So you never truck your bike to an actual riding area... Road bike, then.
> barn has car lift and such but usually i'm up by the house tinkering.
> i once built an engine hoist our of pallet racking because it was tall
> enough to hoist an engine out of a boat on a trailer. seemed like a good
> idea at the time, in retrospect i should have just used the back hoe.
You own a backhoe? I'm impressed. I knew a guy in Arkansas who owned
his own road grader. The school district said it would pick up his
daughters at their front door if he'd make a turnaround for the bus.
When he was finished he sold the grader for what he paid for it.
Long ago there was a volunteer Chinese elm growing right next to the
sidewalk in the parking strip out front. I hate the damn things. I
kept cutting it back and it kept growing back. One year I tried to trim
it like a bonsai. One year I hacked at it with an axe below ground
level. Finally I gave up. When the City repaved the sidewalk they
pulled the damn thing up with the backhoe and left the corpse for me to
find. I didn't set it on fire and dance naked around it, but I wanted to.
I didn't know what a brush-hog was until we drove through the south.
There are a LOT of scary tools that city folk know nothing about.
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Cheers, Bev
"I just realized how bad the economy really is. I recently
bought a new toaster oven and as a complimentary gift,
I was given a bank." -- L. Legro