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![[*]](./images/xpsilver/default_icon.gif) posted on 3-1-2010 at 03:51 PM |
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The Pride of the Cumberland (Chipper) is at Conley Bottom
This must be a good sign that Spring is about to spring.
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TWS
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| posted on 3-1-2010 at 04:44 PM |
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I know I am happy it is at CB, watch out intakes.......
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| posted on 3-1-2010 at 04:59 PM |
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To bad I thought it sank.
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DirtyWhiteBoy
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| posted on 3-1-2010 at 05:14 PM |
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Glad to see it.
It could have saved me some scratches and a prop last year
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| posted on 3-1-2010 at 06:36 PM |
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You evidently don't have a Seadoo....
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| posted on 3-1-2010 at 06:37 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally posted by kc8txa
To bad I thought it sank. |
Welcome to the forum kc8txa! Glad to have you on board.
You know I think that thing has a steel hull. Give it 5 years and rust will take care of that problem.
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| posted on 3-1-2010 at 07:35 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally posted by WaterWings
You know I think that thing has a steel hull. Give it 5 years and rust will take care of that problem. |
SO does the USS New Jersey, First Commissioned in 1943, still floating today...........
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| posted on 3-1-2010 at 08:06 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Lock5
| Quote: | Originally posted by WaterWings
You know I think that thing has a steel hull. Give it 5 years and rust will take care of that problem. |
SO does the USS New Jersey, First Commissioned in 1943, still floating today........... |
So does the USS Missouri, first commissioned in 1944, still floating today and will be for a long time. She had 13 1/2 inch steel armor plate for a
hull. Don't think the "Pride of the Cumberland" has a hull like that.
http://www.ussmissouri.com/visitor-information/interesting-facts
I've seen the "Pride of the Cumberland" up close and have actually been on the "Mighty Mo"...trust me, the "Pride" is no "Mighty Mo". The USS
Missouri and the New Jersey actually had valuable missions... and they fulfilled it well.
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| posted on 3-1-2010 at 08:27 PM |
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LOL, here we go again. People going back and fouth about the chipper.
Well here is my yearly take on it.
You can get new impellers and that won't kill you if you hit them before you see them and can go around them...
Try hitting a log running WFO and see how that feels on a seadoo or a boat.
I'm not sure if I have heard of someone's boat sinking because of woodchips or a tuber being killed by them etc.
But all of the above happen from logs. Sure I would rather they did not discharge the chips in the lake and used the barge properly but I'd much
rather have that then LOGs.
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| posted on 3-1-2010 at 08:31 PM |
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So what's new about that modern mechanical invention being at Conley Bottom??? Hasn't it been here for a few years???
and BTW, who ever named it The "PRIDE" of Cumberland???
and also, do ya think the Corps ever read our posts on LC.com???
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| posted on 3-1-2010 at 08:35 PM |
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Totally agree with what your saying E... but the "Pride" does so little in the grand sceme of things its a joke. It can't possibly make a huge
difference in the drift wood problem. Its a drop in the proverbial bucket. Then add the chipper problem to the equation and well... its a waste of
taxpayer's dollars, IMO. 
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| posted on 3-1-2010 at 08:41 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally posted by xburnside
do ya think the Corps ever read our posts on LC.com??? |
I was personally told by a COE employee that YES they do read the forum occasionally but they can not respond publicly as representatives of the COE
or even mention the COE if they do post.
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| posted on 3-1-2010 at 08:51 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally posted by xburnside
So what's new about that modern mechanical invention being at Conley Bottom??? Hasn't it been here for a few years???
and BTW, who ever named it The "PRIDE" of Cumberland???
and also, do ya think the Corps ever read our posts on LC.com??? |
Please refer to the following sources:
- http://lakecumberland.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=26712
- http://www.kypride.org/news/pdfs/PRIDE-Progress-Summer05.pdf
I believe the Corps does read our posts.
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I'll grant you it doesn't do the damage that a log could do, but if you rode from GHD to Lees Ford and got that crap in your impeller at about
Fishing Creek, wouldn't you be pretty PO'ed???  I really don't care to swim it to shore, find a ride to Grider, pull a
trailer back ETC ETC!!! The da-- thing is a royal PITA!! Been there done that, lucky I got the dang chip out of my impeller.
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| posted on 3-1-2010 at 09:17 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Randy
Been there done that, lucky I got the dang chip out of my impeller. |
Okay...now get that burr outta your...oh, never mind!
