Re: Russian engineering


"WB" <WB@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Stephen Cowell wrote

Very cool link... resurrected, it ran! You hear all
this stuff about Panzers...

I'm impressed that something could tow a 30 ton dead weight
hulk of iron like that out of the mud. If you watch one of the videos,
it was *dragged* pretty quickly though .. and the tracks
weren't spinning either. If one of those cables had snapped,
it would have decapitated everyone there.

Some kind of Komatsu D375A-2... googling this, you find
that it sells used, 13 years old, for near a quarter-million
dollars... you can rent one for only 28K/mo. Hella puller.
520 hp is a bunch of diesel HP... wonder why a 500hp
muscle-car couldn't pull like that? For some reason, diesel
HP is worth more... gearing, perhaps?
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Steve
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