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[Dean VP]

Gene/Ralph,

I can really relate to building stuff with used lumber and recycled bent nails. Most of our buildings on our farm in NW IA were
built with used lumber. One of the larger corn cribs was built with used walnut 2 x 4's. Had to drill pilot holes to get a nail in.
Real 2" x 4" rough cut lumber. Walnut trees grew wild locally. We didn't re-use allot of the square nails, I don't know why, but we
sure did save every nail that came out of the used lumber when we tore down old houses and buildings.  There was a pile of used
lumber in the grove that was worked any time we had any free time just to pull out old nails. One whole wall of the separate two car
garage built in 1948 was a wall from another salvaged building. Dad didn't buy new tractors or implements. The only NEW implement
that I remember was a 4 row corn planter (JD 490?). It was the first in the county and raised quite a stir. We still checked the
rows of corn then and Dad joked that he didn't know if he could get 4 rows to line up properly when checked. I have a vivid visual
memory of my Dad moving and stretching that check wire at the ends of the field. It was an art to him to get those checked rows
perfectly straight. And he did. The only new tractor I remember that Dad bought was in 1962 which was a JD 3010. Unfortunately, he
never really got to use it.  

Dean VP 
Apache Junction, AZ

"If pilots' vision were as bad as economists', Amtrak would be profitable."

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Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 6:30 PM
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Subject: [Bulk] [AT] Spam> Re: FW: Re: hello?, now "people never get rid"

On 1/26/2011 6:57 PM, Herbert Metz wrote:
>
> Gene; only had one sister, but our financiial situation was very similar.
> We were on the edge of the Dust Bowl, combine that with the depression and
> things were bad.

Seems like a lot of us grew up with the 3Rs, re-use, recycle and Hmmmm,, 
whats the third one?
For me its still a novelty to build anything with new lumber and nails. 
Seems to me its been re-cycled lumber and straightened nails a lot of 
times when I go to patch up a building.
Scrap iron was worth a little bit but we never had any to sell as it was 
all saved for a day when it would be needed to repair something else.
I've sold the odd piece of machinery when someone comes along looking to 
buy but mostly I just keep collecting.
I got lucky today. Broke the welds at two points on the back of the 
dozer blade while pushing snow and I needed some extra channel iron to 
weld on to strengthen a blade that was never meant to be pushed by 108 
horsepower.
That old Smith Roles 180 amp welder has certainly paid for itself over 
the past 37 years.

Ralph in Sask.

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