Pallets in fields

[stuckmotor]

Hey guys,
Someone has revived a perfectly lucid discussion about stacking firewood on pallets. It makes me long for the old days, when this silly thread was still active.

 

[Waskom John]

Stuckmotor,
not to restart the "pallets in the field" all over again but when I lived in the big city I had a wood on gas cook stove. Firewood was expensive but I could get used pallets for $5.00 a pickup full piled high. Made for great fire wood. Lot of hard wood. Run a magnet through the ashes to get the metal out then throw the ashes on the side walk ice in the winter.
Not to start another silly thread but did you ever drive down the road and see 1 boot or shoe or glove on a fence pole ? Makes me wonder about it. Why just 1 ? Where is the other 1 ? Was it lost in the road and some good meaning farmer picked it up and put it on a pole hoping that the person that lost it might see it and pick it up ? What about the person that lost it ? Are they walking around with just 1 boot on or wearing just 1 glove ? Am I getting to old or just have too much time on my hands to start pondering about such things ?
Waskom John

 

[phiferpharm]

Oh No!!! It's baaaaaccccckkkkk!

 

[smstonypoint]

Not to start another silly thread but did you ever drive down the road and see 1 boot or shoe or glove on a fence pole ? Makes me wonder about it. Why just 1 ? Where is the other 1 ? Was it lost in the road and some good meaning farmer picked it up and put it on a pole hoping that the person that lost it might see it and pick it up ? What about the person that lost it ? Are they walking around with just 1 boot on or wearing just 1 glove ? Am I getting to old or just have too much time on my hands to start pondering about such things ?
Waskom John

John,

You have a raised an important question that merits scientific inquiry.

A related issue, is there a linkage between

and

?

Steve

 

[dave1949]

Are there mysterious "Shoe People"? There were old tales about these people.

They may be dangerous; old women starving and whipping children while making them live in a shoe:.

There was an old woman who lived in a shoe.
She had so many children, she didn't know what to do.
She gave them some broth without any bread;
And whipped them all soundly and put them to bed.
By Mother Goose



Is this an attempt to allay our fears by creating a new "shoe people" image?


There is definitely less here than meets the eye. Scientific inquiry may be prudent.

 

[Waskom John]

Now days she could collect welfare,free housing, free cell phone, free birth control. Don't think she really wants free birth control. The more kids she has the more money she gets.

 

[Waskom John]

Steve,
the sneakers bring back old memories. Every time I got another pair of hand me down sneaker the bully would throw them up on a telephone wire. It never did any good to tell her mom.

 

[smstonypoint]

Steve,
the sneakers bring back old memories. Every time I got another pair of hand me down sneaker the bully would throw them up on a telephone wire. It never did any good to tell her mom.

:laughing:

I think I would have kept that memory to myself.

Steve

 

[300UGUY]

Steve,
the sneakers bring back old memories. Every time I got another pair of hand me down sneaker the bully would throw them up on a telephone wire. It never did any good to tell her mom.

I had a cousin like that. She now lives in Florida with her partner. She still looks like a linebacker!!

 

[oldtimer 66]

Since I am a newbie I need to show everybody the pallet/ holding fixture that I made for a friend several years ago. It works like this. Put a surplus pallet onto the fixture, I think I made it to hold one that is 48" 48 ". Load it with wood as shown. Lift it up the fixture with your tractor forks. The fixture has fork access from either side if I remember correctly. Use plastic banding on each row. Set the fixture and skid back on the ground. Pull out the pipe. Lift out the pallet. Put the pipe back in and start again. My friend needed to put the wood on his mother-in laws front porch for her kitchen wood stove. He would make up 15 to 20 of the skids for winter season. Just an FYI.