Dear Galoots=2C (Short Version) " Please allow me to introduce
myself=2C" I'm chuck. (Longer Version)I'm a 1954 model. Nineteen
Illinois winters followed by a couple of German winters (courtesy of the
US Army) and I found my home in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona. I was
born a desert rat.Since 1976 I've spent the most enjoyable=2C
meaningful=2C and painful moments of my life hiking in the Grand Canyon.
So I know things about slippery slopes (sometimes the slopes are 60
degrees of sandstone with ball bearing like granules poised above 400'
sheer cliffs).I am too damn old to be a galoot-in-training (and getting
too damn old to work the Grand Canyon cliffs also). But I'm too new at
this to be a galoot. So I guess that makes me a galoot-wannabe.I've been
reading (not lurking since my intentions have been entirely honorable=2C
not evil) under the porch for a couple of years. I have been and remain
gobsmacked at the collective wisdom=2C experience=2C knowledge=2C and
generosity of spirit of the porch dwellers.My woodworking skills are
limited (I can push things with a stick. Does that count?). And I've had
"...a fool for a master." in the sense of "A self taught man has...". I
am by nature and necessity a bottom feeder. I usually feel foolish when
I buy a new tool at the local H#&% D%!#@. I've wandered the local yard
sales=2C flea markets=2C and rust buckets for a while now. I have
amassed an assortment of rusty metal objects that I'm attempting to
fettle into a full woodworking hand tool kit. I am also an second floor
apartment dweller so hand powered tools help to make me a good neighbor.
Tho=2C I've been told not to chop mortises after 10:00pm. My workshop is
a small patio opened to the sun. My workbench is a salvaged (from a
dumpster) 4X12 that was on top of a couple of 5-gallon buckets improved
to the same on top of 4 H#&% D%!#@ plastic saw horses improved to the
same on top of a frame bolted together from metal bed rails (also from
local dumpsters). Progress that I'm going to continue this next
year.So...knowing all of that...will you have me? Please? I promise to
try to be good. I'll even try to be nice to those folks from Oz. But I
draw the line at flying monkeys. No flying monkeys! Okay? chuck



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Chuck,

Sounds to me like you will fit in nicely with this bunch of misfits.  I'm
with you on the flying monkeys.  When I see flying monkeys, I shoot first.
Sounds like you have the workshop about as galoot as it gets.  Pull up a
chair.  Grab a beverage of choice and "set-a-spell."

Doc

On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 9:33 PM, Chuck Ramsey  wrote:

>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Dear Galoots,
>                                          (Short Version) " Please allow me
> to introduce myself,"  I'm chuck.
>                                                           (Longer
> Version)I'm a 1954 model.  Nineteen Illinois winters followed by a couple
> of German winters (courtesy of the US Army) and I found my home in the
> Sonoran Desert of Arizona.  I was born a desert rat.Since 1976 I've spent
> the most enjoyable, meaningful, and painful moments of my life hiking in
> the Grand Canyon. So I know things about slippery slopes (sometimes the
> slopes are 60 degrees of sandstone with ball bearing like granules poised
> above 400' sheer cliffs).I am too damn old to be a galoot-in-training (and
> getting too damn old to work the Grand Canyon cliffs also).  But I'm too
> new at this to be a galoot.  So I guess that makes me a galoot-wannabe.I've
> been reading (not lurking since my intentions have been entirely honorable,
> not evil) under the porch for a couple of years.  I have been and remain
> gobsmacked at the collective wisdom, experience, knowledge, and generosity
> of spirit of the porch dwellers.My woodworking skills are limited (I can
> push things with a stick.  Does that count?).  And I've had "...a fool for
> a master." in the sense of "A self taught man has...".  I am by nature and
> necessity a bottom feeder.  I usually feel foolish when I buy a new tool at
> the local H#&% D%!#@.  I've wandered the local yard sales, flea markets,
> and rust buckets for a while now.  I have amassed an assortment of rusty
> metal objects that I'm attempting to fettle into a full woodworking hand
> tool kit.  I am also an second floor apartment dweller so hand powered
> tools help to make me a good neighbor.  Tho, I've been told not to chop
> mortises after 10:00pm.  My workshop is a small patio opened to the sun.
>  My workbench is a salvaged (from a dumpster) 4X12 that was on top of a
> couple of 5-gallon buckets improved to the same on top of 4 H#&% D%!#@
> plastic saw horses improved to the same on top of a frame bolted together
> from metal bed rails  (also from local dumpsters).  Progress that I'm going
> to continue this next year.So...knowing all of that...will you have me?
>  Please?  I promise to try to be good.  I'll even try to be nice to those
> folks from Oz.  But I draw the line at flying monkeys.  No flying monkeys!
>  Okay?     chuck
>
>
>
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Chuck, let's see...dumpster diving, rust huntin', making use of objects
not for their intended purpose...sounds like your comin' alongon those
skills..required of a galoot!

