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Mud sinking half a half-track?

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Mud sinking half a half-track?
Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, January 11, 2005 9:19 PM
This is for a dio Im planning that will incorporate the German half-track Maultier (the one with the rocket launcher on back)
Anyways, in the dio I was going to have the treaded part of the vehicle stuck in mud right before a small incline. The front tires, in my plan, are not going to be in the mud. I was just wondering if this is possible, a vehicle turning so the front tires miss a mud pit but the treads hitting it? I do not know how I will do this, if it can be done.
Also, on the half tracked vehicles, do the front wheels do anything besides turn?
Thanks a lot
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, January 11, 2005 9:53 PM
i doubt it.... since the front wheels will be the first things to hit the incline they would be the first things to sink. and i think the front and the front and back wheel of the threaded ones have the drive. if the front miraculously didnt get stuck the threaded wheels since they are track laying they would go over.
but if its an incline u can do this, its a muddy hill the driver guns it to clear it, makes it half way and slides down backwards into mud...just a thought-DJ
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, January 12, 2005 12:17 AM
I've seen a few pics where the vehicle drove off the road, by mistake, and went right into the muddy side ditch. Most of the pics are of the Eastern Front during the wet months. But what the drivers did is try to angle back towards the road and just as the front wheels touched the dryer higher dirt of the road the back half would seem to sink. So there is another idea, you could have the back half sinking with your front wheels in the air or bearly touching the higher, dryer road. Anyway, hope to see the finished product.
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, January 12, 2005 6:06 AM
Thanks you guys, those are good ideas.
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Posted by stukabomb88 on Wednesday, January 12, 2005 4:26 PM
As far a physics go, the tracks extert less pressure than the wheels which would cause the wheels to sink first. In really wet mud though, I'm not sure. If the vehicle sits there and spins out, the tracks would dig into the mud even deeper, leaving a pile of mud just behind the tracks.
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Posted by yukonrob on Saturday, January 15, 2005 1:45 AM
My recollection is that on the German half-track the front wheels were not driven, unlike those of the American vehicle.
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, January 15, 2005 12:44 PM
Thanks guys
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, January 15, 2005 2:27 PM
how about this:

heres what your lopking for
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, January 15, 2005 2:44 PM
t3488g,
Perfect, Yeah thats what I was talking about. Hey do you scan in the pictures or find a site that has them.
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, January 15, 2005 3:21 PM
Thank you, that was what I was planning to do! Thanks all that responded
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, January 15, 2005 10:19 PM
i found the site on the armour forum, that site has around 120 pics of 251s
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, January 15, 2005 10:29 PM
That is a lot of mud! That has to be really deep for the halftrack to sink that much too!
Thanks again
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, January 15, 2005 11:48 PM
hey scer16, did u mess up on the tracks or somthing? Tongue [:P]
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Posted by rebelreenactor on Sunday, January 16, 2005 12:21 AM
hehe, gotta love armor, screw something up, cover it with mud, tarps, camo nettingBig Smile [:D]Tongue [:P]
John
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, January 16, 2005 10:19 AM
As a matter of fact I did screw it up,lol
I was cutting one of the wheels off when my cat decides to jump on my working area and scared me half to death and I ended up taking a huge chunk of the wheel out
Darn cats
lol
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