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Old 10-25-2020, 06:56 PM
Bert Sandlin Bert Sandlin is offline
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My name is Bert Sandlin I have built some pretty impressive Aluminum Amphibious Vehicles. BUT I need help making my stuff look good. I have worked with structural shapes, flat plate, and crimped plate and rolled plate. I stayed south of New Orleans and rode Hurricane Katrina out and did many hurricane/flood recovery projects after the hurricane. I saw a real need for Government agencies, Utility Companies and/or anybody to have fast amphibious vehicles available for flood rescue and recovery help. It is sad that better emergency flood rescue vehicles are not available. Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQO6Fe8gwWw&t=5s For me it is not so much about building recreational amphibious vehicles as building any amphibious vehicles that could possibly get used for future flood service.
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Old 10-25-2020, 08:05 PM
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Welcome to the forum, Bert.

Sounds like you've got a worthy goal in mind. I spent time cooking in NOLA in 94. It only took a few fast rising water/rain events for the farmer in me to realize that wasn't where I wanted to live long term.
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Old 10-26-2020, 08:49 AM
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Bert, that is some really impressive stuff! Impressive engineering!
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Old 10-26-2020, 07:26 PM
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Find a need, create a solution. Good work.
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