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Post by Timothy Arnold on Feb 27, 2007 10:22:18 GMT -6
Can't I just pitch a tent at the end of the march before it starts? I want it to be there when we arrive. Can I at least just hide a cooler in the trees out there?
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Post by charlesheath on Feb 27, 2007 11:34:18 GMT -6
The rebfederate farbtillery at Rich Mountain tried that last July, and, well, folks found the coolers. By that time the aluminum cylinders containing the nectar of the gods were empty, so many a lad was disappointed.
Tim, you may not realize this, but many events don't give a shit whether or not you have a cooler or two, or if that cooler is inside or outside of a tents. Ever wonder why many coolers are made to be the same size as a hay bale? Well, now you know.
Who makes the best cooler cover? Should it be 'tard cloth? What about blue line linen canvas sailcloth? If a bear craps in the woods, will it be boiled up and served with the next batch of piping hot mule feed?
Things to ponder. Snow is melting. Yippee!
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Post by Timothy Arnold on Feb 27, 2007 13:52:45 GMT -6
I was having flashbacks of Raymond back in the day....
Many of said, "hay bails" were seen lying around... guilty as charged people!
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Post by Steven Cone on Feb 27, 2007 16:41:03 GMT -6
Hay Bails are the shitz
They make great forts
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Post by charlesheath on Feb 27, 2007 17:08:00 GMT -6
Would be fun to restore a period hay press and make a few of the wire bound 3' x 3' x 6' bales.... Funny thing is that size is still used as an in-between bale somewhere between the small square bales and round bales.
Speaking of old women, are any of you going to Banks Grand Retreat?
Hehehehe.
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Post by Steven Cone on Feb 27, 2007 19:05:25 GMT -6
Wish I could ..
I did have relatives in the orginal shindig around there : )
Distant relative Edward R Cone:Co. C 91 N.Y. Volunteer Infantry
He enlisted Aug. 1861 in Albany, NY at the age of 19
Promoted: Sergeant Sept. 18. 1861
Promoted: 1st. Sergeant June 23, 1864
Promoted: Sergeant - Major Dec. 7 1864;
Promoted: 1st Lieutenant March 2, 1865 for gallantry in battle.
Mustered out: Albany, NY July 3, 1865.
The Official Record mentions him for his acts of bravery for storming Port Hudson June 15, 1863.
He volunteered as one of the "storming party" under the call of Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks and was in the siege forty-two days
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Post by yellowhammer on Feb 27, 2007 19:59:12 GMT -6
"The roadside was littered with the thing's deemed unnecessary." ie- coolers, camp chairs and haversack stuffers.   Ha Ha |
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Post by Timothy Arnold on Feb 28, 2007 7:36:56 GMT -6
A short film spoof on the hobby, with Derrick's scene in there. I'm thinking sundance.... haha, just kidding.
Myself, Preston, Ben Piazza, Steffen Miller, and Duffer are going. I'm not really sure who is is going to make it. Ray Meinburg had to pull out of the event due to a promotion in his civilian job. This hobby is so much easier for the unemployed like Preston and myself. HA.
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Post by charlesheath on Feb 28, 2007 9:05:20 GMT -6
You guys obviously didn't offer Ray enough rank as an incentive to go. Ain't you learned nothin' Jethro?  |
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Post by Timothy Arnold on Mar 1, 2007 8:03:25 GMT -6
HAHA. Ray was slotted to be the 1SG. I guess we should have given him the job of the guy who posed for all the QM pics...lol
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Post by charlesheath on Mar 1, 2007 15:36:35 GMT -6
One question I wish someone would settle is the covered mucket hoohah. I tend to be in the camp that doesn't think too many of them existed out there in CW reality land. What does your research tell you after the first 100 or so documented ID'd CW tin cups come through your greasy little paws, and yet the elusive "Billy Cup" isn't to be seen?
Always asking the stupid questions,
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Post by pogue on Mar 1, 2007 18:33:07 GMT -6
Never seen a dug mucket. End o' discussion.
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Post by Timothy Arnold on Mar 2, 2007 8:57:17 GMT -6
I'm with Joe.
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Post by charlesheath on Mar 2, 2007 13:47:35 GMT -6
We have a winner! ;D
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Post by williampicking on Mar 27, 2007 15:43:35 GMT -6
What do you say there fellers,
We out in the far west have seen this problem also. Now heres the rubb. In doing research on the california gold rush my girl shawnra( also an authentic pre war civilian livin historian)
came across referebces to travelling ice boxes or coolers. There is actually a patent for an "ice cooler " from the 1840s'. we have seen it and know how to make it.
It's a good thing the rest of the hobby doesn't know about it or thy'd be everywhere.
Just thought you'd all like to know.
Willliam"Naitive Picking
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Ha Ha 