Buster's BS
Ok the first awaited installment of this thread. If you would like to post and hit on my spelling or grammer, please go somewhere else. Thanks bb
Not to take exception to a post made by, OXB. 27 gears, maybe for off roads things. maybe a nine speed and a 3 speed Brownlite behind, but high speed over the road will knock the fillings out of your teeth. The drive line alignment was a bitch.
But I made my 1st trip hauling ice packed chicken when I was around 15 years old. This truck had a 150 hp engine, with a blower so we had 170 hp. I think the they called it a Cummings JT.
Ive seen trucks with 250 HP and a 5 and 4 tranmission run on level gound, no wind 100 mph.
At that time, the chickens were ice packed, and had to have ice blown in on top and into the bunker. BTW they didn't pay for water or ice. We call the little engine on front of trailer called a put-put. It ran a fan that moved the air. Cranked with a rope on a little walkway on front of trailer.
Anyway I have driven trucks with eight speed roadrangers, 15 speed, 4 by 4, 5 by 4, 9 speed splicers.
Most today are air shift and don't require 2 sticks.
Most freight co's use a 5 speed box, don't want to confuse the union members.
When you get get right with your truck, you can change gears with out the clutch. Except for red lights.
Boy talk about a kick in butt, be sailing along at 80 mph and some hayseed pulls out in front of you.
If you can remember what gear you need to be in to get rolling again, my hats off to you.
27 gears. Maybe, but someone must be counting reverse.
If you think that isn't a trip. I once was in a parking lot in Indio, CA. That was almost empty. So I was pilled to gills and thought, let's see what happens if I put this sucker in high reverse. Holly shit. bb
Can't find the photo of longnosed KW that I drove. Parked in french qt. before they screwed it up with worlds fair.
Ok the first awaited installment of this thread. If you would like to post and hit on my spelling or grammer, please go somewhere else. Thanks bb
Right on! I can hardly wait!!
I once was in a parking lot in Indio, CA. That was almost empty. So I was pilled to gills and thought, let's see what happens if I put this sucker in high reverse. Holly shit. bb
:mg: I have always wondered...YEEEEEHHAAAAAAA!!
Oh high reverse can be fun , you get going WAY fast ,, fucking BACKWARDS !!!!!!!
I have never had to deal with a 27 speed , 13 is the max i have EVER had to deal with .
The company i work for has 2 Volvos 440 450 hp i think , one truck weigh 65,000 lbs , the other ( with the 450 ) weighs 45,000 lbs , talk about power to weight ratio !!!!! that thing is a fucking 45,000 lb Porche !!!
Oh and one of our "drivers " has already ripped the rear end out from under it and put it nose down in a ditch !!!
" but I was ONLY going 40 mph !!!"
Yeah RIGHT !!!!!
9 speed x 3 behind = 27 + 3 reverse. A real joy hauling 4800 gallons of milk into NYC. Some people saw yellow cabs, I saw red...bastards.
Now the engines are getting so big they can use automatics in the lowlands but I wouldn't want to do the mountain states with one. That's moot anyway because I gave up my truck license when they went to CDL. Too much hassle with that damn thing. You get a ticket driving anything anywhere and it gets tallyed at home. :(
Ok. I'm going to jump to subject of JUSTICE! Today I was using the county paper for only thing that they’re good for. Place under deep frier to catch grease. OOpps I'd better edit my sig. or someone might drop a bomb on me.
Anyway, Back in past the HDlines were,
14 year old girl kill in auto wreck. Not much detail. A freind gave me a paper from another county. Guess who was in car? The mayor's son. It was his step daughter, who he was (anyway). Story is that he has 13 DWIs, but they never get to court. Yes Boss Hog Is alive. My great town is one of few that has radar, hell the county sheriffs in MS. can't even get one. Boombox law right. When they caught all the whites, they put it away. Before someone gets all out of joint, I have black friends & they know how to play the system here. Also the the sub cheif is blk. and a friend of mine.
The bitch is not only blind, but stupid.
If you have a problem with the law, courts, please try to find someone who knows the court clerk. Someone knows him or her and can talk to them. (I'm not talking about killing some sob.) The judge may be the bad ass, but if clerk never puts papers on his desk. You'll never go to trial. IMHO
I finally found out how the 13 dui thing works. It's the result of the plea bargaining system.
When you're caught, you're caught, it's hard to make it go away, but they can plea it down to a first time dui. So as long as the DA is willing to play the game you can get as many dui's as you want, and they'll all be first offense dui's.
Nope just never have it come up in court. Then it's not on any record. For insurance or other things
The spotlight is on Hammond at the moment, not as many tickets go away as used to. We get a lot of federal money so oversight is growing, plus a lot of people are moving from upscale areas into Hammond and they're starting to come into conflict with the GOBC* But give graft a chance and it wedges itself in wherever it can. It takes a while for money to spread itself around.
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TS. I see your from the great state of LA. In which I lived and worked for many years. But did you ever spend 6 days in the Red River Parish jail, in Coushatta,LA. Boy try that for kicks. No nothing. Buy snuff from a vending mach. that was marked "not for sale free sample" About 3 bucks a can. Yes it must be great to go to LSU & have the world at your feet. Or perhaps N State?
TS Sorry about that cheap shot. From my 1/2 ass heart. Really. BTW try the Bed & Breakfast thing in red river parish, for about 6 flappin days without soap, towel or a way to shave. Hey! I'm From MS. We can't hold a light to the rednecks there.
SLU in
Hammond actually. I've not been to prison yet, but I've been around a little. Military, offshore, owned my own business, near indigence; no rose colored glasses, but I've seen a few things.
How many countries have you worked in? :confused:
Technically? Italy, Turkey, Egypt, Greece, and France adds up to 5, but I only spent a few weeks in each at most except for Italy.
Edit: Rosie Roads isn't really a foreign country, but you can add that to the list.
I was asking Buster but thanks for the info anyway. :lol:
Well. OXB I've worked in Nigeria twice, Iran once, Peru 2 trips, same job. Then I guess Sumatra, Indonesia was last shot for me.
BTW. I'm trying to get a post of around the time my rich Uncle turned me loose.
I'll try to start when we left Germany in Jan. 63. Aboard the Upsure?
Anyway it was a troopship, about 1200 onboard. The N. Atlantic isn't nice in winter.
We had to stop in Rota, Spain and pickup some Seabees, and then drop then off in RI.
So we got off ship at Brooklyn navy yard & were carried to Ft. Hamilton, NY for discharge.
After the paper work, back pay, leave pay and a ticket back to POO. Point of origin. We're sent on our way. Most went to the Port Authority bus station to go to other airports. Think I went to NJ. Then some of us went to a bar close by. I had planned it on the trip home, when I took a shower & shaved, I tossed my dirty things in trash. So I had an empty awol bag. At the bar I bought a pint & 4 fifths of whiskey, think maybe I.W. Harper. We were 1/2 bombed when we got on plane to Atlanta.
The gal cut me off after 2 drinks. So I asked if I could please have a 7-up? Yes, ok I'll just mix my own.
I got off plane there & tried to call home or the store my folks owned. Hell I only had 4 numbers. While gone the added 3 more. I got lady working at store after a while and told her to have dad to meet me in Jackson at Thompson field. So I got off the phone and went to catch my flight. A city cop stopped me an asked for my orders. Maybe I was walking a bit sideways. Opps I had crammed all my paper work in my duffle bag to ship home from NY.
Anyway I spent the night in jail in Atlanta, which was about 20 miles from airport at that time. I paid a 15 buck find & they let me go. Hey, how about a ride to airport? Don't push it. Call a cab. The sob cop lied, he didn't change my flight. Another 6 bucks down the hole. Wonder if that's because I first begged, then tried to kick his butt?
So hello USA first night.
Dad came to pick me up, I was in lounge drinking a Bush Bavarian beer, had never heard of it. The Bavarian part sounded well, but yuk.
He walked up by me and said “see you’re having breakfast." I told him about 20 yrs. later where I spent the night. While on way home we went by the gold coast, which was across the county line from Jackson and some what wet. I hadn't told him about the whiskey in my bag. We stopped at a place to get a pint & he asked me if I remembered all the times I had asked about a scar on his arm, while small? He introduces me to a guy and says "he stabbed me when we were about your age."
I'm trying to work up to when I started working in S. LA. Then offshore and overseas.
I was having a great time. Most of the upward mobile gals thought we had money, because we owned the five & dime. I was trying to catch gals, some were after me. In Oct. I was running after my first great love, who had moved & wrecked dad's pickup. 27 days in hospital. A couple of weeks on crutches.
Got married, yeah I know. NOW :headshake
Was Germany any fun in the early sixties?
I worked with a guy that was in an armored outfit in Germany about that time. He came back an alcoholic. :)
Wonder why? Beer was a dime a big glass, Coke, as in pop was $.25. Do the math
Really didn't know where to post this, but BS seems to fit.
A Mule and a fool.
While read a book, Mike loaned to me. “ A Treasury of Southern Folklore.” I ran across this about the mule, if you’ve never plowed you might not understand.
I also read a reference to the Whiskey speech that I posted .
here Seems like he not only was guilty of setting on the fence, but also Plagiarism .
Now for the Mule story. BTW I stole this and it’s not verbatim.
Over a hill trailed a man behind a mule drawing a plow. Unexpectedly the plow hit a root, the mule stopped, and the man began to grumble as he fixed the hames. “Bill,” Your just a mule, the son of a jackass, and I am made in the image of God. Yet here we work hitched up together year after year. I often wonder if you work for me or I work for you..
I think it’s a partnership between a mule and a fool, of surely I work as hard as you, if not harder. Plowing or cultivating we cover the same distance, but you do it on four legs and I on two, therefore I do twice as much as you.
Soon we’ll be preparing for a corn crop. When the corn is harvested I give 1/3 to the landlord for being so kind as to let me use a small speck of Gods earth. 1/3 goes to you, the rest is mine. You consume all your portion, while I divide mine among 7 children, 6 hens, 2 ducks and a store keeper. If we both need shoes, you get’em. Your getting the best of me and I ask you, is it fair for a mule, the son of a jackass to swindle a man, the lord of creation, out of his substance?
Why, you only help to plow and cultivate the ground, and I alone must cut, shock, and husk the corn, while you look over he pasture fence and heehaw at me. All fall and most of winter the whole family from baby up picks cotton to help raise enough money to pay taxes and buy a new set of harness and pay the mortgage on you. Not a thing, you ornery cuss, do you have to do. I even have to do the worrying about the mortgage on your tough, ungrateful hide.
About the only time I am your better is on election day, for I can vote and you can’t. After election I realize that I was fully as big a jackass as your papa. I’m prone to wonder if politics were made for a man or a jackass, or to make jackasses out of men. And that ain’t all Bill, when your dead that’s suppose to be the end of you. But me? The preacher tells me that when I die I may go to hell forever. That is, Bill if I don’t do as they say. And most of what they say keeps me from getting any fun out of life.
