105mm C1 howitzer

rob love · #1 21-07-11, 15:21

Thanks for the compliment Robin, but my eye for the exotic kit was greatly aided by others this time. Especially the retired weapons tech that came out to help. Laun knows these guns very well, and could differentiate between some old steel pin and a howitzer pin.

I don't know Rob Nixon: should I?

Hanno Spoelstra · #2 21-07-11, 17:09

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Originally Posted by rob love

I don't know Rob Nixon: should I?

He's an artillery collector and goes under the name rnixartillery on this forum.

H.

derk derin · #3 21-07-11, 23:31

It's always interesting to hang around with Rob.You never know what adventures await.I can usually spot CMP or Jeep parts but this time,most of the parts were a mystery to me but had fun helping pull them out of the grass.Looking forward to seeing it done!
Derk.

maple_leaf_eh · #4 22-07-11, 03:27

I haven't seen those in service for twenty years. My guess is that gun was one that was PCC'd in the good old days when the excuse was, 'don't worry there's another one in the line up and that is why we bought so many'.

Robin Craig · #5 22-07-11, 05:48

Mr Love,

my first name is "Robin".

Rob Nixon is a clepto-maniac on things that go boom in the UK otherwise known as a collector.

Try joining HMVF and searching him, he has some nice kit and some spares

R

rob love · #6 22-07-11, 06:33

Robin
My apologies, that's what happens when one goes on the computer at 5am before the coffee has fully kicked in.

Got back out to the surplus yard today and found one or two more pieces that I was missing. I am pretty sure that with enough time, anything military can be found at that yard.

rob love · #7 22-07-11, 06:45

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Originally Posted by maple_leaf_eh

I haven't seen those in service for twenty years. My guess is that gun was one that was PCC'd in the good old days when the excuse was, 'don't worry there's another one in the line up and that is why we bought so many'.

We still have a couple of C1s in operation here at Shilo. They are used for avalanche control in the winter in BC. Otherwise, the majority have been converted to C3 for the reserves, while a small number of around 3 dozen surplus guns were listed as for sale by Lancaster Aviation.

John McGillivray · #8 24-07-11, 15:43

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Originally Posted by maple_leaf_eh

I haven't seen those in service for twenty years. My guess is that gun was one that was PCC'd in the good old days when the excuse was, 'don't worry there's another one in the line up and that is why we bought so many'.

I was in Ottawa on July 1st. It looks like the Bytown Gunners are still using four C1s to fire the Royal Salute on the hill.

rob love · #9 24-07-11, 18:50

I suspect Terry may have been talking about the mobile command decals.

I was reading a story in the Shilo stag the other day that cited a failure of a C3 in Gagetwon (along with the grounding of the C1 guns) as the reason they took LG1s to Avcon this year. Another fellow just related a story to me about a C3 failure in Saskatchewan that resulted in them losing the gun with no replacement.

Perhaps after only 55 years of service the C1, C2 and C3 castings are starting to get tired.

maple_leaf_eh · #10 24-07-11, 23:10

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Originally Posted by rob love

I suspect Terry may have been talking about the mobile command decals.

I was reading a story in the Shilo stag the other day that cited a failure of a C3 in Gagetwon (along with the grounding of the C1 guns) as the reason they took LG1s to Avcon this year. Another fellow just related a story to me about a C3 failure in Saskatchewan that resulted in them losing the gun with no replacement.

Perhaps after only 55 years of service the C1, C2 and C3 castings are starting to get tired.

Yes it was the decal that got my eye.

I saw a cell phone snap shot of one of those broken 105s. Very spectacular to see the cradle (?) sled (?) that everything slides along, broken in two hanging awkwardly. A fellow on course with me had a subordinate send it to him; it was his gun!

rob love · #11 22-07-11, 16:45

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Originally Posted by derk derin

It's always interesting to hang around with Rob.You never know what adventures await.I can usually spot CMP or Jeep parts but this time,most of the parts were a mystery to me but had fun helping pull them out of the grass.Looking forward to seeing it done!
Derk.

Mark my words Derk, you will regret not having bought one of these. Soon they will all be gone.

Over the years Derk and I have propelled each other on to buy stranger and stranger things. I must say I am amazed at some of his willpower these days.

Scott Bentley · #12 22-07-11, 19:53

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Originally Posted by rob love

I must say I am amazed at some of his willpower these days.

Sounds like a Chick is clouding his judgement

Doug Lavoie · #13 23-07-11, 06:05

Rob,
It was great to be able to play a small part in this great project of yours. I know that you will find the missing pieces of the puzzle. You do know when not to say wow in a mud hole! Good luck on the completion of it. Show us a few pictures of the rebuild from time to time.
Good luck with it, and stay healthy and safe over there.
Doug

rob love · #14 24-07-11, 04:52

Doug
Yours was no small part. I had known about some of the pieces of the 105s sitting in the scrapyard for about a decade or more. It wasn't until you found those recoil mechs that I got motivated enough to go digging deeper. I was pleasantly surprised by how much I did find.

As an example of my obsessive collecting, after I had unloaded the trailer and truck of the new found goodies, I went to clean out the back seat of the truck. In there I found a brand new u-joint for the elevation shaft which had been hiding under the back seat for about a year now.