[TheForge] Re: The heartbreak of prices in the PNW

[Mike]

> I was in Sam's Club yesterday and they had one of those kid's
> inflatable jumping thingies for sale for $195.

Hey!  Inflatable goat barn!  Just run a tap off of it for the forge.
Do goats produce enough methane that you would then have ...
umm... fuel-enriched air?


> Last rivet forge I heard about around here had an asking price of $650.

Anybody who'll pay US$650 can come and get mine anytime.

Prices may be high there but availability is kinda low here. A few
major industries here in the 19th c. and many poorly equipped small
shops of various kinds.  The few pieces of equipment gradually sold
off by the modernizing or defunct industries have been much
sought-after and highly valued.  Not to mention the stuff dozed into a
heap and sent to the scrap yard because fat cat Big Duck in a Little
Puddle-type wheeler-dealer local worthies that acquire defunct mines,
ship yards etc. would rather do that than give anybody a break.

- Mike

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