I'm working on my Abrams (Boom Stick) and I've gotten to the point where I want to attach the tow cables. I thought it would be interesting if one or maybe both tow cables were not mounted on the turret.


I was thinking of doing something like this (see above picture), only my Abrams has a mine plow. My question is would a tanker still connect his cables to the front and leave one there?


Or maybe I could toss a cable on the back like this other picture. But my Abrams has two coils of razor wire and I have only seen M1's with razor wire OR a tow cable not both. Here's a picture of my tank's rear.


Would a tanker leave a cable attached to the back if he also had razor wire? I didn't want to put them on only to find out this would never happen in real life. So anybody out there have any ideas? Or should I just toss them on the turret and not worry about it?

Matt

Matt,
The last time that I rode a tank in Korea, we had our tow cables rigged on the front and back of the tank, to speed up recovery of broken down vehicles. When the cables are off of the turret, you only have to undo the clevises on the towed & towing tanks, cross the cables and hook them to the tow hooks. Simple to do with a single or two crewmen. If the tank has concertina wire as yous has, the tow cable is installed underneath the wire. If the tank needs to tow another, the wire is lifted off of the u shaped pickets and thrown on the back deck or abandoned. I can send you a picture or look in the how to tips on making barbed wire ( https://armorama.kitmaker.net//features/92) and there is one of my pictures(the lower one) of D12 from 2-72 Armor 2nd Infantry Division in the ROK. Let me know if you have any other questions on this...

HTH

John

Thanks John. That's what I was hoping the hear. And I like your article about the concertina wire. It is similar to the product sold by Eduard actually. Only theirs is PE of course.

Matt,
I cannot clain credit for that article. Only one of my pictures was used to illustrate a method of carrying the wire... I think that the author found the pic someplace on the net and used it. I did not copyright it and it does help other modelers, so I did not press the issue.
John