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The gun
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young ronnie
, Sep 07 2009 09:39 PM
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A long time since this "gun" was fired in anger! It saw a few campaigns...sprats in the South Firth and the West Coast in the 60s,Beauly in the 70s and a few weeks at the herring pair trawl out of Tarbert.A lot safer than the spring loaded gun but a bugger to open if it was hammered in too tight...the "high tech" of its day!!
aye ronnie, but a five hour tow for f*ck all, if it was'nt hammered in tight enough.........
And a booted ar*e for the eejit that didnae tie a back-knot in the rope so it couldnae pull out
when we were towing we tied the codend knot over the top of the gun-just in case-we only used the gun for taking in lifts-then just hit it a shot on a pound board to close it (not to tight).
We were forever busting the pin, catch a turn round the stringer as the codend came aboard and bang another pin required lol
And poor jock was always to blame...............
That was his job MARRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAA he used to blame the bulk and we shouldn't take 2 lifts at once with the becket
luckily never seen one of these heavin and it open but had the nightmare of opening it a few times takin turns roon winches and a thing,,,a have see the twins comin up and both codends na tyed aye both,,and they both went away tyed honest,haha