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[ann post]

I think the post war re-purposing sounds legit, but a tank engine designed to move 20 tons of steel in the least efficient way possible sounds like overkill to me - i do think maybe a generator or even recon boat engine?

Pics ftw.

 

[seanc]

I think the post war re-purposing sounds legit, but a tank engine designed to move 20 tons of steel in the least efficient way possible sounds like overkill to me - i do think maybe a generator or even recon boat engine?

Pics ftw.

A barge engine, at least when on a working barge, kind of only needs to be slightly better and cheaper than a horse on the towpath. As I understand it. And I guess in France at the time they were on rations and dieing of Spanish flu and whatnot. They used what was there I'm guessing.

My boat weighs much more than 20 tons. And I guess once upon a time it carried grain or aggregate*, so would have been very heavy.

*It has a massive hold which is now our bedrooms, except for the cool boaty looking rooms at fore and aft.


If I go into that engine room and see something like "Leyland 1994" stamped in steel I'm going to be well pissed off.

 

[ann post]

A barge engine, at least when on a working barge, kind of only needs to be slightly better and cheaper than a horse on the towpath.

My lawnmower engine is in this range of power output

 

[seanc]

Once it's moving it's alright.

 

[ann post]

I've almost fixed one thing in my car so i know everything about engines now

 

[seanc]

In this forum we obey the laws of hydrodynamics.

 

[ann post]

The googles tell me a horse peaks at around 15hp (I know, i know) while a sherman tank has around 400hp.

My main metric for this though is a late night hobby me and mate used to have of yeeting massive boats about the places using the ropes when we were drunk. Like one drunk man can move a boat.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

A lower, larger wwi tank engine with a different transmission might be what you have. They made a load of mk I tanks that were pretty much obsolete by the time the war ended if a French history of tanks series on Netflix is to be believed.

Cleaned the bayonet up yesterday - if any of yis nerds happen to be down with wwi unit armourers marking I might be able to tell where this came from!

 

[ann post]

That's gotta be a 9 - they just put crowns on fucking everything like.

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9E

1909 is my guess

 

[magicbastarder]

it's an actual wilkinson sword.
or is it a wilkinson sword sword?

 

[seanc]

This was my thought.

I'll enquire with historical nerd friend. You know, because I'm not like that, I'm hip and/or cool.

 

[ann post]

Pattern 1907 bayonet - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

@JohnnyRaz It's a model, not a year

 

[magicbastarder]

my bet; august 1917.

 

[hydromancer]

I have a bayonet from this Chassepot - Wikipedia I doubt if it was ever actually used they were mostly made for what was a minor enough conflict and are not to rare or expensive they have a pretty long blade 22.5".

 

[Deadmanposting]

A lower, larger wwi tank engine with a different transmission might be what you have. They made a load of mk I tanks that were pretty much obsolete by the time the war ended if a French history of tanks series on Netflix is to be believed.

Cleaned the bayonet up yesterday - if any of yis nerds happen to be down with wwi unit armourers marking I might be able to tell where this came from!
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wilkinson sword

nice

 

[JohnnyRaz]

my bet; august 1917.

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Yeah - had figured out the year, it was the w/e on the other side. The x and arrow are a qc mark basically

 

[seanc]

CAT TEAPOT!!!!

 

[seanc]

UPDATE:

The Catpot belongs to me now.