[Vwdiesel] Towing Tales ---- ( eventful ones )
Shirley, Mark R
MarkRShirley at eaton.com
Tue Jan 18 11:31:20 EST 2005
My kinda guy.... a party of one is just right....
But you can keep the snow.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pmdolan at sasktel.net [mailto:pmdolan at sasktel.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 11:18 AM
> To: H . Hagar.
> Cc: vwdiesel at vwfans.com
> Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] Towing Tales ---- ( eventful ones )
>
>
> Dang, a bit OT, but referring to being outside in the cold:
>
> When I lived in Northern Manitoba (Thompson) I had
> snow-mobile sub-dealers in various places in the bush. On a
> particularly nice day (about -35 in January), I jumped in the
> Yankee (AA-1) and headed about 100 miles NW to a place on the
> Churchill River. I went to my friend's house, to see how
> sales leads were shaping up. I thought I was the macho
> bush-pilot type until his kids said he was gone on the
> trapline. "How", I asked, since all of the snowmobiles were
> there - "Snowshoes". "When will he be back, do you think?" -
> " I don't know, maybe a week or two". When he returned
> (several weeks later), I asked him what the deal was, and he
> said it was getting too crowded (almost 200 people in town)
> so he had to get out on his own for a while - walking the
> trapline with a pair of snowshoes and a 22 cal. No eider,
> no goose, no friggin' feathers at all!~! Many nights pushing
> -50. Suddenly, I felt like a city slicker again.
>
> Pat
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "H . Hagar." <h_hagar at prcn.org>
> Date: Monday, January 17, 2005 12:57 pm
> Subject: [Vwdiesel] Towing Tales ---- ( eventful ones )
>
> > Sparks in the rear view mirror ? --- that rates . Airboat is
> > out front so far.
> >
> > Fanatic DIY types -----do a LOT of towing. ---- not eventful
> > --BUT EVENTFUL too.
> >
> > To show your dirty undies can be difficult --- BUT your
> > pratfalls are more interesting.
> >
> > Nuked or Frozen ? that was the question.. Does this story
> > belong here ?
> > sure as hell does the trailer was made from an OLD Beetle.
> >
> > To appreciate this SAGA ---remember 13 days in October ?
> > First I am a dumb
> > EUPEAN ---so I take advice from friends in Ottawa Sandy
> > Cameron land.
> > Vancouver ? it rains all the time. --- OK i go to a Army Navy
> > surplus store. I buy
> > a bright orange nylon rubberised rain gear. -- I then asked
> > guy if he had any Down
> > filled sleeping bags.?---sure as hell US ARMY in big print
> > combat Zipper ---
> > best part of the thing was the zipper . (and the price)
> >
> > Pat Dolan James Hansen and Sandy Cameron can certify ---that
> > setting out for the west in october ?
> > is pure madness. -------- NOW I AGREE. (start in MAY)
> >
> > 1960 109 Landrover gasser the tow vehicle Truck cab canvas
> > back.. Trailer made from an old BEETLE.
> >
> > ALL my worldly goods in Canada was in the trailer --Tall like a
> > horse trailer.
> > Mattress from my bedroom ? perfect fit in the back of Rover. ---
> > perfect or what ?
> > What can go wrong? Rover has chains for all four wheels 760 X
> > 16 8ply Nylon- in side boxes.
> >
> > Tired of driving ? pull over and crawl in sleeping bag. Down
> > bag ? eh ?.
> >
> > Trans Canada Highway for those of you who never was there --- is
> > one long road.
> > Signal lights ? stop signs ? shit at times I did not see a
> > house for hundred miles.
> >
> > About Nipigon the snowstorm hit --- and the Trailer tounge
> > broke. ---will that stop a DIY fanatic ? ---not on your ass.
> > (not this highstepper).
> >
> > I did have a radio and lots of fuel. So I hunkered down on the
> > mattress in the back
> > waiting out the storm. Near freezing to death.
> >
> > Next morning --ah a crisp clear Canadian morning ----the joy of
> > flyboys the air is
> > so thick that airplanes kan fly without the wings.
> >
> > On the side of the road was some signs --BINGO-- steal the
> > lumber and jury rig trailer
> > with the four snowchains. ----Then limping on and on and on and
> > on at 20 MPH---
> > Christ there got to be a town somewhere ?--------hours on end.
> > Finally there was a Construction Camp on the left . I pulled in.
> > Did they have a Welder ? NO. Did they have an empty bunk
> > ? yes ----- First warm night in days ---jepper upper bunk.
> > Next morning the foreman told me he had no welders , but about 10
> > miles further was a small town.
> > Yes I found the welder ---and he did a super job -----NO GOBBING
> > it on.
> > Welds were hardly cold before I was back on the Trans setting the
> > governor for
> > 50 MPH ----life is great.. ---Music is western (I like Mozart -
> > -but not bad)
> > Then I got to James Hansens Saskebush ----Trans as straight and
> > level as
> > far as the eye could see. Set the governor for 60 MPH
> > temperature was ok in the
> > back at night.
> > Alberta ? ---some bastard put eggs in my Gasoline filler basket.
> > Screen got
> > the Shells and the yoke ---but the whites wound up in Carb just
> > before the Mountains.
> >
> > Drove the mountains on the choke. -----Remember this is 13 days
> > of october. I
> > got to Lake Louise on day ten. ---Being an old NATO guy ?
> > What better place ?
> > When the Nukes are flying ? So I set up camp and listened to
> > the Radio.
> >
> > There is a monster BIG Hotel there --- closed but not to a DIY
> > when Nukes are flying.
> >
> > So nothing would make me leave the place ---till about day 20
> > ----listening to the
> > Radio every day. So I have to dry out the sleeping bags ? ---
> > combat zipper ? US ARMY
> > style ? best Zipper I ever saw. .So I let the Zipper rip and it
> > becomes a like a blanket.
> > Green outside brown inside -----So ? what did I see ? a sign
> > that this was a SUMMER
> > COMFORTER. ---no bloody wonder I near froze to death near Nipigon.
> > Down my ass
> > it said Goose Feathers. In Canada get a bag filled with Eider
> > Down --- The best ?
> > Mummy bag ---Arktic Greenock of Scotland. Absolutely the best
> > for a Rabbit.
> >
> > On day 20 I set out again for Vancouver ---- WHO saved the
> > WORLD ? ----
> > IMHO Jack Kennedy . The Ruskies were far superior in
> > military power
> > at that time. . And US attacking Cuba ? -- according to the
> > BIBLE is casting the first
> > stone.
> > And Jack (smart man) said do not cast that stone. Those 13 days
> > was the worst miles
> > I ever travelled. ---let me tell you. ---1940 --to 1945 was a
> > cake walk.
> >
> > When I got closer to Vancouver ? absolute terror ---madness--
> > evacuation signs
> > everywhere.--- I do say that civil defence people did a super job.
> > Madness or not.
> >
> > I would rather walk for 13 days in death Valley without Water or
> > Headless valley
> > in winter stark naked than travel those 13 days of October again.
> >
> > Hagar .
> >
> > PS. And I was never a chickenshit.
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