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Hootchie cord
Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 11:20 pm
by sven '2'
...is available at anaconda for $13 / 100m
seems criminal how much the ADF would go thru...still, had too buy a roll for old times sake.
now that's off topic!
sven
Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 9:57 am
by Subyroo
Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 10:08 am
by chubby37
instantly reminded me of my time as a grunt
Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 1:31 pm
by dwayneb
Sorry for the ignorance, but what is Hootchie Cord?
Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 1:48 pm
by Wilbur
The green string type stuff you use to tie your shelter individual x1 (hootchie) to a tree or something. Amazingly strong and useful for other things too.
Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 8:59 pm
by Ben
Ahh, 'VB Cord' :P
Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 12:09 am
by Subyroo
Sounds like we have a few Ex-Grunts on the Forum.
So when did serve and what unit/s did serve with?
I'll go 1st
1968 - 1974 2nd Bn RAR
Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 12:13 am
by chubby37
i was 17...did my 3 years with R.A.E.M.E and a fare while with 5/11th field reg heavy artilary
Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 12:17 am
by Subyroo
dwayneb wrote:Sorry for the ignorance, but what is Hootchie Cord?
This is a
"hootchie" and "hootchie chord" is the dark green chord - string (guy ropes) to tie it to the trees or DIY poles and can be used for a multitude of things in the field, when I was in the Army they were all a dark green in color not like the one in the link.
Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 8:11 am
by dwayneb
OK, thanks for that:p
Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 9:06 am
by Wilbur
Subyroo wrote:Sounds like we have a few Ex-Grunts on the Forum.
So when did serve and what unit/s did serve with?
I'll go 1st
1968 - 1974 2nd Bn RAR
No grunting here. Just know a little about alot from various life experiances
Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 5:29 pm
by Captain Obvious
yes wilbur thats coz your 20odd and have the wisdom of a 100year old
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 7:53 am
by CPOCSM
Hootchie cord is even well known in the Navy - we use it for lashing down odds and sods(mainly the gunnery types!!) and weaving our gun belts(similar to a carpenters tool belt but for our marlin spikes, boom knives and minesweep pliers).
Hootchie cord was also good for converting the SLR(FAL) to full rock and roll instead of only semi-auto(it was easy to remove before the company CSM arrived to see who had done it...
)
I jumped the fence and went to the RAN from 25RQR in Toowoomba(just before they became 25/49RQR!!). All my family was ARA and were just glad I became a skimmer vice a "Chappie":twisted:
Hooroo
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 3:08 pm
by Soobeit
Or for those of us still serving, Hootchie cord is available at any local Q-store, for Free! (work related of course)!
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 6:45 pm
by sven '2'
CPOCSM wrote:).
Hootchie cord was also good for converting the SLR(FAL) to full rock and roll instead of only semi-auto(it was easy to remove before the company CSM arrived to see who had done it...
)
Hooroo
How so? I knew (and used) the old-matchstick-under-the trigger-spring (least that I think it was called) to gain full auto capability
sven
