{"id":24831,"date":"2023-01-02T21:48:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T02:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=24831"},"modified":"2023-01-02T21:48:02","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T02:48:02","slug":"army-story-sliding-down-icey-road-in-m113-rubber-tracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=24831","title":{"rendered":"army story: sliding down icey road in m113, rubber tracks."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fark.com\/comments\/12700728\/158169922#c158169922\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.fark.com\/comments\/12700728\/158169922#c158169922<\/a><br>strathcona: Just about the only time the rubber pads come out is for maintenance or to install ice cleats, so you don&#8217;t have a 60 ton hockey puck.<br><br>As a driver of an M113, can confirm.\u00a0 Always had rubber pads unless ice cleats needed.\u00a0 And cleats limited to off-road.\u00a0 Every 5th (or 6th?) rubber pad would be replaced with a ice cleat.\u00a0 This was the Canadian Forces, so the track was the heavier style.\u00a0 Bitch to work on in the cold.\u00a0 I still have nightmares of removing a track in order to replace a bogey wheel or somesuch.\u00a0 In the cold, in the dark.\u00a0 All the fun of being a driver erased in one night.<br>CSB: one time on the Gaspe Peninsula, later winter, so no expected ice, so all rubber pads.\u00a0 We head down a steep road on the west side of a hill.\u00a0 Still snow &amp; ice covered due to no sunshine on that side of the hill.\u00a0 I was being cautious, but the slightest pull on the left tiller bar resulted in the left track slipping and stopping.\u00a0 Then a slow turn to the left and the right track stops.\u00a0 M113 is weirdly quiet when both tracks aren&#8217;t turning.\u00a0 We did a 360 or more before sliding off the road.\u00a0 Good times!<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.fark.com\/comments\/12700728\/158169922#c158169922strathcona: Just about the only time the rubber pads come out is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[1414,401,1627],"class_list":["post-24831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-army","tag-army-guy","tag-m113","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}