first welding class

[Pault17]

A friend of mine up in northen VA told me a few years ago about a time in the winter (they had snow) when they be-headed a bunch of chickens in their front yard (they lived back a-ways from the main road). They would put the chicken in a cut-off orange traffic cone with the head out of the top hole. worked pretty well until a few of them got away. He said it looked like the texas chain saw massacre, alaska style.

he said his wife about killed him when she saw the front yard.

[KevinD]

I can remember our next door neighbor at my mothers house killin' chickens because of one that got away...without it's head. Mr Jim was chasing it all over the yard till it just laid down and he went over and picked it up.

I guess I was 4 or 5 years old at the time.

It didn't scar me for life. No...really...it didn't.

[FieryFurnaceForge]

We don't scald so we don't worry about the smell.
Here are some pictures of the killin' rig. Dad welded it and I did the camera. I didn't get any pictures of my welds. I'll get them later!

Here is a picture of my boat that I posted a while back. I got the rigging done. (I forged the hardwear) I need some lights now.

[FieryFurnaceForge]

We have had a couple of them fall out of a cone. Remember the phrase, "run around like a chicken with it's head cut off." That came from real life experiance. Funny thing is, without a head, they NEVER run into ANYTHING, and they ALWAYS run strait toward YOU. Sounds weird, but if you want to come help on butcherin day we'll show you!

The kidsmith,
Dave Custer