On Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:12:46 -0400, Tom Watson
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I like it!

Looks nice.

What does the inside look like?

Very nice, I like the recessed handles.

Did it survive it's trip, I was a Scout and at that age I doubt I thought
much about how I treated things.

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If ya see it, it didn't go off.
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"Tom Watson" wrote in message

If that footlocker really does travel to a boy scout camp, better make sure
it's filled with all sorts of food goodies. Considering how good it looks on
the outside, you're going to have to ensure your boy scout has something
good on the inside to share.

"Tom Watson" wrote in message

Tom, I'm wondering about your choice of handle placement? If there's
something really heavy being transported inside this footlocker, don't you
think handles located on the lid will product undue strain on the box lid
when lifting?

"Upscale" wrote in message
Tom, I'm wondering about your choice of handle placement? If there's
something really heavy being transported inside this footlocker, don't you
think handles located on the lid will product undue strain on the box lid
when lifting?

Let me retract the above question. I was so busy admiring the front of the
footlocker that I neglected to take notice of the carry handles on the end
of the footlocker.

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"Tom Watson" wrote in message

If that footlocker really does travel to a boy scout camp, better make
sure it's filled with all sorts of food goodies. Considering how good
it looks on the outside, you're going to have to ensure your boy scout
has something good on the inside to share.

If they are going tenting in bear country, do make sure there are no
goodies in there that make your son bear candy ...


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"Tom Watson" wrote in message

If that footlocker really does travel to a boy scout camp, better make
sure
it's filled with all sorts of food goodies. Considering how good it looks
on
the outside, you're going to have to ensure your boy scout has something
good on the inside to share.



Goodies will be confiscated at our Scout camp... the bears have no qualms
about walking in the front flaps of a tent and out the back and in the back
of the next tent and out the front and keep going in and out of tents until
they find something interesting... Last summer two Boy Scouts stayed up all
night shooing two cubs and two adults away from our overnight Weblos
campsite. No goodies in camp, PERIOD!

John

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"Tom Watson" wrote in message

If that footlocker really does travel to a boy scout camp, better make
sure
it's filled with all sorts of food goodies. Considering how good it looks
on
the outside, you're going to have to ensure your boy scout has something
good on the inside to share.



campsite. No goodies in camp, PERIOD!

John


Wanna bet?

This is a Woodbadge Scouter talking. :-)

"Tom Watson" wrote in message
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I like it very much. My footlocker was much plainer. The handles on the ends
were leather straps with a keeper at each end of the strap riveted through
the plywood. Very, very nice indeed.

DaveD.

On Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:12:46 -0400, Tom Watson
wrote:

Thanks to everyone for the kind words.

I know it's a little over the top for a footlocker but the cherry ply
has crossgrained marks in it that made it unfit for salable work and
the hardware has had more birthdays than my oldest child.

I'll be making a couple of trays for it and doing the final fitting of
the hardware, tomorrow.



Regards,

Tom

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campsite. No goodies in camp, PERIOD!

John


Wanna bet?

This is a Woodbadge Scouter talking. :-)


The last time the bears found something at the council camp it was a Scout
Master's lean-to and personal possessions that got trashed by the bear (not
our group). This isn't the kind of irresponsible example we like to set for
the boys... There are no bear boxes on the sites and the camp has an
electric fence around the dumpsters to discourage the bears. They had to
destroy one bear that came back several times after being relocated and
having food/snacks in the tents would likely lead to more being destroyed...
Goodies have to be consumed and the waste removed to the dumpsters before
bed!

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campsite. No goodies in camp, PERIOD!

John


Wanna bet?

This is a Woodbadge Scouter talking. :-)


The last time the bears found something at the council camp it was a Scout
Master's lean-to and personal possessions that got trashed by the bear
(not our group). This isn't the kind of irresponsible example we like to
set for the boys... There are no bear boxes on the sites and the camp has
an electric fence around the dumpsters to discourage the bears. They had
to destroy one bear that came back several times after being relocated and
having food/snacks in the tents would likely lead to more being
destroyed... Goodies have to be consumed and the waste removed to the
dumpsters before bed!

I've led the troop into wilderness camp sites many times and I've laid down
the rules for each trip. I was inferring that in spite of the rules you lay
down, a scout will sooner or later bring goodies. I cancelled a Philmont
trip because some of my older scouts brought goodies on a wilderness
campout.
I wasn't suggesting the rules weren't necessary, but the only way I know to
insure they are followed is to inspect all of the boxes prior to departure.
When you said No goodies in camp, PERIOD!, I knew that sooner or later a
scout will transgress the rule.

In our troop we made a campout, one every month. Except for summer camp,
they all were backpacking trips. We earned the polar bear patch at least
once a year. For the non-scouters, that means we slept on the ground (in a
tent) when there was ice on the tents in the morning. In spite of the
regimen, the scouts still transgressed rule. They were the older scouts as
is evidenced that we were Philmont bound. I will say they got the message
though, I never caught them with the goodies again.

Have you done the Woodbadge training? I'm a Beaver. I still have my beads
and I treasure them. :-)

Y'all don't need to worry about bears.

Check out the size of the mountain lion.



Regards,

Tom

Thos.J.Watson - Cabinetmaker
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www.home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1

"Tom Watson" wrote in message
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Y'all don't need to worry about bears.

