Fort Pickens Part 1

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  • Опубліковано 25 гру 2024

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  • @samhunt9380
    @samhunt9380 3 роки тому +1

    Came from Aussie to Pensacola 2019 and Fort Pickens was a highlight. Loved it. That and the Naval Aviation museum. Could easily live in Pensacola....Thanks for the tour!!!

  • @raincoast2396
    @raincoast2396 7 років тому

    Good for you guys getting some great exercise and for bringing us along to share in your outing. Good stuff.

  • @laeth7216
    @laeth7216 6 років тому

    Fort Pickens beautiful Fort been there so many times and the beaches near it are so gorgeous the sand is pure white and the ocean is sky blue

  • @billlee5307
    @billlee5307 7 років тому +7

    Thank you both for another great adventure!

  • @realSuperSlawter
    @realSuperSlawter 3 роки тому

    I grew up going to Fort Pickens every year and love the fort and campground! SO glad you gave it some attention as most people like to forget Fort Pickens! I've been to the fort a hundred times and swam in the gulf and the bay tons of times. I LOVE Pensacola! Subscribed since you payed some respect to my favorite place to vacation! Much love!

  • @HammerPowered
    @HammerPowered 7 років тому +1

    Thanks for taking us along on the ride, Adam. Always interesting to see history like this. And you're right about masons being an underappreciated trade - it's a real art form with some of the things they can and have done.

  • @hogcat858
    @hogcat858 7 років тому +1

    It is surly amazing how much work went into building that fort. No way they could build something like that today.

  • @dfl0415
    @dfl0415 7 років тому

    Another excellent adventure. Thanks again.

  • @bigboy3jv
    @bigboy3jv 3 роки тому

    I'm so glad I came upon this video. I lived in Pensacola as a child and remember coming here with my parents. That was 40 years ago. They took a picture of me sitting on a cannon there. I wonder if it's the one you showed in the beginning..

  • @robertwatsonbath
    @robertwatsonbath 7 років тому +1

    Thanks for the tour Adam and Abby! You made me jump in the tunnels at 20:18. Love Abby's comment after you stumble, "there's a step there!" :D

    • @Abom79
      @Abom79  7 років тому +1

      Yea there was a bump in the bricks in the floor that made me trip up, I thought it was funny enough to leave in the video.

  • @uberflutak
    @uberflutak 7 років тому +2

    So much history. Thanks for taking us along with you on your adventures. Your gyro mount & GoPro are a fantastic combo producing stable video in near darkness. It must have taken ages to colour grade & edit.

  • @kabinvideo7495
    @kabinvideo7495 7 років тому +1

    Great video I just going to have to come across the pond to visit the area 👍👍🇬🇧

  • @woxnerw
    @woxnerw 7 років тому +1

    Thanks for the TOUR, YOU TWO..

  • @jmwarden1
    @jmwarden1 7 років тому

    A pretty awesome tour, just imagine how many bricks were used, wow!

  • @jeffryblackmon4846
    @jeffryblackmon4846 7 років тому +1

    That is a huge site, really interesting to see.

  • @jonjohnson1938
    @jonjohnson1938 7 років тому +2

    Nice to see you out in the Dodge, Adam. Great sound!!

  • @jamesstanlake4064
    @jamesstanlake4064 7 років тому +1

    The wagons that are used in transporting artillery are called Caissons (kay- sons). The official Army song is named "the caissons keep rolling along".

    • @Abom79
      @Abom79  7 років тому

      Cool...didn't know that.

  • @userunavailable3095
    @userunavailable3095 7 років тому +1

    I believe that was a caisson at the ten minute mark. You would have to hook at least two horses to it, as it has a pole instead of shafts. The ones I've seen were pulled by four to six. The cannon was hooked to the back of it, and the horses pulled it even at a gallop, and back with speed and precision to put it where it needed to be to fire.

  • @ithinkihaveebola5238
    @ithinkihaveebola5238 4 роки тому

    Nice hat! I love Florida apparel 😊

  • @German_MDS
    @German_MDS 7 років тому

    Nice place. Thanks for the ride!

