![]() Were attached to the vehicles used to recover heavy vehicles. To increase the pulling power of the installed winch, massive earth spades The spade is attached to the free end of the frame by two removeable pins. The open end of the frame is hinged to reinforced ends of the chassis frame. The hinged frame is rectangular in sharpe and consists of three pieces of channel-section steel, two longitudinal and one or two transverse, reinforced by triangular plates. The frame and spade at the rear of the vehicle serve as an anchor when winching heavy loads.(special hollow steel chock blocks are also supplied to beused at the rear of the tracks). Notice the shadows of the tractors, in the lower left corner of the photo (yellow arrows) Three Sd.Kfz.9 18t were needed to drag a Tiger II His spade frame erected with the earth spade installed in the frame's top,ĭuring the displacement (rare photo - red arrow). Three Sd.Kfz.9 18t towing a broken King Tiger II. The first drawings generated the tractor ZW 10,also equipped with a retractable rear drive and his successor, the MSZ 201, appeared in 1931. Krauss-Maffei project for a retractable rear track suspension tractor The Krauss-Maffei company received a request from the Army Weapons Department to develop a tractor.equipped with a retractable rear track drive. Despite this disappointing result, the WWI brought innovation to motor vehicles as a military vehicle.įrom 1930 onwards, we can say that work on the development of half-track tractors has started more seriously in Germany. ![]() The prototypes and test series manufactured until the end of the war were completely discarded in 1919. Even with the stimulation of conflict worsening, no mature solution has emerged. But engine technology at that time was just in its infancy and the big problem with these machines was poor reliability. The military concept for these vehicles was that even on the most difficult terrain, these tractors should be able to move around and pull loads or artillery pieces safely. Meanwhile, in Germany, the same idea also started to develop, but it really only got a boost at the beginning of the First World War. Army punitive expedition against Pancho Villa - Mexico,1916 ![]()
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