Tell me, William, considering these things, how you can keep a straight face and look so dumb and solemm?
And Bill doesn't have a wife and kids braying at him.:thumb:
I've been w/o power and phone for 11 days and I thought I had it bad. I made a few photos around here for insurance. But damn if I will post any. After seeing some of the things on tv, I'm humbled!
Sure I lost the stuff in my freeze and fridge.
But other than an old radio, some things that were wet, 2 bedrooms that have bad water damaged and most of my roofing gone. (Son is to help me tomorrow with tar paper on it.) I'm a lucky SOB.
Some of my friends are living in tents in S. LA. and have no jobs left to return to. Some I have no clue if they'er alive.
I feel sure there'll be enought blame to go around.
If you feel the need to help, I can't tell you how to go about it.
Some of the ice I've got here came from as far away as WI. and Conn. Someone is going to make a killing off the human suffering again.
Sorry I was a bit down, But now I feel better.:smack:
Buster, we're all really glad that you came through relatively unscathed. Those of us who were untouched by the disaster except for a temporary spike in fuel prices really cannot imagine how awful it must be for those who have lost homes, jobs and loved ones.
Glad you're back, buster!!!
Now for the Mule story. BTW I stole this and it’s not verbatim.
Over a hill trailed a man behind a mule drawing a plow. Unexpectedly the plow hit a root, the mule stopped, and the man began to grumble as he fixed the hames. “Bill,” Your just a mule, the son of a jackass, and I am made in the image of God. Yet here we work hitched up together year after year. I often wonder if you work for me or I work for you..
Busterb, your mule story sounds like one my Daddy would have told. He grew up on a tobacco farm in Kentucky during the depression and him and his brother spent a lot of time plowing the fields behind a mule. My Daddy said a mule is the most cussed animal you might ever hope to meet, but I think he had a sneaking fondness for them. He was a chief supply officer in Burma in WWII, and for a while the only way you could get supplies in to our guys fighting in the jungles there was via mule train. My Dad told how an enemy sniper aiming for him hit his lead mule instead and the mule went off the trail down over the side of the mountain. My Dad would get tears in his eyes telling that story. "Best damn mule I ever had," he used to say.
I’ve talked to a bunch of folks since the storm. And now the Red Cross is giving vouchers for 300 bucks for head of household, and 250 for each dependent.
Dependents are swappable outside.
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Most of the people set in front row at church are a bunch of sorry sob’s
I know a guy who is tied in with the chamber of commerce took his mother and got a voucher for him and 4 more grown kids. Then he went back and got one for him and his wife.
Another big time church guy is retired from the post office and had the pull to get a generator to save all. He got vouchers, and some of his kids who work for lawyers also got them.
I don’t want a damn thing but what’s coming to me. I’ve not seen anyone from insurance yet.
Does anyone, but me see something wrong with their conduct? Praise the lord?
Later I’ll have a few comments about MEA, not taste, but the pain in butt. Hey I eat c-rats years ago.
:mg:
Does anyone, but me see something wrong with their conduct? Praise the lord?
Nobody loves a hypocrit. Just cuz they're stealing from all of us, they think its cool? :mad:
Unfortunately it probably reflects how the live their lives....and run their businesses. :(
I don’t want a damn thing but what’s coming to me. I’ve not seen anyone from insurance yet.
The Mississippi Attorney General has filed against five major insurance companies for not responding to the Katrina disaster. FEMA and the federal government as of 18 days later still has not contacted many disaster towns nor even setup any facilities so that people can register for assistance. The toll free help line that George Jr bragged about is so understaffed that most callers never get through.
Meanwhile, last time I looked, busterb's county was not even listed by FEMA as a disaster area. So why is the Red Cross handing out so many vouchers? A question more addressed to what even the Coast Guard Admiral is complaining about. Without specifically naming names, something about George Jr, Karl Rove, Condi Rice, Rumsfeld, etc spending so much time and money traveling to LA, MS, and AL on publicity trips rather than cutting through a bureaucracy that has been trained instead to plan for terrorism.
Go for the cash. It’s plentiful. George Jr says we will massively increase that money - in the classic tradition of every MBA. When management fails, get people to forgive by throwing government money at them. Since Americans never blame leaders for spending extravagantly, then there will be plenty more. This kind of politics even worked for Hughy Long. If later the cash is no longer necessary, then contribute (back) to the Red Cross.
Feel no guilt. The system is still so broken that I have little blame for anyone going for themselves. I only have a problem when those who are profiting from this screw up fail to help a neighbor who is clearly needier. Katrina has already become massive government welfare for Halliburton type companies. Trucks even full of ice are traveling all over the country from city to city, and then waiting in places like Memphis for days to be told where to travel to next. It is that screwed up.
Get whatever you can as long as it is legal. Then feel free to redirect that aid to others who really needed it anyway. The response is that classic MBAed. Feel no guilt.
Dependents are swappable outside.
Does anyone, but me see something wrong with their conduct? Praise the lord?
There are always some people like that around to take advantage of a situation. A lot of that went on here a few years ago after a bad ice storm. Some folks who weren't without power for a week or two, and didn't lose a lot of their food, etc. lined up for the $250.00 FEMA money available to people who lost their week's (or more) worth of groceries. But what can we really do about it?
I beleive in Karma.........they'll get theirs some how, some day.
But what can we really do about it?
Call Zorro....or Spiderman. :D
The RC is at the first baptist chruch now, but if not a member hit the road.
If someone can point me how to raise hell about this, I'd really appreciate it. That sucks. A lady that is head teller at bank and married to the mailman I mentioned above told me sorry.
Give money to red cross never.
The RC is at the first baptist chruch now, but if not a member hit the road.
If someone can point me how to raise hell about this, I'd really appreciate it. That sucks. A lady that is head teller at bank and married to the mailman I mentioned above told me sorry.
Give money to red cross never.
Welcome to the world of faith based initiatives. Does the press know?
"If someone can point me how to raise hell about this, I'd really appreciate it." Just sent a thing to redcross, but guess that's pissing up a rope.
"If someone can point me how to raise hell about this, I'd really appreciate it." Just sent a thing to redcross, but guess that's pissing up a rope.
Well, I just sent an e-mail to ABC News 20/20. Maybe they'll check it out. The Red Cross is a private organization, so I doubt the government can help. A little public exposure should fix things up, though.
I am a contributor to the Red Cross, so if you'll tell me the name of the town, I'll make my own complaint to them at
https://www.redcross.org/contactusform/.
Bay Springs, MS. 39422 And the great 1st Baptist church. Thanks. BB I sent them a nice message.
I sent them an inquiry, also. How are you doing? Did you get your roof fixed or at least patched?
A lady that is head teller at bank and married to the mailman I mentioned above told me
I would suggest you check it out for yourself. She may be wrong. :eyebrow:
Well Bruce she asked me to leave. Said was for members of the church only!
Oh OK, I thought you meant she told you it was happening there.
Boeing is collecting from employees for the Red Cross. I'll make a complaint to them. :mad:
Hey Bruce, she told me that it was for only members of church. I posted a what ever to Lou Dobbs at CNN and 1 to working for change. If anyone has any ideas of where to post, I'll give it a shot. Thanks BB
The RC is at the first baptist chruch now, but if not a member hit the road.
Well, that's real "Christian" of them! I'm almost speechless.....and the Red Cross shouldn't agree to that either.
Well, that's real "Christian" of them! I'm almost speechless.....and the Red Cross shouldn't agree to that either.
I can't believe that they did. I'm guessing this woman was acting on her own. I'd certainly track down a city official and ask them. If that is really the church's policy, then the Red Cross should set up in a school or town hall.
Dear James:
Thank you for sharing this information. I will convey it to the appropriate individuals on the disaster operation for their review and handling. I will also copy the vice president of Chapter Quality Assurance for her review.
The American Red Cross provides relief assistance to disaster survivors from all walks of life without regard to race, creed, nationality or economic status.
Thousands of individuals will continue to look to the Red Cross to provide for the most basic human need and we have short and long term plans in place to do that.
The constant and consistent role of the Red Cross is to provide a safe place for people to stay and to see that their emergency needs are met.
Thank you for letting us know.
Sincerely,
The American Red Cross Public Inquiry Center
Buster, was this Bitch wearing any Red Cross insignias or name tag with a Red Cross on it? Anything to make her official? :question:
Naw, just the nice folks in their sunday duds. A couple of people at a table with computers.
News story this morning mentioned that the Red Cross is overwhelmed and so they are relying on "faith-based organizations" to do some of the work.
Crawford, TX 76638
Will be declared a disaster area by FEMA. Crews are already standing by to help the 7?? folks who live there. Just joking, maybe. Then the ranch will house people fleeing the storm?
BTW I tried to call the # for SBA, what a joke.
Less you forget. Some of us white trash as still alive and awaiting help. See this post in case you've forgotten about us.
http://cellar.org/showthread.php?t=9165Aw, quit bitching and stir the mash before it burns and makes the "product" taste funky. I know you've had wives screw you worse than this "cane". :lol:
I just took a look at move on .org. Does anyone see anything wrong? about this? Just for blacks? Hello speak up.
But buster, you know there weren't any White people in New Orleans, you already said so yourself!!
About the 2 SBA offices in MS. A reply from my?
We're not happy about that either - two are not enough to serve Mississippi adequately.
Brian Perry
Communications Director
Congressman Chip Pickering (Miss-3)
The storms have given a new meaning to the song."Drifters - Up On The Roof."
Which is where I need to be, to try and tack down tarps. Wind got the tar paper that my son and I put on the 19th. My help came by last night and told me that he had to help someone put up a deer stand today. Right :smack:
Per the weekly-wipe this week we had peak winds of 119 mph in county, a staggering number considering the location of Jasper Co. in so. central MS. Damage report soon as I scan it. bb
I have no idea what the diffrence between major and minor might be. The insurance co. has looked and told me they would pay close to 10k. But that is trying to paint the sheetrock that's molded and falling down. Maybe that's minor to some folks, but to me it's a BFD.
Anyone want seed from my ornamental hot pepper? Looks great in pots and makes great pepper sauce. More photos
http://www.flickr.com/photos/91776888@N00/
Pm me your snail mail address I’ll send “ya” some. Please put a buck or 2 in the tip jar.
Anyone want seed from my ornamental hot pepper? Looks great in pots and makes great pepper sauce. More photos http://www.flickr.com/photos/91776888@N00/
Pm me your snail mail address I’ll send “ya” some. Please put a buck or 2 in the tip jar.
I might take you up on that. BTW, that spinach quiche using hash browns looks interesting.
Welcome to the 10th Annual Shine Fest!
Nov.19 at Shine’s place Hwy. 531 8AM. Till?
Bring your lawn chairs.
