Administrators Eric Posted November 25, 2023 Administrators Share Posted November 25, 2023 On this day in 1874, Joseph Farwell Glidden received a patent for the first commercially successful type of barbed wire. 5 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAKA Posted November 25, 2023 Share Posted November 25, 2023 1 hour ago, Eric said: On this day in 1874, Joseph Farwell Glidden received a patent for the first commercially successful type of barbed wire. WOW More than I, or anyone needed to know about Barbed Wire !! tnx Eric 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted November 25, 2023 Author Administrators Share Posted November 25, 2023 I learned more than I needed to know about it (Concertina Wire, at least), in the Army. I trashed a lot of BDUs on that stuff. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAKA Posted November 25, 2023 Share Posted November 25, 2023 2 minutes ago, Eric said: I learned more than I needed to know about (Concertina Wire, at least), in the Army. I trashed a lot of BDUs on that stuff. Yeah, I remember crawling under LIVE FIRE along a course with barbed wire over it Ft Dix 1956 (Oh and DO NO CRAWL INTO THE DEMO PITS ) 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted November 25, 2023 Share Posted November 25, 2023 Thus triggering a very brutal and violent civil war upon our prairies that is still very much in play today. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tous Posted November 25, 2023 Share Posted November 25, 2023 1 hour ago, DAKA said: Yeah, I remember crawling under LIVE FIRE along a course with barbed wire over it Ft Dix 1956 (Oh and DO NO CRAWL INTO THE DEMO PITS ) Oh, yeah? I once splashed coffee on my spotless white shoes. Great Lakes Naval Training Center -- 1970. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batesmotel Posted November 25, 2023 Share Posted November 25, 2023 Watched a tank tangle a bunch of that crap into the tracks and bogey wheels. One more reason to stay infantry instead of going armor. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted November 25, 2023 Author Administrators Share Posted November 25, 2023 3 minutes ago, Batesmotel said: Watched a tank tangle a bunch of that crap into the tracks and bogey wheels. One more reason to stay infantry instead of going armor. That and the Infantry spends a lot of their time these days training to blow up tanks, when they aren't busy blowing up tanks. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batesmotel Posted November 25, 2023 Share Posted November 25, 2023 2 minutes ago, Eric said: That and the Infantry spends a lot of their time these days training to blow up tanks, when they aren't busy blowing up tanks. Big tank : big target. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted November 25, 2023 Author Administrators Share Posted November 25, 2023 3 minutes ago, Batesmotel said: Big tank : big target. The trick is to kill them as far away from you as possible. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tous Posted November 25, 2023 Share Posted November 25, 2023 We could kill them from 10 miles away. Mostly. Okay, it would be a lucky shot, but possible. As long as 10 miles the other way is ocean. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tous Posted November 25, 2023 Share Posted November 25, 2023 And -- indoor plumbing. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valmet Posted November 25, 2023 Share Posted November 25, 2023 Did a lot more to shape American history than many folks realize… 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChuteTheMall Posted November 25, 2023 Share Posted November 25, 2023 6 hours ago, Huaco Kid said: Thus triggering a very brutal and violent civil war upon our prairies that is still very much in play today. What do you mean "our prairies?" Don't you repect the private property rights of the homesteaders who live there? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwalchmai Posted November 25, 2023 Share Posted November 25, 2023 10 hours ago, Eric said: On this day in 1874, Joseph Farwell Glidden received a patent for the first commercially successful type of barbed wire. Pretty sure I got my butt stuck on every one of them when I was a kid... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwalchmai Posted November 25, 2023 Share Posted November 25, 2023 52 minutes ago, ChuteTheMall said: What do you mean "our prairies?" Don't you repect the private property rights of the homesteaders who live there? Weren't the homesteaders the ones who wanted barbed wire? Very important piece of history. Too bad no one has thought of a way to pay tribute to barbed wire through art, or body modifications. 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAKA Posted November 25, 2023 Share Posted November 25, 2023 1 hour ago, gwalchmai said: Weren't the homesteaders the ones who wanted barbed wire? Very important piece of history. Too bad no one has thought of a way to pay tribute to barbed wire through art, or body modifications. Plenty of barbed wire tatoos 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChuteTheMall Posted November 25, 2023 Share Posted November 25, 2023 1 hour ago, gwalchmai said: Weren't the homesteaders the ones who wanted barbed wire? Gotta keep your cattle out of my corn if you want any moonshine. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChuteTheMall Posted November 25, 2023 Share Posted November 25, 2023 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted November 25, 2023 Share Posted November 25, 2023 2 hours ago, ChuteTheMall said: What do you mean "our prairies?" Don't you repect the private property rights of the homesteaders who live there? Whose land indeed… 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted November 26, 2023 Share Posted November 26, 2023 11 hours ago, railfancwb said: Whose land indeed… So, to get rid of the competition, the feds decided to buy them out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tous Posted November 26, 2023 Share Posted November 26, 2023 If I recall correctly, the federal government required that territories asking for statehood cede land to the feds as part of the deal. Texas did not. edit: correction. If you look at the size of the Republic of Texas compared to the state, it is obvious that Texas gave up a lot of land in 1845. But, not directly to the federal government. A reminder, do not get your Republic into substantial debt. It doesn't end well. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted November 26, 2023 Share Posted November 26, 2023 Texas was never itself to be given away. A defeated General cannot make that call. We stole it. At gunpoint. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted November 26, 2023 Share Posted November 26, 2023 Now, Texas probably has X,000,000 more guns than it did before, and more than enough copenhagen-wipin' squirrly-eyed residents to step up during the, "Well, then come and take it back." discussion. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tous Posted November 26, 2023 Share Posted November 26, 2023 Nearly al of the United States and Canada were taken by gunpoint, even the places like the Louisiana Purchase and Alaska that we bought. Remember that whole Revolutionary War thing? The British didn't exactly gift wrap the colonies and hand them over with a smile and a card from George III. Ask the indigenous folk living within the Louisiana Purchase and Alaska if guns were pointed at them. A goodly number of citizens of the Republic of Texas were tejanos, Mexicans that didn't care to be subjects of a dictatorship any more than the Texans did. Defeated general? I assume that you mean Santa Anna, who was the elected president of Mexico. Even though the next government of Mexico repudiated it, Santa Anna signed the Treaty of Velasco. If he wasn't authorized to surrender, who the Hell was? If we're such bad people in Texas, don't come here. We won't miss you. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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