joatmon
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Gink,
No "Dark Cloud" here.
Blond? Check!
Blue eyed? Check!
BMW? Check!
German saw? Stihl a check!
Life's been good to me so far,
Joat
something your folks left behind in Belgium...
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Gink,
No "Dark Cloud" here.
Blond? Check!
Blue eyed? Check!
BMW? Check!
German saw? Stihl a check!
Life's been good to me so far,
Joat
Nailgunner
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still waiting for my blonde, my BMW blew up, and my german saw needs a coil. They can keep their any-meat-you-like-as-long-as-it's-sausage cuisine, yeech. The beer, now ... over there please, nice big pile of barrels.
Splendid saw if a little terrifying! pneumatic motors ftw. Why muck about with compressors? I bet you could get your nearest tool hire place to run up a compressor for a minute to see if it'll go, I'd think it should be stripped and checked over for grot and siezures first though.
Splendid saw if a little terrifying! pneumatic motors ftw. Why muck about with compressors? I bet you could get your nearest tool hire place to run up a compressor for a minute to see if it'll go, I'd think it should be stripped and checked over for grot and siezures first though.
My dad was there, at "The Bulge" - Like gink said, they didn't talk about it much.
Does that saw have a type of scratcher chain on it, sort of looks like the early chains used on the IEL`s? Nice find even if it does not run, its a serious part of history just the same. Cheers
Pioneerguy600
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gink595
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Jerry, the chain is indeed a regular scratcher chain, identical almost to my dolmar CL chain (heavier than Stihl). It's badly rusted and I had to pry it out of the bar, but I think it can be saved.
Yeah me too, We'd all probably be running around speaking German married to blonde hair blue eyed woman and driving Mercededs or BMW and maybe a Porsche or someting cooler... What a b*tch life would have beenAnd not to mention we'd be forced to running German saws
This is quite funny but in reality, Germany at that time was run by national socialism that we would not like to be part of I guess. No BMW, but Volkswagen was elected by Hitler as the car for the common man. If you were not looking like a real Arien lad, you were a suspicious character at best. Not able to work ? You don't like their politics ? Ok, we'll put you with the 'arbeitsscheuen' or anti-socials in a concentration camp. Nice...
I'll buy a beer for every american that makes it to my place (don't spread the word though
for saving our @ss) We europeans owe it to you !
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parrisw
Tree Freak
This is quite funny but in reality, Germany at that time was run by national socialism that we would not like to be part of I guess. No BMW, but Volkswagen was elected by Hitler as the car for the common man. If you were not looking like a real Arien lad, you were a suspicious character at best. Not able to work ? You don't like their politics ? Ok, we'll put you with the 'arbeitsscheuen' or anti-socials in a concentration camp. Nice...
I'll buy a beer for every american that makes it to my place (don't spread the word though
What about us Canadians EH?
parrisw
Tree Freak
OK..... You guys can buy us a beer too.
ha ha ha. LOL, You Yanks couldn't handle our Canadian Beer!!!
JTElectric
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JTElectric
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And what do you mean "found"? Like, in the woods? In a barn? I'm always intrigued by stories like this, tell us more!
scotclayshooter
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This is quite funny but in reality, Germany at that time was run by national socialism that we would not like to be part of I guess. No BMW, but Volkswagen was elected by Hitler as the car for the common man. If you were not looking like a real Arien lad, you were a suspicious character at best. Not able to work ? You don't like their politics ? Ok, we'll put you with the 'arbeitsscheuen' or anti-socials in a concentration camp. Nice...
I'll buy a beer for every american that makes it to my place (don't spread the word though
And i thought it was the Scots that saved your asses by showing theirs in their kilts and making the bad guys run away? lol
RavensRoost
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parrisw, 'Fridge is full of Moosehead! Only affects me on Friday nights. Sometimes Saturdays, too. Then there are football nights, and basketball nights....
My recollection is that almost 100,000 died in the "Battle of the Bulge", and may be wrong, but I think that was just on the Allied side.
RavensRoost
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parrisw, I am a little slow today I guess as I just noticed you are in Victoria. I was born in Friday Harbor just across the way and vacationed there just this year. If I see you at the American Legion there, I will buy you a beer. :biggrinbounce2:
engineian
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Found Saw
Where did you find that saw, if I can ask? They have an old WW II
saw at the Western Haritage Museum in Monroe. Came with the Box,
manuals and affew extra parts, both neat old saws.
Engineian
Where did you find that saw, if I can ask? They have an old WW II
saw at the Western Haritage Museum in Monroe. Came with the Box,
manuals and affew extra parts, both neat old saws.
Engineian
parrisw
Tree Freak
Hey, yes, I was just saying. Cause it wasn't just Americans that fought there. I'm not sure on the numbers that died, it was allot though.
Moosehead is dam fine beer too.
I like the local brewery's though.
tomtrees58
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thanks four the pics tom trees
woodbooga
cords of mystic memory
Cool pics of the M4A1! Here's something to go along with the tank:
The 4th armored was on R&R enroute to the German border when they were summoned back west. The crossing of the Rhine would have to wait 3 months when the 9th armored captured Remagen bridge at Ludendorf.
I talked to a guy whose service took him to Spa and elsewhere after VE day. Told me of unimaginable tonnage of burnt out armor littering the landscape.
Some of the vehicles that were sent back stateside were surplussed out to the contractors who built the Alaska Highway. Just ran them til they wouldn't run no more. Left them right where they petered out. Guess some of the old hulks are still where they were abandoned.
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bobbyb13
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Father, and Father-in-law there
My Dad and my FIL were both at the Battle of the Bulge. That subject was NOT discussed, by either. We owe that generation more than we will ever be able to pay.
My Dad and my FIL were both at the Battle of the Bulge. That subject was NOT discussed, by either. We owe that generation more than we will ever be able to pay.
