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What size of wood used here?
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Posted: Monday, November 20, 2017 - 11:40 PM UTC
I want to build this as the base for the M-110, but was wondering if anybody that was in Nam would know of the wood size?

I am guessing more of 6 X 6 or something like that.

Thanks

Cause not going to be that large, but hey close.



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Posted: Monday, November 20, 2017 - 11:56 PM UTC
Are you talking about the base under the Self Propelled Gun?

Looks more to be poured concrete than wood.
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Posted: Tuesday, November 21, 2017 - 05:48 AM UTC

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Are you talking about the base under the Self Propelled Gun?

Looks more to be poured concrete than wood.



Thanks Micheal

What about this?



Is that not the same?

I would rather make a concrete base, did they use them there?

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Posted: Tuesday, November 21, 2017 - 08:17 AM UTC
Looks like concrete in your first pic and wood planks in your second one.
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Posted: Tuesday, November 21, 2017 - 10:39 AM UTC
I have a book about field artillery in the vietnam war.... let me se if it has anything to offer.... I would also imagine PSP might be doable if you could find enough of it. (Pierced Steel Planking, or Marsden Matting)
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Posted: Tuesday, November 21, 2017 - 11:02 AM UTC
Sheridan tracks are 12 to 14 inches wide so those boards have to be 8 to 10 inches wide and at least 4 inches thick.

I doubt that the PSP would hold up in this fire base situation. Not unless they really prepped the ground underneath, as in dig down 2 - 3 feet, compact the sub-soil, then layers of course gravel and finally a layer of fine gravel under the PSP. If they were going to do all that they would just pour concrete.
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Posted: Tuesday, November 21, 2017 - 06:51 PM UTC

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I have a book about field artillery in the vietnam war.... let me se if it has anything to offer.... I would also imagine PSP might be doable if you could find enough of it. (Pierced Steel Planking, or Marsden Matting)


I sent you a PM Brain, thanks for that.

Gino, yep you are right, and might I add a nasty looking piece that M-110 is.

Micheal I think you might be right one more pic of a hilltop Battery I guess,appears to be all wood. As a combat and the ones that would put that in I think wood you be the easiest one.

This is all wood from what I see, and must admit a nice job also, all around,



And this one, for talk, does not look like a good idea, all out in the open with no support around. Mortar fire from the tree line?





Cheers

Jeff
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Posted: Wednesday, November 22, 2017 - 07:24 PM UTC
Sorry but top photo still looks to be poured concrete. No one in a combat situation (IMHO) would go to the trouble to engineer an octagonal wooden fire base. The carpentry required would be unnecessarily complex. But a octagonal form to pour concrete would be a breeze.

We built miles of roads and runways in Vietnam so having the equipment and material to do these concrete pads would be no problem.
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Posted: Friday, November 24, 2017 - 05:20 AM UTC

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Sorry but top photo still looks to be poured concrete. No one in a combat situation (IMHO) would go to the trouble to engineer an octagonal wooden fire base. The carpentry required would be unnecessarily complex. But a octagonal form to pour concrete would be a breeze.

We built miles of roads and runways in Vietnam so having the equipment and material to do these concrete pads would be no problem.


I agree with you Micheal,but the other one is wood, which both are strange.
What I have gathered is as time went on and fire bases became more permanent, then wood and concrete were used.
Good so were a 62B?
Good for your service.

Cheers
Jeff
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