The FReeper Foxhole Studies the Higgins Boat - March 26th, 2004

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[Ragtime Cowgirl]

See what happens if I don't watch Snippy.

Perhaps you'd better keep an eye on her, at least 'til the 2004 election, and then the war continues, loose cannons could be a national security threat. (^:

Could be God allowed the internet to break so Freepers would see His beautiful world.

(It's springtime! Who knew? Lol.)

[Soaring Feather]

Sam, wow I am missing you!!

I know what you mean I liked it out
West this past Fall. I may move, too. :-)


Thank so much for posting the poem and tunes.

Conspirary Guy is getting married tomorrow, did you know??

[Soaring Feather]

I take a few days off and you guys manage to break the internet by jamming it up with spitballs??? Snippy warps ahead by two days and you loose FR. I kew I shouldn't have gone. :-(

LOL SAM!!!!

[SAMWolf]

LOL! I've driven through Indiana I didn't think you could get flatter than Illinois.

[SAMWolf]

Thanks all. I'm going hit the sack Snippy wnats to get an early start and it's been a long day.

[SAMWolf]

Thanks Feather. I knew he was getting married but not that it was tomorrow.

[Soaring Feather]

Good night Sam, take care.

[snippy_about_it]

See what happens if I don't watch Snippy.

Now you can watch me even closer. ;-)

[snippy_about_it]

Thank you Gail. We'll be careful and post when we can.

[snippy_about_it]

..but Ohio is as bad as Illinois. To flat, too crowded and too cold and rainy

LOL. That's just one reason I'm leaving. I have a long list though. ;-)

[snippy_about_it]

Thanks RC. I'm looking forward to it.

[snippy_about_it]

I don't think there is any difference between Ohio and Indiana from what I've seen. Come on out to Oregon, it's beautiful!

[snippy_about_it]

Doesn't look like spring in Ohio yet but Sam says everything is budding out in Oregon, it's gonna be a welcome change.

[snippy_about_it]

Hey feather, you could always join us out in Oregon, there's plenty of room still.

[Soaring Feather]

May just do that snippy!! I loved MO.

[Valin]

I keep thinking about going to DC to see it, but I'm not sure I could handle it. When the moving wall came here it really got to me.

[Valin]

Indiana: 2 Billion Years Tidal Wave Free!

So they've got that going for them.

[PhilDragoo]

Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel (LCVP aka: "Higgins Boats"

For those interested in workboats, we have available a 36-foot LCVP, a former Navy personnel landing boat, equipped with a dependable 671 diesel engine.

Built FOR WAR

Henry Taves, site manager at the Southern Forest Heritage Museum in Long Leaf near Alexandria, recently discovered original files related to business between Higgins and the Crowell Long Leaf Lumber Co., which operated from 1892 until 1969. Crowell mills at both Long Leaf and Alco cut pine to specification for Higgins boats, and shipped to New Orleans.

“As you well know, the Higgins Industries have always preferred the use of Crowell Long Leaf Yellow Pine. In fact, we find that with your lumber, it helps us to cut down our handling and reworking time, and increase production,” states a May 17, 1943 letter from Nelson P. Brown, Jr., lumber purchasing agent for Higgins Industries, to R.D. Crowell, Jr. A letter from Crowell to the federal Office of Price Administration in 1942 makes the point that the Higgins’ orders were atypical for the sawmill, “...not only the various restrictions placed on these timbers but most of the sizes are not practical to manufacture and we only produce these grades for the Higgins Industries as a patriotic measure...”

An October 1942 letter from Crowell to several of his superintendents instructed them to begin saving high-grade lumber for later use in anticipated orders from Higgins. One October 1942 requisition sheet from Higgins to Crowell specifies 300 pieces of 12 in. x 12 in. x 8 ft. timbers for use as head logs.

“The ramp boats required very high grades of timber, often Select #1 with 90% or higher heart content. This material was found in original growth virgin trees, though not in unlimited quantity. The sawmill workers squeezed all high-grade lumber they could out of each log, sometimes sacrificing a greater volume of a lower grade... “ notes an article in the Southern Forest Heritage Museum newsletter.

Phil's note: This detailed essay relates the fact that the D-Day Museum replica Higgins boat uses two timbers joined to duplicate the original 40-foot piece.

The original 40-foot piece--Uh, Home Depot is temporarily out of that, yeah, right.

Louisiana Memorial Pavilion of the National D-Day Museum.

The National D Day Museum

A brass shoe for the steering rudder similar to local shrimp boat and other vessel rudder design. The hole in these rudders is there so that the propellor shaft can be removed easily.

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Thank God for Andrew Jackson Higgins.

Ever work with yellow pine? There is just nothing like it.

When we spank Richard Clarke, we'll use a paddle of yellow pine.

[snippy_about_it]

Thanks Phil for the extra's on the Higgins Boat.

[PhilDragoo]

1931 Leonard Nimoy Boston MA, actor (Spock-Star Trek, Mission Impossible)

Auditioning spaceshipspankentruppen
Live long, prosper, retire in Oregon