 Welcome to the porch, come out in the light and sit a spell.-- roy
 griggs roygriggs@c...

---- Chuck Ramsey  wrote:> Dear Galoots, (Short
Version) " Please allow me to introduce myself," I'm chuck. (Longer
Version)I'm a 1954 model. Nineteen Illinois winters followed by a
couple of German winters (courtesy of the US Army) and I found my home
in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona. I was born a desert rat.Since 1976
I've spent the most enjoyable, meaningful, and painful moments of my
life hiking in the Grand Canyon. So I know things about slippery slopes
(sometimes the slopes are 60 degrees of sandstone with ball bearing
like granules poised above 400' sheer cliffs).I am too damn old to be a
galoot-in-training (and getting too damn old to work the Grand Canyon
cliffs also). But I'm too new at this to be a galoot. So I guess that
makes me a galoot-wannabe.I've been reading (not lurking since my
intentions have been entirely honorable, not evil) under the porch for
a couple of years. I have been and remain gobsmacked at the collective
wisdom, experience, knowledge, and generosity of spirit of the porch
dwellers.My woodworking skills are limited (I can push things with a
stick. Does that count?). And I've had "...a fool for a master." in the
sense of "A self taught man has...". I am by nature and necessity a
bottom feeder. I usually feel foolish when I buy a new tool at the
local H#&% D%!#@. I've wandered the local yard sales, flea markets, and
rust buckets for a while now. I have amassed an assortment of rusty
metal objects that I'm attempting to fettle into a full woodworking
hand tool kit. I am also an second floor apartment dweller so hand
powered tools help to make me a good neighbor. Tho, I've been told not
to chop mortises after 10:00pm. My workshop is a small patio opened to
the sun. My workbench is a salvaged (from a dumpster) 4X12 that was on
top of a couple of 5-gallon buckets improved to the same on top of 4
H#&% D%!#@ plastic saw horses improved to the same on top of a frame
bolted together from metal bed rails (also from local dumpsters).
Progress that I'm going to continue this next year.So...knowing all of
that...will you have me? Please? I promise to try to be good. I'll even
try to be nice to those folks from Oz. But I draw the line at flying
monkeys. No flying monkeys! Okay? chuck
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Welcome Chuck

Sent from Xfinity Connect Mobile App

-----Original Message----- From: Chuck Ramsey To: oldtools Sent: 2012-12-
26 03:33:36 +0000 Subject: [OldTools] Bio

Dear Galoots, (Short Version) " Please allow me to introduce myself,"
I'm chuck. (Longer Version)I'm a 1954 model. Nineteen Illinois winters
followed by a couple of German winters (courtesy of the US Army) and I
found my home in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona. I was born a desert
rat.Since 1976 I've spent the most enjoyable, meaningful, and painful
moments of my life hiking in the Grand Canyon. So I know things about
slippery slopes (sometimes the slopes are 60 degrees of sandstone with
ball bearing like granules poised above 400' sheer cliffs).I am too damn
old to be a galoot-in-training (and getting too damn old to work the
Grand Canyon cliffs also). But I'm too new at this to be a galoot. So I
guess that makes me a galoot-wannabe.I've been reading (not lurking
since my intentions have been entirely honorable, not evil) under the
porch for a couple of years. I have been and remain gobsmacked at the
collective wisdom, experience, knowledge, and generosity of spirit of
the porch dwellers.My woodworking skills are limited (I can push things
with a stick. Does that count?). And I've had "...a fool for a master."
in the sense of "A self taught man has...". I am by nature and necessity
a bottom feeder. I usually feel foolish when I buy a new tool at the
local H#&% D%!#@. I've wandered the local yard sales, flea markets, and
rust buckets for a while now. I have amassed an assortment of rusty
metal objects that I'm attempting to fettle into a full woodworking hand
tool kit. I am also an second floor apartment dweller so hand powered
tools help to make me a good neighbor. Tho, I've been told not to chop
mortises after 10:00pm. My workshop is a small patio opened to the sun.
My workbench is a salvaged (from a dumpster) 4X12 that was on top of a
couple of 5-gallon buckets improved to the same on top of 4 H#&% D%!#@
plastic saw horses improved to the same on top of a frame bolted
together from metal bed rails (also from local dumpsters). Progress that
I'm going to continue this next year.So...knowing all of that...will you
have me? Please? I promise to try to be good. I'll even try to be nice
to those folks from Oz. But I draw the line at flying monkeys. No flying
monkeys! Okay? chuck
 =09=09 =09 =09=09 -------------------------------------------------------------
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Welcome, indeed!


