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Offline cannonmn

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Junkyard
« on: March 26, 2008, 12:26:40 AM »


A nice junkyard
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Re: Junkyard
« Reply #1 on: March 26, 2008, 03:17:05 AM »
Thats my kind of junkyard. Would love to find something like that.
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Re: Junkyard
« Reply #2 on: March 26, 2008, 04:15:58 AM »
Most junk yards sell scrap iron by the pound........... I hope you bought it ALL!
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Re: Junkyard
« Reply #3 on: March 26, 2008, 04:23:07 AM »
Hard to get a mower around.  Looks like the barrels are plugged.
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Re: Junkyard
« Reply #4 on: March 26, 2008, 05:15:35 AM »
 Melt them all down and make toys for the children!

 (As my card-carying Liberal Sister would say)
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Re: Junkyard
« Reply #5 on: March 26, 2008, 07:11:44 AM »
>Hard to get a mower around.

Exactly the problem.  Also they all have some RUST on them, unfortunately, who'd want such ugly junk anyway.
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Re: Junkyard
« Reply #6 on: March 26, 2008, 07:45:47 AM »
 8) Wow, wouldn't that just make your day!!!
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Re: Junkyard
« Reply #7 on: March 26, 2008, 07:53:11 AM »
Even with the rust, they would make an interesting fence if you stuck them in the
ground upright. In Astoria, Oregon they used to have a fence made out of harpoons from
harpoonguns used for whaling at the maritime museum.
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Re: Junkyard
« Reply #8 on: March 26, 2008, 08:36:08 AM »
I wouldn't mind having one or two of those mounted in what passes for my front yard.
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Re: Junkyard
« Reply #9 on: March 26, 2008, 11:47:56 AM »
Quote from: cannonmn on March 26, 2008, 07:11:44 AM
>Hard to get a mower around.

Exactly the problem.  Also they all have some RUST on them, unfortunately, who'd want such ugly junk anyway.

Well I would be very happy to help them clean up this eye sore....... I know it would be a burden
but I would be willing to take 5,6,7,9  away so they would have less trouble cutting the grass......
I'm sure there would be other civic minded people willing to help,
so I didn't want to be greedy by removing all the eye sores myself
just email me the address and I'll make arrangements to get them moved.... ;D


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Re: Junkyard
« Reply #10 on: March 26, 2008, 11:51:29 AM »
Speaking of address, just where are these located anyway?
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Re: Junkyard
« Reply #11 on: March 26, 2008, 12:01:33 PM »
>where are these located anyway

The person who sent me the photo has not told me yet, I think he doesn't want me going after them myself.  If anymore info comes up I can post it.  I do know the Parrott is a 30-pounder.
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Re: Junkyard
« Reply #12 on: March 26, 2008, 01:53:43 PM »
Looks like there is a capstan there in the middle background so I would guess it's some Navy yard, maybe from the 1930's.  Doubt it is a modern image.
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Re: Junkyard
« Reply #13 on: March 26, 2008, 02:29:53 PM »
Quote from: GGaskill on March 26, 2008, 01:53:43 PM
Looks like there is a capstan there in the middle background so I would guess it's some Navy yard, maybe from the 1930's.  Doubt it is a modern image.

I don't know, Chain link fence, blue tarp and what looks like a red Pickup next to the tin shed in the background, could be a modern photo, I'd love to find it.


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Re: Junkyard
« Reply #14 on: March 26, 2008, 02:38:15 PM »
Quote from: GGaskill on March 26, 2008, 01:53:43 PM
Looks like there is a capstan there in the middle background so I would guess it's some Navy yard, maybe from the 1930's.  Doubt it is a modern image.

If you blow up the photo and look beyond the chain link fence behind the metal building is a red truck or suv
I don't think those were around in the 1930's

The brick building itself is old, granite foundation the brick itself is in poor condition several areas show spawling, I have a feeling this is in a northern clime......
could be at an older/ex- military base, museum, or town or county municipal building.....not enough to go on.
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Re: Junkyard
« Reply #15 on: March 26, 2008, 03:31:41 PM »
The picture was taken within the last 6 months, I do know that for a fact.
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Re: Junkyard
« Reply #16 on: March 27, 2008, 12:09:09 AM »
I see a Dahlgren in the mix, too... ::)
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Re: Junkyard
« Reply #17 on: March 27, 2008, 03:41:42 AM »
>I see a Dahlgren in the mix, too...

How about 4 of them, one in foreground and three in background.
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Re: Junkyard
« Reply #18 on: March 28, 2008, 12:21:57 AM »
of course , even you Americans need some Swedish quality sometimes   ;D ;D

hope to not get banned for that   :o :o
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Re: Junkyard
« Reply #19 on: March 28, 2008, 03:31:46 AM »
>Swedish

For some reason, the only two known 20-inch Dahlgren guns are at Ericksson's grave in Sweden.  I think as a gesture of international goodwill, one of them ought to be returned.  I will send you my shipping address.  Please just do me a favor and pre-pay the shipping, I'll reimburse you as soon as it arrives, I promise.
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Re: Junkyard
« Reply #20 on: March 28, 2008, 05:37:05 AM »
no problems   ;D

I will send both of them to you  :o

but if you find any notice in the newspapers or on TV news that they arrested an grave digger in Filipstad Sweden ,
then you know by obvious reasons that I don't reply any mails for a few years or so   ;D ;D 

but you need to send me $ 100 000 for the shipping cost , everything is expensive in this country you know   ::) ::)

just as an curiosity I can tell you that the gasoline costs approximately $ 10 per gallon , sorry but that's no joke , its fact .
in some ways this is an s__t country . but I still love it 

now this starts to look like one of those Nigerian letters   ;D ;D
I would never think I would be writing such letters   ;) ;)
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Re: Junkyard
« Reply #21 on: March 28, 2008, 07:11:54 AM »
>send me $ 100 000

Fine, I will send you a check drawn on the Third National Bank of Nigeria, on the day of shipment.
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