How'd Ya Git Yer Username

[Vermonter]

Started using it after a book called "Real Vermonters Don't Milk Goats" was published.   The book pokes fun back at the out-of-staters who move here and look down on the locals.  Very funny outline of the difference between flatlanders and vermonters.
I met most of the requirements to be a real Vermonter, except my mother's side of the family only went back three generations in Vermont and my father is from Georgia. 

[Skeeter]

Great topic idea....great response so far too !

I dont post much here....but I shall deevulge me username.

I am Skeeter...Lord of the Jung.....

wait ...thats not right.

Ummm....

I am Skeeter....parasite to the world ???

hmmm....no....not right either...

How about this...

I am Skeeter, because I surf the web alot and hit alot of websites for info ?
Therefore, I quite literally am *flying* around the world  !!!

There ...I like that !!!

Skeeter

[woodbeard]

Well, what can I say? My face is usually plastered with sawdust. :D

[genedieter]

Well, it's quite simple..........

it's my name; I'm kinda simple

GD

[KiwiCharlie]

Hi Gene (is that right?!)
Theres nothing wrong with that - I felt this was a good place when I joined, and therefore didnt have any problems using my real name.  Unlike other places where I use such names as threebigtoes or hickoryfoot!!  :D  I like the abstract names for forums like that!  :D
Cheers
Charlie.

[genedieter]

Yes, Charlie...it's Gene

And Yes...this place is great! I have learned so much here; and I'm learning more every day! I appreciate all the knowledge and experience here that everyone is so willing to share.

I've been on here so often in the past few months, my wife now jokes with me when she sees me on the computer, asking "are you talking with your friends?" And that's funny and true as well! Even though I don't know anyone on here personally, I actually do feel the friendship in this place.

GD

[KiwiCharlie]

Hi Gene,
Yes, I feel the same.  Ive been away for a while, but I still really value the 'cyber' friends Ive made here.  They genuinely care.  This forum is very different from others.  Lots of really good feedback, and without the hassles you see elsewhere.  Jeff can be thanked for most of that.  He does a great job here, and its appreciated by me, and Im sure, everyone else here.
I would like nothing more than to be able to get to the US one day, and meet some of these people.  It really is like a big family.
Long live the FF! 
Cheers
Charlie.

[Quartlow]

An ex boss gave me mine 20 some odd years ago, I worked for this guy hauling local steel, had to haul six loads a day From the slittler to the tube plant. Since we got paid buyy the load I got real tired of working 12 hours a day. Most of that waiting in line.

So I started taking the shipper in donuts everyday. After a week or so I conned in into letting me double out, hey they where light loads only about 35,000 pounds each.  So now I'm geting done at noon instead of 6

This went on for about a week, one day he caught up to me in the yard about 12:30 as I was getting geady to go home

HIM: Whats going on?
ME : going home.
Him: How many loads you get in today/
ME: 6
HIM: Just what time did you start this morning?
ME: 6, like always
HIM your telling me you hauled 6 loads in 6 hours?
ME: yep.
HIM: BULL!!!!( Well he said more but I can' post it)
ME: sure did, not only that I only used 1/2 of the fuel this week as anyone else.
HIM. yeah sure you did, that is not possible.
ME sure it is, if you haul to coils at a time instead of one you only have to make 3 trips,
HIM: WHAT??
ME yeah , if you double up you get done in half the time>
HIM: Boy you are about a quart low.

It kind of stuck. there are people around yet today who don't know my real name but they darn sure know who Quartlow is.

[Fraxinus]

Well, I've always been partial to Fraxinus americana.  LOve those ash trees.   And I wanted a completely different handle than what I use on the tractor discussion boards that I frequent.

[Roxie]

Quartlow, it was very interesting to hear where you got your handle.  If I had used the same thinking, I would be known as
Three Bricks Shy

[Murf]

Frax, what handle do you use on the tractor boards?

And which boards if I can be that nosey, it seems there several of us who end up in the same places on the net... talk about coincedences. 

[Quartlow]

Three Bricks Shy

or loose srews maybe?

[Weekend_Sawyer]

I go over to Yesterdays tractors. My 2nd favorite website. I post as JonwithanM because I have a Farmall M

For here its simple Ihave a nice weekend sawmillin hobby.

Jon

[pifan]

I am a big detroit pistons fan and on there forum pfan was taken so i went with pifan and ive used the same name on forums ever since.

[DanG]

Fraxinus, I'll admit I had to look that up when you first came here. :P   We don't have none of them trees here.  Then, when I saw what it was, I concluded you called yourself that cause you figgered to make an ash of yourself, anyway. : ;D :D :D

I'm glad you finally came over here, and I claim total responsibility for dragging you here.  I knew you'd fit in.

[Fraxinus]

Frax, what handle do you use on the tractor boards?

And which boards if I can be that nosey, it seems there several of us who end up in the same places on the net... talk about coincedences. 

Les or Les...fortunate on YTMag (Tractor Tales, Talk and Case boards), also on Kountry Life and Red Power Magazine.

[Steve]

My Momma gave it to me.

Steve

[ADfields]

My first name, Andy.  My better half's first name, Dana.  That is the AD and Fields is our last name, so ADfields. :   We started useing it as a farm name for papers on our horses, cattle and Catahoula dogs way before the web came along.
Andy

[Fraxinus]

I go over to Yesterdays tractors. My 2nd favorite website. I post as JonwithanM because I have a Farmall M

For here its simple Ihave a nice weekend sawmillin hobby.

Jon

Hi JonwithanM.  I also have an M.  It's a '48.  What a great machine.
You must post on the Farmall board.  I don't spend much time there.

[maple flats]

Nothing special about mine. I make maple syrup and my land is sorta flat. Makes it harder to use tubing but I manage. Have to use an extension ladder to tap the trees farthest from the collection tanks. 8) 8)  I can't use sap ladders because I don't have electric for vacume and my operation is too small to warrent using the generator or a gas powered vacume pump.maple syrup is great

[Weekend_Sawyer]

Hey Fraxinus I read the Farmall and Ford bords I don't post too much because most of the information is allready there.

[DR Buck]

Nick names in our LARGE family span many variations.  Some funny, like a cousin called 'Chut', which no one seems to remember how she got it over 45 years ago, and another cousin called 'Oink for the last 50+ years.

My father has been known by the nickname 'Bucky' for as long as I remember.  My youngest brother took on 'Buck', and late in high school my son also adopted 'Buck', but to my grand kids, he's 'Uncle Buck'.  I've been able to avoid being permanently tagged with any nick name most of my life,. Even after 25 years Navy and Navy reserve.

In my non-milling profession I work in system engineering and we get LOTS of magazines offered free.  For years most have come addressed with my initials, D.R.   Due to my long last name many leave out the .. and just address to DR, So becoming a doctor was easy.  Didn't even have to mail order a degree.

David R. Buckwalter    aka   DR_Buck

[woodhick]

When I was a small boy "or should I say young as I have never been small"  :D :Dthe "old-timers" would call anybody that worked on a mill or in the woods a woodhick.  I guess I always wanted to be one.  I beleive that I was born with sawdust in my veins, cause when I'm not sawing i'm working in cabinet shop or trying to learn more about wood. ;D :P

[bioguy]

Biology teacher for the past  26 years ( Man,that sounds like a long time!) I still feel like I'm only 26!!

[fstedy]

  ;D :D Hey all you newbies its time to fess up.  :D ;D