Lardrover

Outstanding project Bill, look forward to seeing this one day soon. My old man is ex Rockape, he should be in a museum as well :-) You're going to have to pack a few sandbags to sit on once he gets going :-) Edited to add, found this thread through the Friends of RAF Regt Museum Facebook page.

Is it a teflon kind of surface?

Reflector for cooking food in a microwave?

Toilet roll tube.

Liking this thread, liking the insight :-)

I'm from North Korea and I love Lard. Will be cooking out next week.

I jumped on this thread as soon as I saw it, thought it was EOD Wheelbarrows :-)

Earthenware colour is a close match, as good as any, have a mooch at some swatches in the paint section of Homebase. The Paint Man used to mix up some, he might have it noted down still.

I'm guessing http://www.thefreedictionary.com/moniker So, the OP needs to say which model, I'm interested to know if they had nicknames as well, I don't recall any. I hear of the Flesh Ripper in the mounting side of things though :-)

Has that not been sold yet? :-)

Any reason in particular for 10FG33? I have photo's that show single or several in one shot but numbers not visible.

I don't know how much, if at all, it differs from the Pinkie mount but I can take some photo's if you like

Well I enjoyed it, and I'm a grumpy ole goat who had to drive back up to Harrogate. Some pics of the Vampire 21 Metre erection please :-)

I'll chip in as well about the 7x9, just in case you're not totally disheartened :-) One bad point for me, it's like a flaming oven in the sun. You can't lay in bed in a hot morning and you can forget any kind of respite during the day unless you have it open and ventilated :-) I have a couple here that are used for a specific reason, their convenience and compactness of transport. Length of stay doesn't come into it really, they seem durable and fit for purpose although they are nowhere near a 9x9 with groundsheet and arctic liner. some have alloy poles with black nylon ends. These ends are segmented and will mirror into each other when assembled. Problem is that they want to slide apart and push into the single skin at the end of the ridge instead of the double thickness area. It's a matter of time until it rips IMHO. The plastic ends have a hole in them so tie wraps offer some solution to keeping them together.The other poles have wooden wedge shaped ends, no idea how old they are. The end guy ropes really need bright stringers if a walkway is nearby because if someone trips over and pulls one out, the tent comes down. It's a slow descent but quicker than you can get out :-) When the sides are pegged out and the walls pulled, it's a good tent. Almost as big as a 9x9, a fraction of the time to erect and strike, nowhere near the storage space or weight required. One bed across the end or camp bed down either side and room to stand and scratch your balls. The doors can be held open as a windbreak for cooking. I gave up with a groundsheet for them but do have a couple of the supermarket doorway mats to roll out. I use 2 on the Pinky. They roll into one of the pannier bergens each and the poles go into the third one with a large bivvy sheet. Assemble them door to door and a tent length apart. Tie the door guys to the adjacent tent so they form a ridge line for the bivvy sheey, you have a dry open area for huddling over a cold G&T. One side of the bivvy sheet pegs down following the same angle as the tents, the other is held up with some sectional poles. I used them as a back wall with a desert cammo net over the complete lot to give a sand berm effect backdrop. Thanks Clive for the literature scans of the tent, most appreciated. And thank you also for the rest of you for the anecdotal info about use and applications. Always a pleasure reading such things and reminds me not to wander from HMVF for so long again :-)

Look Boss, the plane, the plane!

Thanks Richard for digging the number out for me and thanks Simon for giving me a call All the best

Thanks Richard, no reply yet though. Appreciate the effort All the best

Evening all A pic of the Pinkie is on the W&P website from a few years back No ST2_5449.jpg, looking to contact Simon Thompson so I can get a copy, anyone able to put me in touch? Ta very much.

Congrats

Sorry Griff, remind me, this was to replace the original missing cert? No further work done to the deac to bring it to current spec, i.e. welding up what was a pre-95? Or was it a post 95 already. Ta

Not sure but I think Pprune has a story involving this, Harriers on CAP witnessed it and engaged the Skyhawks. Story starts when one of the Harrier pilots got in touch with one of the surviving Skyhawk pilots, the LCU bit comes into the story later. i might be wrong with the exact details but it's worth mooching through Pprune for it with come choice keyword searches.

Got a question about the climb out. Was it my ears or was the Stalwart engine off. I'd have though it would be running all the time to assist or perhaps best to let whoever controls the the winch to determine a steady load until traction was guaranteed? And that creaking noise, I was wincing at the time, here, hundreds of miles away.

I was rooted to the seat watching it first drop in, expected it to just fill up with water, looked great fun. Great to see it climb out but don't let the insurance companies see that footage At least at Beltring you've got the bigger stuff to move the big stuff.

I've got a feeling that is duff gen as well as Stuart rang me up and asked me to bring the Pinkie, even posted me a set of passes. There was no mention at the time of a Wartime/PostWar distinction. I'm not saying that Stuart is enthusiastic about the whole event but it took me ages to get off the phone If I don't get Pinkie put together in time for Sunday, I wish it well and agree with the sentiments about having an event that isn't lining the pockets of a "Meejia Events" company.

I've got a pole bag that straps the poles in first and then wraps up like a valise but I've seen them as you describe as well. I've decided to leave the ends laced on from now on. It makes for a larger lump but the embuggeration of lacing them up if conditions warrant isn't worth it, and you still have to take them with you anyway. Also, as you say about manpower, the more the merrier so a large canvas etc isn't so difficult if the bodies are there anyway to help drag it out and put it up. Agree with needing more than a couple of people, I bent one knuckle when I got it wrong recently, it repaired easily enough but it only happened because I got it wrong. Even if you co-opt others or passers by on the day, a quick brief will help and choosing one body (probably you) to call the shots will make for a prompt setup. I've not done it enough yet to be able to say what works the best so for now I'm finding that we still try to put it up by consensus It's like 9x9's, really should be done alone but if it's windy or you feel obliging, it's always easier to offer help if the owner is happy to lead and call the lifts and folds etc when putting up or packing away