I keep it right here next to my heart. and reached for his back pocket. :)
Red
Greenbean!
Why
WronG! Close Tom, not quite.
Clem
No, I'm sure it wasn't Why. :P
Stringbean !!!
yee haw! I mean Hee Haw!
How about
*DanG the torpedos
Who said with thier last breath...
"I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis"
"That was the best ice-cream soda I ever tasted."
"That was a great game of golf, fellers."
"I've had a hell of a lot of fun and I've enjoyed every minute of it."
(Shortly before death.)
"Is it the Fourth?" (4 July 1826)
"Strike the tent."
"Cool it, brothers..."
"Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough."
"Drink to me."
"I have a terrific headache."
"Put out the light."
"*DanG the Torpedoes" was said by Rear Admiral David G. Farragut :P
"I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis." - Humphrey Bogart
"That was a great game of golf, fellers"- Bing Crosby
"That was the best ice-cream soda I ever tasted."
Lou Costello
"I've had a hell of a lot of fun and I've enjoyed every minute of it."(Shortly before death.)
Errol Flynn
"Is it the Fourth?" (4 July 1826)
Thomas Jefferson
"Strike the tent."
General Robert E. Lee
"Cool it, brothers..."
Malcolm X
"Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough."
Karl Marx
"Drink to me."
Pablo Picasso
"I have a terrific headache."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Put out the light."
Theodore Roosevelt
Who is "STRINGBEAN"?
Don,
Are you Texicans completely without culture?
Stringbean was a buddy of Minnie Pearl and Grandpa Jones!
He was built a little different than most folks. Hope someone has a picture.
Noble
Is this who you are referring to (https://forestryforum.com/smile/aeh.gif)(https://forestryforum.com/smile/aeh.gif)(https://forestryforum.com/smile/aeh.gif)(https://forestryforum.com/smile/aeh.gif)
http://www.bellenet.com/stringbean.html
Rick,
Thats the guy. He sometimes wore a special costume which is what i was refering to about his build.
Was just getting ready to send you a private message urging you to join in the posting. WELCOME!
Whitepe mentioned you in one of his posts. Do you live in his neighborhood?
Noble
Got to thinking about STRINGBEAN.
Who remembers what he hadnext to his heart and where it came from?
Noble
Noble,
I guess we live about 25 miles apart, but we work in the same cubicle. I am the "sweat equity" in his sawmill operation and have a solar kiln (in fact I am just ready to pull my first load of osage orange out.) Hopefully, I can find a buyer for it.(https://forestryforum.com/smile/deal2.gif) My wife (https://forestryforum.com/smile/gorgeous.gif) is ready for this hobby to start pulling its own weight. (https://forestryforum.com/smile/greedy.gif)
Anyway, I mainly just read :P and soak up the information here. :D
--Rick
Way to go Rick! Only 2 posts and you already won this months creative smiley prize! (https://forestryforum.com/smile/biggrinjester.gif)
Buy him something Noble.
Rick,
Dad used to work in the engine div. at Mossville, He retired about 20 years ago and moved back here to help me on the farm.
I'll bet you don't have any trouble moving the Bodark wood. I've had a few calls for it by people who made bows (as in archery) Let us know how it turns out.
OK Jeff, I'll buy his dinner and whitepe's too. Your's too Jeff if you can come.
It's my turn to go to Pekin to my Mother-in -law's. My son and I take turns milking while the other goes with my wife to Ill.
Sometime this fall I'll have to go (I'd rather milk) and would love to meet fellow forum members. Is Kramers restuarant still in Business in Peoria? That might be a good place to meet. I'll let you know when the boss says I'll be in Ill.
I'd rather meet fellow forum members than milk, but I would rather milk than sit in my Mother-in-law's apt bored silly.
When it comes to eating, that's about my 2nd most favorite things to do.
Noble
Noble, Up here the bowyers do not want sawn lumber, they want the staves to be split. Sawing invariably cuts across some grain which makes the bow weak.
Jeff,
These guys wanted straight grained 4x6 cants that they were going to work down with a draw knife. Our hedge trees aren't real big here nor are they very straight. I have seen Bois-De-Arc farther north and west of here that grew pretty tall and streight big. Osage Orange is usually used for fence posts in this area. I've seen posts that had been cut and installed and then put out suckers and leaves.
I've made some stuff out of it, it's neat wood but a little on the hard size. I was surprized that it sawed as well as it does.
Noble
Noble,
Let Rick Schmalzried and I know when you are bringing your spousal unit to see her mother
in Pekin. It seems that I owe you a CAT hat anyway for identifying my Sassafras table lamp.