Coffee, Biscuits and sausage with syrup and butter served though out the day.
Cane grinding and syrup making. Bring a small container to carry some juice home. Cornmeal grinding.
2 Team Anvil shoot at 2 PM.
“YA’ LL” COME!!!
SHINE
The cane mill has been restored and ready. Some how I'm the A.H. that's to cook the syurp. Never have, so don't recommend eating the first batch. :headshake
The way my luck has been running I'd be elected anvil catcher. :footpyth:
Have fun, Buster.
Today Shine and I made a cane cutting trip, almost to the LA. Line. About 250 miles round trip. The first photo shows the trip, purple going and brown return. On this trip there was no place that didn’t have some Katrina damage, roofs, trees down.
Next photo is the tools we used. The dual bladed ones are to strip the leaves, then the short handle one is to cut with. Katrina blew the cane over and when it grew more was crooked as hell. 1 photo is of Shine cutting cane. Sorry none of me and never will be another chance of one!
Notice in photo of cane, not 1 straight piece. :smack: Never again!
Damn, they look more like vines than stalks. Is that because they were twisted up with each other? Most stuff that gets blown over grows straight toward the Sun from where it ended up.
Making moon, Buster? :yum:
mmmmm cane ... I love chewing on that stuff.
Buster, I'm just glad that the recovery process in your area has progressed to the point where ya'll are taking part in some discretionary, recreational pasttimes. :thumb:
A few photos of the last cluster @@#$ at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/91776888@N00/ So many folks in and around Mike's shop not room to spit. Pot was too deep and we gave up on the cooking last night. Mike finished today. Boy it takes a lot of juice to make a few gals. of syrup, and damn near a case of beer :beer: :lol:
Well today is three months since the storm. I've not had one contractor return with a bid. IMHO all are working to repair the homes that had no insurance. The Blue roofs folks w/out insurance. "FEMA." And making a hell of a killing. 100 bucks plus to nail on a SQ. of singles. Maybe some will come around when the big money runs out. I've slept in living room so long I don't give a big rats ass. I will not pay that. Nothing from Fema or Sba and don't think I'll ever get any help from them. Since I have insurance I get the old finger. But I still have a place to call home, which is more than some folks can say! bb
Dear FEMA.
First I’d like to thank you for helping all the poor folks who didn’t have insurance.
All though some had homes that cost hundreds of thousand of dollars!
Second I’d like to thank you for hiring all the contractors to fix above homes and paying them what it would cost to put a roof on the White House.
So we with insurance have to wait. When you call your insurance co., they tell you to get an estimate. All the contractors are working for FEMA. So where do you get any numbers to confront the insurance co.? The insurance co.’s well know this.
4 months tomorrow. :(
Any way to give them a bulldoo estimate from an out of town outfit? Thing is, they know what it will cost.... pricks.
Right on, Griff. Bullshit 'em Buster, they deserve it. :mad:
I'd like to make a suggestion: As a gesture of solidarity, everybody at The Cellar should mail a shingle to Buster. Then when those blood-sucking contractors finally get there, he will already have all the materials ;)
With that low pitch, I'd cover it with that roll roofing you melt with a torch and stick down. There's a bunch of different brands, going by different names, but all the same stuff. It will last until the contractors are hungry again, years if necessary, and it's easy to do. :idea:
Time for another rant.
Today I got a bid to fix the inside of my house. $12,600 bucks. OK the low bid for my roof is $4,815. Plus 45 bucks per hr. for labor to fix any structural damage, rotten wood not paid by insurance. Plus materials. My insurance has given me a check for a little over $9 grand.
I know I'm a dumb redneck, but I'm having a little trouble with someones math.
The insurance co. told me they knew that there price was low, so get the work started and would approve more money. My lawyer says no way cash check untill I get this in writing which will never happen. WTF. Today I poured another 5 gals. of something on roof and smeared it around. Hope it stops some new leaks that showed up other day. I have rain forecasted for next few days. Guess what I'm trying to say is I'm damn tired of sleeping on single bed in living room, it don't leak. when I have a split level home with 4 bed rooms.:smack:
Another thing that poded me today was I went to store and got a bottle of Wishbone dressing. On label said " Instant savings inside" so I pealed it off and gave to checkout. NO that's for bacos. WTF. I've got dressing. Go figure. boy I feel better now. bb
Guess what I'm trying to say is I feel helpless and kind of unnecessary. Ive worked almost over the world and been superintendent, foreman, low man on pole, but I've never felt so left out of things. In the oil industry and construction things were to me, always in your face kind of things. Now my lawyer is telling me don't do that.
always in your face kind of things
That is a WHOLE different world , not INDUSTRIAL world , REAL world !!
I know where you are comeing from , we hired a guy to slop some of that tar stuff on our roof a while back , FUCK STICK got it ALL over our new EXPENCIVE gutters and NEW( WAY!!!!!) expencive sideing , and then wouldn't return my phone calls . I found my self and my wife cleaning that NASTY shit off every thing with diesel fuel ( YES it works WOUNDERFULY !!!)
Just think, if you didn't even own a home and were located in New Orleans, you could be living on a cruise ship or in the Hilton right now. But unless the 60 Minutes cameras come calling, nobody is going to pay any attention to those who are outside the spotlight and just trying to get on with their lives :(
Have you figured out what to do with the roof? What you're going to cover it with? :eyebrow:
Going to let a well known contractor from around here do the roof as he sees fit. At least I can find him. But won't start work till I tell him I can pay.
In Am I have to meet with SBA to borrow money to make up what the insurance hasn't paid. Rates are great. Don't think I'll be around to pay off a 30 year loan. :lol: They first said would loan me 19k if I'd put up house and land. Which I was thinking about. Buy a bike and make a tour. Because I have 50k insurance that'll only pay off for accidental death. Anyway they change it to 9k, nothing up, which leaves me shit to dream on.
Still no work done. Still on list. I called the guy about roof day before yesterday, no call back. Hoping I can get in small claims court and make insurance co. pay the loan. Dreamer I know. :rolleyes:
I thought Small Claims court was only good for under $1,000? :confused:
Hey this is redneck court. Bruce I haven't checked on that yet. But I wish I could get it before my judge.:lol2:
Well the roof people showed up today when I was gone to Sam's club. Anyway they have shit piled up all around my yard, but no work going on. Stay tuned. Shrimp anyone? I got about a 100 bucks worth.
This is from your neck of the woods, Buster. It's all over the papers.
This link lists all of the related stories. I guess this will give the attorney general something to do besides investigating sex toy crimes.
BAY ST. LOUIS — A couple that got conflicting reports from an engineering firm regarding how one of their homes was destroyed during Hurricane Katrina filed a lawsuit Wednesday accusing State Farm Insurance Co. of manipulating those reports to deny their claim.
The lawsuit, which comes as Mississippi's attorney general says he's investigating insurance companies for "fraudulent" handling of post-Katrina claims, is one of many spawned by a fierce debate over whether homes were destroyed by the Aug. 29 hurricane's wind or water.
In this latest case, Terri and William Mullins have two conflicting reports done by the same engineering firm.
The first report, dated Oct. 23, found the couple's two-story home in Kiln, a rural community near the Mississippi-Louisiana border, was destroyed by hurricane-force wind, damage their policy covered. On Jan. 3, however, the firm issued a second report that blamed the damage on the storm's flood waters.
State Farm used the second report as the basis for denying the Mullins' claim. Insurance companies say their homeowners' policies do not cover damage from rising water, including wind-driven water, but policyholders argue that storm surge should not be considered flooding.
After months of nothing going on around here, this week has been a mad house. One crew on roof, one inside removing the sheetrock, insulation, paneling and all the mold, mildew. Sunday a guy that does carpenter work for phone co. is to be here with a bucket truck to repair the gutters and soffit.
Just maybe in a few days I can sleep in my bed for a change. After 7 months.
Guess the contractors have sucked the fema tit dry. BTW the price seems great to me. Compaired to some of the bids I had.
That's great news, buster. I hope they get everything shipshape for you soon.
fire up the smoker and feed them buster !!!!!
That's great, Buster. Now don't let any anvils drop through the new roof.:lol:
Ok. My house is about as good as going to get. Still have to water blast and paint. Hope I can get new bed delivered tomorrow and just maybe sleep in my bedroom after 7 months. Still some outside wood work to be done. SOB hasn't been around for a week. After I bought the materials and now the shit is in my shop and in the flappin way. Oh well carry on.
[HTML]SOB hasn't been around for a week.[/HTML] Of course....he's a contractor. :rolleyes:
In keeping with the spirit of bull shit post, I got to sleep in my bedroom last night on a new bed. Sadly alone. :smack:
Well congrats on Finaly getting to sleep in your bed room again !!!!!
It's a start, Buster, it's a start. :D
Anvil shooting - “Mike.” And I made a road trip to day to Tupelo, MS. Whom some say is birth place of someone’s king.
Anyway we made the trip for a visit to an Acupuncture deal. This was a 400 mile round trip.
On the way we got to see soy bean and corn fields that looked liked we were in mid-west.
Some of you know about my thread about my problems with alcohol, guess I’m still looking for an easier and softer way!
So below is a photo of what your first visit, for a cool 100 bucks looks like.
“WARNING” Don’t forget and answer the damn phone with ear.
Then it’s about 30 bucks a visit. See the anvil deal on CMT this weekend, perhaps! BB
What is the acupuncture treatment for?
Alcohol, G! Good luck with it B! We're rootin for ya, whether ya got heavy iron in the air or light iron in the ear.
You have GOT to let me know if that works, busterb. Good luck, my brother.
Ah, thanks T! Good luck B we know you can do it.
Can you picture a cop pulling him over and walking up to that ear. :lol2:
or a cop slapping him on that side of his head?
Good Luck, Buster......
I have a scan in AM at VA. For Abdomen and pelvis. Tonight I'm suppose to drink Gastrografin mixed w/water or juice. Anyone know how it taste? Am I better off not knowing, just chug the mess?
buster,
When I searched for "Gastrografin taste" in google, the words "bitter" and unpleasant came up in the top ten results. I'd go for the juice, the better to disguise it.
What are they lookin' for, Buster? Errant pins?
The test are finished. Dr.Punjab Said I have diverticulosis and my liver should be sold for foie gras! So 70 miles one way to the No. west for that goat roping. Then tomorrow 50 miles So. so my DR there can tell me the same thing. I'm a bit poed at her. Yesterday the mail brought me a bottle of B-!, which the va will charge me 24 bucks. $4.69 + tax at store. :smack:
BTW I had to drink 3 more cups of great crap and have dye injected.
I can live with that.
Someone put the CMT-TV video of anvil shoot on utube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-kWyJx8kTsThat's great Buster, I was regretting not taping it when it was on TV. :thumb:
Over blown sense of self worth. Grand????? Thanks
delusions of grandeur
conceit
egotist
Thanks Griff, but I'm looking for, Spelling hell, grandeosity??? grandeosea??
grandiosity? or grandiloquent? if leaning toward the verbal side of things.
