Scott NC

I wish I was tecno savy some times. I always miss out on the easy money.

Thank's John. Grandpa's ran on steam or compressed air, I have to verify the compressed air part with my brother though. Family lore. I'm hoping he sends a video.

I suspect the used bookstores in my area cherry pick everything, where the good stuff goes, I don't know. And I look closely and dig through boxes.... I'm starting to think conspiracy... There's cookbooks & home fix-it books galore. I have better luck at the flea markets.

I usually don't offer unsolicited ideas but maybe the chainsaw could be modifried with paddles, if the bar was long enough that it could be mounted on the end of a cobbled together log raft, like an outboard motor and speed them along to Flint' secret island and even save labor digging up his second treasure, flying sand everywhere, what with the paddles and all. That is if it were buried on a sandy beach.

I better study up on it.

Draft gear is just a steel box full of springs that cushion the coupler. You heard trains taking up slack? It soften all that steel banging back and forth. I suppose I am easily amused. Sometimes they are hard to get out. I think now they use compressed gas.

Very nice Billy. But what are the conversions all about? I know very little of such things. I'm waiting on photo's from my brother of a model Case steam tractor my grandpa built. He doesn't tolerate being pestered or rushed very well. He got the tractor, rather large and a heavey beast, and I got his lathe at the estate sale.

Thanks Das. Those glass eyes are just colored beads of glass, I got a bunch in a box of junk at an auction and have been trying to find uses for them, lol. It is a coincidence you mention lost culture antiquity because I've been watching some old movies that have huge stone carved heads in mountain sides and been trying to figure out what they were modeled after. Olmec heads is what I am going with. I had never heard of them so thanks. Bad habit, saying never.... Good old Nemo.... I watched "Mysterious Island", but in that one the Nautilus was already built but worn out broke down. Maybe fund rebuilding of it..... A lot of my stuff turns out looking like him and I don't even try... Now I will have to make another, just to try this..... An idea I can certainly use on other things, too. Thanks, Lee. I've always wanted to experiment with invisibility in my projects.

Too bad he survived the fall and landed all broke up on the beach and got chewed to the bone by fire ants.

I used to play and climb around them on the siding they left them on in the flyspeck town I grew up in... Always loved aspects of it. I'd love to drop a draft gear again if I got the chance...

Thank you Larry. I found a transission shop that will give me all sorts of crazy shaped metal junk that could be shaped and manipulated to my liking. I used to build large scrap art and now find myself being able to get back to that. Slowly. But those faces carried me through rough time. I'm working on a large pelican for my sister right now.

Oh, did he go on a rampage after raiding the still, after going on a rampage?

Who got that elephant drunk enough to go on a rampage in the first place?

Shainarue, If I make another, it will be with your ideas in mind. You are so thoughtful. Jèr, I'll come up with something original, I think. Billy! A blind Pew chasing over the rocks and flying to his death over the cliff!

I am tired of making them Shainarue. They are too easy. It makes me feel lazy in my art. If you call it that.

We used to spook new guys on the graveyard shift at the old bean plant. Many years ago, before I started, they had an anual shutdown for repairs and one contractor had his leg cut off and survived but another died in a gruesome way I won't describe. It was in the extraction plant. 3 am by yourself with humming pumps and machinery is bad enough. There were tales told. I even got the shivers doing my rounds. We had a control room we monitored all things from and in the wee hours it was great fun for some to go up 2 floors and drop a sledge hammer on the roof of the control room. It was a intense place with explosive potential, and it made you jump out of your skin. There was a lot of creepy stuff happened there. It's why I don't like ghosts.

It did not go through. Here it is. I will try again. Like I said, It's not much, but it's my last one. Does it look like Peter Lorre to anybody but me. I should have kept it to myself. Don't worry, I'm done after this one.

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I wasn't trying to jump on the bandwagon with the title concerning Larry's project, either. . The edit function is disfunctional.

Heres my last face sculpture I will ever make. It's not much, but I don't mind. It remindes me of Peter Lorre for some reason.

Plog your ears frosty!

Neatsfoot is pretty much available. Check shoe shop.

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....