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Offline intoodeep

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« on: March 21, 2006, 01:57:50 PM »
While I was surfing the web this morning I came across a photo and thought that this might be a good one for a test.  :grin:

 Please click on the link below and study the picture. Then return to this forum and review the following questions to see which suits the photo the best.

 Warning - Kids please do not try this at home.... :grin:

http://www.donndeb.com/cannon3.jpg

 Now select one of the following.

A. His lanyard is too short and he pulled to hard.
B. Hydraulics on a cannon are cool.
C. This is the weapon of choice to rid them pesky possums from the trees.
D. He just renewed is life insurance policy.
E. Staking the trail is a good idea.
F. This guy is bloody crazy......

 All joking aside. This photo amazed me. There could have been some serious injuries. So, let's just be safe, enjoy our hobby and not try to show off.

 Well that's it for now as I'm "intoodeep"  :D
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« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2006, 02:07:40 PM »
Is there any use of safety glasses and ear plugs  :evil:   ?

Reminds me of (during OCS) the other battery got a 'hip shoot' while enroute.  The pulled off the road, laid the battery right there - in the middle of a MUDDY gravel road and shot the firemission.  For safety one of the canditates took his boot lace (6' long) and tied it to the lanyard.  It was needed as the 105 slid back 10 or 12 feet in the mud.
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« Reply #2 on: March 21, 2006, 02:52:09 PM »
is it just me, our is there a funny angle beween the cheeks and the barrel?
You think mabee he unseated a trunion or something?
One heckuva picture!
Dave
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« Reply #3 on: March 21, 2006, 03:24:24 PM »
Quote from: Santa Dave
is it just me, our is there a funny angle beween the cheeks and the barrel?
You think mabee he unseated a trunion or something?
One heckuva picture!
Dave


I think it's the perspective.  The camera appears to be directly behind the left wheel, offset from the tube and offset futher from the right wheel.
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« Reply #4 on: March 21, 2006, 05:31:37 PM »
Heavy on recoil

If he staked down the trail then he don't think much of his carrage.
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« Reply #5 on: March 21, 2006, 05:38:53 PM »
If he staked down his carriage, and it appears that he did, he doesn't understand the functions of the carriage.  If he didn't stake down the carriage he has a severe overload problem which if continued will lead to the failure of the carriage and or the the tube.
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« Reply #6 on: March 22, 2006, 01:07:44 AM »
Interesting!

So the function of the trails has changed from old to modern artillary!

(With modern artillary, the trails are dug in to stop the cannon from changing position, to allow quick followup shots.)
Further, modern cannon have more sophisiticated recoil mechanisms.
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« Reply #7 on: March 22, 2006, 02:00:59 AM »
Is that a can of powder sitting behind him , betwen his left hand and waist on the bench ?( in front of the muzzel) this pic needs to be put on a sticky under  Everything your not supposed to do when firing a cannon!
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« Reply #8 on: March 22, 2006, 04:10:45 AM »
CB, when I blow up the pic that can looks like it has a rounded top and nozzle like a spray paint can.
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« Reply #9 on: March 22, 2006, 04:47:12 AM »
He has a very robust looking carriage, looks like a revolutionary war pattern of some sort.  But look closer at the tube.



Any bets it's not seamless!!!
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« Reply #10 on: March 22, 2006, 06:17:39 AM »
What do you think 2.7 to 3 inch bore?  Trunnions are so long that it must put a lot of strain on whatever means of attachment he is using.  My 10 pdr Parrott has a three inch bore, but the barrel weighs 900 lbs which helps to dampen the recoil.

Cat, you are right in that the recoil systems changed.  The recoil system for the old guns was for the carriage to take up the recoil as it rolled backward.  The obvious problem with that is that you had to roll the gun back into battery and re-align and sight it which took time.  The advantages of having the gun roll back would be that if you were firing from an embrasure or gun port you have access to the muzzle of the gun for sponging and loading.  Also in field artillery if you were hard pressed by the enemy you could retreat by recoil, which is to fire let t he gun roll back reload and fire again each time from a position further to the rear (about 5-10 yards each time depending on the ground).
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« Reply #11 on: March 22, 2006, 05:01:48 PM »
I noticed the lenght of the trunnions and they also look to be quite small in Dia.  With that light of a tube, and that much recoil, he must be stressing the tube.  The projectial with enough mass and that tube as light as it is,  is a prime example of "Newton's Third Law of Motion".
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