[TheForge] Beware the quiet welder

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

We are cursed with the morning glory here..don't know if it was an 
import but it sure is a strangler. It'll grow up a 20 foot tree and kill 
it in a couple of years. Then it dies back and we are stuck with a dandy 
fire hazard. pf

terry l. ridder wrote:
> hello;
> 
> On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Jeff & Leslie wrote:
> 
>>
>> Today I noticed that my Lincoln buzzbox while working nicely was 
>> running very quietly.  Now I don't exactly have a shop and it lives 
>> under a tent by my garage here in soggy Tallahassee where I'm 
>> constantly fighting one fast growing vine in particular that tries to 
>> take over my azaleas and now my "shop".  Took the back off and at 
>> first I thought it was a tiny wire that had gotten in the fan, but it 
>> was a thin tendril of white vine that had stopped the little fan from 
>> running.   After I removed the little #$%&^%$#@ and put the back on it 
>> ran noisily as before and blew air out the back.  So, watch out for 
>> your welder running too smoothly.
>>
> 
> sounds like wild morning glory vines. they are all over the fence rows 
> in northern illinois.
> city folks come out here to dig them up and put
> them in their yard in the city. within a few years
> their neighbors will be cursing them for bringing
> that 'weed' into the neighborhood.
> 
>>
>> Jeff Valentine
>