[ December 03, 2003, 02:42 PM: Message edited by: Barb. Shortreed ]
Posted by W. R. Pickett (Member # 3842) on :
a PWOT?
Posted by Alan Ackerson (Member # 3224) on :
Do you mean production or service?
How about Monkey business. lol
Posted by mike meyer (Member # 542) on :
sorry...the picture is coming guys...hang on...
Posted by Si Allen (Member # 420) on :
Hahahahahaaa ... Mike...bet it go frozen! Try your heat gun to thaw it so we can see it!
Posted by mike meyer (Member # 542) on :
Thanks Barb!
Anyone? Posted by jimmy chatham (Member # 525) on :
looks like a post office Posted by Jillbeans (Member # 1912) on :
A mobile guillotine service? Mike, say it ain't so, buddy! You didn't letter it, didja? At any rate, the truck bed could serve as a poster child for ProActiv acne solution! (or maybe the measles) Love- JILL
Posted by Scott Pagan (Member # 2507) on :
wasn't that on TV Land...
Sanford and Son ?
Posted by Terry Whynott (Member # 1622) on :
Are you and Mark making Flying Biscuit Antique pick-ups now? How'd you get that great rust effect? Very convincing. Posted by Kathy Joiner (Member # 1814) on :
Appaloosa horse breeder. Than is the squeeze chute in the back of the truck. The appy paint job is a dead give away.
Posted by Greg McRoberts (Member # 3501) on :
A poster child for "Uh Oh, Better Get Maaco"?
Posted by Bill Diaz (Member # 2549) on :
It just needs a little pinstriping is all. Send him down to me and I'll fix him up. Since he's obviously a high roller he'll have to take me out for lunch, though.
On a second glance, this could be my first lettering job which sure has held up well. That was before pressure washers and when paint was paint, by golly!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by Richard Doyle (Member # 2919) on :
hmmmmmm
garbage truck??
Posted by David Harding (Member # 108) on :
That's what happens when you use a wet application on reflective.
Posted by Matthew Rolli (Member # 4089) on :
Hog Castration Services.....
Don't ask how I know
What's my prize?
-matthew
Posted by Jane Diaz (Member # 595) on :
Are you sure that it is hogs? I think it might be for bulls. (Farm girl)
Posted by Greg McRoberts (Member # 3501) on :
Good one David. (LOL)
Posted by Tony McDonald (Member # 1158) on :
ol ye need fer castratin' em hogs is a guuud ole pokit nife!
Posted by Matthew Rolli (Member # 4089) on :
Hi Jane,
I'm sticking with my guess of Hogs due to the piece of plywood that has a hand hole in the top to move/block hog movement.....
I actually lettered one once.....not my finest sign moment
-rolli
Posted by Brian Diver (Member # 1552) on :
I'd say branding. You can only do one at a time.
Posted by mike meyer (Member # 542) on :
You're getting warm! Keep em coming! Posted by dave parr (Member # 3868) on :
that's the portable booth used when they warm the brains of sign painters & unlearn em how ta letter then instill vinyl application, sheetmetal fabrication and other such novice skills into the shell of what once was...
[ December 05, 2003, 12:48 AM: Message edited by: dave parr ]
Posted by Kathy Joiner (Member # 1814) on :
Is it for de-horning cattle?
Posted by Patrick Whatley (Member # 2008) on :
Head chute for de-horning heifers?
Posted by Lotti Prokott (Member # 2684) on :
You guys are funny, but Matthew's right. Posted by FranCisco Vargas (Member # 145) on :
Alright who's the filty animal who stole my Saturday night special truck to take the ladies out to the drive-in and cruise the miracle mile?? Also I have all of you know I did a "step by step" on how to do the ball ping hammer rust effect on the driver side in Ford's new Classic Magazine for the 70's. Now on the passenger side I did the burlwood effect (not pictured) Maybe Mike can show the other side. Far as the panel saw in the back, it can be converted into a ping pong table with a few adjustments. I still have a patent on that. Ok my lettering wasn't up to par. I was trying a new French Master #44 quill. As you notice all the numbers are of the same height, so lets see one of you old painters top that after two shots of Thunderbird, half a pint of Jack Daniels and a 12 pack of Fosters Beer, oh yeah and a bag of chips. I'll bet right now...
Posted by mike meyer (Member # 542) on :
DING DING DING! Kathy Joiner ....COME ON DOWN!!
Yes, It is a "DE-HORNING SHUTE!"