________________________________
 From: Chuck Ramsey  To: "oldtools@r..."
  Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2012 9:33 PM Subject:
 [OldTools] Bio













Dear Galoots,=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0
(Short Version) " Please allow me to introduce myself,"=A0 I'm chuck.=A0
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 (Longer Version)I'm
a 1954 model.=A0 Nineteen Illinois winters followed by a couple of
German winters (courtesy of the US Army) and I found my home in the
Sonoran Desert of Arizona.=A0 I was born a desert rat.Since 1976 I've
spent the most enjoyable, meaningful, and painful moments of my life
hiking in the Grand Canyon. So I know things about slippery slopes
(sometimes the slopes are 60 degrees of sandstone with ball bearing like
granules poised above 400' sheer cliffs).I am too damn old to be a galoot-in-
training (and getting too damn old to work the Grand Canyon cliffs
also).=A0 But I'm too new at this to be a galoot.=A0 So I guess that
makes me a galoot-wannabe.I've been reading (not lurking since my
intentions have been entirely honorable, not evil) under the porch for a
couple of years.=A0 I have been and remain gobsmacked at the collective
wisdom, experience, knowledge, and generosity of spirit of the porch
dwellers.My woodworking skills are limited (I can push things with a
stick.=A0 Does that count?).=A0 And I've had "...a fool for a master."
in the sense of "A self taught man has...".=A0 I am by nature and
necessity a bottom feeder.=A0 I usually feel foolish when I buy a new
tool at the local H#&% D%!#@.=A0 I've wandered the local yard sales,
flea markets, and rust buckets for a while now.=A0 I have amassed an
assortment of rusty metal objects that I'm attempting to fettle into a
full woodworking hand tool kit.=A0 I am also an second floor apartment
dweller so hand powered tools help to make me a good neighbor.=A0 Tho,
I've been told not to chop mortises after 10:00pm.=A0 My workshop is a
small patio opened to the sun.=A0 My workbench is a salvaged (from a
dumpster) 4X12 that was on top of a couple of 5-gallon buckets improved
to the same on top of 4 H#&% D%!#@ plastic saw horses improved to the
same on top of a frame bolted together from metal bed rails=A0 (also
from local dumpsters).=A0 Progress that I'm going to continue this next
year.So...knowing all of that...will you have me?=A0 Please?=A0 I
promise to try to be good.=A0 I'll even try to be nice to those folks
from Oz.=A0 But I draw the line at flying monkeys.=A0 No flying
monkeys!=A0 Okay?=A0 =A0 chuck=A0 =A0 =A0



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Welcome to the porch Chuck. I am a recent convert myself and agree with
you that the spirit, and collective wisdom of the more senior galoots is
beyond compare and consider myself most fortunate to have stumbled into
such a nest.


=A0 Van Hudson




________________________________
 From: Chuck Ramsey  To: "oldtools@r....cornell.edu"
  Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2012 10:33 PM Subject:
 [OldTools] Bio













Dear Galoots,=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0
(Short Version) " Please allow me to introduce myself,"=A0 I'm chuck.=A0
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 (Longer Version)I'm
a 1954 model.=A0 Nineteen Illinois winters followed by a couple of
German winters (courtesy of the US Army) and I found my home in the
Sonoran Desert of Arizona.=A0 I was born a desert rat.Since 1976 I've
spent the most enjoyable, meaningful, and painful moments of my life
hiking in the Grand Canyon. So I know things about slippery slopes
(sometimes the slopes are 60 degrees of sandstone with ball bearing like
granules poised above 400' sheer cliffs).I am too damn old to be a galoot-in-
training (and getting too damn old to work the Grand Canyon cliffs
also).=A0 But I'm too new at this to be a galoot.=A0 So I guess that
makes me a galoot-wannabe.I've been reading (not lurking since my
intentions have been entirely honorable, not evil) under the porch for a
couple of years.=A0 I have been and remain gobsmacked at the collective
wisdom, experience, knowledge, and generosity of spirit of the porch
dwellers.My woodworking skills are limited (I can push things with a
stick.=A0 Does that count?).=A0 And I've had "...a fool for a master."
in the sense of "A self taught man has...".=A0 I am by nature and
necessity a bottom feeder.=A0 I usually feel foolish when I buy a new
tool at the local H#&% D%!#@.=A0 I've wandered the local yard sales,
flea markets, and rust buckets for a while now.=A0 I have amassed an
assortment of rusty metal objects that I'm attempting to fettle into a
full woodworking hand tool kit.=A0 I am also an second floor apartment
dweller so hand powered tools help to make me a good neighbor.=A0 Tho,
I've been told not to chop mortises after 10:00pm.=A0 My workshop is a
small patio opened to the sun.=A0 My workbench is a salvaged (from a
dumpster) 4X12 that was on top of a couple of 5-gallon buckets improved
to the same on top of 4 H#&% D%!#@ plastic saw horses improved to the
same on top of a frame bolted together from metal bed rails=A0 (also
from local dumpsters).=A0 Progress that I'm going to continue this next
year.So...knowing all of that...will you have me?=A0 Please?=A0 I
promise to try to be good.=A0 I'll even try to be nice to those folks
from Oz.=A0 But I draw the line at flying monkeys.=A0 No flying
monkeys!=A0 Okay?=A0 =A0 chuck=A0 =A0 =A0