Thanks. grandiosity was what I was thinking of.
I saw a deal on Lou Dobbs about this town and parish. I spent 6 days in jail there. Talk about the end of the world. 1 roll of toilet paper, blanket was left over from WW1. Get Snuff from vending machine that said "not for sale, free sample.
You think MS. has rednecks! Hell we can't hold a light to the north LA. coonasses.
A wagon he's been working on for years. Maybe 6 yrs. The body is of cypress and isn't suppose to rot. He rounded up the axles, wheels and made the frame.
Is Shine a JD dealer, Buster? :confused:
Today "I" cooked some cane syurp, so they can have in AM w/biscuit & sausage for the cluster!@#$ tomorrow. Mike had juice ready when I got there. For the rest of the flappin goat roping story PM me. Photo clickie.
If the purpose is to boil the water out, why add water? Or is it just enough water to dissolve the baking soda?
Some sort of redneck breakfast party going on?
After seeing these people on TV, I can imagine a rowdy good morning. :smack:
why add water? Or is it just enough water to dissolve the baking soda?
Yes a few Tbs of soda in about qt. of water. This's per Shine, he must have typed the damn thing w/all caps. My add-in about the grits makes me wonder. Prolly only way he knows to make it bigger. :Smack:
WE FRIED 480 BISCUITS, 50 LBS. OF SMOKED SAUSAGE, 10 LBS OF BACON, 25 LBS OF PARCHED PEANUTS, 40 LBS OF BAKED SWEET POTATOES, 5 lbs. of grits+ Pies, cake and who knows what brought by others. I DON’T KNOW HOW MUCH COFFEE, COKE, TEA, CANE JUICE WERE CONSUMED.
Buster is that cane mill set up in a park of some sort? Is that where they shot the tv show? :confused:
It's on Mike's land. beside st. hwy 531. He just built the shed last month. Yes tv was shot there.
BTW I got 2 dvd's of shows, 1 is the one from CMT. Others I've not seen. Tried to make one of them, but not smart enough. Will mail ya copies soon.
Off to VA, again. Monday I have a pre-flight check-up for a little lower end mining training day. A Colonoscopy on the 29th. The cat-scan a few months back, showed nothing bad, so that's why I think this is for training.:bitching:
Since when does the VA need a reason to stick it up your ass? ;)
Boy,
ILDS = I like dis s@#$. That's on some of Shine's crap and always gets the? What is ILDS. If only some help would show up. Shine is down in back & Charles has flu. I bet.
http://wwwa.accuweather.com/forecast-15day.asp?partner=townnews&traveler=0&zipcode=39422&metric=0Help show up for what? :confused:
Replace plywood under the cornish? eves? Watch me fall off ladder, dial 911. Other odds and ends.
Watch me fall off ladder, dial 911. Other odds and ends.
You crack me up, buster.
Bet I copy this sob this time before I hit some damn key that wipes it all away.
Anyway I posted before about buying a motor cycle and making a road trip so folks could collect 50k bucks. Well screw them.
I'm thinking about a trip to finish my around the world quest. Only like from Tehran to Singapore.
I'm thinking 4 or 5 days down under, if folks here will guide me. Thanks no opera house in Sidney. I'd like something outback, Maybe a station for a few days. Then on to Indonesia, Singapore or Bangkok.
Then to what was Rangoon, New Delia. Moscow or St. Petersburg? Then not a clue. Maybe Frankfort. London or Amsterdam and home.
All this is depends on a talk I need to have with my attorney.
So comments please. bb
Awesome idea Buster!!!
I'd be happy to help with the outback experience....not one of those yuppie ones either.
Hot nuf fer ya? Today, last time I looked was 102.2.
I remember welding in So. La. one 4th of July when it was over 100 and humidity was 100. When you got back to motel at night your shirt was white from the salt. That was before salt was bad for you.
I also remember working at a tomato plant in S. Dos Banos, Ca. one year when the temps were 112 and we worked 12 and 14 hours a day. of course that was a dry heat.
Aw shucks to be young again.
Yeah, we just broke 100 for the first time this summer. Our average temp for July was a chilly 90, because of the record-breaking amount of rain. Did you get the crazy rain in Mississippi too, buster?
I wish I was smart enough to get my head, fingers and other shit together.
This is about wire rope or cables, which ever you prefer. I thought of this while my rabbit ass brain was flopping around. I saw a 3” cable break, part while on a lay barge.
Which I’ll, one day return to.
So. Once I was a super for contractor from Venice, LA. And we had a bid job for Chevron oil offshore Bayou Fourchon, LA. Safety is the key word here. My rigger foreman and I had to go to a crane school put on by Linkbelt, in a portable class room.
In the flappin marsh.
So we learned all about cables and crane usage. Link, because I don’t have a clue about inserting in word.
http://www.webriggingsupply.com/pages/catalog/wirerope_cable/wirerope-about.html
Then when we got on job there was a stiff-leg homemade thing that had an air winch and a deal like you boat owner use to pull the boat on trailer to let the boom up and down. The swing was a rope that you pulled to move the sob.
Of course the air supply was gas, so when we stopped that had to hook up air.
Life is great.
BTW Google maps shows that hwy 23 ends at Pointe a la hache and hwy 1 south of cut off, LA. Maybe my, hope, road trip will see if the hwys are really gone??
This kind of "stiff leg"?
A stiff-leg crane for use in handling loads in the erection of buildings and the like, including a base rotatable 360.degree. on a bearing, a vertical mast rigidly mounted at a lower end at the center of rotation of the base, a boom pivoted at a foot end along one end of the base, boom support and load handling lines from the top of the mast to the boom, a pair of adjustable lay leg mast braces for boom and mast support from either the crane base or the structure being erected by the crane, and means for securing the lower free ends of the lay legs to either the base or the structure being erected. The lay legs are adjustable both in length and the angle between the lay legs and the mast. Additionally the lay legs are fully rotatable 360.degree. about the mast and may swing between the mast and the boom for relocation from one side of the mast to the other without interference with the boom or the boom support and load handling lines. The lay legs are securable to the crane base for jumping the crane and when handling loads close to the crane base. Sills are connectible between the crane base and the lower free ends of the lay legs when structural rigidity requires.
1 mast, 1 boom and that's all folks. But I did learn a little at the class.
Left lay, right lay,etc. other useful things in my trade. But no crap the rigging of cranes is an art. It's called reeving the blocks. All the lines you see on TV running to the load block has to be just so or the lines will twist and screw the game.
What were you using the stiff leg for, moving pipe sections?
Unloading our equipment from supply boats to platform, rig.
Great, so if it fails you damage the boat or it goes in the drink.
Now back to the Ben Lancer. I was working on it because a friend from brown & root barge job set me up. We, the company, did a lot of hi-pressure piping work for Odeco.
There were 3 of us. Larry Jack was the super, Johnny would be the welder foreman and I would look after the fabrication. Or if 24 hrs a day, Johnny would be day foreman and me nights.
Johnny was from B&R and he learned from an old master named Dugan. Who invented more tricks than most welders will ever learn. Maybe died now.
While on subject of old masters, 1967 I worked for Williams Bros. in Iran. In that crew were some of the old men who had pioneered the pipeline world.. We had a camp burn and one of the Williams boys came over. Joe, maybe a Lt. governor I think. Anyway we were in rec. trailer. Someone went to introduce him to Whitey. Whitey said, Yeah I know that cunt, I invited him to my birthday party and he didn’t show up.
Some of the old welders had used bare rods, and learned that wrapping plain old friction tape around rods worked wonders. A few of the old hands were still working when I went to Peru about 10 years later.
I’m really trying to figure out how to do this. I’ll try to get Odeco Ben Lancer and ocean driller out of way. Then maybe how I set Chevron MP 42 H platform on fire?
The Lancer was in Green Canyon, rigging up to drill in about 1200 ft of water. We were there to do the hi-pressure piping. The safety folks had been there. NO more ropes or chains. So they put ¾” steel chokers on small diameter pipe, which will never bite, hold. Anyway they dropped a joint of 4” down about 4 decks and hit close to a young man working for your vice pres.
A few minutes late he realized how close to dieing he’d come. Was so sick, screwed up, had to be air lifted to shore.
In the 4 decks down where the pumps were that we had to tie into. A mud boat came along side .They blow dry mud on board, but the mud lines were cut. So the whole deal was full of dust. I first thought was that someone had set the Halon fire suppression system off. If so, that’s ball game. No place to run because the entire deck grating was up so we could run pipe.
Ocean driller
When I went to Pascagoula, ms, as night foreman. On the way, radio said a welder had fallen and was killed. So when I get there boy are they busy with the safety nets.
Larry was doing all the time keeping. We were staying in a motel. Other hands were in porta buildings. Anyway I was looking at meal roster for my hands and had about 3 that I’d never heard of. So I asked Larry about this. Hey what if coast guard or OSHA comes around and I can’t produce the hands? Hell they’ll be dragging the damn gulf.
He said you know the 2 gals that are over at motel and the new Red Wing boots the tool pusher is wearing? That’s the guys you can’t find. Not to worry.
BTW. I knew a guy that padded the payroll ticket for Chevron and got caught, because he didn't sign them up for meals and a bunk.
So that's why oil is so expensive.
wow...this is some real stream of consciousness shit. far out man.
Here's a good read on the S.LA. oil fields. The Bay Marchand that they speak of is where I first worked offshore in 1965, just after Betsy.
http://www.gomr.mms.gov/PI/PDFImages/ESPIS/2/2995.pdf
It's a pdf and about 140 pages. Some of the coonasses I know, knew.
About page 4? is a Martial Babin. Hell we rednecks always said Marshall.
Most of what I've read is true, so it'll save me a repeat telling.
But, it won't stop the BS.
BTW. Lots of older cajun men had girls names. There's a story about this, but I'm not hunting it.
So that's why oil is so expensive.
I have often wonder about that myself. The waste I've seen, gas should have been 5 bucks years ago. What do I know. Notice that's NOT a question.
I read Babin's story... fascinating. I understand his work ethic and his focus on providing for the family, as it used to be pretty common. These people didn't have a lot of time to worry about what the rest of the world should be doing.
When I get a chance, I want to read the rest of the pdf, thank you.
My 2nd trip to Bay Marchand I had this kid for a helper. I'll try to work this up soon.
boxer: Chuck Mince
Global ID 18042
sex male
division welterweight
nationality United States
residence Westwego, LA
won 15 (KO 4) + lost 4 (KO 1) + drawn 1 = 20
In 4 round middleweight fight, 25 year old undefeated Chuck Mince (9-0, 4 KO's) scored a 2nd round knockdown and routed comebacking 33 year old Chalon "The Rebel" Bechnel (10-2-1, 8 KO's) into a 3rd round TKO defeat at 2:15.
