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| Dallas Farnworth (Dallas)
Registered Member Username: Dallas Post Number: 151 Registered: 7-2004 Posted From: 98.20.57.89  Rating: N/A |
Lately I've been working up some Osage Orange that comes from a tree in our back 40. It's cut into chunks between 16 and 96" long but I have to hand split it because I don't have and can't afford a band saw. Today I was splitting some small pieces using some home made wedges and some other stuff I had. I was pounding with a 28 oz. hammer, and went to a 3 lb. sledge. As I was swinging the 3 lb. sledge, I missed the head of the wedge, the hammer continued through it's arc and landed soundly on my knee. After 5 minutes of rolling around, seeing a reddish haze before my eyes, I could form a word... You'll have to email to know what that word was. This is a family site! Once I got back to myself, I decided to change position, so I shifted over a bit. wham! Wham! WHAM! WHACK! I got my other knee with the same despicable hammer! This time, after appropriate moaning, groaning, guh-nashing of teeth and red tinged eyesite, I decided in my infinite wisdom to give up for the day. I hobbled in to the house and found that Mi Esposa, (My wife), had filled my favorite carton in the fridge with an adult beverage made from rice, hops, and joy! So here I sit, blue, black and purple knees, verging on the green side of ugly, sucking down about 3, umm, no, 6, ummm no, 12, yeah well maybe of natures nectar of the Gods! Work on your bus and if it hurts! don't do as I do... do as I tell you! Wear Your Safety Glasses! | ||
| marvin pack (Gomer)
Registered Member Username: Gomer Post Number: 1079 Registered: 3-2007 Posted From: 71.55.1.12  Rating: N/A |
Dallas, What about knee pads, The kind that Coal Miners wear?? They are GOOOOD OUCH ALSO!! Gomer PS Safety Glasses are necessary too | ||
| ED Hackenbruch (Shadowman)
Registered Member Username: Shadowman Post Number: 333 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 75.211.239.119 Rating: N/A |
No doubt that i already know that word and use it too! | ||
| Luvrbus (Luvrbus)
Registered Member Username: Luvrbus Post Number: 976 Registered: 8-2006 Posted From: 74.33.54.135 Rating: N/A |
What in the world are going to use the Bodark wood ( as most of us Texans call it) for Dallas that stuff will kill a chainsaw and a D6 has it work cut out to remove a 12 inch stump the stuff is like a rubber band lol good luck | ||
| les marston (Les_marston)
Registered Member Username: Les_marston Post Number: 178 Registered: 1-2010 Posted From: 68.151.225.213  Rating: N/A |
We were wondering how you were making out with that wood. Seems Wood won Dallas zero Not a fair contest as the wood had Mr Hammer on his side Be careful Dallas, hitting yourself with a hammer can hurt! | ||
| Dave Walker (Chrome_dome)
Registered Member Username: Chrome_dome Post Number: 130 Registered: 3-2010 Posted From: 67.174.144.159  Rating: N/A |
Dallas, We still have not seen the pictures yet? Why would you put safety glasses on your knees? Dave | ||
| Jack Fids (Jack_fids)
Registered Member Username: Jack_fids Post Number: 247 Registered: 1-2009 Posted From: 69.171.161.163  Rating: N/A |
FARNWORTH LIES...! I have it on good authority that it was a suicide attempt the first out of despondency over not owning a 4106 and being forced into using exotic woods in a vain attempt to equal that standard of luxury... . . the second out of embarrassment over flubbing the first.... . . . . . I'd hate to be one of his feet right about now.... . . . my old man's favorite retort was.. if it's worth doin it's worth bleeding over just give yourself the chance! (Message edited by Jack Fids on November 27, 2010) | ||
| Len Silva (Lsilva)
Registered Member Username: Lsilva Post Number: 424 Registered: 12-2000 Posted From: 72.187.35.208  Rating: |
