| The Gray Ghost | 05 Mar 2016 6:11 p.m. PST |
anyone know what this is?
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| Major General Stanley | 05 Mar 2016 8:45 p.m. PST |
It's a tripod to hold up his oversize Johnson! |
| Weasel | 05 Mar 2016 9:16 p.m. PST |
A holder for that magnificent moustache? I'm really curious as well. I haven't seen anything like that and the couple books of artillery I have don't list anything that looks like that for the French. |
| Weasel | 06 Mar 2016 12:17 a.m. PST |
Could it be some sort of gas shells? |
Eleve de Vauban  | 06 Mar 2016 3:21 a.m. PST |
"Fusil Lance-Grenades Guidetti" – a Guidetti rifle grenade thrower. Old Gras rifles had their barrels removed and their stocks cut down, the firing mechanisms was retained and used. It came in two sizes. 77mm, to fire the Guidetti grenade up to 200 metres. 65mm to fire a Citron-Foug grenade up to 450mm. Nice boots he's wearing. |
| Cerdic | 06 Mar 2016 8:23 a.m. PST |
Dangerous. That's what that is…. |
| Blutarski | 07 Mar 2016 5:45 a.m. PST |
All manner of odd and unusual grenade throwers found their way into the trenches of WW1. The French even fielded bow-powered catapult-like devices broadly similar in principle to the Roman ballista. B |
| Martin Rapier | 07 Mar 2016 9:06 a.m. PST |
I certainly wouldn't want to fire it from between my legs! |
| Hafen von Schlockenberg | 07 Mar 2016 9:42 a.m. PST |
Eleve--looks like a pair of leather gaiters. |
| HammerHead | 07 Mar 2016 11:17 a.m. PST |
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| Camcleod | 07 Mar 2016 11:32 a.m. PST |
Found this French site with more pics: link |
| Supercilius Maximus | 08 Mar 2016 4:23 a.m. PST |
65mm to fire a Citron-Foug grenade up to 450mm. I hope, for the sake of all concerned, that you meant 450m…… |
| Eleve de Vauban | 08 Mar 2016 9:47 a.m. PST |
Ha ha ha – yes, I meant 450m |