Years above unknown by me? I also can't kind an age for him.
Chucks mom married an asshole named Bob Fluke. One night Bob left the Fin & feather and said had to go home and straighten out the kids. Well you can guess the rest of that story.
I wish I knew how to put this in chronological order, but things keep popping up, like the link above. Hell I haven’t thought of Babin in 35 years.
Years later Chevron went to court and ripped the ass out of some of the old hands who were doing under the table shit. Took their retirement, fines and the whole deal.
BTW. A lady welder friend of mine just retired from Ingalls shipyard. About 34 years. Here’s a painting she did and donated to bluebirds, a cancer thing for survivors.
Now back to some of the tales. I learned a few things while working offshore.
Never work, cut on a pipe because someone told you it was the right one. Check it, even if you have to go below decks and crawl the pipe. Be sure the pipe has an open end somewhere.
Because when you cut into the pipe and oil, paraffin starts to flow, and the smoke is thick enough to cut, something is going to happen. Which you might not like. When the air and fuel gets right, the shit WILL hit the fan.
While working on Chevron S-26 as a rig welder. This meant that you welded for rig, boat and production. The S-26 was a drill tender, an old LST.
Anyway someone from service co., maybe Schlumberger. And just how in hell did they ever make that name into slumber j?? Asked me to get a ball that was hung in a packer tool out. Ok. How? Well just heat it up and the ball will fall out. Yeah, fucking right.
We were down in one of the holes on ship. I put the heat to damn thing and thick smoke started to roll. I’m thinking, yep here we go again. Sure enough when the sob went off the rubber ball hit everything in hole but me, tool hit the other bulkhead and folks were running around in there drawers, “night shift workers” trying to jump overboard..
I wasn’t asked to return later. When I told a Chevron engineer to kiss my ass I was going to bed. I’d put in 116 hrs that week.
Next time, don’t remember where. I’m sure you’ve heard about an idle mine being??
I was working around a steel fab table we had on platform. Anyway we had something like 32oz Dixie cups for Kool-Aid . An empty was setting there, so I slapped the fire off torch and slid the cup to edge of table and gave it a good shot. Then I lit the torch and touched it. Oh Hell 1 second it was there then gone and I can’t hear shit.
More folks bailing out of bunkhouse in drawers. Almost got my ass ran off about that.
We did that in the turbine hall, at Boardman, Oregon. Filled a cup with acetylene and threw lit matches at it.
When it went off, they emptied the control room.
Ever make acetylene, see it made? The old carbide head lights made acetylene. I worked at City steel co. Jackson, MS. back in 1964 and we had an acetylene generator. I got stuck once cleaning it out and recharging with carbide.
From Shine, Anvil shooter
"I have been advised that the crew from Sweden will be at my place at about 1 p.m. on Saturday, the 8th, to film the anvil shoot. every body welcome." Mike
A more controlled technique with acetylene is to use an old plastic container - PET drink bottles are good. Pass two wires through the cap, and seal with blue-tac or putty or whatever. Connect the wires to some steel wool (inside the bottle). Fill bottle with gas, screw cap on ... stand WELL back, 12 volts should do the trick.
With long tapered bottles you can get a shape-charge effect. Mount the bottle upside down with a tennis ball on top (the non-cap end)... bye bye ball!
Ahh, for all my education, I do have an atavistic streak. Things that go BANG are FUN!
If that's a news crew, it might end up on youtube, Buster. Have fun.
HoHo off to the flapping VA I go, again. Have a chemical stress test at 9am tomorrow.
Am to meet youngest son earlier for bkfast and BS. Maybe?
BUT, Some mumbling, Ebonics talking SOB called at 3:30, and I guess, told me no more caffeine
today and nothing by mouth after midnight. Nothing about beer though!
Below is an addendum that I mailed my Lady Dr. a few days ago. Anyone interested, I'll post parts of her scolding from 1st letter. Boy it's hard to get on same page with folks at VA. We've been talking about lowering my salt intake, so last letter from her said enclosed is a list of hi-salt foods. Not. It was a list of hi-potassium foods. Guess she doesn't understand I can find, download, and print that crap myself. Maybe I should stop jacking her around and confusing her.
Dude - You rock! Thats just hilarious.
Same old shit. Showed up for test, then dingaling checked my records on computer and tells me can't do it today.
Because I use 4 different inhalers each day and the test meds can't be used on me because of my lung condition.
Can't some asshole check my records before hand?? WTF.
That was dipyridamole.So to use dobutamine there has to be a cardiologist on hand in case they put my lights out.
Guess what? That cunt only works on Tuesday. So another trip the 1/15/08. Fucking hell.
Don't you wish the government ran the whole health care system?
yeah thats what we need - heck they did a great job with everything else.
That sort of stupid stuff happens in any large bureaucracy, government or private.
The bigger the beast, the worse the miscommunication.
Buster, I suggest you go blow something up (harmlessly, you know, just some acetylene in your back yard or something). It wont help but it might make you feel better.
Zen,
Buster shares a property line
with a jail. If he goes blowing shit up back there, it might cause some excitement.
Right Glatt, but tomorrow we'll get to blow sumpin up!
Anvils.... and maybe some Swedes.
Zen,
Buster shares a property line with a jail. If he goes blowing shit up back there, it might cause some excitement.
Oh right, didn't know that. Good point.
Well go wherever you usually go to blow things up then (all I had seen is that he likes a bit of recreational pyrotechnics ... I presumed about the location).
I didn't go, till late. I live, by road 7.9 miles from Mike's place and I heard the first two shots. The crew from Sweden was there. Maybe a cd of shit later. Wondering as the crow flies? Maybe map later. bb
I found this clipping today while hunting bulb for a min-mag light. I really didn't know it was here. Read my SIG! I only screwed up my ankles, knee, ribs, back, and no legs and a few other things that have came back to haunt me now. 27 days in hospital. 44 years ago.
Might there have been strong drink involved?
wow..the writing....
it's like......boy it reminds me of someone from the cellar. seriously. fuck....who is it?
Might there have been strong drink involved?
Who me? I'm offended by even the thought of such a question.:rolleyes:
I don't know the price of this med. on market, Know what I pay.
Enclosed is photo of the supposed to be empty inhaler for Asmanex. I have no idea the amout of drug that suppose to be inside, but I have doubts about getting any meds from it. I understand that Vets are too stupid to read, and understand directions. So blame me. If I open the one I'm using now and it's the same, you can drop it.
http://www.asmanex.com/asmanex/application?namespace=main&event=content_display&event_input=how_to_use_asmanex
I had asthma as a kid. Luckily it pretty much went away as an adult, but I feel your pain.
Me too. As well as the ventolin puffer (not a problem) I was also supposed to inhale some white powdery gunk through a little gizmo like that. That stuff tasted awful.
The asthma mostly left when the household went smoke-free, but that's probably just coincidence. ;)
I'm currently using 4 a day. Albuterol, Atrovent, Formoterol Fumarate, and Mometasone Furoate. Last one is the Asmanex. BTW. The comment about vets being too stupid was a shot at my Dr. From the VAs stand point, must be me. Nothing wrong w/meds.
Am on my very last regular altuberol/ventolin inhaler. Now outlawed due to CFCs I have to switch to some expensive brand alternative which I suspect is going to be nasty choking powder shit. I'm not a happy camper.
Last shot at Dr. 12/10/07
Around 4 pm. A bitch came out of side road and popped me.
I've had that old PU 29 years. That's what burns my butt.
Cop I know brought me home and said they had insurance. Which will be a flappin miracle in this St. Banged up some. Sore tomorrow. Wish I hadn't found the old wreck crap now.
Aw hell, buster, that sucks. :( Glad you're okay.
It's not... it's not totalled is it??
it's not totalled is it??
fraid so. Think I'll make a stop at Dr. tomorrow, left thumb is giving me trouble. Right knee, Right forearm has a nice knot. Left forearm and left leg has some bark missing. It's all about the insurance now. I only have liability. Try to get a photo of her car tomorrow.
Sorry to here that. One thing about sore bones, you'll be able to predict the weather now better than the guys on the news
Thanks.
One thing about sore bones, you'll be able to predict the weather now better than the guys on the news
I'm 64 and have been blessed with that ability for a few years. Didn't need anymore. :headshake
29 year old truck? They'll total it for sure, because it ain't worth shit on their charts.
That sucks, man.... sorry to hear it.
just try to give the ole girl a proper burial -
Hell blow 'er up or sumpthin?
just try to give the ole girl a proper burial -
Hell blow 'er up or sumpthin?
I think this is a good idea. Give the old girl a Viking funeral!
Either that or go all Mad Max (Road Warrior, to the US audience) post-apocalyptic death machine. Repair the mechanicals, (I see radiator leakage at least) and screw the body. Rip the hood off. Weld big spikes on the fenders. Shoot holes in the panels. Stick a shark-fin on the roof.
Course, you'll need to use it just for off road fun, but what else can you do with it?
Either way, we want photos.
Seriously, commiserations, man. A car you've had for 29 years ... you get attached to it.
Although ... odd coincidence that you just found your press clipping about your accident way back when, and then suddenly, this. Strange.
Seriously, commiserations, man. A car you've had for 29 years ... you get attached to it.
Although ... odd coincidence that you just found your press clipping about your accident way back when, and then suddenly, this. Strange.
I loved my previous car , after having it for 11 years (didn't buy it new either) I was very attached to it also. Replaced it with the same model too, but it just "wasn't the same." This one's gotta go now too - After 4 years its still like an imposter somehow or a wannabe, I dunno. Hook me up LJ!
Back to Buster - How are you feeling this morning? You ok?
I was just kidding on the totalling. It was totalled before the accident.
Back to Buster - How are you feeling this morning? You ok?
Sore, might get a x-ray of left thumb.
I was just kidding on the totalling. It was totalled before the accident.
Over 200k miles used no oil and dependable. Was a great way to Cull dates. "What you think I'm riding in that piece of shit!"
Oh, I'm not saying. That was clearly one awesome vehicle and I would be proud to drive it, if it was mine. But the rust...! I don't think it would have passed inspection in Pennsylvania.
Picked up police report while ago. Ain't life grand. This is verbatim from report!
V2 was traveling south on hwy 15 when it collided with V2. V2 was crossing hwy 15 traveling west on Edmund King road.
:wstupid: So it appears as if I hit myself. wtf.
But the rust...!
Yep that silver color was bad for all vehicles that year.
just try to give the ole girl a proper burial -
Hell blow 'er up or sumpthin?
Trebuchet the truck... and try see if you can hit it with a flying anvil!
Sucks though Buster, but glad you're not hurt too bad.
Retraction! The driver was a 17 year old boy. I assumed the lady that asked if I was ok was the driver. Sorry.
