Posted on 09/14/2010 12:06:14 PM PDT by greatdefender
I have heard assemble & reassemble firearms. But these guys takes the idea to another level.
(Excerpt) Read more at thebubble.msn.com ...
Precision teamwork; the crowd loved it!
BTW, teardown and re-assemble is not “rebuilding”. Cool tho!
Back when I was in HS, I had a friend whose dad was in the CBI theater in WW II..he would tell us stories about how they cut up trucks, bulldozers, tanks, so they could be flown over the Hump and then welded back together..
My son showed that video to me last night. He thought it was so neat. Of course he loves taking things apart.
The only bad thing about taking things apart is having things left over when you put them back together.
Extra bolts are a part of life, son...
Not going far with an empty radiator...
The British at Saint-Jean and the Americans at the other end of the lake [Champlain] in Skenesborough (present-day Whitehall, New York. While planning Quebec's defenses in 1775, General Carleton had anticipated the problem of transportation on Lake Champlain, and had requested the provisioning of prefabricated ships from Europe. By the time Carleton's army reached Saint-Jean, ten such ships had arrived. These ships and more were assembled by skilled shipwrights on the upper Richelieu River. Also assembled there was HMS Inflexible, a 180-ton warship they disassembled at Quebec City and transported upriver in pieces.
"Rabble in Arms" by Kenneth Roberts is a tremendous tale of the subsequent battle on Lake Champlain and the retreat south.
Yes, he was a tremendous writer. I grew up readign all his historical novels..sadly, 99% of kids today have no idea who he was or of his books..BTW..”Drums Along the Mohawk” is a superb adaptation of the book to the big screen...
“Drums Along the Mohawk” is one of my favorite novels (but it was written by Walter Edmonds, not Roberts). I spent some a few years growing up in the Mohawk Valley, so it was a great and relevant novel to me. I loved Cooper’s “Leatherstocking Tales” for the same reason.
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