StainlessDeal

Man alive, we had fun. My buddy and his bro-in-law are fantastic poker players so we spent some time in Binions at the various tournaments, but I decided pretty quick that is not my own forte. I discovered my mad dancing skilz at Studio 54 with the help of my old high school chum Budwiser. What a dork I was, do I care? NO! Came out of it, after air, room, and food/booze, down maybe $135. I'd give way more than that any time for that much fun. Robert, I saw some kids pwing in front of Paris, or maybe the shops next door, (I'm having a strange memory problem) just about dusk on Thursday. Were they yours? I also noticed lots of stamped, stained, and sealed concrete that could use some pw love, looks like business could be good. I hope business doesn't stay too good on the fulltime gig, stay safe and make money and I'll look you up next time out. P.S. did I mention that I had fun?:lgsideway

Wouldn't it be nice to have a day where everything went just perfect once in a while? Wouldn't it be nice if your birthday could be that day? Sorry it wasn't all it should have been, take the rest of the day off on me.:) lol Maybe next year.

Sorry to hear I missed you Michael, maybe another time. Robert, it's good to be too busy to meet up, next time I'll bring more notice and buy you lunch or something. As for what happens there, staying there, I hear there is a pretty good crimelab out there now.:) Catch you both next time around then, I'm off to the airport in just a couple. P.S. Rod, thanks for your support!

Hey Reed, welcome home and thanks. For all the rest of you serving now, who have served, or who have family serving: Thank you for your sacrifices, there are not words enough to thank you properly. We are truly not worthy.:lgbow:

With the season winding down, my new garage (which until recently was somebody else's old garage) got a floorcleaning. My old hotrod also benefitted, as it is unfit to travel even the short distance required to allow for a proper cleaning, note the cedar "parking brakes" deployed.:rolleyes2 Kind of a Before, during, and after. Sorry about the different camera positions and the tilt, this is still a learning thing.:)

Except for the hammer at the end, it never matched with me. Then again, I can be a little odd.:)

My first car was a 69 Nova SS. A factory 396 car that had not been treated particularly well. Every penny I made from 10 to almost 18 went into that ride, and brother she was F A S T ! The problem was there was this guy around with a small-block Dodge Demon kickin' hiney all over town. Fast forward about five years, and I'm working with that guy in a lumberyard. My Nova was stolen, stripped, and burned three days before I turned 18, and now I'm 23 and earning nearly 20 grand a year. I'm a rich man with nothing fun to drive, and my pal needs money to get married. I love this car, but I haven't loved it lately, so this is going to get the love I was about to lavish on a 68 Triumph chopper. I figure I should fix what I have before I set up a new mess in the shop. Thanks for the compliments, and Tony, my dad insists that Go Mango was called Competition Orange over at Plymouth. (He was driving a 68 440 GTX when I was born) The demon might get a new crate hemi next year, the 318 in her was never meant to run this long, but it might take a few washes before I have that kinda loot to spill.:lgsad:

Thats a 71 Dodge Demon, balanced and blue-printed (in 88) 318. Some go-fast stuff, a real, honest, Beautiful Polluter! It has sat in storage for ten years, and is getting torn open this winter. Thus the cleaning. It got a blast of Glimmer from Sunbrite,with Rowlett's wet-wax and foamer added. The floors only got cleaned because I had the odd chems sitting around, and wanted to use and see. Here are some better Pics of the Demon.:) Unfortunately, I didn't know that you can't post the same file in two threads, so you have to look in the testing section, to see the better pics. If I get the chance, I'll doctor some more and put them here.

Hang on there, the suspense shouldn't kill, or even maim you.:) Let me try some afters. Oh, nd water was about 175*, air about 45*, lotsa steam.

Did the floor with some purple stuff the Mother in Law was kind enough to supply.(She loves to help) Mostly metasilicate and sodium hydroxide, used a 24" SteelEagle and my Tuff 4GPM moneymaker on wheels.:) These are all befores:

This is a family site, we can't be talking about "woody smell" here! My goodness!:lolsign:

:lgjump: We're gonna roast a butterball, and fry the wild turkey I shot opening weekend. Generally, the guys are for fried wild and the women are for roasted Butterball. I'm guessing that means we all get the best of both worlds!

Thanks, I got 'er done.:)

Thought a twelve-step program was in my near future.:lgsad:

Richard's right, they are both awesome. And the one with the dots is good, too.:)

This last weekend was the opening of most upland game seasons here. We did pretty well and had a great time. My dog started his tenth season, he was only forty pounds when we started, now about ninety. I tried my hand at turkey hunting for the first time and I'm pretty sure I'll continue. I'm posting a few pics. of we ugly men in one of the most beautiful places.

