The Gustavus Thread

[gustavus]

I haven't said it in a while but I will today, thank you for sharing. Merry Christmas and a hopefully Happy New Year. I know it will prove to be an interesting new year for Gus and I look forward to reading about it. Mike.

Thanks Mike, like most looking forward to the big feast tomorrow.

Still plugging away out in the shop making drawers and a nice set of pigion holes for all my small nuts, bolts and screws, our well has gone dry again this year a month earlier than last.

[Bear]

our well has gone dry again this year a month earlier than last.

man, if we don't get some rain here, we're gonna have a dry well too

[gustavus]

man, if we don't get some rain here, we're gonna have a dry well too

In the spring I'm going to borrow the neighbors excavator and dig a new well that is much deeper, I think that if I teir the hole going down I can get down 50 ft.. With the size of hole required I wont have to worry about cutting the lawn for a year or more.

The weired part is that the river borders our property line at the rear, you would think we were sitting right on the water table. We can get water from the community Village well just a mile down the road from us and there's a laundrymat in Sandy Lake.

Now we know why the property came with an outdoor sheeter, havent had to do that since I was a kid living on the farm.

Oh well at least I have a few inside projects keeping me busy, so far I have 12 drawers with another dirty dozen going in opposite. The pigion holes will have 56 cubby's when its completed, on top of the cubby's a shelve for things like gasket cement and WD-40 easy grab no hunting.

On the top half of the cubby's my most popular sockets, screw drivers, seal picks and sockets.

[Bear]

That's some fine work you're doing there Gus. I like the moving in, setting up, and sorting out, almost as much as what comes after ; )

In the spring I'm going to borrow the neighbors excavator and dig a new well that is much deeper, I think that if I teir the hole going down I can get down 50 ft.. With the size of hole required I wont have to worry about cutting the lawn for a year or more.

The weired part is that the river borders our property line at the rear, you would think we were sitting right on the water table. We can get water from the community Village well just a mile down the road from us and there's a laundrymat in Sandy Lake.

Now we know why the property came with an outdoor sheeter, havent had to do that since I was a kid living on the farm.

Oh well at least I have a few inside projects keeping me busy, so far I have 12 drawers with another dirty dozen going in opposite. The pigion holes will have 56 cubby's when its completed, on top of the cubby's a shelve for things like gasket cement and WD-40 easy grab no hunting.

On the top half of the cubby's my most popular sockets, screw drivers, seal picks and sockets.

[gustavus]

That's some fine work you're doing there Gus. I like the moving in, setting up, and sorting out, almost as much as what comes after ; )

Thanks Bear, at my age I decided not to spend thousands of dollars on a nice tool box where it's no longer needed as Im now retired and have no plans to work out of someone eles's shop, so having things organized at home where I can put a finger on a much needed tool works for me.

My good freind George had a shop on his farm when he built his new house and shop you would have sworn that he had moved the old shop over to the new property as it was a complete clone of the old shop every bech and piece of equipment placed in the same location as the old.

George even had a telephone in every bathroom, the man had class, he phoned me at 5:30 am one morning when I answeared the phone I asked him if he knew what time it was. His reply was to say that I had missed the best part of the day.

[Bear]

His reply was to say that I had missed the best part of the day.

hahaha, click!

[gustavus]

hahaha, click!

No no this man would give you the shirt off his back if you needed it, I owed this man for the many favors and goodies he had given me over the many years I knew him while he was alive. He passed away during surgery.

If I needed a hard to find part for a project i was working on George was the man to see, almost every visit he gave you a 100 lb sack of potatoes carrots or onions from the farm.

During that early morning call he went on to say that he did all his calling first thing in the morning then got on with his day, which usually meant working out in his shop doing repairs for other farmers.