No Pain, no grain | ||
| Dallas Farnworth (Dallas)
Registered Member Username: Dallas Post Number: 153 Registered: 7-2004 Posted From: 98.20.57.89 Rating: N/A |
Clifford, the wood is rally beautiful when it is finished and I have a tree or two full of it, LOL. It's got amazing figuring and if you seal it quickly enough, the colors stay bright and vibrant. I agree, it's a bugger to work, but the results are worth it. Dave, I haven't posted any photo's yet because for awhile we were incredibly busy putting new power pedestals in the RV park, including digging 800' long trenches through Cleche and hard clay, along with my regular duties here. I have made a few small items with some of the wood, but nothing that is worth posting. We have put some of the crotch wood and other pieces on eBay and have been amazed what it sells for. I'm hoping to sell enough to buy a Harbor freight bandsaw to keep from wasting so much wood, and get better cuts. | ||
| Dave Walker (Chrome_dome)
Registered Member Username: Chrome_dome Post Number: 131 Registered: 3-2010 Posted From: 67.174.144.159 Rating: |
Dallas , Hopefully you weren't diggin those 800' trenches with that wedge and same sledge that you replaced your knee caps with,LOL sorry!!! Dave | ||
| Dallas Farnworth (Dallas)
Registered Member Username: Dallas Post Number: 154 Registered: 7-2004 Posted From: 98.20.57.89 Rating: N/A |
We did it with picks, rock chisels, that sledge hammer, plus two other sledges, even a couple of garden trowels to get around and under sewer and water lines. We would have used the trencher, but the former owners didn't have a rhyme or reason to their plumbing methods, (and old electrical methods), so it was safer, drier and less smelly to dig by hand! | ||
| Ralph Peters (Ralph7)
Registered Member Username: Ralph7 Post Number: 162 Registered: 3-2004 Posted From: 75.201.46.67 Rating: N/A |
I used a air chissel on my driveway, but you need several chissels, when one gets stuck. Yes 250 feet of air hose and a 14cfm compressor, besides safety glasses a faceshield also. | ||
| Jack Fids (Jack_fids)
Registered Member Username: Jack_fids Post Number: 248 Registered: 1-2009 Posted From: 69.171.161.156 Rating: N/A |
I assume you had the safety glasses on your knees as well...? | ||
| Teresa (Happycamperbrat)
Registered Member Username: Happycamperbrat Post Number: 68 Registered: 5-2009 Posted From: 173.25.102.158 Rating: N/A |
Note to self: No. 1) Wear safety glasses on knees No. 2) Wear knee pads (where?) No. 3) Nector is good!! Thanks! I learn all the time from you pros  | ||
| Jack Fids (Jack_fids)
Registered Member Username: Jack_fids Post Number: 249 Registered: 1-2009 Posted From: 69.171.161.2 Rating: N/A |
You forgot Mouse Milk | ||
| George Martinez (Foohorse)
Registered Member Username: Foohorse Post Number: 213 Registered: 1-2010 Posted From: 68.215.74.66  Rating: N/A |
MOUSE MILK!!!!! Oh god please no more!, just when I thought it was safe to return here. your an evil man Mr Penguin. Dallas I am going to be real close by you on my way to Arizona to let Heidi Chomp on fatted penguins. I would like to stop by and say hey, perhaps collect a dillo or two. stuffed of course. | ||
| Dallas Farnworth (Dallas)
Registered Member Username: Dallas Post Number: 170 Registered: 7-2004 Posted From: 72.172.36.62 Rating: N/A |
George, we will look forward to meeting you in person! | ||
| Pete/RTS Daytona (Pete_rtsdaytona)
Registered Member Username: Pete_rtsdaytona Post Number: 631 Registered: 1-2005 Posted From: 184.88.99.113  Rating: N/A |
http://www.mousemilk.com/ | ||
| marvin pack (Gomer)
Registered Member Username: Gomer Post Number: 1092 Registered: 3-2007 Posted From: 71.55.1.12 Rating: N/A |
Oh MY Gosh Foohorse has done it this time!! LOL Gomer | ||
| Dave Walker (Chrome_dome)
Registered Member Username: Chrome_dome Post Number: 136 Registered: 3-2010 Posted From: 67.174.144.159 Rating: N/A |
