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Have recently come by an abandoned oil well. Am seriously considering purchasing said well and salvaging the hole. Will have for sale several thousand feet in various lengths of ready made holes if anyone is interested in such. Size will vary from 2' up or down.
-------------------- Frisby Signs, Inc. El Dorado, Arkansas Posts: 902 | From: El Dorado, Arkansas, USA | Registered: Apr 1999
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Roy..Would some of those holes be suitable for 4x4 or 6x6 posts??? Could I order them to spesific lengths?..Like 10' length to insert them into the ground to be below frost line??
I look forward to your input as to this matter.
Regards
-------------------- Dave Grundy retired in Chelem,Yucatan,Mexico/Hensall,Ontario,Canada 1-519-262-3651 Canada 011-52-1-999-102-2923 Mexico cell 1-226-785-8957 Canada/Mexico home
This sure sounds interestig to me. No point diggin' a hole when ready-made ones are available, right? Besides, they wouldn't take up a lot of stoage space in the shop & it'd be handy just to carry a few in the truck also (ya just never know when you're gonna need a good hole). So, I reckon I could use several hundred feet of those holes (in assorted lengths of course).
Would you consider a trade?? If so, please let me know at your earliest convience. Thank you.
-------------------- Chris Elliott 1longshot@classicnet.net cell 62084two2232 Posts: 686 | From: Scottsdale, AZ & Anthony, KS, USA | Registered: Dec 1999
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will you degrease them in case anyone wants to paint around them? after the well has been reclaimed,,,you could build a dog house on the property to help recoup some of the money....money that seems to be burning a "hole" in yer pocket!
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"The Hole Thing!" I doubt if I get to before someone else does, but I see the Hole marketing thing coming into sight. Good Grief, there could be a "Hole Thing" marketing design contest. The winner would get a "hole lot a hole." We could package "The Hole Thing", probably sell better than the pet rock. There are surely plenty more wells that could be purchased. Or perhaps we could find a way to get them to mate. The hole mating thing confuses me though.
-------------------- Dave Parr Sign Painter USA Posts: 709 | From: USA | Registered: May 2003
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Roy--- can these be wrapped, just so you can find them whilst they are being stored?
When one is ready to use one of these ready-mades, do you just unwrap, set it on the ground and it magically inserts itself---or----do you have to dig a hole, and set it down inside?
Inquiring and confused minds want to know.
( Ackshully, the kid was asking.)
-------------------- Bill Preston Fly Creek, N.Y. USA Posts: 943 | From: Fly Creek, N.Y. USA | Registered: Jan 2000
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If you take a large hole and cut it up into many small holes for resale, what do you do for hole bottoms. I would not purchase a hole that did not come with a bottom, as it's hard to find perfect fitting bottoms at a good price. I think you are a Con Artist trying to unload useless holes to the uneducated buyer !!! And if you could find someone that is willing to purchase these bottomless holes,(maybe "Tim Horton" or "Donuts R us") just how are you going to pull the original hole out of the ground. The size you mentioned will be very awkward to handle in one piece. And there is no way you can cut it while it's in the ground. I suggest you think this through before you buy it for salvage. I don't mean to be rude but I see a hole lot wrong with this endeavor. Ed
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-------------------- REBEL with a cause, and a loaded Airbrush! Posts: 73 | From: Ruthven Ont. Can. | Registered: Aug 2002
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Little confused, are the holes just for oil rigs and signs or are they interchangable with a hole lot of services.
I can see the hole thing getting very big, I have even heard of "Black holes", does yours come in different colors????
Is there a quanity discount if your hole order is the same color, or can you mix and match your hole order. Is there a hole case price???
Is there a "plug system" if you have to move your hole, or do you have to buy a hole new hole
And what about quality control, I have heard you can get a-hole's and they are not very desirable in certian situations. I guess what I am asking is if there is a hole grading system???
I may have a hole lot more questions, is there tech support for your holes????
-------------------- Troy "Metalleg" Haas 626 Kingswood Dr Evansville,In 47715 Posts: 1100 | From: Evansville,Indiana, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Have you considered the possibilities of multi-level marketing?
You could not just sell holes, but you could sponsor others to sell holes and they in turn could sponsor others to sell holes who would then sponsor others to ......
