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sorry but my grand marquis is not a tow truck. and while the hardest thing to do when pulling a load like that is to get it rolling, on level ground most vehicles with a decent amount of power can pull that load.
I've moved many of loaded railroad cars that weighted in close to that with a stock 1974 F-100. It's rolling weight, not towed weight. Doesn't take a lot of HP to do it. If even moved them with a 4 cylinder Toyota forklift. Just keep applying the power and it will start to move. No major HP required. Stopping one though, need to have lots of room. The hand brakes on railcars are not the best.
A Volkswagen Touareg TDI pulled a 155-ton 747 about ten years ago. The engineers estimated that it could have handled a much heavier plane, one well over 200 tons, but that particular 747 was the only one readily available for the test.
This Porsche diesel Cayenne is much like the Touareg and Audi Q7 diesel SUVs, even built in the same factory in the Czech Republic.
A Volkswagen Touareg TDI pulled a 155-ton 747 about ten years ago. The engineers estimated that it could have handled a much heavier plane, one well over 200 tons, but that particular 747 was the only one readily available for the test.
This Porsche diesel Cayenne is much like the Touareg and Audi Q7 diesel SUVs, even built in the same factory in the Czech Republic.
Yes... and that Touareg was the previous Guinness record holder for a passenger car for towing.
I don't think the other posters in this thread understand that the coefficient of friction of rubber plane tires on tarmac is FAR greater than railroad tracks and steel wheels.
It takes a LOT of power, and a gearbox that can handle that power, to get that plane moving.
You really don't understand how that's done, do you?
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