Yorkshire Pudding Posted November 5, 2002 Report Share Posted November 5, 2002 Just bought myself a lamp for going out in the evenings.Its a hand held lamp, made by "top tool" makers Draper, 1.5million candle power for the grand sum of 20 squids. It'll probably turn out to be s*%#=++~+)(&*** not very good. But at 20 squids.... well.... all the best Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazza Posted November 5, 2002 Report Share Posted November 5, 2002 At least if you can't shoot'em.............you should be able to burn their eyes out!.......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkshire Pudding Posted November 5, 2002 Author Report Share Posted November 5, 2002 looks like there will be a lot of blind rabbits round our way!!!!!!!! found this http://www.nightsearcher.co.uk/order/index.htm all the best Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil Posted November 5, 2002 Report Share Posted November 5, 2002 The torch that coppers using is massive,no wonder they allways travel round in pairs :laugh: :laugh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sutty Posted November 5, 2002 Report Share Posted November 5, 2002 Does yours have a police car attatched to it as well !!!!! not bad for twenty squid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted November 5, 2002 Report Share Posted November 5, 2002 Quite a few years ago I had a friend who left an old pick-up truck at the farm, just for shooting purposes. A right heap,no tax or insurance and falling to pieces. One night he invited me to go lamping rabbits with him. We met at the farm and he showed me his new lamp. Apparently his brother-in-law had "liberated" the hand lamp from the local HM Dockyard, where it was Royal Navy issue. He had fitted a socket on it to run from the cigarette lighter on the truck. He got the truck going and off we went across the farm to the woods. As we got near to the woods, he stopped and I climbed into the back of the truck. I was to shoot and he would drive and operate the lamp. What happened next was hilarious. I said "Right", he turned the light on, the place lit up like daylight for 3 seconds then the truck engine died, never to start again. The lamp was some phenomenal amount of candlepower and had burned out the battery. We had to walk back to the farm and get a tractor to tow the truck back. All the electrics on the truck were fried. He never did find a battery that was powerful enough to keep it alight for more than a few seconds. I think the Navy used it for spotting low flying aircraft. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil Posted November 5, 2002 Report Share Posted November 5, 2002 He should have liberated one of those anti aircraft guns while he was at it,i bet it would have fitted on the back of the pickup a treat :laugh: :laugh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazza Posted November 5, 2002 Report Share Posted November 5, 2002 Have you still got the truck?...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted November 5, 2002 Report Share Posted November 5, 2002 He took the wheels off the truck, as the tyres were quite good (his opinion) and the truck went to the scrapyard. The wheels were piled up behind an old barn, where they lay and rusted and rotted away. I don,t know what happened to the lamp. I suspect no evidence remains. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highdowns hunter Posted November 6, 2002 Report Share Posted November 6, 2002 looks like there are some dodgy characters in your neck of the woods Cranfield, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted November 6, 2002 Report Share Posted November 6, 2002 hh, a very long time ago, in my mis-spent youth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dead-eye-dick Posted November 6, 2002 Report Share Posted November 6, 2002 hh, a very long time ago, in my mis-spent youth. I didn't think even elephants memories were that long.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dead-eye-dick Posted November 6, 2002 Report Share Posted November 6, 2002 looks like there are some dodgy characters in your neck of the woods Cranfield. HH - Thats no way to talk about me.....Even if it is true....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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