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Old 03-17-2004, 03:01 AM
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Do you have anything in your house or garage that most people don't?

Machine tools or......whatever.
 
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A distributor dynometer and a hipo yard tracktor
 
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In my garage...
*A life-sized picture of Richard Petty
*The first car I ever bought (40 years ago)
 
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Metal lathe with lots of the toys.
 
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An early 60's Huebsch clothes dryer.....like the big ones in the laundromats.
 
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When I walk around my neighborhood in the summer, all I see in other people's garages are cars, patio furniture, and a mower. So yes, since I have a whole 2 car garage full of woodworking tools, I guess I have something most other people don't.
 
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Sun distributor machine, brake shoe riveter, 1920's split rim tool, valve grinder, 1932 Chevy sedan, 1954 F-100
 
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103 pink plastic flamingos. Really.

It's a long story.............................
 
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I have a pneumatic can crusher.
 
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It's a beast. All I can do is describe it.
My dad, years ago, made a table saw. It's huge, and it weighs at least a couple hundred pounds. The table is welded steel, as is the table top. Then there is the saw itself, mounted underneath the table. A 220 motor powers the blade with a set of belts. I don't know the exact logistics on how it works, but it dims all the lights when it's powered up.
I stay away from it, since it's pretty scary looking.
 
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A life size cardboard figure of John Wayne (The Duke) a corn grinder (one of those old things that take the corn off the cobb) A pool table and a bunch of bronco parts.
 
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Horse shoes, antique vise, antique wrot iron hinges, antique fishing gear, (Dave davies spinners, classic old bass, pike lures, antique tools (buck saw, 2 man saws) antique shutter hard
My wood stove is a Cannon US Army pot belly stove.
(I've seen them in old western movies) I have an ART Hub antique coal stove, curved tractor wrenches, modelA stop light,
and a bunch more, Red scooter, old tabogin sled,...
Everything I find on my property, or collect I nail or hang up and after approx 13 years...it's a good place to toss darts, and have a couple of cold ones...
 
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I have a tanning bed in my home. When I lived with my sister I got a HUGE outdoor Coke machine. We put it in the basement but it weighed over 800 pounds so when I bought a house the pop machine stayed there. It's always stocked with beer and Coke . . .25 cents each.
 
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120 pound anvil

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1966 VW fastback
 
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An 197? MG, my truck, a Kawasaki Mule, a few hundred Playboys, a 20 ton log splitter, 3 lawn mowers, 100 or so gallons of assorted herbacides, a few miles each of electric fence & barbed wire, a few hundred linear feet of 2"x6"x20' pine boards, bunches of little stuff. Oh, its the barn closest to the house, use it as a garage too.
 


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