And of course everybody gets a little piece of every hole as their incentive. Pretty soon the hole world would have a piece of your hole and you'd be a hole lot richer.
-------------------- Fred Weiss Allied Computer Graphics, Inc. 4620 Lake Worth Road Lake Worth, FL 33463 561 649-6300 allcompu@allcompu.com Posts: 427 | From: Lake Worth, Florida | Registered: Feb 2003
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I want to buy the whole hole, bust it up and sell the smaller holes on e-bay!
-------------------- Mike Pulskamp Pulskamp Arts Sacramento, CA mpulskamp@earthlink.net Posts: 165 | From: Sacramento, CA | Registered: Dec 2002
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ALL THE HOLES HAVE BEEN TAKEN! They are going to be used in Little Rock, Ar. at The President Clinton Library to hold all the other useless junk that will be exhibited there. Gees, talk about a waste of money, or should I say money down a "hole"? There are plenty of other holes around on the ground amongst the grass. Gr....ass holes I believe they're called. lol
-------------------- Frisby Signs, Inc. El Dorado, Arkansas Posts: 902 | From: El Dorado, Arkansas, USA | Registered: Apr 1999
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Building on P. King's idea of a Fast Hole franchise----- if a prospective franchisee only has half the money needed to get a franchise, can he/she get a Half Fast Hole deal?
Both of us were just wondering.
-------------------- Bill Preston Fly Creek, N.Y. USA Posts: 943 | From: Fly Creek, N.Y. USA | Registered: Jan 2000
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Roy, Are you sure you're not going to get the shaft on this hole deal? Course, with all of those hole-sales, you're probably well oiled, so yer probably safe.
-------------------- Dave Parr Sign Painter USA Posts: 709 | From: USA | Registered: May 2003
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-------------------- Harris Kohen K-Man Pinstriping and Graphix Trenton, NJ "Showing the world that even I can strategically place the pigment where its got to go." Posts: 1739 | From: Trenton, NJ, USA | Registered: Jun 2001
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This hole episode has made me think all the folks here have a hole bunch of extra time on their hands because there ain’t a hole lotta other work they’re doin’ instead.
-------------------- David Harding A Sign of Excellence Carrollton, TX Posts: 5089 | From: Carrollton, TX, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Another market would be golf courses, they'll probably buy them in lots of 18. Also will you have to dig up the original hole? If so you will end up with another bigger hole to sell. And you could sell the dirt you dig up, wow this could get big quick. Darn you for stumbling onto this.
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If you strapped a whole lot together and squared the ends up a bit, you could sell them to funeral parlours. You'd probably need to barcode them though so you could keep track of the sizes that sell the most.
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"...there are no limits when you aim for perfection..." Jonathan Livingston Seagull Posts: 7014 | From: Highgrove via Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia | Registered: Dec 2002
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Out on the farm, a seismic company drilled a test hole... nearly a mile deep... the farmer told the crew to cover the hole with the outhouse,,(thinking that he'd never have to dig a hole again), next day they found grampa dead in the biffy... no one could figure it out till grandma came by and exclaimed... the old guy always held his breath till he heard his morning constitution hit the bottom.... yikes!!!!
-------------------- Del Badry philmdesign Sylvan Lake, Alberta Posts: 636 | From: Sylvan Lake, Alberta | Registered: Nov 1998
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Holy cow! I never realized you could buy the whole hole. I have been buying the bottom of the holes then digging down to the right depth to plant them.
-------------------- Chuck Churchill, It's A Good Sign Inc. 3245 Harvester Rd, U-12 Burlington, Ont. Phone: 905-681-8775 Fax: 905-681-8945 Posts: 633 | From: Burlington, Ontario, Canada | Registered: Nov 1998
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For the last couple of nights, my wife has been commenting on how only men have responded to this post.
She also says that only MEN like the Three Stooges. As an informal survey, is this true?
(I for one can relate to those guys.)
-------------------- James Donahue Donahue Sign Arts 1851 E. Union Valley Rd. Seymour TN. (865) 577-3365 brushman@nxs.net
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what's for lunch, Benjamin Franklin Posts: 2057 | From: 1033 W. Union Valley Rd. | Registered: Feb 2003
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I just asked my youngest daughter, Rocky, if she liked the 3 Stooges & her answer was "#*%* YEAHHOOWWW!!!! (which translated from an 18 year old means "you BETCHA!!") She was mildly dissapointed to learn that I didn't have a new DVD & instead was just going to answer an informal survey on the internet.
