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Troy

 

howdy sir! Long time!

Some impressive metal work going on in here. Mind if I tag along?

 

Nope, my Cherokees are XJs and the van is a ...
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Dodge...

 

The more the merrier. Welcome!

 

seems like a lot of "old tech" like this is coming back in style. Canning, jams and jellies, etc

 

30 minutes and doors open for Blue Man Group!

 

My mom did all that when I was a kid. Home made tomato sauce, jellies, pickles -- from garden to jar -- cases upon cases of the Ball mason jars. We had a mammoth freezer too.

 

Its coming full circle...i made some home made sauer kraut, making some hotsauce. Going to make some fermented pickles and testing out some homemade flavored soda ( just began a starter yesterday) .

 

My mom made a thick chunky spicy sauce too, kind of a utility sauce like a salsa maybe...

So long ago I had forgotten about it -- made me smile for the memory.
Thanks for booting the old memory bank up.

 

My mom tried to make homemade noodles (multiple times). They were kinda cross between a dumpling and a noodle, way too thick to be a noodle. It was a fail for the most part but actually taste wise werent half bad....it would never pass todays standards of food but she tried. Every once in a while i get a craving for that. She was trying to be resouceful, when you grew up poor it makes (me) appreciative now that Im older

 

Exactly. We never wasted a dollar -- because we didn't have any spare ones to waste.

All these years later the habits remain essentially hard wired into my DNA.
Even though I have moved away from living that close to the edge I still remember the worry of being there -- having just enough gas to get to work until payday and praying nothing broke.

 

Grandma would make doughnuts and fry green peanuts home made is always better.

They canned every thing peaches , green beans and corn other things I forgot

This was the early sixties .

 

I had Italian friends that made all kinds of home made Pasta

 

So this is basically a few of an estate auction items...he had some cool/interesting stuff!

@RustyGreen , @tirediron , @six5crèéd , @Taco critter

 

Can't complain about these seats.



And don't worry, @six5crèéd. I haven't forgotten about more Dam pictures.

 

Your chariot awaits!

 

I might bid on it

 

This looks cool

 

Damn Sam! Good thing I'm not there, all kinds of cool stuff...

The engine looks to be a Continental Red Seal flat head 4 (F or Y series I forget...) Popular in all kinds of equipment: fork lifts, welders, pumps, generators, on and on. My 1946 fork lift has a earlier model with the distributor on the side instead of out the top. They sound wonderfully smooth and calm when running.

Continental was a full line engine maker with bigger models going in automobiles, construction equipment and over the road trucks before diesels were common.


That is a 53-57 David Bradley Tri-Trac, DB was owned by Sears & Roebuck, around 4000 built


What I see is an apparently brand new 70's International pick up tailgate.


Walk behind track dump trucks -- give me a bidders card!


Quadractor -- that is cool gadget built (in low numbers) in the late 70s - early 80s. It was intended for hauling logs with it's 8-1/2 hp engine and 72:1 gear ratio. It has 3 feet of ground clearance and full time 4wd and all wheel steering.