Guest Book
In moving my website from my old one, to this blog, my wife decided to move the guest book entry's too, and then if anyone wanted to come visit, and leave a general comment, they could do it here. However feel free to comment on any of the posts, it doesn't have to be here.
3bugpatrol: Love the site! I saw it listed as a feature site so I thought I'd drop by to say hi. Sounds perfect for my other half, he's always working on some project. Check out our site if you get the chance!
ReplyDeleteRoy aka Chipmaker from MTF Hi
ReplyDeleteNeat website, we have lots in common from scrounge, to goats to tractors to Dachshunds. That little buddy in the upper right corner is an image I can see anywhere anytime......even over my own fur babies!
Regards
Roy
joe devore i live in so.ohio been working junk all my life one mans junk is another mans treasure
ReplyDeleteDick Hamilton: I have been scrounging for years, thanks for a great site.
ReplyDeleteStan Bennett: Hey, guy, I will email the sandblaster plans in a day or so, also modification photos. Interesting site....Take care, Stan in SW, Mi.
ReplyDeletePatrick LaBarge: Happy belated birthday! I'll be 45 in April. I read about myself in your blog. I was suprised I made the same page as the governor. Hey, drop me a note on how you're doing that "electroysis" process. I really like your scroll work there too. You should put more on your site about that hobby. It goes well with all the other stuff us "down home boys" play with. I'm always looking for tips or just someone elses perspective on how things are done.
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conard hunter: Farmers are the "Mother of Invention". No farmer has ever been able to buy everything brand new......I watched my dad take something that was design for one thing and tweak it for another application.....I remember saying to my self I sure hope I can do that when I grow up....
ReplyDeleteThanks for the web site...........
Raz: Hey great site. I can relate to what you are doing. I too am a big scrounge. Always looking for that special deal. I run a horse boarding facility so I am always building and repairing things. Will be visting your site regularly to see what you are up to next and to see if I can use any of your ideas on my farm. I live in Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada.
ReplyDeleteAllan: Nice website. I love to scrounge. the less spent the better. Its a great feeeling. Site looks good Ill be checkin back for more pics.
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Sonny Reese: Lookin' good Dasch! Good luck with it all ! Will check in once in a while!
ReplyDeleteglenn27: Great site--very interesting.....
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Rudy Miller: I've just ordered the plans for the tree shear. I'm wondering if with 2 pieces of 1" plate cut round you could make it turn to the verticle for trimming large branches from trees ???
ReplyDeleteI'm also disabled (not Military) But I was shot in the spine with a German Lugar when I was 12 yrs old. Does that count?
I enjoy your site.
Thanks
j green: My husband is also the quintessential scrounge. For years I have called him the "Scrounge Puppie". His scrounging ways started out embarrassing and frustrating for me at first. He would drag home all sorts of oddities and leave them in piles, "just in case we ever need one of those". Sometimes the piles would get so big that I would lose my mind and force him to clear it out.
ReplyDeleteNot only did he scrounge, but sometimes he expected me to scrounge too. One very snowy and cold winter, on the way to town, my husband spotted some firewood that had been lost by the road. He made me pull over so he could collect those 8 pieces of firewood. Oh, and did I mention that I was 8 1/2 months pregnant at the time?
After that I decided that he was who he was and I loved him so I veiwed his scrounging as an amusing, but cute little quirk. That is, until we moved onto a homestead.
We now have a 12x16 goat barn, a 6x16 bunny and milking barn, a 6x16 chicken coop and run, a 7x10 kidding pen,
Dick Hamilton: Great web site, keep up the good work. I will visit often. The tree shear sounds like a interesting project.
ReplyDeleteE. C. Carruth: Enjoyed reading about you and your insites on bargain hunting. You are like many of us Country Folk enjoying life as GOD has provided us the knowledge and ability to do things for ourselves.
ReplyDeleteI am ordering a set of your plans to build me a Tree Shear so I can clean out some small trees and brush areas here in Southeast Texas on our small farm.
Thanks for sharing your ideals with others.
frank hess: You have a great site. I am also a disabled vet usn submarines.
ReplyDeletejust purchased a small farm and trying to get it going have a lot of brush to clear. good luck and god bless
Bruce Miller: Saw your tree shear in Farm Show paper and have ordered plans from you. Looks like what we have been looking for. Thanks.
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Lowell: Just ordered plans for the tree shearer. Hope to build and use it. Will contact you if I have questions.
ReplyDeleterichard: I WAS INTERESTED IN THE CEDAR SHEAR THAT I SAW IN THE FARM SHOW MAG. /I WILL TRY YOUR SITE AT A LATER DATE TO CHECK ON THE SHEAR THANK YOU RICHARD W
ReplyDeleteMarlin Schneider: This home-built tree shear looks like a great idea, and sure hope it works for me.
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ReplyDeleteRealy liked the Tree Shear idea. I love to scrounge, it stimulates my thinking.
gabe: loved article on farm show magazine.
ReplyDeleteNeat web site. Keep up the spirit and
the ingenuity.
Archdean: Great Job Galen!!
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LPBolens: Congratulations on the treeshear article, Galen!!
ReplyDeleteDoug
You have done a great job on your website!! I am really proud of you!! Hope you have fun with it!! Love your pictures in the background, that was a really cool idea!!!!!
ReplyDeletePenlight's: I'm not a farmer but I applaude you guys. I really appreciate your creativity. I also like to scrounge, finding new uses for old things, finding shortcuts, and making life easier all the way around. Many blessings to you... I'll be back for more of your photos!
ReplyDeleteI realy enjoy your site! We have a lot in common except that I take of my dad in new york city and I have to commute to my little patch of dirt down in south georgia about 1000miles. I have built my own house 3bdr and am now working onthe garage on my last trip in july I treated myself to a1949 8n.I travel I95 in my1966chevy pick-up I,m a cityboy by birth country at heart I hope you don,t mind if I pick your brain from time to time because I got tons of stuff to learn about country life. oh yeah I,m also 100% diabled Paris Island grad platoon 144 july 1965.
ReplyDeleteGalen, Read the blog from cover to cover and enjoyed it Moucho !
ReplyDeleteBeing raised on a farm I can relate to everything in it.
Great job !
Crane Man
Great blog you have! It's in my bookmarks. Enjoy the hints and true life accounts you give. My wife and I have our 25 acre homestead (Western NY state), and have done much by the sweat of our brows. Continue the blog and we'll continue reading it. BTW, I'm a farm boy as well.
ReplyDeletei love reading your adventures on the farm
ReplyDeletemy mom and dad grew up on farms in the midwest
dad is good at making due with nothing and making it work
dad has a 9n ford i beleive its a 1951 model
Howdy from Joe T (CO)...
ReplyDeleteBeen reading your site a little tonight.
Semper Fi from another Jarhead :-)
You have a great blog!!! this is RW from the ATF forum
ReplyDeleteHey Galen, love reading your stuff on the site. You are a bona-fide work of art, a genious with hammer, saw, hand and word. Keep up the scrounging. Did ya ever think about building the sandblaster from the lp tank?....Take care...Stan Bennett
ReplyDeletelike your post..very interesting
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