[TheForge] Military truck capacity--EGRESS/more on long haul trucking (OT)

[Justin Fellenz]

> 
> There are a few blacksmiths up that way.

A friend of my mom's blacksmiths some just to keep his farm running.
He's not a self-conscious smith (boy, that has a Marxist ring, doesn't
it?) ;) I'd like to find someone who'd been at it a few dozen years and
who'd be willing let me hang around and learn a few things. Might be
fun to try my hand shoeing, even.

> Loren just started a group in Vancouver proper, there is an active 
> group on Vancouver Island, and there is Renato Muskovic in Surrey- a 
> blacksmith, metalshaper, and jack of all trades.
> All a bit down the road from Kamloops, but I bet there are a few
> closer 
> by.

You can bet I'll look. If you'd be willing to share your friends'
contact info with me I'll look em up, or just give them mine. I don't
know I really have the talent to make it as a full-time
artist-blacksmith, but I'll be giving it a try. Be good to meet other
folks doing it.
> 
> I have a good buddy who is building a house in Stump Lake, up that
> way, 

Not too far out of town at all. Used to toboggan up there are a kid.

> and he owns more guns than just about any damn yankee's I know- he 
> doesnt seem to have any problems with the canadian government on that
> 
> one.

Like a still, you either gotta do the paperwork or you gotta not talk
about em. I'll be doing the paperwork. I don't have anything special,
shouldn't be a big deal. Just a hassle compared with here, where I can
go grocery shopping with a .45 on my hip just because the store's on
the way home from the range.

 He shoots a deer every year, and makes his own gourmet sausage 
> from it, as well as the best venison steaks I have ever tasted.
> Former 
> University professor, which is about par for rural BC- not rednecks, 
> but cultured intellectuals who also can hunt, skin, and build.

Sounds like a heck of a guy, love to meet him. I look forward to being
an adult in BC instead of the arrogant proto-intellectual kid I was
when I left. Mike wondered since when Canadians were predominantly
rednecks, and they're not--there's just no single term for the person
you described so that one gets used with a kind of not to its
inadequacy. There should be. Seems like there's a lot of them here.

JRF
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