Tennessee Curly Cherry

[Coop 6694]

My welds look worse than a lava flow from a volcano. 

[Spanky 1207]

Man, I can’t get Dave to talk to me about money. Dave,  Ole Spanky maybe tighter than you with his money.  Just so you know! 

[Spanky 1207]

3 minutes ago, wtnhighlander said:

Ricky, what are you coiling the rolls with, soft iron wire rod?

Yes

[Spanky 1207]

4 minutes ago, Coop said:

My welds look worse than a lava flow from a volcano. 

A few day’s of welding, you would be a pro. You need to get burned a few time’s to make a good welder. 

[wtnhighlander 6783]

Rickey, I hope you are grounding each roll as you weld it. Arc pitting caused by welding current through the bearings can reduce their lifespan significantly.

[Spanky 1207]

Coop, do you have a cheap single phase 2 hp electric motor 1725 rpm’s?

[wtnhighlander 6783]

Harbor Freight does. But I think you would be better off with a 'Farm Duty' motor, than 'Compressor Duty'

[Spanky 1207]

7 minutes ago, wtnhighlander said:

Harbor Freight does. But I think you would be better off with a 'Farm Duty' motor, than 'Compressor Duty'

Russ, I’m tight but not that tight.  A good motor around $400.00

[Coop 6694]

16 minutes ago, Spanky said:

Coop, do you have a cheap single phase 2 hp electric motor 1725 rpm’s?

I’m not sure what that is. I do have a 428 in my Shelby. Will that help? 

[pkinneb 2836]

15 hours ago, Coop said:

...I do have a 428 in my Shelby. Will that help? 

so jealous!!

[Coop 6694]

Only in my wildest dreams!

[Spanky 1207]

Factory Houston Gearbox. 

[Spanky 1207]

Coop I may need to borrow some money for the electric motor. I would ask my cousin but he want talk to me about money and I know better than to ask him. I will pay you back when my rich uncle gets out of the poor house. 

[Coop 6694]

Or as Wimpy would say, “a burger now and I will pay you next Wednesday”, or something of that nature. I will pm you with my wife’s cc number. 

I’d like to come up and be part of that operation. That’s gonna be cool when finished. 

[Gary Beasley 403]

Might get you an old briggs and stratton engine hooked up to it, save having to run wiring for it.

[wtnhighlander 6783]

Or just run a shaft from your tractor's PTO.

[Spanky 1207]

I was going to use a silage blower for a sawdust blower for my mill and edger, but I didn’t want to tie one of my tractors up to the blower. I was also afraid, that I would blow sawdust in the next county where Rick live’s. It would have made a bad blower and a cheap one too. 

[Spanky 1207]

10 hours ago, Coop said:

 

I’d like to come up and be part of that operation.

Just come on up and stay a month. I have alittle cornbread and water, but no meat or beans. 

[Spanky 1207]

Hi Cousin Dave................I just wanted to say Hi.

[treeslayer 2936]

Hey Rickey, glad to see you’re putting my old truck transmission to good use, I wondered where it went that’s some good hillbilly engineering there

[Spanky 1207]

Dave I need to get you and Coop here one day, so I can get the old ford transmission in third gear. I would like to see the Houston Boy sweat alittle for the first time. 

[RichardA 4553]

Now that would be neat. Coop, Spanky, Dave and me all in one place together.  We did do 3 out of the 4 once in Iowa for a woodworking show.  But doing that here in Tennessee would be the cat's pajamas.   Young'un's are gonna have fun with that expression. 

[Coop 6694]

It would be like the House and the Senate. Me and you booze, Dave and Rickey, coffee. But that’s ok as we’d all agree .... at least on something. 

[Spanky 1207]

21 hours ago, Coop said:

 Dave and Rickey, coffee. 

Dave would want sugar in his coffee and I like my coffee black. 

Coop do you have any Rural King stores in Houston? My wife and I went to one on the mtn in Crossville, Tn today. 

[Coop 6694]

No sir. Never heard of them. What kind of store is it?