I am in the "floats like a rock camp". Who would have time to wrap it with a tarp on the way to a fire?

 

Maybe tarps and flex seal together lol?? That boat commercial kills me. They cut a boat in half... put it back together with flex seal. "Flex" seal... right there tells you that won't work. Once they put the juice to that boat it would be a flex seal sandwich.

 

Unfortunately, most of these floating tanks sunk before they could reach the beach head on D day due to very rough seas splashing over the tarps and swamping them. They are still there

 

Yep, that was one of those total CF's they don't talk about too much. Probably every one of them sank like a stone and they all drowned. Oops.

An earlier debacle was known as Slapton Sands. A huge training exercise except, somebody forgot to inform the Germans that it was only a training exercise, and they killed about a thousand Americans. It was kept pretty much a secret for years, the casualty numbers were simply rolled into the official D-day figures of a few weeks later.

 

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That is one long rig. I wonder if the front wheels would come off the ground if to much weight on the back.... any idea of its use?

 

I think that they used the boom to pick up parts that they couldn't get close to, like maybe at a wrecking yard. Yes, the wheels of the Ford would come off of the ground if the object being lifted weighed more than the weight of the truck forward of the rear axle, which is the pivot point of the rig.

 

Back in the 70s a buddy and I used a nearly identical setup on an advance design truck. He'd back it up to a steep embankment above the beach and I would hook the log tongs into a choice red cedar beach log. Many times as he was winching a log up the bank it would hang up on something , causing his front wheels to come WAY off the ground. I'm talking like 5'. Using the clutch he'd get the thing bouncing until something gave way. I was far off to the side during these events. It's a wonder he never went over backwards.He was a fearless dude. 30 years ago he broke his back in a logging accident and was paralyzed from the waist down. Hardly slowed him down. Today he owns 3 excavators, all set up with diferent gear and he alone operates all 3 on a daily basis. He tows them everywhere with an 82 chev one ton which of course has hand controls. Does all his own wrenching too. I could go on all morning about his exploits but I'm at the Portland swap meet, which is the largest auto swap meet on the West Coast. OK, back to vintage photos.

 

Geeze, paralyzed? This guy is still around? Is he older than you, like a WW 2 vet? Sounds like some I knew.

 

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I remember trucks like those ^^^ pulling up to my local store to refill the coolers .....

 

Simpler times.........I recall as kids going to the small town grocery store and buying a bottle of pop for 15 cents. We would go out on the sidewalk and drink it then take the empty bottle back in for the nickel deposit....
Funny how memories like that stand out. Wish I had a time machine....

 

I hear you. I remember getting money from my parents. My brother and I would ride our bikes up to the center store. We would buy baseball cards and a candy bar. Now... I would not even think about letting my girls do that. It's too bad it's like this now, but there are still lots of good people too.

 

As kids, my friends & I would collect pop bottles at 2 cents a piece to earn spending money

some times we'd take other bottles in to the woods & shoot at them with our 22's or pellet rifles.

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