Michael |
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My full scale 10 Pounder Parrott Rifle shooting at Liendo,TX. Civil War reenactment. |
Videos of Customer's Cannons Shooting on one of my Custom Built Carriages. All my customer's are welcome to email to me a video of your cannon shooting and I will place it on my website here for all of us to enjoy watching. |
This naval carriage I custom made for a customers replica Verbruggen barrel that is firing. |
This is a You Tube video of a "Brook's USA" 24 Pounder (1" bore) cannon firing, but "NOT" on a carriage that I built. |
My 3/4 scale 1700's Revolutionary War Cannon firing on my custom made Split Trail Carriage. |
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My custom 1/4 scale #2 Field Carriage and Brook's USA Napoleon brass cannon firing a black powder charge. Bore size = 1.032". |
My custom 1/4 scale #2 Field Carriage and Brook's USA Napoleon brass cannon firing a black powder charge. |
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Texas Historical Commission opened their new museum in 2018 at the San Felipe de Austin State Historic Site, in Sealy, TX. They commissioned me to make a Galloper carriage for their Verbruggen cannon barrel. They have an artillery crew that will hold demonstration shootings during the museums public events. This video is the first shooting event with their artillery crew that I took. |
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I was contacted by the Texas Navy Association to construct an 1830’s Texas Navy display. The location of the display is on board the aircraft carrier USS Lexington in Corpus Christi, Texas. It was to be an 1830’s ship board exhibit complete with a 16’ long hand rail with two gun ports. These gun ports sported a matched pair of my concrete cannons mounted on naval carriages complete with block and tackle rigging. The display and 1 minute video too can be seen here |
3/4 scale 1700's Revolutionary War Cannon firing a black powder charge on my custom built Split Trail Carriage at reenactment at Rosenberg, TX. |
Brooks USA Brass 1" bore Barrel firing on a naval carriage. This naval carriage I did not build. Listen to this awesome sound this bass barrel makes. |
This naval carriage I custom made with for a customers replica Verbruggen barrel. My customer wanted to roll it very easily, so bearinged wheels were used on a 3/4" steel axle. |
I was hired by the Texas Historical Commission to build a Galloper Carriage for their Verbruggen barrel. |
I was contacted by the Texas Navy Association to construct an 1830’s Texas Navy display on board the aircraft carrier USS Lexington in Corpus Christi, Texas. |
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A customer came to me asking if I would be interested in a unique project. He had a 120 year old bronze bell that came out of a college somewhere in Central Texas. He needed a cart or something to use to pull the bell in parades. I made him my design of a "Bell Limber". |
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The "Alamo Museum" commissioned me to build a field carriage for the original 16 pounder cannon barrel that was used at the battle of the Alamo. A video was created on the day of our install, 7/23/2019, by the Alamo conservator. |
A customer purchased from me a Brooks USA Brass 24 Pounder cannon barrel on a naval carriage that I made for it. This barrel is capable of shooting a 1" ball. A few months later he sent me this video of it shooting. I asked him what he was shooting out of it and he said....... "No ball, about an once of power and a piece of a hot dog bun for packing." It made a pretty good boom ! |
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