-------------------- Chris Elliott 1longshot@classicnet.net cell 62084two2232 Posts: 686 | From: Scottsdale, AZ & Anthony, KS, USA | Registered: Dec 1999
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Hi James, My wife would agree with yours, butI used to love the Three Stooges, though I haven't watched them for over 20 years. Perhaps we could start a "Three Stooges Buy Themselves a Hole" comic book, later to be remade into a movie....!
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"...there are no limits when you aim for perfection..." Jonathan Livingston Seagull Posts: 7014 | From: Highgrove via Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia | Registered: Dec 2002
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Soprry, forgot to add: I can just see the three stooges, carrying a long hole down the street on their shoulders (one at each end of the hole, one in the middle), and suddenly they meet the window repairers in the process of taking a window hole out of a wall, and neither knows how to give way to the others etc etc...
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"...there are no limits when you aim for perfection..." Jonathan Livingston Seagull Posts: 7014 | From: Highgrove via Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia | Registered: Dec 2002
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Isn't it great to just have a bit of fun on this board. I thought a little foolishness would be a welcome change after all the adversity! Life is full of ups and downs, or "HOLES", so-to-speak, and this post only shows that even the holes in life can have a little good attached. You guys enjoy, and may the good Lord smile on you each and every day! YIPEEEEEEEE! Or maybe that should read "Ynuk, Ynuk, Ynuk.....Larry, Moe, Curly, where are you?
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-------------------- Frisby Signs, Inc. El Dorado, Arkansas Posts: 902 | From: El Dorado, Arkansas, USA | Registered: Apr 1999
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uhhh Roy,.......wouldn't that be "nyuk, nyuk, nyuk!!" ?? Regarless, I agree & enjoyed this much more that discussing politics, religion, etc. (not that I'd EVER do that....heh) so thanks for the change of pace!!
p.s. that story of yours about your mule freezin' to death in the pocorn still makes me chuckle every time I think about it!!
-------------------- Chris Elliott 1longshot@classicnet.net cell 62084two2232 Posts: 686 | From: Scottsdale, AZ & Anthony, KS, USA | Registered: Dec 1999
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Curly: "Holy freholies, Moe! This hole post is a long one." Moe: "It's a post hole, you dummy!" Moe slaps Curly... Larry:"Hey, leave 'im alone!" Moe "Oh, and what to you think this hole should be posted for?" Larry:"I dunno." Moe:"That's what I thought." Moe pokes Larry in the eye holes... Larry:"OW! Wadchya do that for. I didn't do nuthin'?" Moe:"Cause yer supposed to know what yer hole worth is, you lamebrain. C'mon you guys." Curly:" Where we goin'?" Moe:"To the Letterville water tower. Some guy named Dan needed some water to clean up a sidewalk." Curly:"Nyuk Nyuk...well, it the only hole in the whole post, so I reckon it's the hole, I reckon."
The Stooges place the whole hole on the side of the Letterville water tower. Little do they know that the whole Letterville logo was done without clearcoating. The town is instantly flooded and the all the colors wash down the hole.
Curly:"NGAHAHAHAAHA!"
The Stooges run away and behind them are 3000 signwriters waving xacto knives......
Close curtain, roll credits.....
-------------------- Ray Rheaume Rapidfire Design 543 Brushwood Road North Haverhill, NH 03774 rapidfiredesign@hotmail.com 603-787-6803
I like my paint shaken, not stirred. Posts: 5648 | From: North Haverhill, New Hampshire | Registered: Apr 2003
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Ray, I cai'nt belive I read the hole thing either! Stephanie!! Takin' the hole of it, I th'ot it was pretty funny!! I think men like the 3 stooges so much because they really want to poke their fingers in other mens eyes, an' slap 'em around a lot...hey! Come to think of it...mabey that's why I like watchin' 'em! David, it's a joke!
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"Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man, work like a dog" Posts: 5758 | From: "Sweet Home" Alabama | Registered: Mar 2003
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Well I'm a Little late I hope I can still order these Pre-made holes. I would like to order my holes in 10 ft leanths and I'll cut them to fit with my hole-saw. Thanks for your time
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