2008 at the Hammond Barn

[Bob Carriere]

Rob is known for reusing old bolts...... he cleans them, scrub them.... polished and oiled......

In fact when he is too bothersome we save cans of old bolts and throw them in the yard..... keeps him busy all afternoon pickin' up treasures......


Just could not resist.

Boob

[Bob Carriere]

First real recovery of 2008..... hoping there will be more.....


A very brief visit to Andre.... always pleasant to see him again.... his country farm is always a delight to see whatever the season.

Being much lighter than a CMP and having four rolling wheels made the loading a breeze.

In the first picture you can see the muscle we brought along...Grant..... and the two older gentlemen who had to sit down for the picture....Clive with the big smile.... and Andre closing his eyes and thinking ..."finally I sold it"....

Second picture after lashing everything down for a safe trip......Clive was concerned we might not have used enough chains.....

Finally the trailer..... we had to cut a hole in the back plate to allow the air to flow through at high speed.....

Grant was heard muttering that a good body man could fix that up in 15 minutes.....

Thanks for providing us with a nice trip Clive...... thnaks to Rob for getting the tool ready for the trip and Grant for riding shoot gun and navigating.

Boob

[Bob Carriere]

Caption for this picture is......

.... we were trolling with a 6 inch hook soaked in 10w30 and look at what we caught.......

....had to string it up to the tractor to gut it......


Or the truth be known....... Grant wanted to sweep all the pin needles and dirt out of the box...... and I wanted to examine the floor underneath without bending over........ scrungy but very complete and original.... floor pannel is very solid..... landing leg is missing..... Clive will need one eventually.

Everything now resting by the barn awaiting the erection....ahem I mean the assembly of the canvass Winter shelter.

Boob

[RHClarke]

Originally Posted by Bob Carriere

Rob is known for reusing old bolts...... he cleans them, scrub them.... polished and oiled......

In fact when he is too bothersome we save cans of old bolts and throw them in the yard..... keeps him busy all afternoon pickin' up treasures......


Just could not resist.

Boob

Bob, I knew you were tossing them away for a reason!

Ian, I learned from one of the best to never throw anything CMP away. However, I use new fasteners whenever safety becomes an issue (like tranny or drive train bolts), which is tough on us wee lads of Scottish heritage.

[Bob Carriere]

Well we did the most of it......

Last recovery trip for Clive's jeep we noticed that some fo the spot welds on the fendaers had worked loose and things were a shakin'

Late last Sunday Grant and I remove one frmder and concluded it would be better to replace them...... off they went.

Got new fenders from Princess and found some 1/8 satin coat leftover sheets at the back of the barn.

So we spent all day Saturday and a good part of Sunday designing and fabricating fenders that will be stronger and removeable if we need to get a large load on board... like a C60 with flat front tires..... which is probably what stretched the fenders in the first place.

Lots of cutting, fitting, welding but we got it done.. the plasma cutter realy shined at work like this......

We encountered some probles starting the spark on the mig welder particualrly at low heat..... turn out one of the main cable inside the welder was very loose..... need to check things once in a while after 3 years of used.... once thightened worked like a charm.

Pictures attached show the bare frame....... fenders will be removed and the whole trailer sand blasted and repainted a shiny OD such as 24087. at a later date.... with all new wiring.

Thanks to Grant and Rob for providing the quality control tests to see if the fenders could handle dead weight or occasionally being walked on when loading..

They stood up the test....

They are now hanging in the barn..... having been degreased and phosphated in preparation to 2 coats of POR 15..... a special primer binding coat and 2 coats of shiny OD......might even had some tac signs.....

Boob

[RHClarke]

The morning was rainy and somewhat gloomy at 14oC. That did not deter the Hammond Air Corps...I spent about an hour test fitting my floor plates.



Things looked real good until I played around with my dog house. It took a few minutes of trying to figure why it did not fit properly when the obvious struck - the driver's side of the frame where the front of the dog house rests against has a semi circular bulge. You can see the bulge on the frame and on Grant's dog house in the next photo.



So, I checked a Ford dog house to see if there was a great difference - there was. I remembered that I had another dog house sitting on Grant's truck frame. While trying to wrestle it out the tent, I noticed Grant's doghouse looked a little different - it had the corresponding rounded part on the lower right hand side. Grant arrived shortly thereafter and the swap was on. We had noted in passing that our dog houses didn't fit, but we knew that a good body man could fix that. Sometimes the solution is right under your nose.

Bob and Grant did an outstanding job of fabbing up new fenders for the treasure-hauler. Here are some close ups of their work:





While the boys finished the fenders, I got to play with the HUP. I wanted to see if all the work on the front clip would cause some problems with the fit on the body. With the help of the boys, we wired the clip on the front of the body. The damned thing almost looks like a truck now! And, it fit (although some minor mods are required).





Following that fun, I got to work on shaping my round hatch spacer. Not bad for a first go - photos later - forgot to take some photos as it was near lunch time and Chez Marie beckoned.

After lunch, we decided to tidy up. There was a ton of sawdust (including some leftover from the headliner spacer project). Grant and I swept the barn from west to east and then called it quits. Next week, it looks like we will be on the road to Barrie. Hope to see some of you "southerners" at the automotive flea market...cheers!

[RHClarke]

The Hammond Trio returned from the Barrie Flea Market late last night. We headed out to Barrie on Thursday afternoon and strolled the grounds from 8:00 to just after 3PM on Friday. This year we took in the whole venue including the dreaded Area B. We have now reached that sense of CMP awareness that helps filter out distractions (mostly, there was one young lady who couldn't afford a shirt that covered her "considerable" assets - Bob is still agog...). In the main, our focus allowed us to by pass the incredible selection of stuff found there and to zone in on CMP treasures.

Some of the treasures I found:

Ford Cab 13 grill in great shape - $10

Prototype HUP (just guessing here - photos tomorrow) pax side door window and frame (in rough shape) - $10

Refurbished 45 licence plate (beauty job) - $25.00 - pairs were going for $50

Chev Horn - $5

Speedo cable - $5

Elusive but evidently still available CMP tool box (filled with modern tools) - $5

The boys can add their finds if so inclined to do so.

Bottom line, it was a hellishly hot, muggy day of picking the "pepper out of the fly sh*t". But, worth the trip!

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Originally Posted by RHClarke

..... there was one young lady who couldn't afford a shirt that covered her "considerable" assets - Bob is still agog...

uurrgghh....

[RHClarke]

Originally Posted by Geoff Winnington-Ball

uurrgghh....

What can I say? Forgot the camera. In any case, it would have been a toss up which to photograph, the obviously altered mounds of female flesh, or Bobbie's face...