Re: Re: Scapers..
 

My God, it's nice to be appreciated! Have at it, laddie! Just to confuse you even further ('tis nothing, I know it's not difficult), I only drink tea now, so the remaining herd has moved on. Coming to visit soon? :D :p

On the subject of this thread - I actually looked it up, I amaze myself sometimes - I had understood that heavy snow, and the wet stuff in particular, tends to clog up carrier track in much the same way as mud and grass can, inevitably resulting in off-chucking it. Is this not in fact the case, or is it simply that carrier owners by-and-large just don't drive them cross-country in the snow anymore?

On a related subject, I recall also reading that in the snow and muck of Operation VERITABLE in early 1945, the T-16 was one of the few vehicles which could actually transit the chewed up areas (along with the Weasel) much of the time; is this true, and if so, why, given the T-16 is using the same basic track? The only thing I could suggest is the larger footprint and slightly lower ground pressure, but aside from that, I'm at a loss. Would the T-16 operate that much more efficiently in heavy snow as well?

Hmmm... great things consume small minds on a cold, snowy afternoon in Tronna... :rolleyes

Time to change laundry loads and mop the floors (I can't believe I just said that - am I becoming *gasp* domesticated?? :eek: )

Snow track
 

Its all about ground pressure Boss. If you lower it enough you have awesome floatation, of course you lose tractive ability, so it is a double edge sword.
As for snow tracks, snow will pack up in modern vehicles too. I drove a Cat 340B longstick with 3 foot wide street pads, close like a carrier, and it was 110,000lbs. However it would slide around like a skater once the tracks packed up with snow. It needed ice cleats on it. That said, the tracks would tighten up from the snow and then "BANG" release as the snow compressed so much it exploded out of them. I think the only reason they stayed on was the modern metallergy of the tracks and the hydraulic track tensioners. And I was not driving it around much like a carrier would be.
I also think types of snow make a huge difference, wet, dry ,work hardened, etc.
Sean

PS, I like tea :coffee

tracks on the snow
 

It would seem that many tracked vehicles saw more than swamp water and mud

track's and snow
 

One more rubber and tracks on snow