Drift outside the cab

Rockgod · Mar 27, 2011

Really like your videos Paul, these two are no exception..

Thanks for taking the time and effort! :thumbsup:

4shorts · Mar 27, 2011

Rockgod said:
Really like your videos Paul, these two are no exception..

Thanks for taking the time and effort! :thumbsup:

Thank you very much. Really nice to hear you've enjoyed the vids. I think us tractor guys enjoy seeing what the others are up to and this is one way to do it. Thanks for posting! :thumbsup:

dcyrilc · Mar 27, 2011

4shorts said:
As for winter. I would truly miss it if we didn't have it. I've been down to LA a few times in October and thought I would die with the heat and the locals tell me that's the cold time of the year :confused2: If the snow stops here I'm moving North Thanks for your comments. :thumbsup:

Just go to Goose Bay. I remember landing there in August of '83 while coming back from Somalia in the Marines. There was THREE FEET of snow still on the ground in late August.:shocked:

4shorts · Mar 28, 2011

dcyrilc said:
Just go to Goose Bay. I remember landing there in August of '83 while coming back from Somalia in the Marines. There was THREE FEET of snow still on the ground in late August.:shocked:

Well look up Goose Bay on the map and while your there look west to a place called Labrador City. That's where I grew up and it makes Goose Bay look like Florida

Oldtrout · Mar 28, 2011

Great posts; 4shorts,keep the vids coming,for the past several years,several of us old retired game wardens from Nova Scotia,have been making a trip to the Rock,and Southern Lab;to do a bit of fishing,last year had to make the trip the 1st of June,we had the great idea instead of staying in warm motels,we would spend a week in tents,while in Red Bay,we had about 4 inches of wet heavy snow one night,and winds that seemed at least 100 miles / hr.

The tents somehow stayed up,but it was a bit chilly,this year I will be taking my camper,and making the trip in July,sooner the flies,than having to get out of the tent in bare feet with snow on the ground to have a wee at 2 AM.

It looks as if my son will be posted somewhere in NFLD/Lab as a fisheries officer for the summer months as well,so I could be making a trip over your way in May as well to help him move.....Well its time to ready the ole fishing rod,as the season opens here the last of this week.....Cheers.

4shorts · Mar 28, 2011

Oldtrout said:
Great posts; 4shorts,keep the vids coming,for the past several years,several of us old retired game wardens from Nova Scotia,have been making a trip to the Rock,and Southern Lab;to do a bit of fishing,last year had to make the trip the 1st of June,we had the great idea instead of staying in warm motels,we would spend a week in tents,while in Red Bay,we had about 4 inches of wet heavy snow one night,and winds that seemed at least 100 miles / hr. The tents somehow stayed up,but it was a bit chilly,this year I will be taking my camper,and making the trip in July,sooner the flies,than having to get out of the tent in bare feet with snow on the ground to have a wee at 2 AM.
It looks as if my son will be posted somewhere in NFLD/Lab as a fisheries officer for the summer months as well,so I could be making a trip over your way in May as well to help him move.....Well its time to ready the ole fishing rod,as the season opens here the last of this week.....Cheers.

You never know what Newfoundland/Labrador will dish out to you when it comes to weather so you always need to be ready for it as you already know. The building in the video is a DFO building and I'm just across the street from it here in Bay Roberts so if you get out this way you have to drop in. Hope it all works out for your son. We have two sons in the forces and I always tell the wife we'll never have them raised. Seems they alway need us for something. Hey that's what it's all about anyways. All the best. Paul

varmint · Mar 31, 2011

Reading about Goose Bay reminds me of a story about my dad... in the 50's, 60's and 70's he was with a university airline that flew DC-3s for charter, and rebuilt C-47s and DC-3 to operate and resell. They had a DC-3 up in Goose Bay one winter on a charter that lost an engine. My dad and another guy had to fly up with a spare engine, and change it- outside where it was parked... no hanger available. Even though he bought about all the cold weather clothes her could find in Indiana, he still half froze. Couldn't wear gloves for a lot of the fine work required. He learned his aircraft in WWII as a Navy chief who took care of the props on all the planes at the Pensecola Naval Air Station, in Florida- including the big PBY patrol seaplanes. Since almost all of his workers were Navy Waves (women) he pretty much loved being in the war.

4shorts · Apr 9, 2011

varmint said:
Reading about Goose Bay reminds me of a story about my dad... in the 50's, 60's and 70's he was with a university airline that flew DC-3s for charter, and rebuilt C-47s and DC-3 to operate and resell. They had a DC-3 up in Goose Bay one winter on a charter that lost an engine. My dad and another guy had to fly up with a spare engine, and change it- outside where it was parked... no hanger available. Even though he bought about all the cold weather clothes her could find in Indiana, he still half froze. Couldn't wear gloves for a lot of the fine work required. He learned his aircraft in WWII as a Navy chief who took care of the props on all the planes at the Pensecola Naval Air Station, in Florida- including the big PBY patrol seaplanes. Since almost all of his workers were Navy Waves (women) he pretty much loved being in the war.

Yep it's cold in Goose but I really enjoyed reading this. Your Dad is one fine person. We enjoy our freedom today because of the likes of him. :thumbsup:

varmint · Apr 10, 2011

Not to knock my long gone dad, but it's the men and women who really suffered and died in the cause of freedom that we are indebted to. My dad's biggest worries were too much sun, and which Waves to date any particular weekend. In his credit, he had tried to pass the physical for Navy pilot, and underwent an unpleasant operation to try and fix his broken nose, so he could breath thru both sides, but that didn't work, and that spelled his fate to serve out his time on the Gulf Coast. Towards the end of the war, as pilot training fell off, and the need to rebuild props diminished, he had time to start making fine knives from car springs, with bakelite and aluminum for handles. All of us kids have examples.

4shorts · Apr 10, 2011

varmint said:
Not to knock my long gone dad, but it's the men and women who really suffered and died in the cause of freedom that we are indebted to. My dad's biggest worries were too much sun, and which Waves to date any particular weekend. In his credit, he had tried to pass the physical for Navy pilot, and underwent an unpleasant operation to try and fix his broken nose, so he could breath thru both sides, but that didn't work, and that spelled his fate to serve out his time on the Gulf Coast. Towards the end of the war, as pilot training fell off, and the need to rebuild props diminished, he had time to start making fine knives from car springs, with bakelite and aluminum for handles. All of us kids have examples.

Well the way I see it is not everyone in the forces are pilots or Navy seals and no matter what role an indavidule played in the forces they put themselves in harm to protect our rights and freedoms and I always like to thank them all. Sorry to hear your dad is no longer with us and I'd sure like to see a photo of a knife he built. On a side note. My son has been in Afganastan for over four months now. Sure wish he was back home. It's been a tough winter for his mom and I.