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How's this series then?
When you see this at a Duck crossing you just have to take it for a swim! That's me driving and my brother as co-pilot. This was at the end of the summer road.
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We went several miles south on Great Slave Lake to check out the remains of a carrier. You have to pick your way in even with the jet boat. It really is quite inaccessible. The number painted on the hull is 42-1-8271 so it should be a Mark 1. All that's left s the hull and a few bits and pieces.A rain cloud moved in so we headed back in a hurry to avoid it. We hit some rain but at 50 mph it went over our heads. There wasn't much wind with it so we didn't get any big waves to contend with.
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This cab 12 F15A and Stude 6x6 are at the wreckers in Grymshaw, Alberta. He's not too anxious to sell the cab 12 but the Stude stuff is available. It's mostly all there but the frame's been cut to make a manure spreader.
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1940 Cab 11 C8 Wireless with 1A2 box & 11 set 1940 Cab 11 C8 cab and chassis 1940 Cab 11 C15 with 2A1 & Motley mount & Lewis gun 1940 Cab 11 F15A w/ Chev rear ends 1941 Cab 12 F15A 1942-44 Cab 13 F15A x 5 1942 cab 13 F15A with 2B1 box 1943 cab 13 F15A with 2H1 box 1943 Cab 13 C8A HUP 1944 Cab 13 C15A with 2C1 box 1943 Cletrac M2 High Speed Tractor MkII Bren gun carrier chassis x 2
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What a wonderful trip David. I hope some day to get up and visit Gordon but I will probably have to do it by scheduled airline. Just to illustrate to non Canadians I have figured some distances as the crow flies:
Europeans- it is the distance from Amsterdam to Ankara Turkey and back Australians- further than from Melbourne to Alice Srings and then to Townsville and then to Sydney Americans- Seattle to Atlanta and then to Buffalo and then to Houston Also Dave didn't explain that part of the trip is by boat. If you don't get there in time in the fall you have to wait till the ice freezes on the lakes and take the ice road. In the spring the road is closed till the ice is gone and in the fall it is closed until the ice is hard enough to drive on. Gordon truly is at the end of the line. Cheers, Barry
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Fantastic thread...
Wow, what a trip!!! I am really enjoying your pics and adventure. Well done and thanks for sharing. Cheers Rob
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Here's what happens
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That old Mackenzie River flows a lot of water. Where it flows out of Great Slave Lake it's about 1 1/2 miles wide and 25 to 40 feet deep and making 20 knots. When the spring flood hits it gets deeper and makes 30 knots sometimes. The ferry can't go this fast so has to shut down at times. The ferry keeps running at freezeup and keeps its route open until the ice is safe for cars to cross. The cars drive on the ice a few hundred feet from the ferry's route.That super bee full of fuel was crossing when the ice was placarded for 4 tonnes maximum but the driver knew better.
The bridge they're building is kind of a boondoggle. The powers to be started building it without it being approved until the shipping officials started wondering how the big loads were going to be able to get under it. Now they're finishing the piers while someone else redesigns the roadway with an approved design and some way to let the loads through. This spring there was a 7 story apartment building went somewhere down the river on a barge. The tug and barge pix were taken in Hay River where they're based. That derelict tug shares the land with quite a few other abandoned boats.
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