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Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 5:53 pm Post subject: John Deere Tank
You just never know where armor will pop up. This is from one of my tractor forums that I read (tanks, old tractors, and my wife are my major hobbies ) The Aberdeen report makes for interesting reading. JD Tank _________________ The only thing to do when a son-of-a-bitch looks cross-eyed at you is to beat the hell out of him right then and there

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Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 6:03 pm
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My first thought was going to be front-end castor. As a youngster, I operated many a John Deere and I-H Farmall (and the occasional Ford, not to mention more than one mule) and the difference in the wide vs. narrow track in stability is huge, especially if you consider it for military applications. Wide track front end castor would have been the way to go. I don't know what they were thinking when they went with the narrow "trike" setup. Farming is one thing...military off-road is quite another.

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Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 8:02 am Post subject: Re: John Deere Tank
A wide front was also designed and built.

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Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 9:28 am Post subject: Re: John Deere Tank
Was someone inside those little turrets? _________________ "TUMBLEWEED"

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Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 11:06 am Post subject: Re: John Deere Tank
I guess they were manned. Instead of turrets, I think they are more like sponsons as seen on the British tanks of WWI.

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Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 11:30 am Post subject: Re: John Deere Tank
One is reminded of the "home grown AFVs" worked up in England in the face of the threat of imminent invasion by the Germans in the summer of 1940.

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