Check out the size of the mountain lion.



Regards,

Tom

Thos.J.Watson - Cabinetmaker
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That's it .... I'm not butting up any more bird feeders.


He got his Bear Badge



I worry about squirrels getting into my bird feeder?



Good grief, That's no Turkey


I don't know if the images made the trip or not. :-)

"
That's it .... I'm not butting up any more bird feeders.


He got his Bear Badge



I worry about squirrels getting into my bird feeder?



Good grief, That's no Turkey


I don't know if the images made the trip or not. :-)

They didn't, but I'll try again.

On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:01:07 GMT, "Lowell Holmes"
wrote:


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That's it .... I'm not butting up any more bird feeders.


He got his Bear Badge



I worry about squirrels getting into my bird feeder?



Good grief, That's no Turkey


I don't know if the images made the trip or not. :-)

They didn't, but I'll try again.



You know, Lowell, I enjoyed the hell out of that.

I wish there was a way to show in pictures just how fast bears can be.

They always seem to look cute, until they are headed in your direction
with obviously bad intent.



Regards,

Tom

Thos.J.Watson - Cabinetmaker
tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet
www.home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1

"snip


You know, Lowell, I enjoyed the hell out of that.

I wish there was a way to show in pictures just how fast bears can be.

They always seem to look cute, until they are headed in your direction
with obviously bad intent.



Regards,

Tom

Thos.J.Watson - Cabinetmaker
tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet
www.home.comcast.net/~tjwatson1

I never made it to Philmont because I had to cancel after the scouts
transgressed the rules. I refused to take a patrol that I couldn't trust to
follow orders because Philmont is true wilderness camping. I know the bear
bags have to be suspended from high trees and high enough the bears can't
jump and reach them. I never rigged one though.

Don't under estimate what a coon can do. We had one walk into the campsite
at summer camp one year and tried to get into an igloo cooler that had food
in it and when we tried to shoo the coon away, he challenged us big time.

John's right about the no goodies rule, but it is hard to enforce, and as
John mentioned, even the adults can be idiots.

"Lowell Holmes" wrote in message
That's it .... I'm not butting up any more bird feeders.
He got his Bear Badge

Easy way to protect against that happening, take a kitty along.

"Lowell Holmes" wrote

I never made it to Philmont because I had to cancel after the scouts
transgressed the rules. I refused to take a patrol that I couldn't trust
to follow orders because Philmont is true wilderness camping. I know the
bear bags have to be suspended from high trees and high enough the bears
can't jump and reach them. I never rigged one though.

Don't under estimate what a coon can do. We had one walk into the campsite
at summer camp one year and tried to get into an igloo cooler that had
food in it and when we tried to shoo the coon away, he challenged us big
time.


I went on a scout backpack camping trip when I was about 13 to an area that
had lots of elk and deer. We got to our campsite and just dumped our packs
and scattered. I guess we needed a little time without those heavy packs
weighing us down.

I got back to the campsite about twenty minutes later and a deer had his
head in my pack chowing down on my food for the next three days. I screamed
and charged him. He paniced and took off still wearing my pack over his
head. We probably ran at least two hundred yards with that pack over his
head before he finally managed to get it off his head. By this time the
pack was completely empty. All my pack contents had been scattered along the
flight path.

It took me an hour to complete picking up my worldly goods and transport
them back to camp. I was on half rations for the next three days. That
definitely made me crabby. And I suspended my food from a tree after that.

Add deer to that list.

Lee Michaels wrote:
"Lowell Holmes" wrote
I never made it to Philmont because I had to cancel after the scouts
transgressed the rules. I refused to take a patrol that I couldn't trust
to follow orders because Philmont is true wilderness camping. I know the
bear bags have to be suspended from high trees and high enough the bears
can't jump and reach them. I never rigged one though.

Don't under estimate what a coon can do. We had one walk into the campsite
at summer camp one year and tried to get into an igloo cooler that had
food in it and when we tried to shoo the coon away, he challenged us big
time.


I went on a scout backpack camping trip when I was about 13 to an area that
had lots of elk and deer. We got to our campsite and just dumped our packs
and scattered. I guess we needed a little time without those heavy packs
weighing us down.

I got back to the campsite about twenty minutes later and a deer had his
head in my pack chowing down on my food for the next three days. I screamed
and charged him. He paniced and took off still wearing my pack over his
head. We probably ran at least two hundred yards with that pack over his
head before he finally managed to get it off his head. By this time the
pack was completely empty. All my pack contents had been scattered along the
flight path.

It took me an hour to complete picking up my worldly goods and transport
them back to camp. I was on half rations for the next three days. That
definitely made me crabby. And I suspended my food from a tree after that.

Add deer to that list.


Once I was camping with my dad and brother. We had suspended our
backpacks (containing our food) in trees.
I woke up the next morning to the spectacle of a squirrel backing out of
a hole he'd chewed in my brother's pack, pulling a candy bar half his
size. It was funny watching him run off, balancing that huge candy bar
in his mouth as he ran.

Add squirrels to that list.

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That's it .... I'm not butting up any more bird feeders.

And to think I complained that my wife's feeders were attracting rats.

Dave in Houston