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Dry Tortuga? Headed there second week in May!
No, but I wish it was on my property!Any idea where this is?
Any idea where this is?
Long press and click search image with Google Lens says it is Lower Oneonta Falls east of Beaverton Oregon.No, but I wish it was on my property!
If it’s that close to Portland you can guarantee there’s 400 hipster douches and yuppies there every day and loads of garbage like cliff var wrappers and vitamin water bottles. Anything beautiful near PDX is destroyed by PDX scum.Long press and click search image with Google Lens says it is Lower Oneonta Falls east of Beaverton Oregon.
That is Muir Woods, national park.
How that train didn’t fly apart off the tracks is amazing to me…. That truck must have beeen empty and made of paper…Forgot it wasn't a four-wheeled vehicle and tried to bully.
The average train tractor engine alone weighs over 200 tonnes, neglecting any cargo. A full load could be as much as 20,000 tonnes.How that train didn’t fly apart off the tracks is amazing to me…. That truck must have beeen empty and made of paper…
I want one of those train bumpers on my truck then!The average train tractor engine alone weighs over 200 tonnes, neglecting any cargo.
The average fully-loaded semi is less than 1/10th of that - and that includes the tractor (cab/engine). In effect, yes, made of paper.
I want one of those train bumpers on my truck then!
the OSS did some testing as to what it takes to derail a train...long story short, freight trains are damn near unstoppable.
All done with an obsolete Martini-Henry rifle, too!Courtesy of TE Lawrence...
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Point of fact, all was done with buried explosive charges, to wreck the rails. They didn't shoot the engines off the tracks...All done with an obsolete Martini-Henry rifle, too!
Cheers, Sirhr
Yup... But did you ever look into how they set off those explosives?Point of fact, all was done with buried explosive charges, to wreck the rails. They didn't shoot the engines off the tracks...
I'll have to go back to my copy of 7 Pillars of wisdom. But, my recollection is that they ran away from many partially buried charges due to being (nearly) found out by roving patrols. I think Lawrence referenced failed timers in at least one passage...Yup... But did you ever look into how they set off those explosives?
Just' sayin!
Sirhr
Check your PM...I'll have to go back to my copy of 7 Pillars of wisdom. But, my recollection is that they ran away from many partially buried charges due to being (nearly) found out by roving patrols. I think Lawrence referenced failed timers in at least one passage...
She’s be dead if it was a large animal or a big dude. Just saying. But I like the the half zipper started in the nuts.
Something something something, get off the X…She’s be dead if it was a large animal or a big dude. Just saying. But I like the the half zipper started in the nuts.
Close!! Drop step and draw, begin first shot in their foot and get off xx while you move pistol up the body shooting ending behind them and just off to the side.Something something something, get off the X…
Yeah shoot at the running guys foot inside 5 yards.Close!! Drop step and draw, begin first shot in their foot and get off xx while you move pistol up the body shooting ending behind them and just off to the side.
Not sure where would be off the X when someone is charging you contact close?
Go left, they go left, go right, they go right.
In that situation I’d do what she does and use the time for aimed shots.
I'll have to go back to my copy of 7 Pillars of wisdom. But, my recollection is that they ran away from many partially buried charges due to being (nearly) found out by roving patrols. I think Lawrence referenced failed timers in at least one passage...
A lot of back seat driving going on. Maybe it is just a drill and not a complex complete philosophy about combat.
It's a good bet she made more from posting the video than any of us made from critiquing it...Or maybe it's just a video.
I'll have to go back to my copy of 7 Pillars of wisdom. But, my recollection is that they ran away from many partially buried charges due to being (nearly) found out by roving patrols. I think Lawrence referenced failed timers in at least one passage...
Since you brought up the name of the song sorta have to post it. BTW Sirhr cool info. Makes me miss the Military Jeopardy thread.View attachment 7858475
^^^ Bimbashi garland. He was T.E.L.'s 'instructor' and also his demo expert. Detonators were proving unreliable and in the desert, he could not get ahold of modern gear. But he did have access to a huge store of obsolete Martini rifles.
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TEL and his Arab soldiers would undermine the tracks (remove loose dirt under the ties) so that when the train passed over the detenator, it deflected the rail enough to fire the trigger. The blank could trigger detonators, or bags of gun cotton or nitro. Anything they could get their hands on. Remember, that TEL was under-equipped, under-funded, etc. Money he had was to pay off Arab fighters.
But like David Stirling and the SAS 25 years later, TEL attracted smart, motivated, inventive, outside-the-box thinkers as well as warriors. Like Garland. And others. The "Movie" makes TEL into a one man show. Not true... he was part of a large team of British officers working in the Hejaz. And there is a very, very good argument to be made (Look up the book "Masters of Mayhem) that Lawrence, not Mountbatten, invented combined arms warfare. It was merely adapted in WW2 and given a catchy name by Mountbatten.
Anyway, cool stuff.
And that's how Lawrence and his men knocked trains off the tracks with obsolete .450 Martini Rifles! Improvise, adapt and overcome existed long before Gunny Highway! ;-)
Sirhr
Link is NOT broken. Link does not exist. But I think it will eventually work if you keep pressing itLink broken. Not appreciated…