OT-ish: BIG spoked wheels

B.B. said:

http://data.4channel.org/k/src/1102078689023.jpg
http://data.4channel.org/k/src/1102096359302.jpg
http://data.4channel.org/k/src/1102113226513.gif
Called a Tsar Tank. Must have been a mother to true up.

Can you say "huge unsprung weight"? How about "Low tolerance for
traversing a sharp grade"? (This latter characteristic was shared
with most WWI-era armor, though.)

In some respects, it was a novel (if quintessentially Russian)
approach to building a powered gun carriage that could run across
slightly broken and possibly soft terrain, but I have to think that
there was more than a little nostalgianeering involved; note the
resemblance to a horse-drawn cannon carriage. I wonder if the beast
survives in a museum somewhere?
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http://data.4channel.org/k/src/1102078689023.jpg
http://data.4channel.org/k/src/1102096359302.jpg
http://data.4channel.org/k/src/1102113226513.gif
Called a Tsar Tank. Must have been a mother to true up.

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Werehatrack said:

B.B. said:

http://data.4channel.org/k/src/1102078689023.jpg
http://data.4channel.org/k/src/1102096359302.jpg
http://data.4channel.org/k/src/1102113226513.gif
Called a Tsar Tank. Must have been a mother to true up.

Can you say "huge unsprung weight"? How about "Low tolerance for
traversing a sharp grade"? (This latter characteristic was shared
with most WWI-era armor, though.)

In some respects, it was a novel (if quintessentially Russian)
approach to building a powered gun carriage that could run across
slightly broken and possibly soft terrain, but I have to think that
there was more than a little nostalgianeering involved; note the
resemblance to a horse-drawn cannon carriage. I wonder if the beast
survives in a museum somewhere?

Dear Werehatrack,

Alas, only two were made, and neither survives. The one in
B.B.'s first picture is actually a wreck without its rear
wheels:

http://www.nemo.nu/ibisportal/5pansar/5sidor/tsartank1.htm

It reminds me not so much of a gun-carriage, but of the
mother of all high-wheelers.

Carl Fogel