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Offline oldsaw

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Electric Al's "unlucky" maple
« on: October 24, 2003, 05:50:08 pm »
So, I stop in to see Electric Al's setup...impressive I may add, and ended up buying some really pretty hard maple from him.  Must have been unlucky maple.  5 miles down the road, I blew out a fuel injector on my van  :'(, limped in to Cedar Rapids, successfully  :), got the Ford dealer to give me a loaner  :), got most of my work done  :), picked up my van  :), got a bill for $700 :'(.  Got in my van  :), finished my calls  :), started heading home  :), trouble again  >:(this time a coil pack  >:( , $275 later  >:(, I get back in and get home 3 1/2 hours late  >:(, have no cold beer  :'(, but order a pizza :), and tell my story on the FF  :).

That wood must have been the cause. But it is really pretty, and Al was very nice.  He just has to do a backwards anti-voodoo dance around the woodshed to rid the wood of the bad karma stuff.

Al, next time we will have to do lunch or something.

Mark  
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Re: Electric Al's "unlucky" maple
« Reply #1 on: October 24, 2003, 05:53:53 pm »
I recommend the polish dogs just across the River from Davenport.
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Re: Electric Al's "unlucky" maple
« Reply #2 on: October 24, 2003, 06:17:37 pm »
Murphy must ta been under da hood


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Re: Electric Al's "unlucky" maple
« Reply #3 on: October 24, 2003, 06:30:24 pm »
Sounds like it truly was "hard" maple. ;D
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Re: Electric Al's "unlucky" maple
« Reply #4 on: October 24, 2003, 07:25:01 pm »
Oldsaw,

Sorry to hear about the van troubles. The Maple was nice, but it's not worth $975 extra :o

Now in defense of Linda and Myself,  Arkansawyer made it here and back fine. Oakiemac made a successful trip too. Even Horselogger made it over and back with no problems.
We have been inspected by InspectorWoody, and no complaints ;)

So,  I'm not convinced we affected a Polish dog or a Mexican injector any >:(


Guess what fellas,  Norm and Patty are coming Saturday ;D, and we're going to have a blast sawing with out ya :D.



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Re: Electric Al's "unlucky" maple
« Reply #5 on: October 24, 2003, 07:47:24 pm »
Is Charlie Coming? ;D
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Re: Electric Al's "unlucky" maple
« Reply #6 on: October 24, 2003, 08:04:56 pm »
You never know when Charlie might show up, we'll see ;)












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Re: Electric Al's "unlucky" maple
« Reply #7 on: October 24, 2003, 09:27:42 pm »
oldsaw,
Sounds like you could have had it delivered cheaper.  ::)
Heck you coulda' stayed home and drank cold beer and ate pizza. ;D
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« Reply #8 on: October 24, 2003, 09:54:59 pm »
Electric Al and Linda...Them's good people.

Thanks again Al, and I promise not to hold any grudges.

PS: The pizza and beer were good.

Mark
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Re: Electric Al's "unlucky" maple
« Reply #9 on: October 25, 2003, 06:50:33 am »
Yeah, I made the 7 hour trip to Electric Al's with almost no problems. We were some where in Illinois, going through a traffic snarle (road construction) with a six inch drop off in the right lane. Well the driver decided that that would be a good time to take a snooze and we almost went off the edge with the trailer and our newly bought Ford fork lift tractor! I think it would of completely flipped the whole rig over. After that I drove the rest of the way home.
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Re: Electric Al's "unlucky" maple
« Reply #10 on: October 25, 2003, 04:49:09 pm »


Patty and Linda
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