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THE FIELD ARTILLERY JOURNAL to enable the power to be delivered at the drawbar. The pulley at the rear end may be replaced by a winch. Farm tractors are usually intended to have the drawbar low down for the attachment of plows and placing a heavy pull at the height of the artillery pintle may raise the front end of the tractor off the ground. This is not of serious moment except that it interferes with steering. The construction is generally better than that of trucks from a military standpoint, as they are expected to stand up under hard service without counting on a garage or service station around the corner. Parts are usually simpler and more accessible. Figs. 15, 16, 17 and 18 show a 25,000 pound, 75horsepower tractor of the caterpillar type. This machine could exert a drawbar pull of approximately 11,000 pounds and the pull was practically independent of the condition of the ground. It could handle two sections of heavy field artillery under any conditions at the Arsenal and certainly one section under almost any conceivable conditions. This machine is doubtless too heavy for regular service with batteries of present calibres, but the great power was valuable in enabling good tractograph records to be obtained of the pull required to move various combinations of vehicles under severe conditions. Fig. 19 shows typical records made while pulling a section of 6-inch howitzer matériel. Aside from the weight the power is greater than can be well utilized with our regular matériel as the latter was not designed with the idea of habitually hauling long strings of vehicles with a single source of power, although pintles were provided for emergency coupling up. The exact difference in effect between hauling as at present and with a section or more in tandem has not been determined, but a probably fair guess is that continuous hauling of more than a section with one tractor will produce a noticeable increase in breakages and that one section can be hauled without an undue increase. It would also seem that a battery division of one section per tractor 32
FIG. 11.—RAPID TOWING WITH AN AUTO TRUCK WILL BREAK UP RIGID VEHICLES MUCH MORE QUICKLY THAN HORSES CAN DO AT THEIR WORST. THE CROSSING THE LIMBER HAS JUST STRUCK DOES NOT PROJECT MORE THAN TWO INCHES ABOVE THE ROADWAY. IT IS A BARELY NOTICEABLE OBSTRUCTION. Photo by Paul Thompson FIG. 12.—ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN ON FIELD CARRIAGE BEING TRANSPORTED BY TRUCK. NOTE THAT THE RAILS HOLDING DOWN THE WHEELS SUPPLY A TRACK TO RUN THE GUN ON AND OFF THE TRUCK.
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