't buy one don't attempt to run one on UK roads, but that is only advice. As I see it that is the end of the discussion since the original question has been answered. Don't shoot the messenger, I am not out to spoilt it for anyone (or everyone) I am trying to prevent a fellow MV enthusiast whose enthusiasm might get in the way of sober judgement, ending up in prison after a fatal accident.
  21. I don't know whether an actual problem that happened with any regularity but if it even happened once, then it must be a possibility of it happening to one of us. An Acquaintance of mine missed a gear Change running downhill in a Cent, and couldn't get it back in any gear. The brakes would not pull him up and he runaway down hill, he left the road on a bend, crashed through a wall, went between an occupied farmhouse and a cattle shed with Beasts in, taking out the Framer's outside latrine on the way. Fortunately no-one was performing at the time. My point being that a Cent's brakes probably don't meet standards, Driven expertly using the Crash Gearbox to downchange, the engine holds the speed, but if something unexpected happens and you find you do not have sufficient service brakes you are in deep Poo Poo. You loose both drive shafts in a FV432 and you loose all braking (as the manual says) but in a downhill runaway, if only one drive shaft has failed and therefore you can only brake one track, and using that would throw you into oncoming traffic on one side, or a shopping precinct on the other, you are still in deep Poo Poo.
  22. How can it be perfectly safe when as it has already been pointed out, and it is Highlighted in the manual as being a possible problem, that " having the drive couplings between the final drives and steering box fail.. ALL STEERING AND BRAKING WILL BE LOST!" ? The person who will spoilt it for everyone is the one who says to himself, but that could never happen, and then therefore takes an illegal vehicle out on the road, the drive shafts fail and he looses all brakes and kills someone, (or a whole family).....
  23. Could we afford Greece? that is pretty well up for sale at the moment.
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