On Thu, 24 Apr 2003 09:15:57 -0600, CheekyGeek wrote:

>Darren Addy Kearney, NE Just say: If I was seriously tooling, I don't
>think a motorcycle would quite cut it for bringing back all the booty.
>: )
>
I can't resist. Your sig line reminds me of an auction my wife and I
attended in central Long Island in 1977. We had gotten there buy Long
Island RR, plus a two mile walk.

One lot was a pair of bar clamps, with 4 x 4 oak bars, apparently meant
for holding barn doors together while sloping braces were put in place.
Anyway, my wife said something like "Those are some clamps!"

I thought that meant she wanted them. I bid and won.

A kind soul from Queens had come with a station wagon and took pity. He
took them home until I could come by with a truck a couple of weeks
later. Those clamps now grace our apartment as a pair of columns
bracketing a white oak cabinet of an unfinished chamber organ. They
press against the ceiling by unscrewing the end until the screw shaft
buts against the ceiling, 8'6" high.

Another souvenir of the kindness of galoots is an enormous cooper's
jointer, by Goldsmith of Philadelphia. It is made of cherry wood, bout 8
feet long, and 6 inches square, with a 4-inch wide iron, also by
Goldsmith.

That one we bought in Morristown, NJ, and a fellow collector from
Brooklyn took it in his van. It took two of us just to lift it in and
out of the van.

It is still the largest and most spectacular cooper's jointer I have
ever seen, in or out of museums.

Rodney Myrvaagnes J36 Gjo/a

"I met about a dozen people who voted for me, and generally I can't say
I really agree with their reasoning." Bernard Goetz, subway gunman