Dr. Zook Posted July 1, 2025 Posted July 1, 2025 7 hours ago, Calamity Kris said: Well, with the clown that cut in front of me, his drivers window was almost perfectly aligned with the location of my horn..................... You know, my finger did get stuck, just a little bit.......... Can you swap out or supplement your current horn with a Federal Q system from your work ride???
Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 Posted July 1, 2025 Posted July 1, 2025 2 hours ago, Blackwater 53393 said: I don’t think I have ever been called a racist to my face! I can’t testify to what’s been said about me in my absence, but I have never let my personal feelings about race effect the way I treated anyone! Hence, the American Select Society Helping Others Less Enlightened! 🤣 I've certainly been called racist. While I AM a hard core dyed in the wool REDNECK, I'm certainly not racist. I've said it here before: I learned as a young Marine, that if a man can and will do what needs to be done, his race, religion, national origin or sexual orientation doesn't matter. If he can't or won't do what needs to be done, his race, religion, national origin or sexual orientation doesn't matter. Any time I've given anybody a Ration of Cr*p about some failure on his part, it was ONLY because he failed in some way. And of course, most of the time, he refused to accept the fact that he just plain failed. He blamed my criticism of him on some prejudice on MY part, not his failure. I believe I qualify for membership in the American Select Society Helping Others Less Enlightened!
watab kid Posted July 1, 2025 Posted July 1, 2025 bottom line is there are those that do and pay their dues , then there are those that feel entitled to live off of what you do - they seem to be the ones that are most concerned with political correctness and also some seem the least intelligent - their vocabulary is lacking , but if it works for them now hope they have a short and unprosperous life , life is short enjoy it well and my father used to say "dont let the b#$@%rds wear you down
Calamity Kris Posted July 1, 2025 Author Posted July 1, 2025 5 hours ago, Dr. Zook said: Can you swap out or supplement your current horn with a Federal Q system from your work ride??? Boy wouldn't that be fun!!!!! Unfortunately, I haven't seen one of those since I was forced to retire many moons ago.
Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103 Posted July 1, 2025 Posted July 1, 2025 4 hours ago, Calamity Kris said: Boy wouldn't that be fun!!!!! Unfortunately, I haven't seen one of those since I was forced to retire many moons ago. I'm not sure if it's practical on your buggy or not, but I mounted twin chrome International Harvester twin trumpet air horns on my pickup, years ago. I also had a Federal model 28 coffee grinder siren, a Twin Sonic light bar and a Federal Interceptor electronic siren with the 100 watt chrome speaker. Air horns were the most effective in getting traffic the hell out of the way. Drivers will ignore yelp, wail, hi-lo, the agonized Coffee Grinder's tortured-soul scream, but when they hear AIR HORNS, they think an eighteen is about to have them for breakfast, and the get out of the way, FAST!!!
Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 Posted July 1, 2025 Posted July 1, 2025 10 hours ago, Dr. Zook said: Can you swap out or supplement your current horn with a Federal Q system from your work ride??? 5 hours ago, Calamity Kris said: Boy wouldn't that be fun!!!!! Unfortunately, I haven't seen one of those since I was forced to retire many moons ago. 18 minutes ago, Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103 said: I'm not sure if it's practical on your buggy or not, but I mounted twin chrome International Harvester twin trumpet air horns on my pickup, years ago. I also had a Federal model 28 coffee grinder siren, a Twin Sonic light bar and a Federal Interceptor electronic siren with the 100 watt chrome speaker. Air horns were the most effective in getting traffic the hell out of the way. Drivers will ignore yelp, wail, hi-lo, the agonized Coffee Grinder's tortured-soul scream, but when they hear AIR HORNS, they think an eighteen is about to have them for breakfast, and the get out of the way, FAST!!! I've been considering a set of these for the Muddog... https://www.ebay.com/itm/161785005404
Rip Snorter Posted July 1, 2025 Posted July 1, 2025 Takes me back - there were some systems that played tunes as well as just making noise. There was also a point in the late '50's when Bermuda carriage bells were a thing on hotrods. Some states I believe you can't have sirens. Air horns, the big gun!
Dr. Zook Posted July 1, 2025 Posted July 1, 2025 36 minutes ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said: I've been considering a set of these for the Muddog... https://www.ebay.com/itm/161785005404 If the diaphragm fails, replace with x-ray film (un-named co worker did that on a Collins ambulance trumpet airhorn).
Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 Posted July 1, 2025 Posted July 1, 2025 16 minutes ago, Rip Snorter said: Takes me back - there were some systems that played tunes as well as just making noise. There was also a point in the late '50's when Bermuda carriage bells were a thing on hotrods. Some states you I believe can't have sirens. Air horns, the big gun! Back when I was considering being a Firefighter as a career, I met a Columbus Fire Dept. Captain who could play "Mary Had a Little Lamb" on a Federal Interceptor.
Texas Joker Posted July 1, 2025 Posted July 1, 2025 I mount these on my bikes. 30 amp so needs a relay and it's LOUD
Calamity Kris Posted July 1, 2025 Author Posted July 1, 2025 8 hours ago, Blackwater 53393 said: Hey Kris!! How’s the foot?? It's getting better, thanks for asking. I returned to wo#k this week and my co-workers thought it would be fun to decorate my walking cast. Here is their artwork. I go back to the Dr. next week to see what he thinks of the progress.
