FAT Fast 17 pounder recovery

Rob Fast · #1 01-11-14, 01:04

Spent a beautiful cool fall day, scrounging, sniffing, and we came up with this beauty. The piece is much larger and heavier than I imagined, still missing the hand operating lever. Now for the stuff I love, freeing it up to make it operational. Non the less a great piece of 17 pdr. artillery tool kit for the FAT. See pics. Cheers Rob

rnixartillery · #2 01-11-14, 10:22

That's it Rob,

very good find indeed. I can take some pics and measurement's of my handle if you like so then you could make one up.
This pull back was a standard issue and used with most medium Artillery 17,25 pdr etc.

Rob.....................rnixartillery.

rob love · #3 01-11-14, 15:20

The handles will be out at the scrapyard. I'll be out there today so will keep an eye open. Getting a little cool though, and have lots of other stuff to pick up today, so no promises.

chris vickery · #4 01-11-14, 18:13

Rob

I think yo need to move the scrapyard over to your own place

or buy it out and move over there...

rob love · #5 02-11-14, 01:51

I just dragged home 120 Bren chests from the scrapyard today to go with the 110 I dragged home a couple weeks ago. Still about another 100 scrapped ones out there I have to grab the hardware off of. They have those same swivel hasps as used on things like artillery tractor bins, and various transit chests ranging from sniper chests to vickers and mortar chests.

So gradually the yard is making it's way here.

David Dunlop · #6 02-11-14, 01:50

"Loveland Supply" has a catchy ring to it, Rob.

David

rob love · #7 02-11-14, 02:00

I prefer "no trespassing.....violators will regret it"

Tim Bell · #8 17-11-14, 17:29

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Originally Posted by rob love

I just dragged home 120 Bren chests from the scrapyard today to go with the 110 I dragged home a couple weeks ago. Still about another 100 scrapped ones out there I have to grab the hardware off of. They have those same swivel hasps as used on things like artillery tractor bins, and various transit chests ranging from sniper chests to vickers and mortar chests.

So gradually the yard is making it's way here.

Would it not be easier to buy the yard and move there?

Tim

rob love · #9 18-11-14, 00:25

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Originally Posted by Tim Bell

Would it not be easier to buy the yard and move there?

Tim

No heated shop there. I was out there a week or so ago and dragged home the remnants of a 6 pdr along with the remnants of another C1 105 howitzer. That will have to do it for this year unless there is a marked increase in the temperatures. Statistically, we may not see that until around April.

Speaking of heated shop, yesterday I was stripping some of the lesser condition Bren chests of their hardware and throwing the remnants into the woodstove. After a bit I noticed it was getting pretty hot in the shop. I went to open the stove and for the first time ever the wooden handle was quite hot. I ttied to turn down the damper, but the plastic knob had gotten too soft inside to turn. I had to open the door and toss in a couple cans of water to get things under control. I guess I underestimated the heat produced by cosmoline soaked wood.