BTW - the chipper is located at Conley to keep our new slip clear! And iffin you believe that, let me tell ya about this fantastic property we have
for sale in the Everglades!
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| posted on 3-1-2010 at 09:32 PM |
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They need to take the thing over to the pier 1 ramp at Conley. There was crap in front of the ramp about 30 yards out.
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| posted on 3-1-2010 at 09:55 PM |
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Thanks. I really don't have a problem with it during the winter when the chips from the chipper do really matter because I'm not taking a seadoo out
but when there is a ton of boats out lets not chip the wood into the water. Seems like a hard concept.
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| posted on 3-1-2010 at 10:00 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally posted by WaterWings
I've seen the "Pride of the Cumberland" up close and have actually been on the "Mighty Mo"...trust me, the "Pride" is no "Mighty Mo". The USS
Missouri and the New Jersey actually had valuable missions... and they fulfilled it well. |
I spent 6 months cruising with the Jersey in Beruit, I got to spend the night on her after delivering mail one afternoon. I also was able to see her
bomb the dogsh*t out of the Syrians on a mountain behind the airport in Beruit, she lobbed over 250 16" rounds at the diaper heads over I think it
was 2 days. That was about 30-40 days before we brought everyone home.
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| posted on 3-1-2010 at 10:15 PM |
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kc8txa...couldn't have said it better myself.
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| posted on 3-1-2010 at 10:33 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Randy
I'll grant you it doesn't do the damage that a log could do, but if you rode from GHD to Lees Ford and got that crap in your impeller at about
Fishing Creek, wouldn't you be pretty PO'ed??? I really don't care to swim it to shore, find a ride to Grider, pull a
trailer back ETC ETC!!! The da-- thing is a royal PITA!! Been there done that, lucky I got the dang chip out of my impeller. |
Why wouldn't you just call Marine Assist and continue to enjoy your day on the lake? 
I know it is a nuisance but better than deadly. And I agree why don't they do the chippin in the winter and spring when seadoos really don't get
out... And why not just pull to the shore and shoot the chips in the summer. If it was ran every day it really could make a difference. If I
didn't believe so I would not have pulled some of the big ones I have pulled out of the water onto my platform and gotten them out of the way. One
was in the entrance to Conley a few summers ago. The dock dudes looked at me weird as I handed it off to them but I know that 4' x 12" piece of
wood could have really ruined a boat or someone. One piece at a time helps IMO.
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| posted on 3-2-2010 at 06:04 AM |
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| Quote: | Originally posted by xburnside
So what's new about that modern mechanical invention being at Conley Bottom??? Hasn't it been here for a few years???
and BTW, who ever named it The "PRIDE" of Cumberland???
and also, do ya think the Corps ever read our posts on LC.com??? |
I think they meant to say the "Joke Of Cumberland". Nothing but a photo op for Hal Rogers.
"He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty four days now without taking a fish." Conley
Bottom Striper Guide Service http://www.conleystriper.com |
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| posted on 3-2-2010 at 08:37 AM |
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Har! Har! Don't make fun of that chipper, cause you insult me when you do cause my old houseboat almost looked like that and at least the chipper run
well. We cut oar holes in the sides of the old boat to let guests get a little exercise as they rowed us out to a cove(anywhere outside the no wake
zone). Seriously though, I think I could do with the chips much better than I could do with a sunk boat, or a severely damaged boat. We are pretty
fortunate on Beaver Creek as most of the flotsam passes us by on its way down. We get almost no trash.
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| posted on 3-2-2010 at 09:31 AM |
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The driftwood & etc is floating into the coves. A sure sign of spring. Had one heck of a driftwood bon-fire last week. Boating season is just around
the corner & we're ready to go to Harmon. Just as soon as we can clear us a path to get there... One log @ a time....
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| posted on 3-2-2010 at 09:48 AM |
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Don't forget the chips can also go into boat intakes such as AC/Heat seacocks and right into the strainers which will eventually plug up and if your
AC/Heat is on that can cause damage or ruin the AC/Heat unit. Very expensive! 
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| posted on 3-2-2010 at 11:20 AM |
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The chipper idea if used on a much grander scale and removed the chips would be a wonderful idea. But, the surface of this lake is a bit big for this
one chipper. It reminds me of trying to draw down the lake with a wet vac.
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