Bytown Gunners restore a 17 pounder ATk Gun

[Gunner]

Well my boring h'occifer meeting was, boring... the beer and schnitzel afterwards were lovely but did they have to choose the most expensive restaurant in Ottawa? $50 for a beer and a schnitzel is a bit much even if you do print the schnitzel in fancy french en jus citron avec de qu'el-que chose!

The Master Gunner left me a sitrep to pass on... he and four of the lads showed up on Thursday night so they limited themselves to working on the recalcitrant spades with little movement (pun intended) but they did enjoy success with the axle pivot pin which they freed up, cleaned up, regreased and reinstalled. The axle now articulates properly which means that both spades now sit firmly on the ground instead of having the left spade floating three inches up in space! never did like those leftie barstards...mutter, mutter

In my initial post I failed to give credit to a great gang of guys who have been helping and cheering from far off... the three Robs: Rob Nixon from the UK, Rob Fast from Steinbach and Rob Love from Shilo who have all provided advise and have saved us from some head banging as they have already been where we are going! Thanks, guys!

I dropped into my favorite welding shop yesterday to see if there's been any work done on our damaged gears and arcs but they have been swamped with priority work on broken snowploughs this past week... seems that the City of Ottawa no longer does any fancy welding of their own... they just farm the work out to private welding shops... Robin, you could likely name your own price at the Ottawa workshops based on the number of ploughs my chum had in his shop and the number of times I've had to repair my mailbox this year... looks like the drivers are being a bit rough on their gear!!

Sorry no photos with this report... so stayed tuned for the on going adventures at Morrison Artillery Park!

Ubique! Mike