I haven't heard about Kramer's restaurant but I am sure we can figure out somewhere
to have some grits and gravy.
My in-laws finally brought my kid back to Central Illinoy from yooper land yesterday.
The two grandmales were having way to much fun fishing and golfing up there.
Earlier this week they said that they somehow knocked the drain plug out of the boat
while fishing in Lake Huron. They said that they took on about 20-30 gallons of water
and noticed when it started getting above the raised floor. They somehow managed to
find the drain plug in the shallow water ???
Whitepe,
Sounds like the old guys had an EXCITING fishing trip.
Will do on the trip to Pekin. Is Van Aukins (I don't have a clue how to spell that correctly) Junction still there? That used to be a fun place to eat. It would be about half-way for us. Where does Rick live? I may not have use of the car since my wife always takes her Mother shopping and running all kinds of errands----her Mother is way up in her 90"s If that's the case you guys might have to come to Pekin. There is a neat grubbary out north of town toward the cemetary where Sen. Everette Dirkson and my father -in -law are buried.
Noble
Hmmm we always put our boat plugs in from the inside of the boat. If it falls out, it falls into the boat.
Tom,
Affirmative on the drain plug inside the boat.
The wife and I asked her father the same thing
and he had no explanation. Must have been one
of his senior moments
That wasn't as bad as what one of his yooper neighbors
did last year. They (the neighbors) were taking their sail boat
out of the water for the season at the public boat launch
in Cedarville, Michigan. They put the boat onto the
trailer and decided to pull out across the road into the parking lot to tie everything up. Unfortunately they hadn't
taken the mast down and forgot about the utility company's
power lines overhead. Dumped the sail boat clean
of the trailer and left it sit in the middle of the road.
Fortunately no one got hurt.
:D That's a classic :D
Boats ! They are the center of a lot of crazy stunts.
My Chief Photographer took some pictures of one of these in 1968 or 69. A car pulling a boat that had not been tied down to the trailer did an emergency stop from about 50 mph at a stoplight. The boat came loose, went over the top of the car, creasing its top. Went over the top of two or three other cars in front, creasing their tops, and ended up in the back of a big dumptruck. Luckily nobody was hurt here either, but, the funny part was that there was minimal traffic tie up. Everybody just pulled off of the side of the road into a big grocery store parking lot. :D
Noble,
Vonachen's Junction is still there and they have great food.
We like the wood fired pizza. Schmalzried and I can
come down and pick you up and we can give you
the nickle tour. We can have lunch and then
take you back down to the log and take your picture
in front of the log. Oh I almost forgot, be sure to bring your
(https://forestryforum.com/smile/helmet.gif)
because I'll have to pick you up on my rice burner
A rain suit wouldn't hurt either. ;D ;D ;D
Whitepe,
OK, but I don't have a rainsuit-----I'll bring an umbrella, I'm scared to go very fast on those things anyway.
Used to have a Suzuki street bike when I worked in town. Wish I still had it but hardly ever go anywhere. Still have a little dirt bike that I used to chase cows till I hurt my sholder.
Boss says it will be Thanksgiving, so if you guys don't leave town for the holidays and have time, lets do it.
Noble
On the subject of boats if you want to get a good laugh just go and watch the people pulling their boats out on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon. You will see some very silly things at the local boat ramp. Always good for a laugh or three.
Gordon
Noble,
I checked with my boss and it looks like we will
be at home for this thanksgiving. If my in-laws
come over you can meet my father-in-law. He was
a dairy farmer for 17 years and he has a state forester
certified tree farm in Indiana. Be careful about getting
in boats with him though. re: drain plugs.
By thanksgiving, the rice burner (kawasaki) will probably be
in winter storage so I guess a car will have to do.
whitepe
Whitepe,
You're just storing that thing so you don't have to cruise through N. Pekin and up S. Adams St. at 5 mph with someone on the back holding a parasol.
Noble
Noble,
Well the wife won't let me borrow her Harley.
She takes better care of it than me, well
we better not go there. She used to have an 84 BMW.
The summer of 1988 B.K. we rode out west through South Dakota and Wyoming. In Yellowstone, my buddy and I
kept telling her that BMW meant Buffalo Move Way.
By the by, B.K. means Before Kids.
When our son was younger, he didn't like being
bungee corded to the back. :D :D :D
Just kidding.
Whenever my late uncle saw someone riding down the
road on a bike he would say, Look there goes someone riding a chain saw.
By the by, what color's the parasol? Can you send
a picture of you and it together?
Whitepe