If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#31
|
|||
|
|||
"Guy Alcala" wrote in message
. .. Jack Linthicum wrote: There are specialty "rough terrain" forklifts, we used them multiple years ago on pipelines and I would assume the product is still available. That's what the USMC TRAMs are. I have been duly informed. I had a brainfart, considering that I've seen these big forklifts myself...just not recently. AHS |
#32
|
|||
|
|||
Brain fart or yet another hangover?
I mean, it ain't hard to miss these suckers, unless you were : (A) too drunk; or, (B) like your fellow CanuckistanI, Skelton, a background faker. Those are the only two possibilities. Which are you? -- Jim McLaughlin Please don't just hit the reply key. Remove the obvious from the address to reply. ************************************************** ************************* "Arved Sandstrom" wrote in message news:5BjDd.53300$dv1.10356@edtnps89... "Guy Alcala" wrote in message . .. Jack Linthicum wrote: There are specialty "rough terrain" forklifts, we used them multiple years ago on pipelines and I would assume the product is still available. That's what the USMC TRAMs are. I have been duly informed. I had a brainfart, considering that I've seen these big forklifts myself...just not recently. AHS |
#33
|
|||
|
|||
"Jim McLaughlin" wrote in message
... Brain fart or yet another hangover? I mean, it ain't hard to miss these suckers, unless you were : (A) too drunk; or, (B) like your fellow CanuckistanI, Skelton, a background faker. Those are the only two possibilities. Which are you? OK, Perfect Man, I'll make you happy. I just got out of the pen after doing hard time, and am back to doing Dilaudids and crack cocaine, beating up my girlfriend and her kids, and juggling my schedule - how to sandwich the convenience store robberies in between the parole officer visits. Seriously, you anal berk, why don't you take a break from personal attacks? I don't need them - not on newsgroups and not to my email. I don't give a flying f**k whether you like me or not, because I don't intend to have you over as a houseguest any time soon, but it's getting somewhat tiresome to be continually subjected to insults. I don't take kindly to having my sobriety questioned, so I suggest you don't visit Nova Scotia, ever, and let me know where you're staying. And, yes, by this point in time you have seriously tried my patience, so that's a threat - go ahead and call the local cops or RCMP. For the Halifax Detachment OIC of the latter, just call 1-902-490-6883. For the police, 1-902-490-5020 is a good start. You missed the third possibility, idiot. One is maybe not a combat engineer and the only forklifts one maybe practically ever saw were the smaller ones that can't negotiate rough ground. I recall the latter because we used them during VERTREP's. I wasn't associated with loading cargo, I don't know how many heavy forklifts got put onto amphibs, I didn't go into vehicle storage spaces...I was familiar with with my berthing space, the head, the mess, the ship's store, the welldeck, the flight deck, and the uppermost topside, and how to get from one to the other. Well, some operational spaces, too, like the SACC, and where the officers and chiefs lived. I don't remember seeing heavy forklifts on any ship I was on - is the point becoming clear? Were some present - possibly. I sure as hell wouldn't have seen them while floating ashore on a landing craft or hovercraft or LCVP, nor would I have seen them while being with an artillery battery, nor would I have seen them while being with an infantry unit. When I said brainfart, I meant that I know that big forklifts exist, because I've seen them in civilian life, and it's a reasonable assumption that the military has them too. I just don't recall seeing them aboard ship. Plain enough? Doesn't mean they weren't there. Start attacking arguments and not attacking people. If you can get *my* goat, you're a piece of work. I hope to God you're not married with kids...they must suffer. AHS |
#34
|
|||
|
|||
Arved Sandstrom wrote:
snip nor would I have seen them while being with an artillery battery, snip You might have if you hadn't switched horses. Canadian M109 batteries have had two RTFLs each since around 1990. -- Andrew Chaplin SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO (If you're going to e-mail me, you'll have to get "yourfinger." out.) |
#35
|
|||
|
|||
Hey, Jimk
1) AHS is a recovering alcoholic. You, apparently, are a aspiring asshole. 2) There's a gentleman around here who accuses people of his own faults. There are folks around who buy into hs distortions. It's an easy test for idiocy. You made it, congratulations. Peter On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 20:17:54 -0800, "Jim McLaughlin" wrote: Brain fart or yet another hangover? I mean, it ain't hard to miss these suckers, unless you were : (A) too drunk; or, (B) like your fellow CanuckistanI, Skelton, a background faker. Those are the only two possibilities. Which are you? -- Jim McLaughlin Please don't just hit the reply key. Remove the obvious from the address to reply. ************************************************* ************************** "Arved Sandstrom" wrote in message news:5BjDd.53300$dv1.10356@edtnps89... "Guy Alcala" wrote in message . .. Jack Linthicum wrote: There are specialty "rough terrain" forklifts, we used them multiple years ago on pipelines and I would assume the product is still available. That's what the USMC TRAMs are. I have been duly informed. I had a brainfart, considering that I've seen these big forklifts myself...just not recently. AHS |
#36
|
|||
|
|||
"Arved Sandstrom" wrote:
:"Jim McLaughlin" wrote in message ... :I hope to God you're not married with :kids...they must suffer. More importantly, do we REALLY want this one reproducing? |
#37
|
|||
|
|||
"Andrew Chaplin" wrote in message
... Arved Sandstrom wrote: snip nor would I have seen them while being with an artillery battery, snip You might have if you hadn't switched horses. Canadian M109 batteries have had two RTFLs each since around 1990. What are they used for, specifically? I'd assume ammo distribution, but I could be wrong. We weren't quite that fortunate in 10th Marines - *we* were the rough terrain forklifts. One tends to become rather athletic on an M198 gun section, at least until that point in time where you wreck a knee or throw out your lower back. AHS |
#38
|
|||
|
|||
Arved Sandstrom wrote:
What are they used for, specifically? I'd assume ammo distribution, but I could be wrong. We weren't quite that fortunate in 10th Marines - *we* were the rough terrain forklifts. One tends to become rather athletic on an M198 gun section, at least until that point in time where you wreck a knee or throw out your lower back. Ammo handling. We intended to shoot *lots* of bullets in short periods and if you were deployed close to a dump IAW the CFSP then you could likely not move ammo in the quantities you needed without an RTFL unless you didn't care about things like the track plan. -- Andrew Chaplin SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO (If you're going to e-mail me, you'll have to get "yourfinger." out.) |
#39
|
|||
|
|||
In article . com,
on 6 Jan 2005 10:22:53 -0800, Jack Linthicum attempted to say ..... There are specialty "rough terrain" forklifts, we used them multiple years ago on pipelines and I would assume the product is still available. You want 4K 6K or 10K ? The Army has all three -- When dealing with propaganda terminology one sometimes always speaks in variable absolutes. This is not to be mistaken for an unbiased slant. |
#40
|
|||
|
|||
Tank Fixer Jan 8, 6:12 pm
We did the high end, 30 inch 40 foot thick wall iron pipe weighs out at 200 pounds a foot. Probably the 6K now, ie a mid size vehicle. |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|