Thread: Oops!
View Single Post
  #27  
Old 27-07-05, 12:50
Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)'s Avatar
Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP) Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP) is offline
former OC MLU, AKA 'Jif' - sadly no longer with us
 
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Posts: 5,400
Default Re: Thrown Track

Quote:
Originally posted by Gunner
Having had the dubious pleasure of commanding an M113 when it peeled out of its left track at speed, I can relate to the poor crew commander's predicament. I suspect he wasn't going too fast, especially if he was about to turn or had started the turn when the track broke.
I know what you mean! On a smaller scale, a friend of mine down in the States threw a track on his Universal Carrier at speed a few years ago, and without thinking calmly applied the brakes....

I have a picture of him grinning like a fool beside the carrier, which was about 45 degrees nose-down in the ditch beside the road. Oops! At least he was on a military reservation, so he got a local Engineer unit to haul him out. They helped him retrack the thing and he spent the rest of the day giving them all rides...

__________________
SUNRAY SENDS AND ENDS
:remember :support
Reply With Quote