Jack swim away get under the ice and hide,Foohorse is on the way, with a case of the stuff!!! Dave | ||
| Jack Fids (Jack_fids)
Registered Member Username: Jack_fids Post Number: 258 Registered: 1-2009 Posted From: 69.171.161.59 Rating: N/A |
There are 2 kinds of people Those who own Volvo's & those smart enough not to. There are 2 kinds of Volvo owner the ones who sink money, hopes & prestige into one and those smart enough to never admit they do. There are 2 types of the non-admitting variety, foohorse and all of the rest. ...I rest my case. I do have a ditch he can park "Ol' Smokey" in when he gets here (haha) AND it's easy to find! South of town where the Buzzards seem to circle endlessly waiting like "Bog People " at the Glen (sorry-archaic reference for those older than sand) It's a special species, they carry Mustard in little packets.... and use it on wiener dogs, their favorite carrion....! Somebody throw some water on George....he's passed out again, or maybe still.... he drinks cheap booze, or at least that's what his mother tells me.. she says he just comes here to look at the pictures nobody cares here anyway...it's just George I mean it's not like we miss him when he hides....right? | ||
| George Martinez (Foohorse)
Registered Member Username: Foohorse Post Number: 217 Registered: 1-2010 Posted From: 65.3.251.141 Rating: N/A |
My dear Mr Fidds. now you really stepped in it. First off you own corvairs. I don't need to expand any further. only to say that I will try to help you out of your delusion. after my dachshunds not wiener dogs clear out excess bog people, penguins, and any other food you carelessly leave about. be careful with your cats. | ||
| George Martinez (Foohorse)
Registered Member Username: Foohorse Post Number: 218 Registered: 1-2010 Posted From: 65.3.251.141 Rating: N/A |
P.S Corvair air cooled 6 cyl rebuild every 100,000 HA!...Real Volvo not the GM versions which are crap 877,774 as of today and accumulating daily | ||
| Jack Fids (Jack_fids)
Registered Member Username: Jack_fids Post Number: 262 Registered: 1-2009 Posted From: 69.171.161.153 Rating: N/A |
I need a band-aid & a drink..... George, my friend, my dear friend..... . I try to adhere to THE Golden Rule, it's as central to my life as that Lombardi quote about perfection & excellence. So it would only be kind and fitting for your first week here to be as equally wonderful and awe inspiring as ours was when we arrived here in Jan. of 1987. Sunshine, warmth & mountain grandeur the 1st day! . . The next morning 6 inches of SNOW... . 2 days later another 2 inches Tucson closes for half an inch of rain they run for their bomb shelters for SNOW.. The place went into seizure for a week like living in a Nuclear Winter...nobody moved. You deserve exactly every benefit I received measure for measure..... and I'll be here waiting to make sure you get it Bud I'm going to do for you that which the government did for me when I exited the military.... I gar-un-tee-it....! Gotta go... I have time on the D-9 today making that ditch a little more comfortable & deeper more fitting for Mouse Milking! Oh ya...the Corvair thing. 1- WTH do water-cooled mechanics know about the watch like precision of horizontally opposed air-cooled power-plants...? anyway? 2- The maintenance @ 100,000 miles on a Corvair is called, "the massage given between the puberty & adolescence of that engines life.....read the manual! 3- owning a car whose name rhymes with Oh OH! Goes Slow Oh NO or No go isn't confidence building nor a good marketing premise... My position is, if their IDEAS are that lame imagine the finished product! Besides, I've lived with streets littered with Volvos unmoved all winter long.... my eyes don't lie. | ||
| Dallas Farnworth (Dallas)
Registered Member Username: Dallas Post Number: 184 Registered: 7-2004 Posted From: 72.172.36.62 Rating: N/A |
