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235590 | Chuck Ramsey <chuck-ramsey@l...> | 2012‑12‑25 | Bio |
Dear Galoots=2C (Short Version) " Please allow me to introduce myself=2C" I'm chuck. (Longer Version)I'm a 1954 model. Nineteen Illinois winters followed by a couple of German winters (courtesy of the US Army) and I found my home in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona. I was born a desert rat.Since 1976 I've spent the most enjoyable=2C meaningful=2C and painful moments of my life hiking in the Grand Canyon. So I know things about slippery slopes (sometimes the slopes are 60 degrees of sandstone with ball bearing like granules poised above 400' sheer cliffs).I am too damn old to be a galoot-in-training (and getting too damn old to work the Grand Canyon cliffs also). But I'm too new at this to be a galoot. So I guess that makes me a galoot-wannabe.I've been reading (not lurking since my intentions have been entirely honorable=2C not evil) under the porch for a couple of years. I have been and remain gobsmacked at the collective wisdom=2C experience=2C knowledge=2C and generosity of spirit of the porch dwellers.My woodworking skills are limited (I can push things with a stick. Does that count?). And I've had "...a fool for a master." in the sense of "A self taught man has...". I am by nature and necessity a bottom feeder. I usually feel foolish when I buy a new tool at the local H#&% D%!#@. I've wandered the local yard sales=2C flea markets=2C and rust buckets for a while now. I have amassed an assortment of rusty metal objects that I'm attempting to fettle into a full woodworking hand tool kit. I am also an second floor apartment dweller so hand powered tools help to make me a good neighbor. Tho=2C I've been told not to chop mortises after 10:00pm. My workshop is a small patio opened to the sun. My workbench is a salvaged (from a dumpster) 4X12 that was on top of a couple of 5-gallon buckets improved to the same on top of 4 H#&% D%!#@ plastic saw horses improved to the same on top of a frame bolted together from metal bed rails (also from local dumpsters). Progress that I'm going to continue this next year.So...knowing all of that...will you have me? Please? I promise to try to be good. I'll even try to be nice to those folks from Oz. But I draw the line at flying monkeys. No flying monkeys! Okay? chuck ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------ |
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235591 | John Holladay <docholladay0820@g...> | 2012‑12‑25 | Re: Bio |
Chuck, Sounds to me like you will fit in nicely with this bunch of misfits. I'm with you on the flying monkeys. When I see flying monkeys, I shoot first. Sounds like you have the workshop about as galoot as it gets. Pull up a chair. Grab a beverage of choice and "set-a-spell." Doc On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 9:33 PM, Chuck Ramsey |
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235593 | <roygriggs@c...> | 2012‑12‑25 | Re: Bio |
Chuck, let's see...dumpster diving, rust huntin', making use of objects not for their intended purpose...sounds like your comin' alongon those skills..required of a galoot! Welcome to the porch, come out in the light and sit a spell.-- roy griggs roygriggs@c... ---- Chuck Ramsey |
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235592 | <harperron@c...> | 2012‑12‑26 | Re: Bio |
Welcome Chuck Sent from Xfinity Connect Mobile App -----Original Message----- From: Chuck Ramsey To: oldtools Sent: 2012-12- 26 03:33:36 +0000 Subject: [OldTools] Bio Dear Galoots, (Short Version) " Please allow me to introduce myself," I'm chuck. (Longer Version)I'm a 1954 model. Nineteen Illinois winters followed by a couple of German winters (courtesy of the US Army) and I found my home in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona. I was born a desert rat.Since 1976 I've spent the most enjoyable, meaningful, and painful moments of my life hiking in the Grand Canyon. So I know things about slippery slopes (sometimes the slopes are 60 degrees of sandstone with ball bearing like granules poised above 400' sheer cliffs).I am too damn old to be a galoot-in-training (and getting too damn old to work the Grand Canyon cliffs also). But I'm too new at this to be a galoot. So I guess that makes me a galoot-wannabe.I've been reading (not lurking since my intentions have been entirely honorable, not evil) under the porch for a couple of years. I have been and remain gobsmacked at the collective wisdom, experience, knowledge, and generosity of spirit of the porch dwellers.My woodworking skills are limited (I can push things with a stick. Does that count?). And I've had "...a fool for a master." in the sense of "A self taught man has...". I am by nature and necessity a bottom feeder. I usually feel foolish when I buy a new tool at the local H#&% D%!#@. I've wandered the local yard sales, flea markets, and rust buckets for a while now. I have amassed an assortment of rusty metal objects that I'm attempting to fettle into a full woodworking hand tool kit. I am also an second floor apartment dweller so hand powered tools help to make me a good neighbor. Tho, I've been told not to chop mortises after 10:00pm. My workshop is a small patio opened to the sun. My workbench is a salvaged (from a dumpster) 4X12 that was on top of a couple of 5-gallon buckets improved to the same on top of 4 H#&% D%!#@ plastic saw horses improved to the same on top of a frame bolted together from metal bed rails (also from local dumpsters). Progress that I'm going to continue this next year.So...knowing all of that...will you have me? Please? I promise to try to be good. I'll even try to be nice to those folks from Oz. But I draw the line at flying monkeys. No flying monkeys! Okay? chuck =09=09 =09 =09=09 ------------------------------------------------------------- -- =--------- |