Steve, I killed that one with a sharp stick and harsh language! lol I tease my archer and black-powder pals about using ancient technology to kill in the modern age, but the truth is that I can walk and carry a shotgun, but sitting in a stand or blind is pretty much out of the question these days for me. I pay dearly for every mile I walk since a car accident re-arranged my priorities a while back, but if I sit for more than a few minutes in the cold, I'm done walking at all for a few days. I pretty much walk it all, now and enjoy watching the dog work. Jeff, I hear you, Pennsylvania is a beautiful place. I was surprised when I first went there as a kid, I had assumed everything east of the Mississippi was city. I'm glad there are still gorgeous places to get away back there, I always liked trucking through that part of the world. BTW, when I shot that turkey, I was actually hunting for pheasants and quail. They were coveyed-up like bobwhites and I picked the best shot at the largest bird I could see out of about fifty. First shot ever at a turkey.:)

This pic is of the hardest-working member of my hunt crew. Petey is the best hunter I know of, man or beast, and it has been my great honor to share his life. He is unwavering in his devotion, and never critcises, traits we all could try to emulate. I have learned more about being a good hunter (and man) from this dog than from any other single source. He is a great pal.:)

I agree with Kem and Steve, my dog got skunked when we were clear out in the baldies hunting, and the stink was so bad, imagine two hunters and a skunked dog in the same Suburban when the ambient temp is below 30 degrees F.:lgbugeyes We stopped at a fuel stop and bought the only two cans of tomto juice there. It cut it back pretty well, but I'll never be able to enjoy bloody marys like I used to. When I got home, we did the douche thing, bought premixed, (a blast to buy a case of them explaining you're trying to get some bad smell off the dog!) and it worked like snapping your fingers. Maybe you could downstream vinegar, or use your x-jet with 100% vinegar. Let me know if that works if you try it.

Jason, I hear you about getting married and buying out your partner in one bite: This year I started in this field, bought a house in June, got married in August. I could choke if I'm not careful! Jeff, yeah I was a trucker, I drove moving and storage rigs mostly, but hauled the mail for a while as well. Mail route was from Rock Springs, WY. to Bloomfield, IA. and back. I was an organiser for the Teamstsers (and a shop steward), and later the same for APWU (American Postal Workers), and did volunteer work for AFofLCIO. I went to management in the moving business for quite a while and then was a concrete pump operator (32 meter Schwing) and was just out of training when I was t-boned by an F-250 while riding in passenger seat of a jeep Liberty. I don't have much competition, most people around here have never thought of PWing as anything but truck and car lot washers. There are some real wood guys around, but I rarely see them. I don't know what their methods might be around here. I'm doing OK, like I said before, "I'm happy to be working." I'm lucky to be alive and walking and not mourning. What I think a lot of people don't realize is that we are ALL lucky to be alive. I've been blessed with events that could pound that home for good.:)

Injured by a drunk driver in spring of 04, lost much use of my right arm.(my strong side) While recuperating found that I was never going to be hirable in my old industry at anything like what I used to make. The local vocrehab suggested that I go to college. I suggested something unprintable, and they suggested that I look into self-employment. I had hired mobile washer to clean my rigs before, and thought it looked easy. I was a fool. I did some research and was astounded by what I found could be done as a pwer. I wrote (with a consultant) a business plan and applied for a grant that I recieved in March. I wish I had come across these boards earlier as they have been invaluable tools, and would probably have led me to make some small changes in how I spent my original grant. I've been mostly part-timing this year as the industry is almost unknown here, so customer interest is low. I spend a lot of time educating people about what is possible with the tools and chems I have access to. I enjoy the wood work quite a bit, but here in NE people at first don't even realize it is a good idea to treat cedar decks and fences, and then they think I can raise Lazarus with chems and Ready-Seal. I'd rather they believed something in between those two extremes. I thought I'd be doing a lot of fleetwashing, but really haven't and don't mind. I'm doin some flatwork, and roof and house washes. These I really enjoy, partly from the challenge involved in explaining that roof fungus exists and can be removed safely. This is an absolutely foriegn concept to most home-owners here. They often think I'm a shyster trying to pull a fast one, until they see the pics, or small samples. What I really have come to specialize in, is removal of lichen from just about any substrate you can name. People always think I'm going to just blast it away, when I explain how I will actually do the work, they start mystified, then they convert. I'm loving this business, it hasn't been easy, but it is looking up. I'm happy just to be working. Sorry so long, I just get so excited.:)

I was partially funded by a grant from my vocrehab, so I had to write and stick to a detailed business plan from the start. I have moved some, and wish I had known of these forums earlier. I would have invested in larger equip earlier. Still I have no real complaints, as I know from my plan not to expect too much too soon. Then when I exceed my planned expectations, it feels great.

Is this "The One?" Just curious, it looks real good considering the kind of day. :lgbow:

Lance, douglas is a riot. When I was just out of high school, I was breeding hooded attic rats and long-haired rats called Rexes, they creep a lot of people out, but I was very fond of them. None was ever sold for snake food, and I used to get cards at chistmas from buyers. I've always said a squirrel is just a rat with a hairdo, and that's a compliment. Philip, nice going, I agree with all of you in this thread: There is just something wrong with people that don't like dogs. (or most animals if you ask me)

Quite a few years back, a storage area near my place of business was constantly getting broken into. Just small, easy things got taken, but it all costs, so... an employee at the place I worked had trapped a 40# bobcat in a live-trap and then found out he was out of season without a permit, etc. He decided to solve both problems by leaving the cat in an old guitar amp case next to a bus owned by a local band. They had been robbed of some equipment earlier, an were unable to afford a different lot. The case didn't even sit out one night. The breakins stopped immediately. Guess they were just looking for a pet!:) Maybe a wolverine inside the trailer would be a deterant to the "help yourself" crowd. It could be part of the ad campaigns, like a mascot and theft prevention system in one.