- Joined
- Apr 8, 2018
- Location
- Coffeeville, TX
Look at it this way folks.
If the guns were on wheeled carriages up off near ground level, whether the wheels would rotate or not, wouldn't they be easier to steal?
With a big Rodman, or Columbiad its irrelevant, but with smaller field pieces they would be more inviting to thieves looking for scrap money. Might not be an issue elsewhere, but in some rural areas down here its a very real worry. Heck at our Courthouse they left the tires on a WW2 field piece flat for years for that reason, now that scrap don't fetch what it did they've been aired up or replaced, but it was a concern for a while.
As for wood in climates, no a wood carriage here in the South would only last so long.
EDIT: If the carriages were aluminum it'd incentivize thieves even more.
If the guns were on wheeled carriages up off near ground level, whether the wheels would rotate or not, wouldn't they be easier to steal?
With a big Rodman, or Columbiad its irrelevant, but with smaller field pieces they would be more inviting to thieves looking for scrap money. Might not be an issue elsewhere, but in some rural areas down here its a very real worry. Heck at our Courthouse they left the tires on a WW2 field piece flat for years for that reason, now that scrap don't fetch what it did they've been aired up or replaced, but it was a concern for a while.
As for wood in climates, no a wood carriage here in the South would only last so long.
EDIT: If the carriages were aluminum it'd incentivize thieves even more.
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