SpockDog,


Yes, I do fancy steeltoe boots. That John Deere 450 is roughly a 130,000 pound machine. Did you get the Tim Allen/Home Improvement grunting going, while operating ??? I figure,if I were to give the Heavy Junk my 2 1/2 inch socket twice. In all reality,I would be working with a 5 inch tool. Which is GOOD in my world.



Take it Easy, Broham !!!



Jeremy

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will be going to Williamsburgh, VA

Lisa,

Great Spoof! Loved your mare and foal. Anyway, don't forget to include Jamestown in your tour, as it is only a short drive...and well worth the effort.

And, don't forget - the men won't speak to you in the Williamsburg Colony - you might find it a little off-putting at first, but the reenactors are quite serious about their jobs!

Seek out a wench, and say g'day...and avoid the farrier, he has a tongue like a goat to scold any nearby "man" if you dare to ask a question.

You'll love it!

Gort

Gort,

Thank you. I am very much looking forward to my trip and thanks for the warning about the ferrier.

My crappy Toshiba is giving me headaches but I cannot afford a tx2000. Why did I ever get this thing?

Lisa <frustrated Toshiba user>

I remember going into a 'pharmacy' in Williamsburg and talking to the lady there. I kept asking her about all the different remedies and potions she had on display. I think she was in seventh heaven explaining them to me. I love reading about that time period, but glad I didn't live back then.

Loretta

Spock,

My favorite historic landmark to visit is Adobe Walls in the Texas Panhandle. (The Second Battle of Adobe Walls, in particular, was an important battle in the wars between Native Americans and United States forces.)

I love visiting there because it is out in the middle of nowhere. To get there, you go down an interstate, turn off onto a state highway, turn off onto a county market road (paved), then turn onto a gravel road, and then a dirt one.

No fanfare. No gift shops. No parking lots. Nothing but a marker in the middle of a field, beside the ruins of the walls the battle was fought around.

I swear, if you go there and sit beside the ruins in the late afternoon, just as the sun's going down, you can almost hear the Native Americans moving towards you through the grass.

Because

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Originally posted by spock8113:.

"Oh no, dear, it's just a little side trip.
I have to swing by and pick up Fleur, Shana and Liz."
That next loud thump is me being thrown out of the car..............
"But they said they'd pay for gas!"

There will be no field trip with out swinging by to pick me up also. With my survivalist background and navigational skills I'm sure we'll all get back into the United States after that radical right turn.

Dust Maker

No civil war history in my head. All history in my head predates civil war by about 13000 years. Well there might be a little American Indian Vs Settlers from a few books.

I spent summers in Yorktown during high school. I lived at York Hall which was Cornwallis's headquarters during the Battle of Yorktown. LaFayette had planted a tree in the front garden. I have wonderful memories of all my visits around that area.

I think my favorite place in Williamsburg was the leather tannery. The beer mugs are made out of dark leather. The fellow behind the counter will ask you why, and then wing one at the wall. They bounce.

There must have been a lot of bar fights back then.

Good thread Eric.

Kathy

Jeremy,
5” socket? Sounds like serious size stuff!
Driving the JD450 was a blast since the seepage beds didn’t very scientific scarifying!
Do you find yourself working more on Komatsu's and equipment of foreign origin more now than American Cats aand JD's?

Gort,
I found that to be the case as well. But of course I was more interested in the location of the pump station and manholes on the green!
everytime I bothered the farrier I got shooed away.....
Good point on Jamestown. There are areas where they are still excavating and finding remains.

Lisa,
Wasn’t Toshiba slapped with huge fines for selling computer secrets to the Chinese?
There’s always that blunderbuss behind the breakable glass as a final resort!
A sort of Plantwhisperer’s defrag.

Loretta,
I find that most tour guides are dying to tell you everything they know.
On a recent trip to Tennessee I happened through a town and had to stop at a pharmacy. Being ‘city folk’ what I found in this pharmacy was amazing. Mostly home remedies of all sorts and probably not very different than the pharmacy in Williamsburg.
I bought the only tube of Neosporin in the place. I live such a sheltered suburban life!

Becca,
I’ve been to Olvera St and seen Avila Adobe but that’s in the middle of LA.
I’ve been to the Alamo which is much different and certainly more commercialized.
Probably, the most prolific, isolated and least crowded historic place I’ve been “Out west” is the Autograph Cliffs in Nebraska. Settlers would leave St. Louis in wagon trains and follow the wagon trails westward. Scotts Bluff and Chimney Rock would be the first real geological indicators of their progress. But in the quiet hills along the Nebraska countryside (the town name slips my mind) is a small granite cliff that sticks up out of the landscape.
The still-visible wagon wheel ruts show that the settlers would stop and camp there. Many settlers were buried there in a cemetery and they would carve out their names in the stone like early graffiti artists.
These scrawlings have been preserved and you can easily read many of the wagon masters and family names with dates.

