eagle scouts

[SvilleKid]

Originally Posted by ninjavanish

Yeah, I finally get a second to stop and read some posts...

I am an Eagle Scout.

For my Eagle Project, I set out to color code and paint approximately 250 fire hydrants in and around my hometown (color coded so the firemen know how many gallons per minute they can pull from the hydrant... handy information to have) Not only that but we have to cement new blue reflectors in the road where hydrants were loacted so firemen could find them easier.

Turned out to be more like 400-450 hydrants... many of which had not been painted in over a decade at LEAST... so their color code was RUST.

Learned some little factoids along the way:

1) The cement they use on the blue reflectors will adhere strong enough... that if you put it down wrong and have to pull it up with a claw hammer (which is apparently the firemans preferred tool for this job)... it will probably pull up the asphalt along with the reflector.

2) Oil based paint gets on everything. And is impossible to completely clean off of a black plastic pick up truck bedliner.

3) In my home town:
Red Cap Hydrant = 0-499 gpm (The one closest to my house was red)
Orange Cap Hydrant = 500-999 gpm
Green Cap Hydrant = 1000-1499 gpm
Blue Cap Hydrant = 1500+ gpm

4) Scottboro, Alabama is apparently the Fire Hydrant Manufacturing capitol of the US.

The difference in numbers turned out to be, in large part, because the fire department had no idea what they really had in terms of fire hydrants. So, the project also included an inventory on what and where ALL hydrants were located, as well as a data base the FD could use to keep up with what they had!

Well I never thought I would join a new community and within the first few minutes stumble upon a thread about scouts. I earned my Eagle Scout in 2005, one day before my 18th birthday, cut it way too close for comfort. I built a picnic/ walkway area around a soccer field for the Shrine Center here in St. Louis. It was a great time and I learned a lot of stuff for sure.

Glad to see that others still talk about it and share their experiences!!

[secretsquirrel]

I got mine in 1996. I also renovated a pair of ball field dugouts.

http://www.cigarasylum.com/vb/pictur...pictureid=5202



found some pictures of the project before and after repairs cant see it in the pictures but we also restored a basket ball court

[WyoBob]

I got my Eagle around 1958 or 59, can't remember for sure. We had a very active troop when I lived in Kansas City. I had 48 merit badges. I went to camp in the Ozarks. We didn't have "projects" in those days.

My dad was also an Eagle and a Scoutmaster and received the "Silver Beaver" award.

I still have my dad's sash and Eagle badge but, I've never found mine. I'm afraid it got thrown away when we moved from KC to Nebraska.

I had two daughters so was never involved in Boy Scouts. Recently, I went through all of the "stuff" required to become a merit badge counselor for our local troops here in Wyoming. I'm going to do backpacking, fly fishing, aviation and geocaching.

WyoBob