Water Dilemma

Walter Glover
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Water Dilemma

Postby Walter Glover » 07 Feb 2016, 02:05

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Rotted Water Tank and Barrels

[Maris: the Bechers never shot a water tower like this one (to my knowledge)]
Walter Glover

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Maris
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Re: Water Dilemma

Postby Maris » 07 Feb 2016, 11:32

Wassertower? Nein! Ve haff zer superior artikel im Dusseldorf.

Mick Fagan
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Re: Water Dilemma

Postby Mick Fagan » 07 Feb 2016, 14:45

Walter Glover wrote:
[Maris: the Bechers never shot a water tower like this one (to my knowledge)]


Walter you are very correct there, they would have waited for the direct sunlight to be diluted by clouds, or maybe done it very early morning or late evening.

Your description reminds me of a problem I had while travelling in Germany with, at the time, very little to almost no knowledge of the language. I was trying to find a local to where I was, water tower. I went through my little lexicon and came up with more or less the direct translation from English but with the German coming out as, "where can I find the Water Tanks. I was trying to find the local water towers, which I knew existed.

I was sent towards a military complex, which turned out to be a tank training ground which specialised in all things to do with tanks, including water crossings. :mrgreen:

In the late sixties as a National Serviceman I witnessed the Germans and Americans trialing their respective tanks, with special emphasis on deep water crossings in Australia, I was very impressed with the German tanks as they left everyone else for dead. Watching a German Leopard tank cross a Goulburn river underwater is a memory I will probably never forget, very impressive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C26rJiOnKLk

Watch it at least long enough to see water coming inside, quite interesting. If you watch it through to the end you will see some normal water crossings.

By the way, nice picture. :D

These days I would simply ask for the Wasserturm = Water Tower.

Mick.

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Re: Water Dilemma

Postby Walter Glover » 08 Feb 2016, 09:19

Thanks for the link Mick,

It provided some intriguing somnambulist entertainment along with the other You Tube vids that followed it.

How safe must that geezer feel with his head stuck out of 44 gallon drum up top? Seems a bit precarious on so many levels.

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Walter Glover

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