Isn't Georges car named after part of human anatomy? Isn't the Corvair kinda like the low budget answer to the bug? You haven't lived until you own/work on/rebuild one of the 3 cylinder, 2 cycle Saabs! | ||
| Bruce Henderson (Oonrahnjay)
Registered Member Username: Oonrahnjay Post Number: 639 Registered: 8-2004 Posted From: 70.60.102.56  Rating: N/A |
@ Dallas - Call the doctor, somebody's meds have definitely quit working! | ||
| les marston (Les_marston)
Registered Member Username: Les_marston Post Number: 190 Registered: 1-2010 Posted From: 68.151.225.213 Rating: N/A |
The Corvair was the car that just loved to roll over and play dead, unfortunately it took a lot of the people who were in it at the time with it. Had one once. couldn't get rid of it fast enough! Also owned a Volvo... little tank known as a 122 S Second most fun car I ever owned and had held first place for fun until I bought a Smart car a couple years ago. Now Jack I know it will sound like I am siding against you (I am) but it is only because I call a spade a spade. George Even one of the old/good volvos need to be put out to pasture at some point. Are you still using a car that the metal has probably crystalized on out of economy or just cause you squeeze a nickel until the beaver screams? Smile guys! It is a great day Les | ||
| Jack Fids (Jack_fids)
Registered Member Username: Jack_fids Post Number: 263 Registered: 1-2009 Posted From: 69.171.161.153 Rating: N/A |
Make that 2 band-Aids and a double shot. mo'later.... | ||
| marvin pack (Gomer)
Registered Member Username: Gomer Post Number: 1095 Registered: 3-2007 Posted From: 71.55.1.12 Rating: N/A |
CHESSIE!!! Whar do ya be a hidin?? I thunk ya mite be a needed shortly!! LLOLLLLOLLLLOLOL gomer | ||
| George Martinez (Foohorse)
Registered Member Username: Foohorse Post Number: 230 Registered: 1-2010 Posted From: 68.215.72.106 Rating: N/A |
Les this old brick is so engrained into my soul that I will never part with it.... It will get its prepube adolescent massage at 1,000,000. I will insist Jack be there in order to help him out of his...shall we say (special place) concerning what constitutes real engineering. Nuttin but LOVE for my penguin bro. Dallas 3cyl 2cycle SAAB! I don't know what to say | ||
| Dallas Farnworth (Dallas)
Registered Member Username: Dallas Post Number: 192 Registered: 7-2004 Posted From: 72.172.36.62 Rating: N/A |
Similar to my SAAB 93: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_93 | ||
| George Martinez (Foohorse)
Registered Member Username: Foohorse Post Number: 233 Registered: 1-2010 Posted From: 68.215.72.106 Rating: N/A |
What a fine piece of Swedish engineering Dallas. Perhaps you can help me save poor Jack from whatever it is that would make someone want to own/drive a Corvair | ||
| les marston (Les_marston)
Registered Member Username: Les_marston Post Number: 195 Registered: 1-2010 Posted From: 68.151.225.213 Rating: N/A |
Just out of curiosity George. What type of volvo do you have? I always wanted a P1800 Les | ||
| George Martinez (Foohorse)
Registered Member Username: Foohorse Post Number: 236 Registered: 1-2010 Posted From: 68.215.72.106 Rating: N/A |
Les the P1800 is grand, if I had one I would most likely not use it as a daily driver for fear of losing it driving in Fort Liqueurdale FL. Mine is a 240 | ||
| Dallas Farnworth (Dallas)
Registered Member Username: Dallas Post Number: 195 Registered: 7-2004 Posted From: 72.172.36.62 Rating: N/A |
I had a 240 at one time. After a couple thousand dollars restoring, replacing, (especially the electrical system), it was a great little car. But then I also had a Greenbrier and a 65 Corvair ragtop with a Spyder turbo engine from a donor. That was in Quincy, Wa in 1980. When St. Helens popped her load, all went titsup from silica inhalation. |
