From: kuhrick (kuhrick@comcast.net)
Date: Thu Jan 09 2003 - 00:48:29 PST
At 11:57 AM 1/8/03 -0500, Fred Martin wrote:
>Steve....as Kuhrick and someone else pointed out with their Ronson and Zippo
>comments (liked that reply)....I had also heard about pouring gasoline or
>diesel
>on the tracks and setting it on fire to unthaw a tracked vehicle from frozen
>ground. I know about the right way, wrong way and the (substitute your branch
>here) way....and ....it'd be pick and shovel for the government
>way....(you could
>always count on that.) I wonder if it was a good idea to use fire with
>all that
>gasoline and ammo aboard? I remember aboard an old navy tincan (destroyer)
>in the
>north atlantic in winter time using a coathanger (with rag tied around end)
>dipped in diesel fuel and your trusty Zippo (the only thing that would
>light in
>all that wind) to start the motor whaleboat. We had different priorities
>on the
>water than you land based (I won't say lovers)....so I have to pick brains to
>satisfy my curosities. The question is: if they needed to get them unstuck
>in a
>hurry....would they have used whatever fuel was on hand? Or.....would
>firing the
>main gun release them? Fred
i failed to say that dozers they de greased the belly pay each fall before
it got cold so there was to grease/oil to start a fire if they had
to heat the tracks with fire
ken m886
AKA
kb9yku
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