Actually the politically correct term “Native Americans” is relative when you consider that Native American Indians most likely migrated from China, through Alaska and then down to the US.

Dusty,
So we’re talking Europe, China and the Middle East?
Or at least before Andy Rooney?


The mighty Ka-Zangsta’
I haven’t been to Yorktown but I have been to Fort Ticonderoga (not to be confused with the pencils made there), Valley Forge and Trenton. Not even Cal Ripken could throw a coin across the Delaware at Washington’s Crossing!
I think it wasn’t long after leather mugs that glass bottoms were installed so the men could keep an eye on “their women” and still drink ale.
There are still a lot of bar fights only now it’s mostly women! SSssssss…………
At Williamsburg, I was fascinated by the Paper Maker. Simple minds………………


Just a thread of a different color.
Thank you, class, for all your hand-raising.
Oh, oh, oh……….
No Mr. Horschack, no homework for the weekend!

Spock,

4" sockets and above, very rarely.Basically for counterweight bolts and undercarriage work. Here at Casey Equipment, we are a Full-line JCB dealer, Dynapac compaction and paving equipment, and Leeboy paving equipment. But if our customers have other brands, we will support that product also. We were a Kobelco dealer for many years. But we gave up that product line, when Kobelco merged with Case New Holland. ( Poor support from the Factory, after merger.)


As for Foreign compared to Domestic. The Hydraulics (ie. Pumps , Cylinders, and Control valves) all common parts....basically. Supplier out of Japan. CAT of course is the #1 supplier of Equipment Worldwide. Komatsu is second, and JCB is 3rd and is expected to move into second this year. They were only 2500 units shy, last year.


CAT has got a stronghold on their resale value. What they tend to do is go to auction themselves, bid high on all CAT used equipment. And stick the used equipment in CAT rental stores accross the country. Don't get me wrong, their Dozers are tops !!! But when my Father was my age and out in the field. CAT was breaking ground here in IL. On their manufacturing faclility, using other excavators than their own. Because at the time, their excavators were DOGS. My Fathers got pictures of it. Caused a BIG stir. But I should stop CAT bashing, cause I noticed they advertise on the DJ's web-site. JCB will get here. All DC advertising has to do, is make a call to JCB's North American HQ. In Savannah,GA. Then we can have Equipment WARS, here on the web-site. GOOD FUN !!! For us guys on the board,SpockDog.



Gotta Run, Spock !!! Have been playing Service Manager, while Pops is on vacation. Paper Pushing......SWEET.



Jeremy

Hmmm...Williamsburg...Jamestown...Yorktown(Just adding to my 'places I must see before I die' list)

Spock--I thought about saying "Injun" but the spirit of my Cherokee Great Grandma slapped me on the backside!

As well she should...

Becca(sue)

We are probably talking less humans and more mega fauna. Mammoths, giant sloths, saber toothed cats, American lions, giant armadillos,ect.Although these existed to some extent while the first American humans were living here, most of the history I know predates man. At least the guys with spears.

Dust Maker

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I traveled by G'burg many, many times on my way to visiting my grandparents here in PA. And, now I have lived in this state for quite a long time. So, I am ashamed to admit I have never once visited Gettysburg!

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I've lived in New York all my life and only last year did I get to walk on the Brooklyn Bridge and I've only been to the Statue of Liberty twice!

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I lived just outside Washington, D.C. for 23 years before I visited the White House for the first time; I had friends staying with me who wanted to see it!

It's easy to take living in a fantastic/historical area for granted.
I grew up in Quincy, Massachusetts, passing through Quincy Center countless thousands of times.
It wasn't until my nephew asked to see the "dead presidents" that I finally made it into the "Church of the Presidents" (I was 40 )

Anne

I live about 3 hours from Astoria,OR, that is close to Fort Clatsop where Lewis & Clark spent the winter during their exploration of the west. They have a re-creation of the outpost, with the buildings and such. In the summer, they have guys in buckskins demonstrating various things. We always stay at Seaside, OR where they have a salt cauldron there, that they used to boil sea water to take the salt away. Not much to see, but it is fenced off and noted what took place there. Sad to say though, Lewis & Clark hated it here because of the rain. Must have been miserable in those days.


Loretta