I want to get under this table and see how it works, looks fascinating...........if real.
http://www.strangecosmos.com/content/item/193862.html
Table.......
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Peace is that brief, quiet moment in history.......... when everybody stands around reloading.
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It's real. I've seen a video on how it works, but it is way beyond explaining. It was designed in the 1800's and is currently being made but the price is in the 5 figure's.
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Bloody boring job doing that all day 
Duncan
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What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch? -- W.C. Fields
"Many of those who enjoy freedom know little of its price."
You can't fix Stupid, but you can occasionally head it off before it hurts something.
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Wonder how easy it is to chop off a few fingers, by accident, closing it up?
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I bet OSHA could make it so safe that it wouldn't work at all...... 
Back in my working days, that actually happened fairly often, and then we would have to
partially re-design the machine...........we really hated them.......
Back in my working days, that actually happened fairly often, and then we would have to
partially re-design the machine...........we really hated them.......
Peace is that brief, quiet moment in history.......... when everybody stands around reloading.
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The only time I ever saw a guy lose the end of a finger was in the Army. In my last few months in the Army I was in the battery that was the designated salute battery for Ft. Sill. Every time some big wig showed up that was worth a salute the battery I was in put on a show. I remember being on one practice and a guy that was the loader on the 105 that I was assigned to didn't ball up his fist when loading the blank. The guy, who's job it was, pulled the handle, closed the breech block and managed to cut off the end of the loader's finger. I moved up from the guy who handed him the blank to loader. And... I still have all of my fingers fully intact.
If OSHA could inspect the military we wouldn't have any combat arms... much less wars.
If OSHA could inspect the military we wouldn't have any combat arms... much less wars.
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Were you using the old split-trails or the new (then) M102 with the rubber tire?
The old ones had a vertical sliding breech block and the 120s were horizontal.
If you slammed a live round hard enough into the breech of the old split trails, it
would partially close the breech block on it's own. Then the AG would barely have to
hit the handle and fire.
For some reason they had us put a bunch of rounds through and old split trail, wasn't
even our gun, we had 102s. We didn't even have to check bubbles, just pump them out.
Charge 7 and low angle, so we had a semi-automatic 105mm howitzer. The AG kept the
lanyard pulled and it was reloaded before it came out of recoil. Charge 7, low angle, not
checking the bubbles is the only reason we got away with it. After a while we were so
pooped out, went back to slower fire. We went through several pallets of ammo at 80
rounds per pallet.
IIRC, it was something to do with the tube had to have a certain amount of rounds through
it before we could give it to the ARVNs.
The old ones had a vertical sliding breech block and the 120s were horizontal.
If you slammed a live round hard enough into the breech of the old split trails, it
would partially close the breech block on it's own. Then the AG would barely have to
hit the handle and fire.
For some reason they had us put a bunch of rounds through and old split trail, wasn't
even our gun, we had 102s. We didn't even have to check bubbles, just pump them out.
Charge 7 and low angle, so we had a semi-automatic 105mm howitzer. The AG kept the
lanyard pulled and it was reloaded before it came out of recoil. Charge 7, low angle, not
checking the bubbles is the only reason we got away with it. After a while we were so
pooped out, went back to slower fire. We went through several pallets of ammo at 80
rounds per pallet.
IIRC, it was something to do with the tube had to have a certain amount of rounds through
it before we could give it to the ARVNs.
Peace is that brief, quiet moment in history.......... when everybody stands around reloading.
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It wasn't the one oh deuce . It was the old split trail.
I wasn't a gun bunny so I never knew what the differences were between the lighter models that were more air mobile and the older models official 105's. In the salute battery I was more the KP and guard duty man as far as skill was concerned and was as much absent as there, except for the show everybody was important...and I had more medals than most of the rest...not important ones, just more. I guess that was important for show. I did get lucky and an old 101st 1st shirt took pity on me for my time in the 101st and having LNO and FO experience and sent me on TDY for a couple of months to a manual against computer fire test. Needless to say... I didn't remember crap about my FDC course and was only good for telling the senior NCO's in charge they were using a map done in meters ..as written in French. Maybe that was part of the test. I could read the French. They couldn't make heads nor tails of it and wondered if it were done in miles. Don't know why it was in French..... really strange.... thinking back now.
I wasn't a gun bunny so I never knew what the differences were between the lighter models that were more air mobile and the older models official 105's. In the salute battery I was more the KP and guard duty man as far as skill was concerned and was as much absent as there, except for the show everybody was important...and I had more medals than most of the rest...not important ones, just more. I guess that was important for show. I did get lucky and an old 101st 1st shirt took pity on me for my time in the 101st and having LNO and FO experience and sent me on TDY for a couple of months to a manual against computer fire test. Needless to say... I didn't remember crap about my FDC course and was only good for telling the senior NCO's in charge they were using a map done in meters ..as written in French. Maybe that was part of the test. I could read the French. They couldn't make heads nor tails of it and wondered if it were done in miles. Don't know why it was in French..... really strange.... thinking back now.