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235599 | Archie England <christinmedaily@y...> | 2012‑12‑26 | Re: Bio |
Welcome, indeed! ________________________________ From: Chuck Ramsey |
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235601 | Van Hudson <van.hudson@y...> | 2012‑12‑26 | Re: Bio |
Welcome to the porch Chuck. I am a recent convert myself and agree with you that the spirit, and collective wisdom of the more senior galoots is beyond compare and consider myself most fortunate to have stumbled into such a nest. =A0 Van Hudson ________________________________ From: Chuck Ramsey |
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235602 | James Thompson <oldmillrat@m...> | 2012‑12‑26 | Re: Bio |
You sound like one of my kind of folks. You will be happy here. On Dec 25, 2012, at 7:33 PM, Chuck Ramsey wrote: > > > Dear Galoots, (Short Version) " Please allow me to intr oduce myself," I'm chuck. (Longer Version)I'm a 1954 model. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
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235604 | "Dave Nighswander" <wishingstarfarm663@m...> | 2012‑12‑26 | Re: Bio |
Welcome Chuck. I believe being a Galoot is a state of mind, or lack of it. If there was a test to join it would be "So you want to be a Galoot? Yes? You're in." Since you're familiar with slopes with a big drop at the end you'll get along fine here. The drop is far less than 400 feet and I've yet to land so the fall must be slower here on the porch. Interesting variant on the space time continuum. In this part of the universe you can slide down multiple slopes at the same time. So far so good. -----Original Message----- From: Chuck Ramsey Subject: [OldTools] Bio (Short Version) " Please allow me to introduce myself," I'm chuck. (Longer Version)I'm a 1954 model. Nineteen Illinois winters followed by a couple of German winters (courtesy of the US Army) and I found my home in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona. I was born a desert rat.Since 1976 I've spent the most enjoyable, meaningful, and painful moments of my life hiking in the Grand Canyon. So I know things about slippery slopes (sometimes the slopes are 60 degrees of sandstone with ball bearing like granules poised above 400' sheer cliffs).I am too damn old to be a galoot-in-training (and getting too damn old to work the Grand Canyon cliffs also). But I'm too new at this to be a galoot. So I guess that makes me a galoot-wannabe.I've been reading (not lurking since my intentions have been entirely honorable, not evil) under the porch for a couple of years. I have been and remain gobsmacked at the collective wisdom, experience, knowledge, and generosity of spirit of the porch dwellers.My woodworking skills are limited (I can push things with a stick. Does that count?). And I've had "...a fool for a master." in the sense of "A self taught man has...". I am by nature and necessity a bottom feeder. I usually feel foolish when I buy a new tool at the local H#&% D%!#@. I've wandered the local yard sales, flea markets, and rust buckets for a while now. I have amassed an assortment of rusty metal objects that I'm attempting to fettle into a full woodworking hand tool kit. I am also an second floor apartment dweller so hand powered tools help to make me a good neighbor. Tho, I've been told not to chop mortises after 10:00pm. My workshop is a small patio opened to the sun. My workbench is a salvaged (from a dumpster) 4X12 that was on top of a couple of 5-gallon buckets improved to the same on top of 4 H#&% D%!#@ plastic saw horses improved to the same on top of a frame bolted together from metal bed rails (also from local dumpsters). Progress that I'm going to continue this next year.So...knowing all of that...will you have me? Please? I promise to try to be good. I'll even try to be nice to those folks from Oz. But I draw the line at flying monkeys. No flying monkeys! Okay? chuck ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
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235629 | Ed Bell <neanderman@f...> | 2012‑12‑27 | Re: Bio |
On 12/26/2012 11:13 AM, Dave Nighswander wrote: > The drop is far less than 400 feet and I've yet to land so the fall > must be slower here on the porch. Interesting variant on the space > time continuum. In this part of the universe you can slide down > multiple slopes at the same time. So far so good. > Perhaps best illustrated by M.C. Escher... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
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