[TheForge] Re: Pwr hmr anvil

[Jerry Frost]

From: "Mike Spencer" <mspencer at tallships.ca>


>
> I thought I could find you a solution, Frosty. 
> Shipyard.  Had a quick
> google.  Sure. there's a thriving shipyard in Alaska. 
> They recently
> replace the shaft in a big ship.  Piece of drive 
> shaft is just what
> you need.  Lessee....sure, just hop in the pickup and 
> run over to
> Ketchikan.  Hmm... so where's Ketchikan, exactly.....
>
> Oh.  Heh. Oh yeah.  Um, Alaska's kinda big and 
> whatchu might call
> "spread out", ain't it?  :-o
>
> But maybe there's some kind of shipyard closer to 
> you?  A chunk of
> shaft or other ship overhaul detritus might be just 
> the ticket.
>

Yeah, I worked on the test drilling for the Ketchikan 
dry docks. Unfortunately it's cheaper and easier to get 
to Seattle from here. Ketchikan's closer to Seattle 
than Anchorage too. Seward has a decent sized ship's 
chandlery and repair facility and it's only a couple 
hundred miles. Might be worth a call.

>
> Yeah.  If you feel that your image is seriously 
> overburdened with
> virtue, you can take up chewing tobacco.  Guaranteed 
> to modify your
> public profile almost as much as having stolen, say, 
> an entire
> Caterpillar D6 in spare parts but without the 
> liability of felony
> prosecution.
>

Actually, being one of the guys who hasn't stollen at 
least one piece of heavy equipment as a career move is 
more distinctive here abouts.

>
> The year that I spent 6 weeks hanging out with the 
> computer geeks at
> MIT, a new guy showed up.  He'd lived for a decade in 
> the Alaska
> outback, decided to rejoin civilization by enrolling 
> at Columbia
> University and had been sent on an internship to MIT. 
> And he chewed
> tobacco, used a styrofoam cup "concealed" in his desk 
> drawer for a
> spitoon.  You may (just possibly) be able to imagine 
> the reaction this
> provoked in the ambitious, squeaky-clean young 
> techies and yuppies in
> the hallowed halls of politically correct academe. 
> Sure took the heat
> of of *me* as a pipe-smoking, bearded blacksmith 
> messing around in the
> digital playground. :-)
>
>
> - Mike
>

Yeah, the mental imagery puts a smile right on my face. 
It must've been a real shock to their already assaulted 
sensibilities. Poor kids. My nose fair bleeds for them. 
<grin>

Frosty
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