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I've never seen or heard of that movie, though I am on the board of a band camp held in Lake Placid, for both high school students and adults. We went up there Tuesday, by the way - the autumn leaves were spectacular! Anyway, thinking about this made me remember a photo I took during a family session a few winters ago, combining a horn and swords:
Amy brings her students to Lake Placid. Tom rode out onto the ice here on a unicycle, in a line with their children (trumpet, trombone and tuba) on the theme of the Beatles Abbey Road cover.
A good case for your instrument is important. For horns, the type of case depends on whether it has a detachable bell.
OK, that should exhaust the swords and horn off-topic! Back to Camp 928: We will be honored this year to have the presence of Frenzy organizer Greg Nichols and his son.
Need suggestions for swag. Seeking volunteers to be tool-wranglers, to learn the cabinets and drawers.
Curt,
Count me in for Camp 928 next June. It's on my calendar. Had a great time last year. Let me know how I can assist at the event.
Bob
'79 Silver OB
Of course! The joke is "how do you make a trombone sound like a French horn? stuff a sock in the bell and play a lot of wrong notes."
Past attendees have met my friend with his perfectly restored Opel GT. He was the leader and trombone player of a brass quintet I played in. But on the subject of instruments of destruction, here is something I acquired this week:
Curt - I hope you haven't given up on the Mog's Extend-a-hoe. Did you discover more problems with it?
Mini excavators are vastly easier, faster and more versatile than backhoes mounted on tractors. The 360 degree swing alone is a big advantage over the 180 degrees of standard rubber-tired backhoe-loaders. Then you have the caterpillar tracks - the ability to move the machine at will on rough terrain. The 75-year-old guy who excavated my garage site and improved the driveway said they'd even made bulldozers obsolete for small jobs. He used a 10,000 lb mini, smaller than the one I'm getting. The "60" means it's a 6-metric ton unit. When you don't plan on having to haul one around, might as well go big. I must have over a 100 stumps where I had to clear trees for the solar panels (the new campfire area - it needs to become a mow-able field).
Not that I need a good reason! One of the old farts who gather at Stewarts every morning told me "Everybody's got a mini-excavator." I get no credit from these guys for the care and feeding of vintage Porsches. My dentist asked me "Why do guys want excavators? We have a tiny yard, but my husband is always looking at them." Answer: the force.
Though I did a lot of work with it, the Extend-a-hoe badly needs an overhaul - worn pins and cross-leaking valve body. But the combination of the mini-excavator and Unimog loader will be terrific. Kinda wish I'd kept the tipper bed, now that I'll have the means to load it.
Jon deserves a shout-out here: he came up last summer to help put a new clutch in the Unimog. Took three guys a long day to do it - the engine had to come out since the gearbox is all tangled up with the axles, with torque tubes! We all looked like we came out of a coal mine afterwards.
This was a big job. A lot of the job was done by Curt before us helpers arrived. Tilting the cab is a chore...but Curt engineered a trolly hoist to help with that. Cab clearance reduced to about an inch when we suspended the motor. Curt hadn't anticipated how much the chassis would rise with 1100 pounds of 5.7 liter OM352 6-cylinder diesel removed.
80-lbs of double clutch. controls the trans and PTO. The beast. Well maintained the OM352 is rated at 12,000 hours between rebuilds. Going back in. "What are all these levers for?" The last time this clutch will be seen by any of us. Everything is accessible. All done. Curt closed it up after doing some cleaning and minor fixes while the chest was still open.
Last edited by Captain_Slow; 12-15-2019 at 04:23 PM.
Of course! The joke is "how do you make a trombone sound like a French horn? stuff a sock in the bell and play a lot of wrong notes."
Past attendees have met my friend with his perfectly restored Opel GT. He was the leader and trombone player of a brass quintet I played in. But on the subject of instruments of destruction, here is something I acquired this week:
Tony - crawler range is for those in a hurry. Supercrawler gear range – aka worm gears – is 10X slower. Takes about 5 minutes for the wheels to go 'round once. Apparently, you can't push a big snow blower much faster when clearing a pass through the Alps in the spring.
But that's still faster than many 928s - get him running, guys! You have six months.
Bob - we might dig a big hole with the new machine to bury the Studebaker, if it continues to resist my attempts to save it. But the Studebaker parts guy includes vintage candy with each order. C'mon, Roger!
I am very much ready for camp this year! Been hectic since last year, could use a mini vacation with well the great people I met last year. Come hell or high water I’m going!
10-10-2019, 07:43 AM
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