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Title: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: fstedy on December 12, 2004, 08:05:20 AM
 ;D  :) ;D  We have a lot of new members so I thought I'd bump this up. I was wondering how everyone came by their username we have some very unique ones? I was tagged fast eddy many years ago when I was an commuter airline pilot. I prided myself on being on or ahead of schedule the US Air pilots that rode with us tagged me with it. When I started using the internet in the early 90's I tried fast eddy as a username but it wasn't available so it was shortened to fstedy and it just stuck  ;D :)  ;D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Kevin on December 12, 2004, 08:08:52 AM
My mother gave it to me.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Jeff on December 12, 2004, 08:20:31 AM
What was she thinkin??
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Bibbyman on December 12, 2004, 08:20:49 AM
After we got our first Wood-Mizer some 10 years ago,  I bought a pair of bib overalls.  Mary was against it.  She even protested me wearing them.  But they were more comfortable to work in and had lots of pockets that came in handy when you were working on something with small tools and having to put nuts and bolts someplace where you could find them again.

Probably half the people that know me don't even know I own a pair of bibs the other half has never see me unless I'm wearing them.  Kind of a two world thing.

Anyway,  she started calling me "Bibbyman" and that's the story.  
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Kevin on December 12, 2004, 08:25:06 AM
QuoteWhat was she thinkin??

She wasn't.  ;D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Danny_S on December 12, 2004, 09:15:30 AM
I used to be Buck. That was my cat's name.. he is compost now.. So I said the heck wit it and used me name.. Danny S
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: iain on December 12, 2004, 09:19:52 AM
No idea how  :)


 iain
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Corley5 on December 12, 2004, 09:29:11 AM
Got something to do with the Corley #5 sawmill I've got ;D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Percy on December 12, 2004, 09:40:55 AM
QuoteShe wasn't.  ;D
:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :Dkinda like my story cept my dad named me.......Ive forgiven him for that uhhh I think :D :D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: EZ on December 12, 2004, 12:38:57 PM
First mill was an EZ Baker, now I'm EZ, everybody calls me EZ, even my Grandkids call me Grandpa EZ. Dont ask me what my real name is, cause I forget.  ;D
EZ
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: BW_Williams on December 12, 2004, 01:22:49 PM
I believe it was in the 3rd or 4th grade and there was a couple other Bryan's in the class, and I liked how my papa went by is first initials, so it's been BW every since.  Heck, now there's a newscaster, pro football player and I think a pro basketball player using my name!  BWW
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: isawlogs on December 12, 2004, 01:25:02 PM
that was  easy .... it's what I do ...I saw logs  :)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: ohsoloco on December 12, 2004, 01:48:21 PM
I guess I'm just loco  :P
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: hiya on December 12, 2004, 01:58:19 PM
My wife babysits, when I come home from work I would say hiya to the children. One little girl started calling me hiya when she learned to talk. She still does after about 3 years.
Richard
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Tom on December 12, 2004, 02:02:06 PM
I don't know why but my Granddad on Dad's side was assigned the name as a reverence to family history.  He gave it to his boy who turned out to be the one that made me and he assigned it to me.  Now I've tacked it onto my first-born.

There were a lot of nicknames I could have used but I had the chance of a lifetime.  I got envolved with the forum when there weren't many users and took advantage of the opportunity to use my real handle.   You can't do that just anywhere on the Net.  I feel pretty special to be me. ;D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Ed_K on December 12, 2004, 02:17:46 PM
 My nickname is ede, but only friends call me that. I got it when I first learned to spell. I used my business type name here caus I wasn't up on forum edicate  ;D. Someday when my beard turns I'll change it to santa.
ede
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Dangerous_Dan on December 12, 2004, 02:27:44 PM
To get technical it's "Dangerous Dan the Pyro Man". When I was seven, I got a new neighbor who had a big party every 4th of July. Him and his friends were kinda wild and crazy, chucking cherry bombs around and occasionally setting the roof of my fathers house on fire with a stray helicopter or roman candle.  :o So I had to keep up with them and by 10 years old I was mixing acetalene and oxygen in ballons for a nice "pop"!  ;D Its a miracle I still have all my fingers and my hearing!  ::) Be safe, DD
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Engineer on December 12, 2004, 02:30:52 PM
Registered Professional Engineer (Civil) in the State of Vermont.

Used to be known online as Jonnycat, but my e-mail changed, so the username changed too.  Good thing - I was sick of bein' cat litter.   :D  (This was some five or six years ago, before I showed up here.)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Frank_Pender on December 12, 2004, 02:38:05 PM
I, likr Tom have a hand me down from my fathers name. 8)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Tam-i-am on December 12, 2004, 02:48:53 PM
my students gave it to me when they rewrote Green Eggs and Ham to be Tam I Am I don't want a difficult exam!