Wow! You got hit by a V-2? It was probably the Wernher Von Braun, dude.
Btw. the cops clock is wrong by 1 hr. Didn't get the word about time change I guess???Can you say Keystone?
Ut I meant on report. The time line.
Oh. Durrrr
Man I am confused sometimes.
Shoot Buster that sucks. I think you posted a pic of the old girl here before. It had less rust than the truck I just dumped... road salt....
Oh Boy. Things are looking up. Rich uncle is giving me 29 bucks raise, per month starting in January. Hell with all that, I'll just buy a new pickup. Not. :smack:
Man that SUCKS Buster !!!
But you DO have the welding and fab SKILLS to do a
Proper Road Warrior Truck !!!
Anvils Blasting from the bed , BOOOOM !!!!
This is the kid's mom's car. Insurance called today, told me would look at my truck after seeing the accident report. Why do I feel a fucking coming up?
They'll tell you it didn't have 70hp/Liter and shouldn't have been on the road.
What? It's been ten days and the insurance mob haven't even looked at your car yet? What??
Last time I got rear-ended (should I rephrase that) I had the cheque in my hand (and was driving the "wreck") less than a week later.
While making the photos for RFN thread, the bar code, comb over shot. Thought I'd post about a little woodworking project. I'll get around to explaining it later." Boy, the noise in this shot." Sucks!!!
How can I change photo? Please. I have one with tags.
How can I change photo? Please. I have one with tags.
Decide to do so yourself within 30 minutes of posting. After 30 minutes, you have to throw yourself on the mercy of the court.
As a workaround, just make another post with the other picture. There will be two posts, with two pictures, but if you like the second one better, you'll have it (posted).
I know what you're making there Bb ...
OK. Since I can't delete the attachment, why? Here's this
Do you put your weed in there?
I can't delete the picture, I can only delete the whole post, which would make the following posts very strange. Just think of it as before and after photo labeling.
Perhaps this should be in nothing land. But did you ever wake up and wonder , whom did I PO last nite, where did I leave my truck? Of course this never happens to me, jail is too close! BUT! "It's deja vu all over again." I come down for coffee, which fires off at X hr. by timer and my truck is gone! Right to junk yard.
And State Farm Hasn't made a move???? Have a VERY Large New Years! bb
Fruit cake is good for many things.
"Shine's" annual new years bash included smoked deer ribs, boston butts, baked sweet taters, cabbage, black eyed peas w/hog jowl, and cracklin cornbread. Soda pop, coffee and much BS.
Sounds like a good time, Buster.
The project from above. A recipe holder for cabinet door. Remember that I'm a metal worker. The wood was my Dad's from around 40 years ago, when he was in that business. The piece in middle is why I posted in Fail. Glued the clips on too soon. Wouldn't fit the corner clamp.
State Farm is giving me $500 for my truck, with a 50 buck buy-back. So the guy that cuts my firewood will come and haul it for scrap. One day I'll prolly get part of it back from China at bigbox mart.
E-mail from sister today, wanting to know when my heart test at VA were. Also to check on the insurance policies at Memory Chapel.
Wonder if that's concern or wishful thinking? :reaper: ?
Hopefully the 1st photo is the inside of cabinet door, where the recipes were hanging. Door wouldn't close any more.
So number 2,
Hey Buster, that looks really nice. Much better than the crappy plastic ones you can buy at Staples. No more comments from you about only being good at metal work.
Very nice - I would like one in golden oak please. srsly!
Nice job, Buster, I'm sure the cook will appreciate it.
Made from my side porch at dusk. I walked closer, pass the tin over wood pile on left. While changing settings, my dog got in on it. Good by deer. Were 7 of them. Poor photo, btw.
BTW. I sold my truck for $150, so I got $600 for the old dude.
Back to VA in Am for Dobutamine Myocardial scan. If they don't screw up and turn out my lights, I'll report on the wonderful time I had there. Can't hardly wait. Might just go now. :smack:
Does the VA understand explosives?
My heart scan went ok, except for waiting around 1 1/2 hrs. for the Dobutamine to come from the pharmacy. The Cardiologist who monitored that part of test told me it went well. That's where they rev the heart up to 13? beats a minute. The x-ray tech let me look at the raw data photos on monitor. Cool, but looked Greek to me. Report in a few days. Right.
13 beats per minute? Perhaps 130 beats per minute.
Very happy and relieved to hear a favorable report, buster. Welcome home.
Hey Dude! The ? mark was because I didn't remember the last number. I'm thinking 138? :smack:on me. Will you never learn to read redneck?
lol - busterb I thought the same thing!
Kinda back on topic of buster's bs.
A few months back a welder, whom i've known for about 50 years called me and asked if I would go w/him to pick up a new truck. For a welding rig.
He bought the iron and worked for days on body. I know the salesman he bought it from. I bought my old pickup from his Dad. I have no doubt that he was had on price. I ask what he was paying for money, said don't know. Boy people must love him. So he goes to TX. on a job and a blood vessel bust in his nose. So too hot to work there. He goes to inspecting in MN., close to where the bridge was.
Driving the 30,000 buck, gas drinking welding rig.
Anyway he only needs 400 hrs. to get his retirement from welders local.
Now he has the inspection bug. He buys a 4 wheeler ( the companys pays perday for a 4 wheeler, cell phone, camera, laptop, milage.) And I have not a clue as to what else. Per deim, yes. All that's tax free.
So, today around 3pm today he call me to take a ride to pick up a $20,??? buck used Ford 4 wheel drive pickup. Been raining all day and I need firewood in house. Anyway I took a quick ride with him, which turned out to be about 5 hrs.
He gets new truck and goes down street, in a right turn lane, goes straight. Raining like hell. Then on interstate driving about 40. I'm following and boy was my butt puckered, just waiting for a 18 wheeler to run my ass over. We get off intersate and he pulls over and tells me. Hey I broke it in already, spilt a beer.
Guess what's on my mind?, How do you pay for all that shit? When you have no idea what the money cost you? I understand that they'er making about 2k a week, but that amount still would give me nightmares. If I can get the amount, think I'll ask LJ or who ever LJ is now to run the numbers.
BTW. They have pipe all around here. 42". Rumor has it at $28,000 a 80' joint. And cost about a million bucks a mile to install.
My question is, where are they getting gas to put in lines? OH Yes! Gas price deregulation. Wonder who's in that bag??
You've got a short memory, you old fart. How many fortunes, in todays money, have you made and pissed away on wine, women and more wine?
MOI?? I spent my money wisely, I'll have you know! All I didn't spend on wine.women,and song, I pissed away
I have reviewed the results of your nuclear medicine scan done Jan 15, 2008.
The results were within normal limits. This means you are at low risk for a cardiovascular event over the next 2 years.
Most heart attacks, however, occur suddenly, so please follow the guidelines on the enclosed time is life handout.
Woo Hoo! We got us a busterb for a lil while longer!
Dobutamine scans are usually reserved for people who cannot tolerate the regular stress tests. Did you do the treadmil stress test before the dob test?
Did you do the treadmill stress test before the dob test?
No. The nurse, tester and I had a few words about how it was done. I didn't think it was realistic for me to set in car for 1 1/2 hrs, then waiting rooms for a few more, then do the treadmill at her speed. My knees and hips don't work that way anymore.
Good for you to take a stand bb - many "older folks" would have just tried and failed or messed up their bodies further.
Mike and I made a trip to my old home town today. We stopped at Whitesands Church, where my great grandpa and maw are buried. He was born 1833, died 1888. Couldn't read his wife's stone, only feel the letters. Born 1840, died 1904. On to New Hebron, where my Dad had the first of 3 5&10 stores.
Where his store, the grocery, barber shop, and movie house were is now a slab and a dollar general store.
We ate lunch in town and got to talk to an old couple who knew some of my folks. Told me if had got there earlier, could have got in a domino game with some real old men!
Couldn't find the old house. Where I think it was is a newer house with a trailer beside it.
On to Shivers grave yard, where my grand pa, maw,and aunts and uncles are buried,He was born 1867 died 1947. She died in 1933. I only remember seeing him once, an old man with a white beard.
One of my aunt's houses is still there, but someone has bought the land to grandpa's old place and close the pig trail. No one around there would answer their door. So lots of unanswered questions.
Only photos are of tomb stones, so if anyone gives a big rats ass, I'll post.
I would love to see the tombstones. I have a thing for cemetaries anyway; there is an old cemetary across the road from where I grew up, we would go over there and play "ghost in the graveyard." Many of the stones can't be read they are so old. It's very cool.
Sounds like a neat trip, busterb.
Oooo, yes, buster. Post the tombstones! I love old graveyards, etc. Very peaceful and sort of...I dunno...comforting in a way.
ps--I am morose today. I don't know why.
Click photo for others.
Shine's anvil launcher took a turn for the worst last Friday.
Do flames shoot out those cracks when you try to launch an anvil, and the anvil just sits there?
Edit: I just noticed the screws on the corners for leveling the thing up so the anvils go straight up. I like it. Nice design.
Good welders are sooo hard to get these days... all the good ones have retired. :lol2:
The Flying Anvil's engineering group was to meet this wk-end to plan a new gun. But we postponed, till we get around to it. Or sober up, what ever fits. :smack:
Remember back in Dec. when I was in a wreck? Today I got a letter from a contract investigative co. for Medicare that wants to know why I've not reported the insurance I have with State Farm. Hello, that is his insurance.
So they included a few forms to fill out and return. I typed a nice redneck reply for them and went to place in their envelope when I saw it had no postage.
WHF. You ask me for information and think I should pay for stamp? So send the assholes from homeland security before I'll buy a stamp for you!
I've been in New Orleans since about noon. Heavy rain, around 6". Wish the hell I was home.:lol2:
You are in New Orleans? Damn buster! I wish I was with you right now!!!! That's where I want to be!!! (mmm..... and in a vat of buster's chocolate)
I'm threatening to go the next holiday season. I'm going to go see "my parents" in bilox'orleans.
:)
I got off interstate 10 at Chalmette. When you cross over the intercoastal water way and MS. river gulf outlet bridge you can see why any storm from that direction
would be bad news.
Nothing but marsh and lakes. Hwy 47 BTW.
I crossed the ferry and went to Belle Chasse to pick up canvas I'd had made. Then on to Gretna to visit. Stayed too long and got caught in a downpour and traffic.
TV said anywhere from 6 to 11" of rain.
Went to Metairie to stay with old friend. Last year she took some meds. that DR. told her might damage her liver, and did, big time. For now she's living in a studio apt.About as big as my living room.
Will move to son's house soon and apply for SSI.
The trip was a big let down for me. Damn we've all got old or died. Things have changed so much on the westbank, I was lost.
Went to Venice, nothing to see. Gov. told them to rebuild 1st living floor would have to be X' above sea level. So they just built a pad and got trailers.
