GeneV
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I second that.KC,
Thank you for your service!:m1helmet:
hugs, Brandi
I second that.KC,
Thank you for your service!:m1helmet:
hugs, Brandi
Yes, but very seldom do we drive the distance for 1 item, usually combine trips with doctors appointments, groceries (curbside pickup at Walmart), etc...
Sometimes we switch things up if we do not have doctors appointments and travel 100 miles north to another Walmart.
We have a Napa in town, about 7 miles away that you can order an item and that they do not have it in stock, they order it and it's usually their the next day by noontime.
KC
To bad Napa wont do welding gas refils or oxy/acet but since your retired you probably like going for a ride.Oh, I do not doubt your information, but I'm real glad that I did not know this about 30 years ago while rappelling out of a UH-1N Iroquois.
It's bad enough information when they tell you the helicopter is more important then me and that they will cut the rope if necessary to save the bird...
KC
To bad Napa wont do welding gas refils or oxy/acet but since your retired you probably like going for a ride.
Might get the OP upset and most others but lets got to a commercial break. Since your out in the middle of nowhere and I'll never get out there and you are closer then I am, have you ever been to Custer's last stand? It would be one of my first visits since I'm sort of a history buff.
30 years ago I was making weapons of mass destruction and still is.
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Herea a picture of you on the rope, does one look down or up, up to see if someone has a knife in their hands...........
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KC,
Thank you for your service!:m1helmet:
hugs, Brandi
I second that.
To bad Napa wont do welding gas refils or oxy/acet but since your retired you probably like going for a ride.
Might get the OP upset and most others but lets got to a commercial break. Since your out in the middle of nowhere and I'll never get out there and you are closer then I am, have you ever been to Custer's last stand? It would be one of my first visits since I'm sort of a history buff.
30 years ago I was making weapons of mass destruction and still is.
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Herea a picture of you on the rope, does one look down or up, up to see if someone has a knife in their hands...........
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Ha, no way guys, I was born back in the last century still, before the triggered culture took hold.
For some reason I'm not picturing logging in MT.... And yeah who wants to bother a fab shop for welding supplies, I did that once to buy steel, they was as cold as cold roll steel, they was into selling labor not steel........I myself do not need to go for rides but the wife points me in the direction she wants to go and that's where we go...
Our small town has a welding/fabrication shop for industrial logging/mill and they would allow my bottle gas to travel with their order, but I just don't want to impose.
Thank you for your service!
Your pictures show the winching to or from the helicopter (the one that I trained with was orange & white) which they had a fixed 45 caliber slam charge to sever the cable if necessary and yes there was a knife in a sheath located next to the hard point where the rope was attached to the helicopter.
Yes we have been to the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument a couple of times, and we would go again since it's been about 5 years ago.
I believe it's a history hallow ground for both sides involved that the National Park Service explains to the visitors.
It was almost as a similar experience that I had when I visited the Pearl Harbor National Memorial over 40 years ago...
KC
Gene,
Sorry to hijack your welding rod thread, it has really strayed away from your welding rod discussion.
KC