Canadian snow related equipment post WW2

[Robin Craig]

The second design is mostly aluminum and is equally complex in design and materials and manufacture.

Firstly it has a meaty hing mechanism instead of several sections.

The fine tuning of height or final adjustment is done by means of a threaded section. However for speed, the nylon type locking collar can be slid out of the way and then that section can be telescoped and then slide the collar back and final threading can take place.

I have pictures of them side by side for comparison and size.

I have to thank Eric Booth for very generously giving these to me knowing I am collecting items snow related. Thanks mate.

[Robin Craig]

This next item is a bit of a curiosity as I have not seen them before and because of the documentation that Eric Booth gave me that was attached at the time he acquired it. Documentary evidence is always interesting.

It seems this was a small one person toboggan and hauled using a harness rig and some cordage which I do not have but will recreate in due time. The material for the toboggan is fiberglass with that weird engineered pressed wood stuff as the runners held on by rivets.

The green harness is alleged to have been for it. Interesting is the name for it.

[Robin Craig]

I wasn't able to include this above as I had reached my image limit.

[rob love]

The hole on top of the poles was normally for a washer and a cotter pin. The soldiers were forever coming to me for the pins, as they would bend it over each time and wreck them. The reason for the pin you ask? Because the guy who would crawl into the tent to place the pole into the hole (he was called the pole man) would have to stand there until the rest of the guys got tension onto the guy ropes.

At one point I actually made up washers with a little chain and the pin, hoping they would quit losing them. It didn't take long before I quit making those up. Perhaps if I painted them orange.

There were also those little plastic orange tent pegs...useless in the arctic temps with frozen ground. They would be replaced by 10 or 12" steel spikes. Of course, when you went to move the troops would merely toss the guy ropes with nails still attached and fold up the tent. That way, when they set it up again, they could have that planetarium effect of seeing daylight thorough the dozens of holes that were now in the canvas. The mat techs would then scrap the tent, depending on how many holes there were. Remember they got a fresh set of dozens of holes for each teardown and movement.

Re the toboggans, those 100 pound ones could be found in aluminum or fiberglass. There is also a white canvas cover for them, similar to that used on the 200 pound toboggan. Some of the toboggans can be found with the C/l\ on them along with the other nomenclature, although I have only seen post war versions of these toboggans. I used to keep one in my MRT as it was perfect for moving vehicle battery's along the gun line when you had to do repairs on the M109s. .

[Robin Craig]

Rob, if ever you see a cover there is a home here for it. I understand about the pin and washer on the top of the poles. Understandable.

As far as the pegs and the resultant holes I have seen that first hand when out with the CF and the reaming troops got when the QM staff saw it gong on.

I was about talk about pegs in another post.

[Robin Craig]

At some point candles were issued. This mouse gnawed example is the only one I have, I am looking for another or few.

These holders were both designed I am told, to attach by means of the spring to the tent pole or be pressed into the ground. One is missing it's spring and I will buy something available locally

[Robin Craig]

extra picture from previous post

[charlie fitton]

I've never seen the candle holder...very much like