-------------------- Jimmy Chatham Chatham Signs 468 stark st Commerce, Ga 30529 Posts: 1766 | From: Commerce, GA, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
| IP: Logged |
posted
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
-------------------- That is like a Mr. Potato Head with all the pieces in the wrong place. -Russ McMullin Posts: 8834 | From: Butler, PA, USA | Registered: Jan 2001
| IP: Logged |
posted
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!!!!!!!!!!
-------------------- Bill Diaz Diaz Sign Art Pontiac IL www.diazsignart.com Posts: 2107 | From: Pontiac, IL | Registered: Dec 2001
| IP: Logged |
posted
Are you sure that it is hogs? I think it might be for bulls. (Farm girl)
-------------------- Jane Diaz Diaz Sign Art 628 W. Lincoln Ave. Pontiac, Il. 61764 815-844-7024 www.diazsignart.com Posts: 4102 | From: Pontiac, IL USA | Registered: Feb 1999
| IP: Logged |
posted
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 ]
-------------------- Dave Parr Sign Painter USA Posts: 709 | From: USA | Registered: May 2003
| IP: Logged |
posted
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...
-------------------- aka:Cisco the "Traveling Millennium Sign Artist" http://www.franciscovargas.com Fresno, CA 93703 559 252-0935 "to live life, is to love life, a sign of no life, is a sign of no love"...Cisco 12'98 Posts: 3576 | From: Fresno, Ca, the great USA | Registered: Dec 1998
| IP: Logged |
posted
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!
-------------------- Mike Meyer Sign Painter 189 1st Ave n P.O. Box 3 Mazeppa, Mn 55956
We are not selling, we are staying here in Mazeppa....we cannot re-create what we have here....not in another lifetime! SO Here we are!!!!!!!
posted
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.
-------------------- 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
| IP: Logged |
posted
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.
-------------------- Laura Butler Vision Graphics & Sign 4479 Welch Rd Attica, Mi 48412 Posts: 2855 | From: Attica, Mi, USA | Registered: Nov 2000
| IP: Logged |
posted
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.
-------------------- William "Irish" Holohan Resting...Read "Between Jobs." Marlboro, MA 01752 email: firemap1@aol.com Posts: 1110 | From: Marlboro, MA | Registered: Dec 2001
| IP: Logged |
posted
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'
-------------------- Ace Graphics & Printing Camdenton, MO. USA
posted
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.
-------------------- Kathy Joiner River Road Graphics 41628 River Road Ponchatoula, La.70454
Old enough to know better...Too young to resist. Posts: 1891 | From: Ponchatoula, LA | Registered: Nov 2000
| IP: Logged |
posted
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 ]
-------------------- Pat Whatley Montgomery, AL (334) 262-7446 office (334) 324-8465 cell Posts: 1306 | From: Wetumpka, AL USA | Registered: Mar 2001
| IP: Logged |
posted
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!
-------------------- aka:Cisco the "Traveling Millennium Sign Artist" http://www.franciscovargas.com Fresno, CA 93703 559 252-0935 "to live life, is to love life, a sign of no life, is a sign of no love"...Cisco 12'98 Posts: 3576 | From: Fresno, Ca, the great USA | Registered: Dec 1998
| IP: Logged |
posted
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.
-------------------- Pat Whatley Montgomery, AL (334) 262-7446 office (334) 324-8465 cell Posts: 1306 | From: Wetumpka, AL USA | Registered: Mar 2001
| IP: Logged |
![[Dunno]](graemlins/dunno.gif)
Any guesses? ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
![[Smile]](smile.gif)
![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
![[Wink]](wink.gif)
![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
You're getting warm!![[Applause]](graemlins/clap.gif)
![[Frown]](frown.gif)
Matt was close but he's more of a SHEEP guy..wink wink! ![[FYI]](graemlins/fyi.gif)
This Off Topic bit of education was brought to you by The Mazeppa Muster Letterhead Meet in Mazeppa Minnesota USA Feb 5-6-7.![[Thanks]](graemlins/thanks.gif)
Printer-friendly view of this topic