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Old 15-07-18, 19:46
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Shilo MB, the armpit of Canada
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Default When is too much too much?

I had someone comment a month or two back that he noticed a few new pieces in the yard since last time he was by. I told him "not really, I have been using restraint the last while". But I admitted there was a pair of Limbers to go with the pair of 25 pounders, another 25 pounder chassis, another 5/4 ton (for parts), an Armstrong motorcycle (but it is in the quonset so he wouldn't have noticed), and I was picking up another MLVW from Winnipeg in a few weeks (Now home). Another guy reminded me of the HMMWV that showed up late last fall. Oh yeh, there was also the shell off an artillery tractor, which meant one more chassis must be found.

So 7 or 8 pieces more in less than a year, and that was while using restraint.

So I did a quick count around the yard of everything including trailers. Turns out there are 46 pieces in the yard including the truck I drive and the 4 cars the wife owns (A newer Honda accord, 2 older Oldsmobile Aleros, which I have to get rid of yet, and her 75 Corvette Stingray).

My list is more or less as follows:

Bofors 40mm
C1 (M2A2) 105 howitzer
90mm AA gun
25 pdr
another 25 pdr
a 25 pdr chassis
limber
limber
6 pdr (soon leaving)
M38A1CDN3 w/w
M100 trailer
M101Cdn2 trailer
15cwt Ford CMP
FAT shell
1976 5/4 ton command post
1976 5/4 ton parts truck
M135 Deuce
M135 deuce for parts
M35 MLVW
M35 MLVW
Bren carrier (restored)
carrier hull w. engine and track
carrier hull
carrier hull
Penguin snowmobile
HUP (leaving eventually)
15cwt air compressor
1956 military firetruck
1956 Civilian firetruck (for parts)
1943 MCP Ford dumptruck
1943 cab/chassis Ford MCP (parts truck)
7 ton recovery trailer
3 ton trailer chassis
another 3 ton trailer chassis
M104/cmp trailer hybrid (for firewood hauling)
Armstrong motorcycle
M998 HMMWV (hardtop w turret ring on it's way).

On top of those are my
winter/towing vehicle, a dodge cummins 2500, and
4 civilian trailers running from a 4x8 3,000 lb capacity,
a 12,000 cap equipment hauler,
a 14, 000 pd equipment hauler, and
a 14,000 lb equipment hauler.

I didn't count the BSA folding bike nor the swiss military bike I liberated from Cypress. Bikes don't count.

When I had my divorce sale back in 2001 I counted 15 vehicles/trailers then, and thought I had a problem. I divested of pretty much all of them, and had none until around 2006, when I bought my one carrier. Then a Jeep, then a...... I still check kijiji weekly (or more) for military trucks....fortunately I have been using restraint.

I turned 57 a week ago....I'll never live long enough to finish them all. I gotta say, this is one estate auction I would love to make it to, but I don't think it works that way.

To top it off, I go to work and do the exact same thing for 300 days of the year.

So do I have a problem? (At least the neighbors have not complained about all the wife's cars).
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