Sorry Lotti, Matt was close but he's more of a SHEEP guy..wink wink! Here's how it works, you pull out the shute, steer the cow into it with the board (Handle cut-out) and once the animal is in, you close the stantion, and put it's nose down on the "Plate" and hook the rope over the cow's nose. Then start cutting the horns off with a hack saw. Blood will squirt high and all over, then you sprinkle some yellow powder in the remaining hole to stop the bleeding. Of course the cow is kickin and screamin like a typical sign cheapskate bitchin about a 4X8, and you ask the farmer if he wants the testicles.
If you have read this up to now and have not puked.. .....read on..If the answer is "No", you can either take em off with a rubber band or a razor. Then you take em home, clean em up , make a beer batter, deep fat fry em, and EAT EM,and that is how you get a "ROCKY MOUNTAIN OYSTER!
What the hell does this got to do with Signs? Well, Joey, put down that Bong and listen up....dude. These ruffians who do the De-Horning never have their trucks lettered. The phone numbers on the side are all ya need! Chrome Bevel edge? Nah, Shadow? Who needs it! Digital Print? HAHAHAHAHA!
Just goes to show you the simplicity of a simple phone number on a piece of equipment. Ya don't need to know who, you know that ya need yur cows horns cut-off and by god yur gonna give em a call, cuz you don't care what his name is, just cut the HORNS! Rust? WHere? It runs and can carry the chute up a hill, and hide a twelve pack in the back.
This Off Topic bit of education was brought to you by The Mazeppa Muster Letterhead Meet in Mazeppa Minnesota USA Feb 5-6-7. Come and see it IN ACTION! Posted by Kathy Joiner (Member # 1814) on :
Whoopeee what do I win? I'll take a cow horn so I can make a powder horn for my Daddy's muzzle loader Posted by James Donahue (Member # 3624) on :
Tony, wasn't there a song from the 60's that said: "Mister you're a better man than I?"
From what I understand, a "pig" is about 120 lb or less, and a "hog" is over that. Trying to castrate a 130 lb BOAR with only a pocket knife would probably be some spectacle. I'll just stand back and watch. Posted by Laura Butler (Member # 1830) on :
You don't want to hear how I fixed our billy goats when they hit the right age. When they hit about 6 mo. they were ready for butchering. Garry worked at Pontiac Mtrs (in the city) and when the Mexicans heard he had goats, they wanted to buy some for barbeques. Garry would shoot them and I'd dressed them out and put them on ice. He would then take them to work and sell them for $50 or so. I never knew how to fix it right and never got a chance to eat any that they had cooked.
Posted by William Holohan (Member # 2514) on :
Being an auction/yardsale junky, I sometimes get things that I have no use for. About 10 years afo, there was a "Keg of unknown metal parts. (rattles)" on the list. No one bid on it , and the keg looked like a miniature wooden beer barrel, so I bid $5 and got it. Contents? Several Thousand "shoat rings". The farmers will know what they are. Still have the barrel someplace. If I could get my hands on the tool for the rings I could have a second career.
Posted by Tony McDonald (Member # 1158) on :
James....I haven't done it myself but I remember when I was about 6 or 7 my dad would castrate the pigs with a pocket knife and I think a bottle of whiskey.....the whiskey wasn't for the pigs though. The pigs sure did squeal though, when things get really quiet I can still hear em'
Posted by Kathy Joiner (Member # 1814) on :
Irish, that story reminds me of my husband. He would go to sales and find the strangest things, even did the barrel thing! The youngest son always enjoyed going with him. So many times they would come back with the truck loaded down.
My other son and I would go outside to check out the "bounty". We called them Sanford and Son and couldn't resist humming the theme tune from the show. But there were times that all we could do was look at each other, shake our heads and laugh.
Those were the good ole days.
Posted by Suelynn Sedor (Member # 442) on :
Oh good, I was hoping it wasn't the donatated panel saw you are raffling at your meet!!
Suelynn Posted by Patrick Whatley (Member # 2008) on :
Dang phone call made me five minutes too late. Gotta tell you though if y'all are still using a hacksaw up there to remove horns you're way behind the times. We use a tool that looks remarkably like that big cutting tool made for cutting PVC pipe. Quick and clean.
And I don't care how long you fry them, what you season them with, or how drunk I you get there ain't no good reason in the world to eat that part of anythings anatomy.
[ December 04, 2003, 12:56 PM: Message edited by: Patrick Whatley ]
Posted by mike meyer (Member # 542) on :
Come on Pat, You're not REALLY from ALABAMA and don't like Bulls Nuts? They taste like chicken!
Hey Laura, I'm sure lots of people like goats, but did you have to word it like you did? I thought you were a bible thumper?
