[TheForge] Re: Thanks- Lufkin, TX

Thu Feb 27 23:40:01 2003

me> I was once told that I could have a ca. 450# European-style anvil free
me> of charge.  But only if I would pick it up, carry it outside and put
me> it on the tailgate of my truck.  (I've met a couple of guys who could
me> have done that but I'm not one of them.)

andy> Mike- I don't know what you look like, but I bet they wouldn't
andy> have made that offer to a huge ape-shaped blacksmith!

Like, f'rgzample, the guy who showed up at the place where I worked
one day with (IIRC) a small-block V8.  He leaned over the side
of his pickup box, picked it up, carried it in and set it on the
floor.  I doubt he got many offers for anvils free if he could carry
them away.

- Mike

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