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Any latest news on the pirates and the oil tanker?
On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:37:14 -0800, "Calif Bill"
wrote: "Tom Francis - SWSports" wrote in message news  On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:29:17 -0600, Vic Smith wrote: On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:01:42 GMT, Tom Francis - SWSports wrote: On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:13:30 -0600, Vic Smith wrote: On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:57:56 GMT, (Richard Casady) wrote: On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:22:53 -0500, Boater wrote: Call in some "air" with 500 lb IR guided bombs to blow them out of the water from altitude. If these pirates discover their boats are simply disappearing without a trace they might stop going out. Use 250 lb bombs, they will vaporize a small boat just as thoroughly, and you can carry more of them. You can get six to a pylon, two triple ejector racks one behind the other. With an A-10 that's sixty of them. them. Tons lighter. More fuel. Your bomb load and milage may vary. Ed Zeiben. That reminds me of Ed Zeiben. Worked with him at IH in 1968. We were heat treaters. Big, wiry guy. WWII vet. The yippies and other trash were rioting in Grant Park, a few miles away from IH Tractor Works. He had the answer to the riots. "One 500-pounder. That'll take care of 'em." But he was an optimistic kinda guy. You worked at IH in the sixties? Kewl. That would have been during the era of the number series tractors - 544, 656, 756, 856 and 1256 models if I'm not mistaken. That was Farmall. Canton, IL I think. I worked making dozers, so the models were T-15,20, etc. Old McCormack works on the south side of Chicago, later Melrose Park, IL when they shut down Tractor Works. My good friend Harold Foskett has a T-15 and a T-20 dozer. Fully restored. McCormick is now owned by a Italian holding company - ARGO who also make Landini orchard tractors. Weren't those TD- numbers. I drove a TD-15 while in high school for a friends top soil company. Think you're right. Rings a bell. What I remember is the T(D)-25 single-cleat shoes weighed about 80 pounds. Pulled about 18 tons a shift of them yellow-hot out of a furnace at the end of tongs, spinning around to ram them through the press, which punched the bolt holes and extruded for the link slots. That's 450 shoes, which I liked. You could only pull a few dozen before you had to let the furnace catch up, so you got to relax a bit. The furnace could keep up better with the lighter shoes of 50-40-30 pounds, and the constant motion all night was more tedious. My guys wanted max piecework, and I always kept them happy. Four man crew. Pressman/diesetter, a loader. quencher and a grinder/unloader. Plus I usually had an audience of guys on break. That crew was later automated to one guy, with no heavy lifting. --Vic |
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