  • @blueridgeburnouts8265
    @blueridgeburnouts8265 7 років тому +1

    Abom, inside those long, dark tunnels is always cool. That is one of my favorite places in Pensacola.

  • @Rich206L
    @Rich206L 7 років тому +1

    Adam, I really like the way you shoot the plaques so that we can freeze the picture and read them, them super considerate! My brother-in-law is trying to convince me to move down, but when you said it's Africa Hot, well, I don't know. I'd hate to become a pesky neighbor so's I could enjoy that new A/C! great video, as always!
    Rich

    • @Abom79
      @Abom79  7 років тому +1

      I do that to try and help tell the story. Easy for the viewer to pause the video and learn more reading those then I can explain.

  • @rfischer1955
    @rfischer1955 4 роки тому

    Used to go diving off the beach in Ft. Pickens with Gulf Coast Divers!

  • @saraheller6553
    @saraheller6553 3 роки тому

    I know it's been a very long time since I've been here, nothing looks right. When I lived in Pensacola all of this was still mostly overgrown and nature had taken most of these areas back. It's really depressing to see it this way. Most of the sand dunes have been leveled. I can't believe how much the beach and everything else has changed. My heart is broken.

  • @SuperNovaRoxy
    @SuperNovaRoxy 5 років тому

    Great video, thank you.

  • @mrbakerskatz
    @mrbakerskatz 7 років тому

    Thanks for sharing !!

  • @nacogdochesblackbeltacadem5897
    @nacogdochesblackbeltacadem5897 3 роки тому

    Loved the videos! We enjoy watching your adventures. I have to ask... what motor is in your vehicle? Lord have mercy it sounds good.

  • @sparkyprojects
    @sparkyprojects 7 років тому

    That 'fragile' cannon and ammo carrier reminds me of the Edinburgh tattoo, the royal marines strip both, climb a wall, traverse a wire, then down from another wall in a race against another team, at the end of the run they have to assemble them and fire a blank round
    Search for "Royal Military Tournament Field Gun Race" and you'll find several vids.

  • @Newfive
    @Newfive 7 років тому +2

    Can you imagine how loud one of those cannons going off were??? and if multiple were firing at once.

  • @randomdude1786
    @randomdude1786 7 років тому

    Can't keep your hands off history . me neither, that white sand beach wow there's a place in big sur where you stand up on a hill and look down the beach to the horizon and you see the curvature of the earth I'm gonna watch this again in the winter when I haven't seen the sun in weeks it'll fix me up good

    • @Abom79
      @Abom79  7 років тому

      +Random Dude I love seeing these old places, it amazes me!

  • @CandDproductions1
    @CandDproductions1 7 років тому

    I miss my home, can't wait to move back!

  • @charlescompton4495
    @charlescompton4495 7 років тому

    That kind of brick work is why we are called meticulous arrangers of artistic clay products. Those arches are very strong; the weight of everything above them is transferred down to the foundation. The weight is transferred from brick to brick so it's hard for them to fall. It would be easier to tear them down by pushing up at the middle or part way down. I have worked on many like these but they are not as old...yet. They'll outlive me unless they tear them down.

    • @Abom79
      @Abom79  7 років тому

      It seems like a beautiful and functional way of building that you don't really see much anymore. I'd love to have a shop that was built in similar ways of these old forts, with the old brick and arches.

  • @afpienaar4604
    @afpienaar4604 7 років тому

    A howitser and ammunition cart are harnessed behind horses and that is the "gun carriage " used to carry the coffin in military ceremonial funerals
    Thank you for sharing your vacation with us
    A F Pienaar
    Johannesburg

  • @iancoupe20v43
    @iancoupe20v43 7 років тому

    adom what motor you driving sounds awesome

    • @Abom79
      @Abom79  7 років тому

      +ian coupe20v Its a Challenger Scat Pack with the 6.4L Hemi

    • @iancoupe20v43
      @iancoupe20v43 7 років тому

      this is unknown to me but just googled it awesome bit of kit puts my car to shame i drive a citroen zantia 2.1 turbo diesel booooring we do not have muscle cars in the uk

  • @KowboyUSA
    @KowboyUSA 7 років тому +1

    Little wagon with the box on top's a caisson, a portable ammunition chest.