Blackwater 53393 Posted July 1, 2025 Posted July 1, 2025 This is twelve weeks in on mine! I’m just now allowed to walk full time. I’m in a walking boot most of the time, but I take a few steps now and then in my sock feet. Still a lot of swelling, but no pain and it seems to be doing what we were trying to do. Glad to hear that you’re doing well!!
Dr. Zook Posted July 1, 2025 Posted July 1, 2025 8 hours ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said: Back when I was considering being a Firefighter as a career, I met a Columbus Fire Dept. Captain who could play "Mary Had a Little Lamb" on a Federal Interceptor. That is pure talent --- best i could get with the Federal was the Dog bark between #1 wail/#2 yelp... position #3, the French W**** actually did get a few people's attention...
Dr. Zook Posted July 1, 2025 Posted July 1, 2025 at the risk of causing a reoccurrence of P.T.B[ack].D - may I present cot #30, though i think i may have used a holdover #21 in my booter days... LOL 😆 Ambulance Cots: Yesterday to Today (Ferno) – EMS Museum
watab kid Posted July 2, 2025 Posted July 2, 2025 im looking at alll that hardware and thinking you really damaged those joints , not sure if i want to know how , but will ask , and offer best wishes in recovery , my only experience like this was back in my 20s in 1972 - i dont want to do that at my current age
Calamity Kris Posted July 2, 2025 Author Posted July 2, 2025 Goodness gracious!! That's more hardware than I have by quite a bit. Glad to hear you're doing better. My hardware is in my toes. I don't dare walk without my boot or protective shoe on because I'm afraid of flexing my toes and messing everything up.
Blackwater 53393 Posted July 2, 2025 Posted July 2, 2025 To answer both Kris’ and Watab’s questions, I have broken that foot several times. Work accidents, sports, and motorcycling. It usually healed up pretty quickly and there wasn’t much displacement of bones. But accumulated wear and tear and diabetes, combined with an infection I picked up from a tiny cut that got away from me, caused me to have a significant portion of the tissue behind my little toe removed in 2017. It took a whole year for me to regrow that tissue and in the process, I picked up a MRSA infection that attacked the bones behind the fifth toe. This resulted in several more surgeries, a trip to intensive care that included two months of hospitalization and rehab, surgery on my neck from the infection spreading into my cervical spine, and the eventual removal of my little toe and the bones behind it. When I finally recovered from that, we discovered that the bone behind the fourth toe was pushing down and causing pressure sores to develop on the sole of the foot, so that bone had to be removed as well. With the absence of all that structure, my foot began to roll over to the outside when I walked in any kind of shoes which caused pressure sores on the outside of the foot where the remaining bone where the outer tendon attaches to the foot protruded. This last surgery was performed to stabilize the remaining bone structure and to shave off and smooth the protrusion causing the sores. I’m thirteen weeks into recovery now and was released to start walking with a cane and the walking boot three weeks ago. I’m also allowed to walk a little in my sock feet with the cane, a few steps at a time, as of last Friday. The preliminary indication is that the surgery appears to have been at least somewhat successful. There’s no evidence of any internal pressure after three weeks and it seems to have stabilized the foot roll. I won’t be sure of that stabilization until I can get back into shoes or boots. It may be that I’ll need a brace of some sort to complete the deal. For now, both the surgeon and I are optimistic. I start rehabilitation later this month and I’ll see him again early in August.
MizPete Posted July 2, 2025 Posted July 2, 2025 On 7/1/2025 at 11:07 AM, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said: I met a Columbus Fire Dept. Captain who could play "Mary Had a Little Lamb" on a Federal Interceptor. I could play the William Tell Overture on the OLD (first issue) phones.
Crazy Gun Barney, SASS #2428 Posted July 2, 2025 Posted July 2, 2025 On 6/30/2025 at 10:03 PM, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said: I'm certainly not racist I most assuredly am not racist. I live and work in So Ca and as such I am the minority here. There is every race, religion, sexual orientation, ideology known to man within a stones throw at all times. There is one guy at work who went to HR to complain about my "racism". He is a full of himself woke idiot that has had way too much schooling and not enough common sense. When HR told me about it, I actually laughed. I told them I have no problem with him being from Turkey, I have a problem with him being absolutely useless and a hinderance to any team he gets attached to. At the time, management was doing a lot of off site team building. I mentioned this to HR, who is always there and she agreed. I have no problem at all with this guy in non work related activities. Dinner and drinks, bowling, "mystery/spy" games... no issues at all. Have him weigh in on my work to tell me what I am doing wrong when he absolutely has no idea what I am doing or why and I have issues. HR understood, and I was not the only person in the building that was having similar issues with this guy. many years later and somehow he still works with us, and still causes issues, but most of us have learned (and he has learned) how to get along...mostly.
Sedalia Dave Posted July 3, 2025 Posted July 3, 2025 On 6/30/2025 at 12:19 PM, Blackwater 53393 said: Sometimes I wonder why I ever gave up smoking… So you would have more money to spend on firearms and ammo.
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