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Doubled Barrelled Bump for the Freeper Foxhole from the night shift guy this week :-)
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You know, Snippy, my kids say I am a nerd, geek, actually. Affectionately, of course. So I look at that cannon, and can see exactly what was done wrong.
You have to use one chamber for both barrels, not two. Then a precombustion chamber exactly in the center above the single chamber, so you get a good ignition. Make the powder bags out of paper so they break easily, and a ramp in each side of the single chamber to get a good break into the center of the shared chamber. The inner separation between the barrels should be about one inch. Use moderate charges so the chain does not break.
Easy as fishing.
Still, conventional chain shot from a single barreled piece would have worked better. You want something that would have really worked, build a real plant to make barbed wire, and another to make Maxim guns and cartridges. Gatlings are too big, too heavy, and too hard to make.
Good morning, Snippy and everyone at the Foxhole.
Good morning
February 14, 2005
What does it mean to lay down our lives for Christ and for our friends? In John 15, notice Christ's logic as He taught about sacrificial love.
First He said, "This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you" (v.12). Then He described the fullest extent of such love: "Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends" (v.13). Jesus died willingly for us and we should be willing to die for Him and our friends.
Then He added, "You are My friends if you do whatever I command you" (v.14). Jesus didn't say we're His friends only if we die for Him. We are also His friends if we obey Him. In God's eyes, obeying Him as a living sacrifice is the way we lay down our life for Him (Romans 12:1).
Similarly, we may not have to die for our friends, but there are other ways to make sacrifices for them. We can lay down our plans or tight schedules to focus on someone in need. Or we can lay down our possessions to make provision for the poor.
Such sacrifices, though small, can be powerful ways to lay down our lives for our friends-if we sacrifice willingly and in the spirit of Christ's love. -Joanie Yoder
The closer you are to God, the bigger your heart for people.
Good Morning Snippy.
free dixie HUGS,duckie/sw
Another one of those CW stories that slips under the radar . . . but the Foxhole vets dig it up.
Thus the projectiles, fired separately but simultaneously, would pull the chain taut between them as they hurtled across the battlefield, somewhere between waist- and chin-high, cutting down troops like a giant scythe.
In some ways I'm glad this weapon was a failure. Of course when you consider the effects of "double cannisters" fired over (and through) approaching infantry . . . no words can describe. What I do find interesting is that no one suggested simply utilizing this cannon as a regular part of an enfilade wherein at least one barrel is always loaded so that there is never a pause to reload along the column of cannon fire. But that's just the view from the "cheap seats". Great read.
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