Very little gas and no groceries below Belle Chasse. Oil Co's are in full swing there. Because they know to build outside levees. The inter and outer levees run
together at Venice.When water gets trapped inside it has to be pumped out.
Sorry no photos. Anything worth a shot would get you ran over or in jail for stopping.
Had good seafood at
Deanies, in bucktown. I had the soft shell crabs. Also good in Belle Chasse at Salvo's, but there they serve in go plates.
This goat roping was 570 miles round trip. The 1st 361, I got 36 mpg. After being home and back to H-burg for Dr. visit was 32 mpg.
1 photo. I found this setting on her sink. COCK.
I forgot about the FEMA trailers stored at Purvis, MS. I drove around 3 sides the 29th when I went to VA. Dr. Unbelievable. If you should search for images, DO NOT click on Donklephant.com. Unless you have every pop-up blocker know to man. Or need to buy a car. Aw hell try it, it's fun!! not.
LOL! You are talking about where my brother lives! That poor sap! Hey that cock looks like my cock. Only smaller.
:)
BTW. N.O. area now has red light cameras.
Then it's a good idea to steal a car in the suburbs, to use in the city. ;)
My old blue, gray, and rust pickup was totaled back in Dec. I broke down and bought a 83 F-150, 6cyl, 4 on floor. Hope it'll serve the purpose. Have put more money into it than I would like. Door window weather stripping, window regulator. Don't have to worry about and old one nickle and dimeing you now days. Think dollars.
Missed you BB - good luck with the car. Did you name her yet?
Hey Buster, I was just thinking about you today when I was shelling black beans, we've got about 3 joint compound pails. I was wondering how you were doing.
I like the truck, you got me beat by three years. I picked up an '86 F-150 4x4. Our local carbuerator (<--whatever) guru rebuilt it and it starts up great. It only had 88k miles and had never been driven out of town.
Glad to hear you are doing well. Sounds like a fair goat roping.
That's great. Having driven the truck for a while, I now covet me one of these old pickups just to get things done every once in a while.
Buster, looks like a great old truck. I'm a bit jealous. If you lived closer, I'd have a hard time resisting the urge to ask you if I could borrow it every now and then. You know, for truck stuff.
Glad to hear from you, buster. Nice truck!
Cool. A coat of mud, some dead soldiers in the bed, and it'll feel like home.:thumb:
I just thought I'd pop in in case buster hasn't seen this thread.
http://www.cellar.org/showthread.php?p=498021#post498021
I'm thinking he might be an awesome Santa. ;)
How about I just send you the recipe??? :biggrin:
AN ARCTIC AIRMASS WILL SETTLE OVER THE REGION THURSDAY...BRINGING
SOME OF THE COLDEST TEMPERATURES OF THE SEASON. TEMPERATURES MAY FALL BELOW 20 DEGREES THURSDAY NIGHT WITH HIGHS ON FRIDAY STRUGGLING TO REACH THE LOWER TO MIDDLE 30S. THERE DOES EXIST THE POTENTIAL FOR WIDESPREAD TEENS WITH HIGHS TEMPERATURES NOT GETTING ABOVE FREEZING ON FRIDAY.
While looking at this weather report, it brought back memories of the time I was waiting for my SS money. The city cut my gas off, them billed me for 5 bucks a month. I ask, If I can't pay my bill how in hell do you think I can pay 5 more dollars? Anyway I got that stopped and fixed the water heater for propane. I used it ever 2 days for shower, dish washing and laundry.
But years before that I asked them to change the name on account. No. You'll have to put up a deposit. Deposit my butt. This account has been here for years. OK. I'll go turn on water, gas and let run. Then you send bill when cut off to grave yard, because that's where the named person is resting. Fixed.
Later I'll post a letter to local phone co., which provides the cable,and internet. They just got a rate increase and I'm not happy. Today I watched football with ghost on screen. Hell was 33 players on each team. They change one channel to the CW network which states
,"The CW Network was formed as a joint venture between Warner Bros. Entertainment and CBS Corporation. The CW is America's fifth broadcast network and the only network targeting women 18-34."
I have as much use for that or a woman 18 to 34, as my dog does a bicycle.
No this won't be a lyrical verse.
My buddy Carl crossed the river late yesterday. He had stopped by around 10 AM to pickup pipe jack stands that he had loaned me. His brother called me about 8:30 PM.
He'd had one big heart attack not long ago. But wouldn't leave the smokes and Coors light alone. Hell he even set himself on fire. Which must have a chore, because, oxygen will not burn. Guess he saturated his mustache and got a spark?
I have a few tales to tell about us, so this is a work in progress. I posted a photo of the whole Sanders bunch once before. He's the one in stripped shirt. Someone made comment about him having horns.
sorry about your buddy, Buster.
Bummer. So sorry to hear that you lost a friend.
I look forward to hearing about the "good times"
But wouldn't leave the smokes and Coors light alone.
Well, at least it sounds like he went happy. Sorry about your friend, buster.
That sucks. I'm sorry Buster.
I sorry about your buddy Buster. Remember the good times.
hey buster, I'm sorry to hear the sad news about your friend.
We laid Carl to rest in and old country place. I know the guy who said last words. But that is another story. At least he didn't get off on saving souls Here's the URL for sat. shot. Maybe. If not change to sat view.
nope. I'm not sure how to post what I was looking at? Help? OK I turned on something that gave me this. 32052835-89.13721 . That's the sat view. Sorry if I missed a few decimal points. Hell I can't see. Other eye the 25 of Dec.
Bruce. I'm looking at a sat view of Mulberry cemetery
I see one in almost every state except Mississippi?
Damifino. Go to maps, then bay springs, then out hwy 18 to co road 29 then north a little bit. Hell I never knew about this place. His Dad is buired there, bunch of kin.
BTW. I'm headed to bed and thawing out the last shrimp that Carl gave me. T-day everyone!! Enjoy your blessings!
It's not a very good sat picture.
HOLY SHIT I replied on page 20?
Yeah maybe I need another 2 year break
One track mind. That's what my Dad told me years ago. "Said I had one." Anyway for days I had single malt on my mind. So, only cure is to head to Laurel and get a jug. While there I picked up a jug of George Dickels white label besides the Glenfiddich. Then on to Taylorsville for Buddy's wash and dry, shots, etc.
Then to Center Ridge, don't even think blink your eye.
Back to pick-up Buddy. They gave her a shot that I didn't ask for and kept her collar. Boy pay back is going to be a bitch.
I'm sad to report Buddy, some how escaped her crate late last night and is a now dog of interest about drinking almost all the Bourbon, attacking me while I was sleeping and injuring my left ankle and knee.
+ the little bitch wouldn't pose for a photo while she was clean and pretty.
Merry Chirstmas......
Addendum.
If you had any idea how long I looked for the spelling for that damn word? Spell checker my ass. I had to dig out MR. Webster
Anyway Buddy is now suspected of going on a rampage in kitchen. After attacking buster.
She's the chief suspect in eating a great number of Butterfingers, Almond-joys, and Baby Ruth's
Hope Buddy's okay, buster. I've heard chocolate can make dogs very sick. On that note, I hope your carpets are okay too...
Addendum.
If you had any idea how long I looked for the spelling for that damn word? Spell checker my ass. I had to dig out MR. Webster
Next time just stick a close spelling of the word in Google.
Yeah, alcohol and chocolate are bad for dogs... people too.;)
I hope your dog doesn't take up smoking, too. We don't need another ME in the world.
buster, you were in my dream! I only remember I was sitting there with another dwellar (no idea who) and the other dwellar said...well there's buster, and you came in and had a seat. That was it!
Shawnee. That's the story of my life.
"well there's buster, and you came in and had a seat. That was it! ."
@ Bruce "Yeah, alcohol and chocolate are bad for dogs... people too."
Also bad on old goats. Trust me, I know. Happy New years all.
BTW. Buddy still has a hangerover! What?
[QUOTE=xoxoxoBruce;701628]Next time just stick a close spelling of the word in Google.QUOTE]
TNXS Cool. Works for me.
Here's a part photo of 1956 pewee football team. I'm in white jersey 3rd from left second row. Yea Bulldogs. I was in 7th grade. WHF is going on with flickr photos? I tried to link, but didn't find the code, but for my whole photo stream. Screw yahoo.
WTF. No one reads me anymore?
I read you, buster. But I don't know jack about football, much less peewee football in the 1950s. I do like the one kid in the back row making fists, though.
Same here. BTW, why do the names read left to right but are to people from right to left?
BTW, buster. If you ever decide to open a B&B let me know. Scotch eggs for breakfast, BBQ for dinner, and maybe a cane extracting demonstration using restoreD antiques in between.
I do read your posts and you have some very cool hobbies.:thumb: It would make for an awesome Cellar Road Trip.
BTW, was it you who told us that you were turned away from a church shelter during Katrina? Did anything ever come from that?
I didn't know they had midget football in the fifties. I think its relatively new here.
I read you Busterb. It's just I don't always have a comment. I don't know anything about football, never mind peewee football. I still enjoy your posts, though.
The kid with his dukes up was a jr. collage football for years. I see a preacher, 2 state farm agents, a banker, a refinery manager, a pharmacist, a school teacher.
A HVAC contractor. One who worked with flight sims. One went to air force academy.
1 known died. The one on my left got polio, still around.
Not sure what rest did.
Back then, was no jr. high ball. Just peewee and varisity.
Back to eye dr. the 28th.
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Dog robbers, Bill, Cockatoos and Opals.
Well since I’m almost 70 years old and this is the only record of my BS. I need to up date a bit.
My friend BILL. I meet Bill in the jungles of Peru, Back in 1976.
He came in to help me with my job. I heard someone ask where was from. He said” Birmingham” Well I hear that and think brit. But come to find out he was from above Birmingham, Ala.
He had been downunder for about 15 years and had a family at Margerts River, which he spent last winter with.
We worked in Peru, Sumatra, and S. La. Together.. And boy do I have a few tales to bring here.
Bill called me collect from downunder, needed fair for home, had 2 cockatoos. At that time I had money, so I paid the deal with air lines..
Bill showed up with 2 birds and about that time my wife was going home, to Sumatra for a visit.. So we got loaded and let the !@#$% birds out.. They crapped allover!
Bill has and English school in Hondusis. Maybe a house of ill report.
Anyway Bill was working, inspection for the fracking folks., He called me other day and said.” Was on way to Basil, About time I did something for my self.
Bill must be about 75 or over, but he’s a work wise and great dude. More if I can get someone to type for me.
Where do opals fit into Bill's story?
He went back downunder while we were in Sumatra and brought me 5 or 6 nice ones, Xwife go them.
Dog robbers, Bill, Cockatoos and Opals.
Had nothing to do with this. Guess it was on page from where I was doing a book search.
Only thing I found was a book, The Opal Serpent.
