M113 track

[Douglas Greville]

Rob

Thanks, I am downloading it now. Surprising how little info there is about
Diehl track. Their website is pretty useless. May go some way to explaining
why they got into financial difficulty.

Regards
Doug

Originally Posted by rob love

The ice spike is not mentioned in any of the literature I have seen for the diehl track in Canadian use.

I saw a decent presentation on the Diehl track on the net the other day. It shows some of their track used on Warsaw block equipment as well.
http://www.atlantic-bg.org/files/con...nd_Systems.pdf

[45jim]

We used these regularly. Especially when we deployed to Chilcotin (BC) for winter ex, where without them the tracks just would just spin. They worked well in snow and icy conditions but with the limited weight of the vehicle and their fairly large surface area they would not punch through really thick ice and you'd be skating rather than sliding, but we're comfortable on skates in Canada!

They were used sporadically in Wainwright and Suffield it just depended on conditions that particular winter. The open plains of Alberta never got enough snow to make them absolutely necessary but we used them every time in BC. I can remember the SSM going up one side and down the other of a driver that forgot that "one" grouser when we drove on the highway to the railhead. Little "X's" all along the highway, a trail to follow.

[Douglas Greville]

Hello all,

I fluked upon a not so good pair of photos of the fabled Diehl 213 Ice Spike!

All being well, it should be attached to this post.

Does this ring any bells for anyone who used this track?

Regards
Doug

[Robin Craig]

Can anyone of you learned people ID this track please?

The rubber is missing I know

Thank you all