For Sale: CMP Bits

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

Originally Posted by derk derin

with all the open space out there they couldn't simply line the vehicles up side by side neatly when they were done with them in hopes of one day somebody would want them to restore? No,they had to crush them and pile them up. What a waste!
Derk

Sometimes they did (hijacking my own thread). At the Dew Line site at Cape Christian near Clyde River they just walked away and the trucks were actually lined up, including a FWD with a massive snow blower. There was a US Coast Guard short wheelbase M series 'deuce' dump that looked like you could drive it away. The Inuit had removed the bedding, kitchen supplies, etc. but the radios, furniture and even documents in the CO's desk were all there. Near the coast was a triple row of empty 55 gallon drums stacked 5 high that must have been a half mile long. I have a box full of radio valves from a storage shed (they were all in labelled bins), a fire alarm box from the main communications building and a few cups and saucers that the locals missed as souvenirs. I tried for the ubiquitous sign that said "New York 5000 miles that way" and "Moscow 4500 miles the other", etc. but it was too high up the pole and my companions were getting worried about polar bears.

The Dew Line site at Frobisher Bay reputedly dumped all their vehicles in a nearby lake but I wasn't about to go swimming to find out. Snowing in June....sheesh.