abandoned bren carrier

RedApe said:
You don't have to tell the Legion ####. If its privately owned, bring cash and a flatbed. It will be more appreciated and restored by you than them. They'll just weld all moving parts shut and stick it on a stone slab
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yeah but it's not privately owned anymore it's in a abandoned heavy equipment wrecking yard so its either free for the taking or the township will get involved hence the local legion will have more pull with them then I would
 
If anyone is interested, I know where a carrier sat (and is probably still sitting) at a hunt camp up near Minden. I last saw it about 10 years ago. Would have been driven across the ice to get it in. It was in pretty good shape, engine, trim, tracks still on it. If I remember correctly, it was painted light blue (sky blue), and this appeared to be the original paint. There was also a 6 wheel army truck in the bush on the other side of the lake. Looks like the hunt camp guys had used them to ferry gear across the portage to their camp, You need to cross a portage to get to it. Drive to Norland on Hwy 35 - hang a left onto Deep Bay Road, then take the road that leads to Devil's Lake access point. Boat up Devils lake. Portage to Sheldon Lake is on left shore. Portage is a bit over 1km long. Carrier sits beside the hunt camp on the far shore of Sheldon Lake.
Dave
 
fenelon said:
If anyone is interested, I know where a carrier sat (and is probably still sitting) at a hunt camp up near Minden. I last saw it about 10 years ago. Would have been driven across the ice to get it in. It was in pretty good shape, engine, trim, tracks still on it. If I remember correctly, it was painted light blue (sky blue), and this appeared to be the original paint. There was also a 6 wheel army truck in the bush on the other side of the lake. Looks like the hunt camp guys had used them to ferry gear across the portage to their camp, You need to cross a portage to get to it. Drive to Norland on Hwy 35 - hang a left onto Deep Bay Road, then take the road that leads to Devil's Lake access point. Boat up Devils lake. Portage to Sheldon Lake is on left shore. Portage is a bit over 1km long. Carrier sits beside the hunt camp on the far shore of Sheldon Lake.
Dave
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You have pm... im interested.
 
Used to be one at a remote commercial camp at end of the Massey Tote Road. They used it to get stuff into the camp. That camp still operates, but I don't know if the carrier is still there.
 
I have a few spare differentials for a carrier if you or anyone else is looking for one.

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Bud and I picked up a carrier last year in real nice shape, complete driveline, steering mech ect... As usual missing most of the armour , was being used as a skidder for logging at some point. So we are on the lookout for the armour or a shell Okanagan BC
 
Valiview i think is were

infideleggwelder said:
was ferrets outside of CFB Suffield in a yard just off hiway 1 back in the `90s. closer to the base than the Hat.

and there is/was a bunch of stuff on the yellow head west of edmonton. big hand painted sign that said ARMY SURPLUS. don't know what else was in there except for a couple of possible landing craft/vehicle transports. 2009 last time i went by there. can't remember exact location, may have even been in Saskatchewan near Maidstone. anyone with eyes and knows that hiway knows where i`m talking about. there was also several junkyards along the yellow head that had deuce &1/2s, 3/4 tons and the like.
Truck Boneyard (google it) near Balgonie, SK also has a Brit issue Land Rover. there was also some stuff NW of watson, sk, but i think the Rotary club there may have scrapped all that stuff in the late `90s. if i remember more i`ll post it.
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A Canadian seller has a carrier for sale on Ebay. Now at $13k USD and rising.

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Just wanted to say my uncle, Sam Steinbaum, was a gunner in one in Normandy. He was an incredibly interesting guy. He was living in Buenos Aires in 1940, when he went to Montevideo to watch the pocket battleship Graf Spee sail out of the harbor, and then blow itself up in spectacular fashion rather than meet what they thought was a British heavy battle squadron waiting for it. After that he went to Britain, where they put him in the free Polish forces, but the anti-Semitism was so bad he and a bunch of others basically mutinied and demanded to be transferred to the British forces. He ended up in the 51st Highland division, First Canadian Army. He landed on D+30, and was later wounded in action. He was assigned to the Tiger Force to go to the Pacific but of course the war ended.
 
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1898guns said:
I have a few spare differentials for a carrier if you or anyone else is looking for one.

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Those parts are from a US produced T-16 carrier. They were a proper controlled differential. The Canadian carrier used a truck differential. For steering the Canadian carrier warped the tracks for minor steering and would activate the brake on one of the drums for tighter turning.

The T-16 differentials were quite good, and post war were used on Nodwells, Go tracs, and others with much larger diesel engines right into the 80s. I have an armoured snowmobile (Penguin Mk2) that also uses this differential.
 
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