    • @Abom79
      @Abom79  7 років тому

      Thanks, wasn't sure.

  • @jamesconnors5653
    @jamesconnors5653 7 років тому +3

    good work stabilizing brickwork while maintaining aged appearance.

    • @charlescompton4495
      @charlescompton4495 7 років тому +2

      I love brickwork, also! Started in the trade officially 1968 but actually did my first project in 1964 between my junior and senior year in high school. Greg

    • @Ogma3bandcamp
      @Ogma3bandcamp 7 років тому +1

      I used to fire 'em.
      1.1million engineering and facing bricks a week in a 100m tunnel kiln.

  • @Peter_Riis_DK
    @Peter_Riis_DK 7 років тому

    That fort is on a pretty narrow stretch of land... Slim Pickens?

  • @davidpickens6916
    @davidpickens6916 3 роки тому

    Cool. Thanks!

  • @willembeton
    @willembeton 7 років тому +1

    thankss

  • @JP-kk5vw
    @JP-kk5vw 7 років тому

    Question: Where were all those bricks made?

    • @Abom79
      @Abom79  7 років тому +1

      Most of them were made locally in the Pensacola area.

    • @JP-kk5vw
      @JP-kk5vw 7 років тому

      Abom79 I find bricks fascinating. It's kind of similar to making parts. There is a lot that goes into it, and people take it for granted. A lot of bricks were made with a maker's mark. That will tell you the origin and or factory that the brick was made in. Just think how many Masons and how many bricks were made and layed to make that Fort.

  • @robbiedw1495
    @robbiedw1495 7 років тому

    Awesome!

  • @KowboyUSA
    @KowboyUSA 7 років тому

    Never knew Slim Pickens had his own fort.

    • @Abom79
      @Abom79  7 років тому

      It is named after American Revolutionary War hero Andrew Pickens

    • @KowboyUSA
      @KowboyUSA 7 років тому

      Abom79 I was just funning. When you've watched Westerns for many decades as I have you can't hear Fort Pickens without remembering ol' Slim (R.I.P.).

  • @dmana3172
    @dmana3172 3 роки тому

    I've been there. In the hallway when I was walking, I saw almost at the end where a man was in uniform and was point a rifle outside some kind of a window. He didn't looked at me. I thought he was an actor. However, my phone rang in my pocket so I looked down, grabbed my phone and as soon as I looked back up, he disappeared instantly. I walked further down there and I didn't see anybody there. Can anyone explain this to me?

  • @larrymunday7519
    @larrymunday7519 7 років тому +1

    Looks like the cannon attaches to the back of the ammo cart.

    • @Abom79
      @Abom79  7 років тому

      I overlooked that

  • @johnmarlin4661
    @johnmarlin4661 3 роки тому

    Parrot rifle cannon with Limber wagon that carried ammo

  • @Ogma3bandcamp
    @Ogma3bandcamp 7 років тому +1

    Of course! Controlling the recoil of the cannon. You still not married that girl yet, Adam?

  • @jamesfeisley2810
    @jamesfeisley2810 7 років тому +1

    Story on the Steen "Parrott's rifle" canon and munitions caissons;
    www.pnj.com/story/news/2017/03/31/fort-pickens-replica-parrott-riffle-civil-war/99696054/

    • @Abom79
      @Abom79  7 років тому

      Thanks for sharing!

  • @ChuckyBeaver
    @ChuckyBeaver 6 років тому

    That little explosion killed someone? Lol

  • @ojenoc.x
    @ojenoc.x 6 років тому

    I’ve been there

  • @baseballboys8530
    @baseballboys8530 3 роки тому

    I live in pensaacola

  • @davidhyer3404
    @davidhyer3404 7 років тому

    Disappointed was hoping for another avon79 video