When I can find someone who can type and spell, I'll update this about Project Azorian and
the links that Bruce sent me about project Pluto. I worked on the first reel barge in gulf. u 303 later barge 101
Project Pluto
Bruce sent me a link about this, because he knew I once did this kind of work. The link .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv9lBqPVuoE
This I found after a little searching.
Historically, the technique of laying undersea fluid-carrying pipelines had its rudimentary beginnings in England in the 1940's in a War-time project known as "Operation Pluto". In the summer of 1944, 3-inch nominal bore steel tubes, electrically flash-welded together, were coiled around floating drums. One end of the pipe was fixed to a terminal point; as the floating drums were towed across the English Channel, the pipe was pulled off the drum. In this manner, pipeline connections were made between the fuel supply depots in England and distribution points on the European continent to support the Allied invasion of Europe.
No known further development work or commercial use of the technique of laying pipe offshore from reels was carried out after World War II. After a hiatus of about fifteen years, research into the reel pipelaying technique was renewed and was carried on by Gurtler, Herbert & Co, Inc of New Orleans, La. (USA); by 1961, Gurtler, Herbert had sufficiently advanced the reel pipelaying technique to make it a commercially acceptable and viable method of laying pipe in the offshore petroleum industry, able to compete with the traditional stovepiping technique. The first known commercial pipelaying reel barge, called the U-303 was built by Aquatic Contractors and Engineers, Inc, a subsidiary of Gurtler, Herbert, in 1961. The U-303 utilised a large vertical-axis reel, permanently mounted on a barge and having horizontally orientated flanges (generally referred to in the trade as a "horizontal reel"). A combined straightener/level winder was employed for spooling pipe onto the reel and for straightening pipe as it was unspooled. The U-303 first laid pipe commercially in September 1961, in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana and was used successfully during the 1960's to lay several million linear feet of pipe of up to 6 inches diameter.
I worked a few times on the U-303, which I think was a converted hull from an old LST. The oil industry used a bunch. Chevron had 4 or 5 which I also work on or off of.
Anyway the main supervision on the U-303 were named Larry, Moe and Curley. Once we laid some small pipe to be pulled up a J-tube and the jughead was telling the tug to pull, pull. But he was talking to wrong tug which pulled the barge anchors back across the pipe we had just laid.
A deck full of cut up scrap.
A link to where I found some of this. A popup will come up. Just close then hit the back button. If you’d like to read. Maybe I’ll add to this later.
Also in upper right corner is more junk
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/offshore-pipelayer.htmTnxs. I was about to give up on this. I do have more that might be of interest to some.
Once while working on above barge, A diver was driving the crane operator nuts with pick a little , no down and so forth. The sob was under the barge holding onto an anode. They later hired him as a deck foreman.
Later on another job, not same company. I was knocked overboard by pipe jumping the rollers and some bright guy tried to throw me the welding cable. Me in salt water. Hello salt water and electricity don't work well together.
Stories I might could tell about working offshore in the 60s are almost endless. Before there was an OSHA.
Buster, I love your stories. You have lived quite the life of adventure. I tip my hat to you sir
I love the stories too. Even when I can't quite understand them.
How was the diver driving the crane operator nuts? Intentionally or just by doing something dumb? I get that a diver might be under water, but was he just holding on to the anode so he had something to grab and stay underwater as a prank to freak the guy out?
Well the crane was hooked up to what he was suppose to be working on. As he wasn't down where he was suppose to be, he was talking to crane like he was. And wasting time.
Not a prank. He was just lazy or sorry sob.
He used to work for the railroad but he got fired for being a poor conductor...
He used to work for the railroad but he got fired for being a poor conductor...
...he wasn't shocked.
TIHAW
So, what is his current occupation?
Just had to amp it up, didn't you?
I do get a charge from wordplay like this.
Some people who aren't in the circuit, are negative because they aren't positive about the meaning of the symbols.
OTOH they're pretty good with abbreviations like abbreviating Volt with a BigV.
I'm sorry, watt are we talking about, again?
Whether or not you're AC/DC.
Well, I don't currently alternate. I'll state that much, directly.
Also, don't question my orientation, it hertz.
I don't think I've been so repelled since my hand got stuck in the mangle.
... Also, don't question my orientation, it hertz.
Like someone kicked you in the family joules?
I think it's time we switched the subject.
Why, what are you on about?
I think it's time we switched the subject.
perhaps you should conduct a pole before you discharge this topic.
That's a step towards finding common ground.
the path of least resistance can transform the setting of a for-ohm and get it in a solid state.
More power to the people!
ohmygod, enough of the punific battery, you're grounded.
I guess the spark just isn't there anymore.
Don't take a hell of alot to entertain some folks. When the childerns get through playing, I might have something else to post. Of interest or not. :bolt:
We were just occupying time while we waited for your next story. If you're revolted, we didn't mean it.
If these puns don't stop, I'm gonna have to plug somebody.
We'd better stop, before someone blows a fuse.
Modern offshore pipe laying.
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That's all auto welding. I've never worked around that. Another video that popped up showed manual welding. What the valve things on end of pipe are, I have no clue. Maybe for testing.
I'm not seeing the valve things on end of pipe?
Oh, you mean this thing.
That is strange. First I thought maybe it's a cap they can grapple up to continue the line later. The 5 valves could to be for letting the air out, or something under pressure to blow the line out.
Now the end where the cable is attached looks like it's for pulling, but it's on the butt end so it can't be. Must be for keeping tension on the pipe while it's lowered, but why are they lowering the end in the middle of nowhere?
Oh, you may know. Does one company lay the line out to where they plan a platform, them another company comes along and ties it into the system when they're ready?
The video referred to it as a startup head. One reference I found referred to a laydown head as a:
"Piece of pipe with a wire attachment, welded on to the end of a pipe string to facilitate later retrieval. The laydown head at the start of pipelaying [sic] is called an initiation head, and may be provided with valves and pigs for dewatering of the line."
Other references I found said it could also be used for cleaning the pipeline (introducing and removing solutions I believe) and pressure testing with some instrumentation actually inside the startup head pipes. It's accessible by ROV for those procedures.
Maybe startup head was a misnomer in the video since it seemed to be only at the end of the pipe laying process; or, perhaps it's commonly called that in practice at either end.
Bingo! Sexobon nails it.
So I was on the right track with the pipeline being laid to about where the wellhead or floating pumping station will be, then lays capped on the bottom till they need it.
Still don't know how the Laydown head works with the PLEM (pipeline end manifold). I suspect they attach to each other and work in conjunction, but I may be way off on that.
buster - that must have been one hell of a job. how many years did you do it??
The video referred to it as a startup head. One reference I found referred to a laydown head as a:
"Piece of pipe with a wire attachment, welded on to the end of a pipe string to facilitate later retrieval. The laydown head at the start of pipelaying [sic] is called an initiation head, and may be provided with valves and pigs for dewatering of the line."
Other references I found said it could also be used for cleaning the pipeline (introducing and removing solutions I believe) and pressure testing with some instrumentation actually inside the startup head pipes. It's accessible by ROV for those procedures.
Maybe startup head was a misnomer in the video since it seemed to be only at the end of the pipe laying process; or, perhaps it's commonly called that in practice at either end.
Sounds about right to me. Tnxs.
Sarge. I did this work from right after the storm in 1965 until early 80s, If IRRC. But I still worked offshore until later 80s
I have some stories about de-watering the line Well I was going to use this in another story, but, once the welder boss told me me to take a poly-pig down to galley and tell them to put in freezer. It had been wrapped in sheet metal and strapped with banding. For de-watering after a lay down for rough weather.
Well I'd been around enough to smell BS. Go get someone else, I'm not pissing off the cooks. but it was true. To shrink so would fit in pipe.
Hey the oil field runs on rumors,lies, and bullshit.
In summer all the kids of the wheel's get a job. Do you see anything wrong with sending them after a roll of slack, concrete welding rods?
When you're in a profession that has a lot of specialized tools with strange, even sometimes nonsensical names, there's bound to be newbie abuse. :blush:
we had a lot of fun in the army with that, too. Ok, Buster lets hear some more about your work. I have never met anyone who has come close to doing the things you did
He's seen some things, man.
And some stuff.
I wouldn't recommend it.
I'm alive. Puter down, trying to use tablet.
Upper GI good, liver test tomorrow and lower GI on 2nd July
BB
good to hear from you.........especially when you are alive
I'm not going to wish buster a happy birthday in the Happy Birthday thread. Nope, not gonna do it. I figure it's best to stop celebrating at 69; 'cause, you know, 69's a lucky number. So buster, you'll always be 69 to me, well at least until you turn 100 and become an antique. Today just seemed like a good day to tell you.
Let's wish Buster a happy birthday here to make it special, hihi.
HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
to BUSTER!!!!!!! :celebrat::celebrat::celebrat::celebrat:
Hope it was a good one, Buster!
Happy Birthday Buster! Hope you enjoyed your day.
Have I missed it? Happy birthday! No bullshit!
Sent by thought transference
Other night. Well not the other nite. I watched the Project Azorian on netflix. While working in Ca. I passed over the bay where it was stored. Along with most of the US merchant marine fleet..At that time I was living in Antioch, Ca. I took a short cut, to go to Exxon refinery in Benica.
Btw. That’s the Carquinez straits and Suisun bay. I saw this ship setting there each day, and thought was just some kinda of drill ship.
I often wondered where the advances in deep water drilling came from. But they all belonged to Hughes co. Rent, not buy.
Anyway I took a shortcut by way of Pittsburg to the Port Chicago Hwy. I often wonder why there were so many concrete slabs there. Later I learned about the explosion in WW11.
Now my spell checker in Word has went to hell.
Anyway all over the hills in the refinery and surrounding area are cover with ammo bunkers.
I went to Antioch to work in a reclaimed paper mill, Maybe Gaylord. I went there after a job in Nilland, down by the salton sea, a geo-thermal plant.
The conversion of the vessel from 1996-1998 was the start of a 30-year lease from the U.S. Navy to Global Marine Drilling at a cost of a mere $1 million US per year. Global Marine merged with Santa Fe International Corporation in 2001 to become GlobalSantaFe Corporation, which merged with Transocean Inc. in November 2007 and operates the vessel as GSF Explorer.
In 2010, Transocean acquired the vessel in return for a US$15 million cash payment. Note Transocean is the owners of the rig that screw up the gulf.
BTW. My sight, body is going down hill, my libido is too high, it's all in my head. I still one or two tails to tell. Trying to reconcile my notes with what I posted.
But I've got a damn new HP printer now still in box:bolt:
Please Buster - get all the tales you can posted. Selfish? I doubt I'm the only one who loves reading about the life you lived, your experiences and the historical significance of it all. Heck just reading about what it was like to "live" in the previous generations fascinates me.
What ^^he^^ said.:yesnod:
Really Buster, tell us moar.