Scott NC

Everybody likes music and song you can hear the lyrics to. I remember watching Lawerence Welk, with my dad. He slapped the tv everytime it scrolled. It doesn't stop me from appreciating other types though.

Yes, for protecting things like grain or lime or what not. I once was involved in a project at a repair and fabrication yard, in modifying old defunct ttx railcars that hauled semi trailers, into railcars that carried whole track switch assembleys. We cut the cars in half and made them longer, built an A-frame for the pre-fabbed rail switch assemblies to lean against, one on each side to be hauled on site where they were needed. That was for the UP. We also modified ballast cars for them to be operated by remote control, with solar chargers. Please forgive me for rambeling on but it was one of my favorite jobs and I miss the old days.

To be fair, though. There are gondola railcars that haul scrap and other stuff that can weather the elements. They havo no tiller/oar or umbrellas though....

I think I may build my own version of this. Thanks for sharing Flatline. Either this or a Nodding Donkey. I tried to edit and typed out a whole lot and it went "piff" into the ethernothing. I think the edit window is 15 seconds.

You and your rubber chickens. You've threatened me more than a few times with one. Do you really have one? Btw, they are called covered hopper railcars....

I must say that quote was said tongue in cheek. Sometimes I joke around too much. I have never listened to Nine Inch Nails and I'm not a huge Johnny Cash fan but I do like some. I've never heard this song before. It makes one think, I like music that does that. Makes me sad though. I suppose it fit's many peoples lives. I looked up the origons to this song, too. Interesting. Thanks for posting it. Anybody know where the Rolling Stones got their lip's and tongue logo? Kind of bizzare if you dig into it.

Ghost topic freaks me out. I'd rather run into a bigfoot. Anything but ghosts.

I have no restoration tips, but I will send you some genuine pirate treasure maps. Suitibale for framing or actual use. 3 for a dollar but I will give you a discount. Anybody else interested can send me a PM.

I tried to refrain. How do you know if such creatures exist, and they aren't one zillion times smarter than we are, enough to hide their existence. Would that be more far out than their existense in the first place? After all, we know nothing about these things. I'm just playing devils advocate. Everybody raise your hand that believes in the human soul. What? No proof? I could have used better terminology than "Devils Advocate". Bad choice of words.

I got a suprise the other day. I took my mom in for an appointment at the doctor that did her cataracts, they had changed her appointment from afternoon to morning because he had to do an urgent case. She was having real problems with sight and pain in one eye and the appointment was just to determine what was wrong. The place was packed with patients waiting and I thought, here we go. We got in after a wait and he looked with his instruments and said she had scarring developing from the surgery, which he said happens. He lasered off the scarring then and there. It's a quick process, but I know he had patients waiting and the appointment was just to find out the problem. I expected another round of long drawn out appointments and it takes a long time to get in. Sometimes I am too critical of things. Now the DMV....

You are right, of course, Aric. Most of my treasures and curiosities are small things but here's a solid cast iron eagle that sat in the front yard at the family farm for decades, set in a concrete base. I had to sell it when we moved. It would be interesting to see the foundry and watch the casting process on such an object. I made an angle iron frame with casters to move it about after the farm was sold.

I think my mom would go to a concert, she likes trying any new adventure. Dad wouldn't have unless it was Conway Twitty or similar. Here's one I like. I also like Don Felders Heavey Metal video with the bomber getting shot up but it's pretty graphic to link, even for a cartoon.

Actually, I did try to calculate it out and that's what I came up with. I also I should have worded my comment differently or left it out entirely. I tried to make a joke without thinking. I'd never rip you off, of course, and didn't mean a thing by it. I should have stayed off the internet yesterday. Maybe I should invent an app that gives out an electric shock or locks device up when the user isn't in the proper frame of mind for interacting or commenting on the web.

I'm worn out on math. 43? I'll start on a prototype. Maybe I get rich from your idea.

Better all the time is right. Nice stand gewoon ik. Frosty, I thought your new super computer was to fix all those problems.

And then you can just sit there in the ER for hours or days because they are over-run.

No it's probably a good thing, I have some strong point's of view on things outré, extraterestrial, legends, and wierd stuff in general. Pro, con, proof, faith and what not and would surely engaged eventually but listened to that inner voice for a change. I have also been known to go off into the derailment weeds on occassion. The little store where I bought that had 100's of different styles and they were dirt cheap. And I bought ONE. There was one with bristly black hair and a dagger clenched between its teeth, I still remember.... I could have decorated a wall with them.

I'd like to slip this in before this thread gets locked, or everybody "leaves this topic". It's my coconut pirate head. I like those bobble heads Das and the soot adds major character, I think. Thanks for contributing. I think I will not post anymore off topic topics even here in "Everything Else".

It's been many years since I worked there. I don't think moving product by air would be feasable in that place. It would probably have to be torn down to the ground and started from scratch. It's an industrial dinosaur, added to ad hoc over time. Everything that can be is lined with hard ceramic plates and tiles that are glued on with silicone which eventually falls off and binds up anything with a moving part. I toured a new plastics plant that used air for moving plastic pellets around and it was pretty impressive, but that was years ago. The idea of firing beans at a plate might not work either, the place uses liquid hexane to extract the oil and the "flour" would surely plug the extractor up with one giant, monsterous doughball. It requires beans to be made into "flakes", kind of like a cornflake shape. A lot of it runs under vacuum, as well. It makes me wonder how things have changed over time though. I bet the newer technology they use today would be pretty impressive. Out of curiosity I looked around a bit on the net about this. Green Bison built a plant recently that does 150,000 bushels a day and with my shabby round up, down and all around math equals roughly 189 tons an hour. That's a lot.

I guess I should have said "feed" instead of "food". I never had to pack a lunch but now I have to wear dentures....

Btw, dried soybens are HARD like rocks, causing wear on those hammers and everything else.

I was just looking at the photos of the process of making him again and "suspended animation" caught my eye. It just reminded me of a large, large bird with outstreched wings I made years ago. I had ropes and baling wire strung all over, from the roof, holding it all together so I could get all the pieces just right. I had forgot all about that one. Nice reminder, thanks. I'd like to add, as others commented, it does convey a sense of motion to me. I hope you show more of your work in the furure.

Actually it is a form of food, meal for hogs. It went out in railcars but the hogs never seemed to complain about metal. Where it went after that, I can't say........ The hammers came from a soybean processing plant and they have magnets everywhere. It ran at 65-75 tons of beans per hour so it's kind of impossible to catch everything but there were some interesting things caught on those magnets, a lot went into my sculptures..... I once dropped my car keys into a full elevator silo of beans and they showed up 5 days later stuck to a elevator leg magnet. I mentioned to the guys running that department I lost them. The key fob even still worked after going through screws, drags and conveyor belts, and being stuck on a magnet.

Larry, I absolutely love Mr K! Facinating and entrancing to look at. I can well understand why he makes you smile.... I enjoyed the story behind him, I saw some other very cool stuff on your website as well. Thanks for sharing him....

Yes, I mentioned him as describing the ruins. "This statue fifty-six years after it was erected, was thrown down by an earthquake; but even as it lies, it excites our wonder and admiration. Few men can clasp the thumb in their arms, and its fingers are larger than most statues. Where the limbs are broken asunder, vast caverns are seen yawning in the interior. Within it, too, are to be seen large masses of rock, by the weight of which the artist steadied it while erecting it." That came from wikipedia, which I know isn't the most reliable source of information, but where I sometimes start looking. Hauling it all off like that would have been a huge thing but humans have done some amazing things in the past. Who knows?