Religon, Politics, and Guns.....that's when Steve puts the lock on the post!
I'm no Angel Laura but I think The way you said that was out of line. Right Cisco?
Take it back Laura.
Posted by FranCisco Vargas (Member # 145) on :
Laura, I know in different parts of the states there isn't a lot of Mexican people like you have here in the south west, so you have to understand the difference between the Mexicans and the Chicanos, Latinos, Hispanics, Mexican/Americans I could go on and on. You can call me any of the above and it doesn't bother me but I've been around some people of Mexican decent who were born on "this side of the border" and they get insulted if you called them a Chicano.
So not to make a big issue about what you say, because I don't really care for goat meat ever since I got sick in Guadalajara, Mexico. Over here lot of Mexicans or Chicano say the word Birria which means goat meat, but in slang the word "Birria' can also mean "beer" So when they asked me if I wanted Birria, I said sure. Sad thing is the meat tasted good, but the way the meat is hanged on lines the meat in open markets, flies are attracted to it. Well I got sick as hell. My stomach isn't as strong as my Mexican brothers south of the border. it's been a long time since I've had goat meat but I remember at BBQ's they would make a big pit in the ground and BBQ it like that, and with the right sauces it tasted good. But it still isn't my meat of preference. I like Tri-tip, lets throw some Tri-tip in the pit and I'm there! Party at Mike's Place Free Birria! Posted by Patrick Whatley (Member # 2008) on :
Yeah, I hear just about everything I don't want to eat (testicles, possums, gizzards and such) tastes like chicken. Well I've got a freezer full of chicken....I'll just stick with that since it all tastes the same.
That said, there is a little country store/baitshop/restraunt down the road that sells them when they can get them...got a sign up there between the pickled pigs feet and the pickled eggs. I'll just leave all those delicacies to those with more refined palates.
Posted by George Perkins (Member # 156) on :
I've heard tell, the only thing that doesn't get eaten off a pig is the squeal.
Posted by Todd Gill (Member # 2569) on :
Dave Harding....LOL...good one!
Posted by David Harding (Member # 108) on :
It could have been prevented with Rapid Tac II and a heat gun.
Posted by mike meyer (Member # 542) on :
It's Friday...Anyone hungry for ......well...you know!
haha Posted by Alan Ackerson (Member # 3224) on :
They make good hockey pucks. Need to freeze them so they lose their bounce.
Posted by Mikes Mischeif (Member # 1744) on :
Do you know why there are no pigs in Georgia?
They brought a bunch down and once they all headed to the mud hole it was all over.
See, once they got out in the Georgia sun the mud hardened around thier eyes to where they could'nt close them.
They soon died from lack of sleep.
Posted by John Cordova (Member # 220) on :
If you haven't experienced the castration of an animal you haven't lived!! Just kidding. It's pretty nasty. I am 44 now but I will never forget my experience when I was a senior in high school. I had a girlfriend at the time who's father had cows, pigs, hogs, chickens, and sheep. One weekend her father had a few of his beer buddies over to castrate a hog. My buddy who dated my girlfriend's sister was also there that day and we were both asked to join "the men" to help them with this hog. Well, they asked us young guys (about 6 of us teenagers) to get inside the corral while the older guys stayed outside. They had us stand the hog up into the corner of the corral while they had a rope around his neck. When we were finally able to pick this sucker up. He stood well over 6 feet. We all held him in the corner while this old man with one arm jumped in with a knife. Another guys held the hogs "bizness" while the one armed guy proceeded to cut. All us young guys just squirmed like it was happening to us. The hog was squealing like, well, like they were cutting his nuts off!! Crazy. All the time the old timers were laughing there butts off at us. When ol' one arm Manuel was done he jumped out of the corral and they counted to three for the rest of us 6 to try to jump out without the hog going crazy on us. Needless to say, hilarity ensued. We all got out alright but I swore to NEVER do anything like that again. I am so city slicker.
Posted by FranCisco Vargas (Member # 145) on :
Damn that is *ucken cold! They could have at least put the pig to sleep or tranquilize his a$s. Well John I guess you'll never forget that experience. and I bet "Manuel" was a Mexican, don't know to many country boys with that name Posted by John Cordova (Member # 220) on :
Hey Cisco,
Yeah, that was pretty messed up. I just felt sorry for that poor hog. You're right, Manuel was an old Mexican dude. He just kneeled there with his short stogie hangin' outta his mouth and started slicing away like it was nothing. But I'll tell you one thing, that was one ****ed off hog!
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