Texasflyboy
03-27-2006, 09:27 PM
What a difference a week makes. I spent almost a whole day last week trying to scrounge up some wheelweights. And got nothing!
Then this past weekend happened. Saturday I decided to volunteer with a local professional organization and donate my time in the field of work I do. The work was physically unchallenging, but mentally crushing. I am still a novice with certain professional software programs, but in spite of this ignorance, the recipient of my day of work was thrilled. And so was her husband.
Who just happened to be in the construction business.
Who invited me late Saturday afternoon to tour a nearby demolition site that he is currently rendering to rubble to be reborn as a housing complex. He is explaining to me all the various things that are going to happen to the site and I notice a big stack of old rubber tires. "What was that place over there I ask". "Oh, just an old tire shop. It went out of business years ago and they abandoned the site".
Hmmmmm...THAT looks like an interesting site to go poke around in I think.
Three hours later I finished loading up about six 5-gallon buckets of wheelweights. They were just sitting under an old tin shed covered with weeds and old tires. Included were about 30 small boxes of NEW unused wheelweights in mildewed moldy boxes. From Perfect Wheelweight company. I got to keep it all courtesy of my new friend. He said he could of cared less if I helped myself to the lead, less for his crew to deal with.
Today I stopped by one of the shops I went to last week and up-traded the owner. He got all the new in box wheelweights, I got two more 5 gallon buckets of older wheelweights. He’s happy, I’m happy.
I was in shock. First the linotype out of nowhere, and now wheelweights galore.
Fellas, I am out of the lead hunting business for awhile. I am going to finish up the webpage on the casting pot, and finish smelting these wheelweights into ingots.
Then I am going to fire that big beast up and start casting.
I think I need to go buy a lotto ticket….:-)
This is what I did today at work:
http://users2.ev1.net/~eastus1/a/1234223.jpg
Then this past weekend happened. Saturday I decided to volunteer with a local professional organization and donate my time in the field of work I do. The work was physically unchallenging, but mentally crushing. I am still a novice with certain professional software programs, but in spite of this ignorance, the recipient of my day of work was thrilled. And so was her husband.
Who just happened to be in the construction business.
Who invited me late Saturday afternoon to tour a nearby demolition site that he is currently rendering to rubble to be reborn as a housing complex. He is explaining to me all the various things that are going to happen to the site and I notice a big stack of old rubber tires. "What was that place over there I ask". "Oh, just an old tire shop. It went out of business years ago and they abandoned the site".
Hmmmmm...THAT looks like an interesting site to go poke around in I think.
Three hours later I finished loading up about six 5-gallon buckets of wheelweights. They were just sitting under an old tin shed covered with weeds and old tires. Included were about 30 small boxes of NEW unused wheelweights in mildewed moldy boxes. From Perfect Wheelweight company. I got to keep it all courtesy of my new friend. He said he could of cared less if I helped myself to the lead, less for his crew to deal with.
Today I stopped by one of the shops I went to last week and up-traded the owner. He got all the new in box wheelweights, I got two more 5 gallon buckets of older wheelweights. He’s happy, I’m happy.
I was in shock. First the linotype out of nowhere, and now wheelweights galore.
Fellas, I am out of the lead hunting business for awhile. I am going to finish up the webpage on the casting pot, and finish smelting these wheelweights into ingots.
Then I am going to fire that big beast up and start casting.
I think I need to go buy a lotto ticket….:-)
This is what I did today at work:
http://users2.ev1.net/~eastus1/a/1234223.jpg