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  1. #21
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    OUCH! I'm glad it was the kilt that got sucked into the winch, rather than an appendage!! It's still a real bummer about the kilt..

    I guess you'll just have to just go and buy two!! One to replaces the one that was lost and one for future offroad adventures!!
    [B]Paul Murray[/B]
    Kilted in Detroit! Now that's tough.... LOL

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    After seeing the extent of the damage.....will you be having some sort of memorial gathering where you talk about the years of faithful service it gave you and how it died in the line of duty?

    My goodness....

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    Add a backing (maybe a black duck canvas?) to the damage, following the lines of the rest of the kilt. Thereby, from any distance, it looks "normal," but up close-> full of character and the source of an interesting story begging to be told. If done right, it will not need further work, or easily recieve more damage.

    I like it with damage. It ain't dead yet!!!!

    At least it isn't in an awkward place (unlike P1M's)!!

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    Thank you for all of your well wishes, condolences and suggestions. This was actually a good thing wrapped up in a bad.
    1. I didn't ruin an expensive wool kilt.
    2. I didn't get hurt.
    3. The story has girls and beer.
    4. I wore the "Rat Kilt" that wouldn't die yesterday and had a great day doing things I would never have done in it before.
    5. I finally reached that kilt wearing zen moment when you no longer are conscious of your garmet. I have become desensitized and I owe a lot of it to the group.
    6. Now, I understand why people love their canvas and work kilts. It's the same reason jeans are popular; put them on an forget them.
    7. It encouraged me to get canvas yesterday to make a canvas traditional 5 yd kilt (maybe a hidden pocket). I never would have considered this until now because I always went with the traditional plaid. Now I need to find all those posts about making my own canvas kilt.

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    Be sure to save a little piece of canvas, O'Neille, to do as MacWage suggested, and sew it to the damaged kilt as backing for the damaged area; I think that would work well.
    Regional Director for Scotland for Clan Cunningham International, and a Scottish Armiger.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cessna152towser
    Be sure to save a little piece of canvas, O'Neille, to do as MacWage suggested, and sew it to the damaged kilt as backing for the damaged area; I think that would work well.
    I'll do that I already used about six inches of one side to line the alligator sporran. The canvas I got at walmart is double wide so I could make two kilts from one piece with some left over. O'Neille

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    Wonderful Story

    What a wonderful story! It has all the makings of a great tale. A few changes here, and a few there, and you'll have an epic adventure worthy of any knight in shining armour.
    As I tell people, we (us Celts) come from a long line of people who never let the truth get in the way of good story.

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    Post The Epic

    Quote Originally Posted by Kiltman
    What a wonderful story! It has all the makings of a great tale. A few changes here, and a few there, and you'll have an epic adventure worthy of any knight in shining armour.
    As I tell people, we (us Celts) come from a long line of people who never let the truth get in the way of good story.
    Okay here's the Epic. I was in Louisiana not Arizona. It was a bus load of LSU cheerleaders about to be consumed by the raging waters of the Mississippi and not two girls in a Jeep. I was winching them out and the cable tore my kilt right off but I kept on winching in true heroic fasion, even as I was killing an alligator that was near enough to dispatch with a sgian dubh between the eyes. That is the hide that I made my alligator sporran out of. Yeah, that's right. They were all so impressed that I have been at the ladies dorms all summer at night while I single handedly rebuild New Orleans by day, in my kilt of course. Sorry about that, but someone ordered an epic. O'Neille

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    Quote Originally Posted by O'Neille
    Okay here's the Epic. I was in Louisiana not Arizona. It was a bus load of LSU cheerleaders about to be consumed by the raging waters of the Mississippi and not two girls in a Jeep. I was winching them out and the cable tore my kilt right off but I kept on winching in true heroic fasion, even as I was killing an alligator that was near enough to dispatch with a sgian dubh between the eyes. That is the hide that I made my alligator sporran out of. Yeah, that's right. They were all so impressed that I have been at the ladies dorms all summer at night while I single handedly rebuild New Orleans by day, in my kilt of course. Sorry about that, but someone ordered an epic. O'Neille
    Love it!! Glad I've learned to put beverages down while reading this forum!

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