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Dennis Benson
01-07-2003 19:19:54
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Re: OK you guys, confess in reply to kraig WY, 01-07-2003 16:26:36
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Weeeellll, I am both kinds. I pick up broken tools cheap or free, or (gulp) buy things on sale to have them when I need them. One place I pick up tools free is the city's curbside recycling program. I also pick up all the metal I can find and sell it. I also buy tools so I can do a job. My tools were overflowing out of a 12 by 8 room in the basement into another room the same size. That didn't bother my wife, until they overflowed into her half of the basement. then I told her I thought I could build a barn in the back yard. I told her I would need some scaffolding, and began finding sections of scaffolding. Before I got enough to build the barn I resided the house, she thought that looked nice, it took 3 years to make it all the way around the house, and replacing bad boards resulted in replacing the entire rear roof, rafters and all. the third year I began building the barn. This year is the third year of working on the barn, as soon as it warms up enough that I can move and get around I'll take the tarp off the roof of the barn and put the rest of the lumber across the trusses, and put up the steel. Then I can get the tools out of the basement. Soon I'll be buying a hand held spot welder to fix my rusty truck, and make it good and solid again, and I'll finish building a small equipment trailer out of I beams from mobile home tongues, it will be rated at 10,000 pounds, and can carry, you guessed it, either a Bobcat, a mini excavator, or a Cletrac, or my wife's favorite, a Farmall A. Of course, when I'm out picking up scrap I run across things for my wife, I pick up dolls she cleans and collects, and I find pots and pans she looks over to see if she wants them. She does have to be careful, once she asked me to watch for some looseleaf binders at an auction, and I bought a hamper full, the hamper held over 100, and most were good. The people at the auction helping me load asked me if I wanted to take the damaged ones, and I said yes to give my wife the full effect. Whenever I go to an auction she tells me not to "buy anything too wierd," and when I come home I ask her, "what is wierd," I usually don't disapoint her.
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