Alabama TBN members... where are you?

[SonnieP]

I saw the Georgia roll call and couldn't find one for Alabama. Very curious to know about the BAMA members. Hopefully you have your profile up to date... I'll check it out!

I'm in Luverne... about 45 miles south of Montgomery. Hwy 331 runs through Luverne.

 

[woodchuckie]

I'm from Moundville Al. Just south of Tuscaloosa.

 

[BamaRob]

I live in Glen Allen (N. Fayette Co.), work in Tuscaloosa. I've been following your posts as I'm a new Mahindra owner myself.

Later,

BR

 

[Tractors4u]

Northern part of the state here, Athens to be exact.

 

[woodchuckie]

I also work in Tuscaloosa at the BFG tire plant. Been there for 32 years.

 

[SonnieP]

I work about 20 miles north of home in Troy... own a small finance company (First Troy Finance). Been in finance for 22 years and we've been open at FTF for over 7 years.

 

[BamaRob]

woodchuckie,

I had been at Gulf States Paper Corp. for 7 years as a programmer/analyst before getting caught up in the mass layoff in June. I started August 1 with Nucor Steel doing similar work in a totally different industry.

Later,

BR

 

[BamaRob]

Hey Brent,

I used to live in East Limestone when I worked in Huntsville. That's been over 7 years ago. I remember coming across some of your posts on the internet then (I've been wanting a compact tractor for a long time). I finally bit the bullet a couple of weeks ago.

Later,

BR

 

[woodchuckie]

BamaRob

I have a son-in-law that works at Nucor. Chris Mills.

 

[AL_Josh]

I live in Mobile. I am a CAD Operator for a surveying company in South Florida called Stoner & Associates. I draw Topographic Surveys and other kind of stuff.

I own a Cub Cadet LT 1046. I have been arround Heavy equipment all my life. I grew up on 40 acres in Irvington which is just south of Mobile running my father's MF 135. Some of my other jobs before my current one called for me to operate backhoes and dozers.

 

[SonnieP]

Hey Josh... does topo maps have anything to do with those guys who fly around the state taking overhead pics of townships, sections, and quarters?

My brother is in the Coast Guard at D.I. and Mobile. He knows a guy that takes those pics. My brother's name is John Parker.

Also have a very good friend (his mother works with me) who lives in Theodore... he's the preacher at Bellingrath church of Christ.

 

[Amontilado]

Doing the weather thing here on the Gulf coast. Work in Mobile, live across the bay in Daphne.

Steve

 

[AL_Josh]

SonnieP,
The Topo Surveys I do are usually for the state or cities down in south Florida We go out and locate everything like power poles, signs, roads, walkways, and edge of water. The crews use a collector that picks up elevations and northing and eastings. Then basically I connect the dots. Then I can add the elevations to the locations that they have located. The survey crews try to locate points in places to give a good representation of elevation changes.

We do not put the aerial photos on there but I have used a program that allows us to overlay the photos on a drawing. Have you been to:
Google Maps
They use those photos and overlay them on maps. It is pretty neat.

 

[kenmac]

center point al. a small city just outside of birmingham. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[SonnieP]

We use to buy tickets at the Goldmine in Daphne back when I had a ticket brokerage. A lady by the name of Joanne Burrage (husband Dan Burrange owns car lot down in Florida) use to buy them for me. They lived in Spanish Fort.

Also familiar with Centerpoint... when I was with TranSouth we finance for couple of car dealers up there. I can't remember who all they were, but I visited up that way a good bit.

Those Google maps are neat... pulled my road right up and they are extremely detailed. I like how you can simple click the direction arrows and move around the map. Thanks for that link.

 

[PBMAX]

blount county, via springville... when I'm here...

 

[eaf]

Hi,
I'm in Hartselle. Transplanted about 6 years ago from so. Cal. I work for the Boeing company launch services in Decatur, 23 + years.

 

[Swampfoot]

Hello Folks,
I am a new member, I found this site through the "Homesteading Today" forum last week. I recently moved out to the country and need a tractor to maintain my driveway and do some bush-hogging. The last tractor I used was my granddad's old Ford about twenty years ago so I have some catching up to do in the tractor world.

SonnieP - We are neighbors, I live outside of Henderson about halfway between Luverne and Troy.

BamaRob - I believe we went to school together in T-town. As I recall we once spent a day looking for stands of hemlock trees in northwest Jefferson county. Boy, time flies.

Take care,
Billy

 

[SonnieP]

Welcome to the forum Billy! Glad to see someone else from my neck of the woods join in. I stumbled across this forum while lookin' for a tractor myself.

Go up through Glenwood to My Country Store, hang a right on CR57 and don't stop... cross over Hwy 29, cross over CR59, onto New Harmony Road (dirt road)... once you go by New Harmony Baptist Church on the dirt road you'll take a left onto Cedar Creek Road... down the hill and back up... go past a brick house on right at the top and the next driveway on right is ours. There will be 2 mailboxes at the road... our house sits way back off the road.

You are welcome to come look at our tractor anytime. You can even see what a wonderful job it did on the field in front of our house.

Come soon enough and you can help me finish my 24' X 36' semi barn.

 

[BamaRob]

Well I'll be! How are ya, Billy? It truly is a small world isn't it?

After grad school (before completing MS /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif), I took a job in Huntsville with a defense contractor where I stayed for 4 years. Then, got a job with a timber/paper company in T-town and was there for 7 years. When I moved back, I finished up my MS (had to take 6 credit hours that I had let expire and write two research papers... all while working full-time /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif). They recently sold the papermill in Demopolis and all of the assests related to it. Laid a bunch of us off. I started 8/1 as a programmer with a steel manufacturer in T-town. Not doing GIS work anymore, but I'm enjoying it nontheless. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

I often think of you. Anytime I go through Forestdale by that shopping center parking lot where we met up that morning to go look at the hemlock trees. And, anytime I hear about Village Creek flooding (pretty often) on the news, I think about our little hike/adventure out there.

I've only got ~6 hours on my new Mahindra 2615 4WD. But, from my experience so far, I can definitely recommend this tractor if it is sized right for your uses.

I'm getting old, and my memory isn't what it used to be. Were you in the Geography program at UA my first time through ('93-'94) or my second time through ('98)?

Later,

BR