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

[Jerry Frost]

>
> > 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?
>

This would be cool, I bet I could sell the videos of kids butting and
bouncing off the walls to America's Funniest Videos.

You bet goats produce gas, copiously. I'm afraid plumbing them to the forge
would have the SPCA, PETA and probably every every decent person, not to
mention Deb after my head.

>
> > 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.
>

Even here he's dreaming but he's also one of the coffee shop blowhards.

> 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
>

Same here, availability is near zip. Alaska wasn't developed much till after
the turn of the last century and it wasn't till WWII it really got going.
There were only a few hundred at most places where blacksmiths set up shop,
mines, RR shops and sea ports primarily. Most of those went to the breakers
during WWII, were looted or are so remote as to be inaccessible.

Frosty
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