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You sound like one of my kind of folks. You will be happy here.

On Dec 25, 2012, at 7:33 PM, Chuck Ramsey wrote:

> 
> > Dear Galoots,                                                               
                                       (Short Version) " Please allow me to intr
oduce myself,"  I'm chuck.                                                      
                                               (Longer Version)I'm a 1954 model.
 
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Welcome Chuck. I believe being a Galoot is a state of mind, or lack of it. 
If there was a test to join it would be "So you want to be a Galoot? Yes? 
You're in."
Since you're familiar with slopes with a big drop at the end you'll get 
along fine here.  The drop is far less than 400 feet and I've yet to land so 
the fall must be slower here on the porch. Interesting variant on the space 
time continuum. In this part of the universe you can slide down multiple 
slopes at the same time. So far so good.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Chuck Ramsey
Subject: [OldTools] Bio

(Short Version) " Please allow me to introduce myself,"  I'm chuck.
(Longer Version)I'm a 1954 model.  Nineteen Illinois winters followed by a 
couple of German winters (courtesy of the US Army) and I found my home in 
the Sonoran Desert of Arizona.  I was born a desert rat.Since 1976 I've 
spent the most enjoyable, meaningful, and painful moments of my life hiking 
in the Grand Canyon. So I know things about slippery slopes (sometimes the 
slopes are 60 degrees of sandstone with ball bearing like granules poised 
above 400' sheer cliffs).I am too damn old to be a galoot-in-training (and 
getting too damn old to work the Grand Canyon cliffs also).  But I'm too new 
at this to be a galoot.  So I guess that makes me a galoot-wannabe.I've been 
reading (not lurking since my intentions have been entirely honorable, not 
evil) under the porch for a couple of years.  I have been and remain 
gobsmacked at the collective wisdom, experience, knowledge, and generosity 
of spirit of the porch dwellers.My woodworking skills are limited (I can 
push things with a stick.  Does that count?).  And I've had "...a fool for a 
master." in the sense of "A self taught man has...".  I am by nature and 
necessity a bottom feeder.  I usually feel foolish when I buy a new tool at 
the local H#&% D%!#@.  I've wandered the local yard sales, flea markets, and 
rust buckets for a while now.  I have amassed an assortment of rusty metal 
objects that I'm attempting to fettle into a full woodworking hand tool kit. 
I am also an second floor apartment dweller so hand powered tools help to 
make me a good neighbor.  Tho, I've been told not to chop mortises after 
10:00pm.  My workshop is a small patio opened to the sun.  My workbench is a 
salvaged (from a dumpster) 4X12 that was on top of a couple of 5-gallon 
buckets improved to the same on top of 4 H#&% D%!#@ plastic saw horses 
improved to the same on top of a frame bolted together from metal bed rails 
(also from local dumpsters).  Progress that I'm going to continue this next 
year.So...knowing all of that...will you have me?  Please?  I promise to try 
to be good.  I'll even try to be nice to those folks from Oz.  But I draw 
the line at flying monkeys.  No flying monkeys!  Okay?     chuck

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On 12/26/2012 11:13 AM, Dave Nighswander wrote:
> The drop is far less than 400 feet and I've yet to land so the fall 
> must be slower here on the porch. Interesting variant on the space 
> time continuum. In this part of the universe you can slide down 
> multiple slopes at the same time. So far so good.
>
Perhaps best illustrated by M.C. Escher...
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