Random Picture Thread

The photo was taken in 1908 on the Benson Ranch in Terry County, Texas.

 

Thanks Jolly, guess we see some Bosses of the Plains and some close Carlsbad predecessors there then. The wagons look too light to me to be Conestogas, and also they have no rocker in their bottoms, so they're ordinary farm wagons I'll guess, nevertheless the wheels do look OK to me.

↓ pic from Jolly's post #8729:

 

Farmer John Shreiner and his Conestoga Wagon, Lancaster County, PA, circa 1910.



Here's some info about the above shown Conestoga Horse Breed it says, which I didn't check.

 

The wagon right behind the men is a "chuck wagon" used to prepare meals in the field during a round up or cattle drive.

 

Fantastic, the backside is still in use !

 

Now you make me nostalgic for my land yacht.

 

OK, here's some pics from the same link...

 

https://www.boatdesign.net/attachments/brrrrr-jpg.67381/
R.I.P.

 

Now that ingenuity should be on the RV favorites Teardrop Campers page I've linked !

 

Ship in Huge Waves | Boat Design Net https://www.boatdesign.net/gallery/ship-in-huge-waves.2151/
yachtie2k4: Ship in Huge Waves
This picture was taken by the captain of the M.V Selkirk Settler of theScott Misener Steamship Co (St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada). She was carrying steel from Europe for North America in the fall/winter of 1988. She sustained a 12 foot crack in her hull plating during this storm. She encountered a microburst that pegged the annamometer at 90 kts. Seas were upto 80 ft. The view is from the bridge. Just visable in the fore ground is the pump room for the hatch cover hydrolics. The main deck is 560 ft long. The ship was 730 ft LOA, 35,315 tons DWT, 75.95 ft beam, Summer Draft 32 ft. She is an ocean-going laker, built by BRITISH SHIPBUILDERS (Goven-Scotland 1983). At the time of the photo she had been flagged out from Canada to the Isle of Man.

Posted by: yachtie2k4 - website: http://www.yachtie2k4.bebo.com

 

Wow!

I've seen that sight on a much smaller scale in the Gulf of Mexico sailing out of Carribell to Cedar Key.
I was 12 or 13 and took the helm, at about 1 am aboard our 56' three masted schooner, while the Old Man went below to check our position. He left the main hatch open and a single rogue wave rolled right over us. I was standing, gripping the helm in our center cockpit. All of a sudden I was chest deep in water and all I could see was ocean and two masts sticking up out of it.

The water cleared and the Old Man popped up out of the hatch and said, "Willy, what did you do?"

We got a dodger right after that.

From my mother's photo album.


-Will (Dragonfly)

 

Queen Victoria's → Bathing Machine

 

Fun fact. There never was such a thing as a chuck wagon. Hollywood invented it as a plot device along with the ol' cookie character. The average age of a "trailboss" on a cattle drive was 14. By 15, they were too valuable on the ranch, and probably looking to get married. Outriders started at age 10 or so. This changed a little bit after the civil war, but not much. The kids on the cattle drive had it hard. No wagons, no shelter, few if any carried a gun. Scared and hungry is a good way to make miles.

 

Sort of ruins the plot to the old John Wayne move 'The Cowboys'
"A grizzled veteran rancher, Wil Andersen (John Wayne) is almost ready to embark on a big cattle drive when his crew abruptly quits to join in a gold rush. Left with no alternative, Anderson enlists the help of a group of local schoolboys. Training the youngsters to be cowboys,..."

Good movie, but apparently the story was nothing special.

-Will (Dragonfly)