Canadian Ferret / Sand Channels

[rob love]

Robin
If you have the FV number or even better the NSN for the ferret channels, I can check my 1984 microfiche and see if the items were even cataloged in our system.

Personally, I believe that the ferrets likely came with them as part of the EIS package, but would have quickly been chucked into the corner or used to load snow-blowers into the back of guys pickup trucks.

[Robin Craig]

Dear Rob,

that is a grand offer. Give me a day or two and I will send them to you.

It is a mystery I am determined to solve and your offer is a real item that would give provenance.

Thanks

R

[Harry Moon]

I'll check the pictures out at CMEC they were taken by Rollie Keith when he was with the first contingent to the Sinai. If they had sand channels anywhere they would have had them there

[Robin Craig]

Dear Harry,

thank you in advance,

Robin

[servicepub (RIP)]

Robin,
I have a dozen photos of Cdn Ferrets in UNEF and none has sand channels.
Clive

[Robin Craig]

Dear Clive et alia,

What I am trying to do is to prove whether they were or were not issued and carried on the Ferrets.

Clive your comments adds substance to the "not carried" debate but does not prove "were not issued". It looks like Rob will help there.

Curiously I was trolling the net tonight looking at UNEF images from places I have never visited that contained some of the more commonly seen pictures. Just on a hunch I looked around more and was scrolling down a page when I bumped into this image and had a double take.

For anyone who has handled the sand channels they will know that they are heavy and it is not surprising to imagine them being ditched fairly soon.

Seems like they were re-purposed very soon.

R

[rob love]

If someone were to come up with a Cdn checklist for a ferret (the earlier the better) it might also shed some light as to if they were included in the Cdn EIS.

The FGH have a good museum in Winnipeg with a decent amount of ferret pictures .Not sure when I will be there again, but perhaps if Derk Derin reads this he might peruse their photos. Many of them are not your "seen a million times" press release photos.

Speaking of ferret photos, I have a bunch of photos around here somewhere of the Cdn ferrets at the workshops before leaving for Cypress. They built some god awful chicken wire cage over the top....I suspect to protect against bottles and rocks being thrown at them. The photos show them strapped to the backs of the ferrets on the bonadventure, but once in cypress they seem to have been ditched.