It was catchy so I use it everywhere, Kevin even gave me a custom license plate!
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Captain on December 12, 2004, 02:54:56 PM
Nope, I'm not a seafarer.  Never have owned a boat.  Never was in the military, and skipped right over the rank of Captain in the fire service....kind of goes like this...

When in college, I worked as an auto technicain at an independent repair facility.  I worked with two other guys.  One was kind of a mentor figure to me, very talented, by the name of Randy.  Brian, the other, although about 15 years my senior was not the brightest bulb.  Anyhow, many of the jobs that Brain did made return visits to the shop or some never left due to his lack of talent.  Randy would have me fix them, as a lesson to Brian, and I earned the name "Captain Comeback".  ie "Captain Comeback will fix it"  Somewhere along the way, Comeback got dropped and it just became Captain at my last job in a car dealership.  

The name stuck and still fits today as in essence that is what I do for my full time employer.  

Captain
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: pappy on December 12, 2004, 03:12:38 PM
I make and eat a lot of sawdust with the sawmill and shop  ;D
  
and my other one is what the grandkids call me -- Pappy -- I like what the little tike's call me best ;)

Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: GareyD on December 12, 2004, 03:29:38 PM
Mine is the name I've had for most of my life..I say most because a funny thing happened to me and my name way back in 1972, when men were men....and had hair longer than their girlfriends... ::)

I took a copy of my birth certificate and went down to the local draft board to fill out all them papers they said I was susposed to fill out...signed my name on the bottom and got a real funny look from the clerk...she looked at me...she looked at my birth certificate...she motioned over another clerk, which got the attention of a big feller in uniform...who them came over to where I was...

The first clerk asked me if I was tryin' to be cute, or funny or what....I asked what she was talkin about as the big feller kept standin' closer and closer....she asks me why I didn't sign my legal name...Told her I had...I had signed as Gary, which was the only way I knew to sign the name I had been given from birth.....she shows me where my birth certificate was filled in as GarEy

I guess they thought I was tryin to be a draft dodger and get out on a legal technicality... ;D ;D ;D

I been GareyD ever since
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: crtreedude on December 12, 2004, 03:56:41 PM
CRTREEDUDE - I live in Costa Rica, grow trees, and I am not a girl. Not much of a story there. I Costa Rica I am probably known as the Gringo among the campesinos. Everyone has nicknames, and I was just informed that I have to start using them because I am "one of the guys" I felt very honored. However, they would be uncomfortable calling me Gringo to my face, I am usually Don Fred.




Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Hokiemill on December 12, 2004, 05:27:39 PM
The "mill" part is easy.  Hokie is because I graduated from Va Tech in 1991.  Football season ticket holder and loving every minute of this years unexpected season.  First year in the ACC and we go from being predicted to finish sixth to winning the whole conference outright.  The best part of it is that our arch rival, UVA, has never won the ACC outright and we do it on our first try.  I'm flying high!  Now if we can just look respectable against Auburn in the Sugar Bowl........
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: cutterboy on December 12, 2004, 05:53:55 PM
My father tagged me with the name when I was 13 years old. He caught me doing something he did not want me to do. He was very angry! For my punishment I had to cut down all the trees along a stone wall beside a field.(about 200') Then anything large enough for firewood I had to cut to stove lenth. All of this was done with a hand saw.

On a Saturday when I was about half done my cutting, the family was thinking of going to a movie. At lunch my brother asked my father if we were all going. Dad answered,"All of us except the cutterboy". The name just stuck.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: J_T on December 12, 2004, 06:10:24 PM
 I have to pick one I can half way rember :) So I used J T which is short for James Thomas and they call me Jim . :)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: pigman on December 12, 2004, 07:00:25 PM
Before I bought my mill I raised a lot of pigs. ;D
Bob the ex pigman.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: WoodSmith on December 12, 2004, 07:03:10 PM
My last name is Smith and seeins how the name Smith came from people who had a trade such as blacksmith coppersmith tinsmith, a like to work with wood so I thought woodsmith would be good, yes I know there is a magazine called woodsmith.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Teddles on December 12, 2004, 07:22:25 PM
My name is T Edmeades so my email at one stage along the way was tedmeades@. Friends started calling me Ted, but this one fella always said 'HEY TEDDLES!'. It stuck. It's my only memory of the guy now!  :o

And these Santa and elf icons are so cool!!!   ;D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: ARKANSAWYER on December 12, 2004, 07:37:45 PM
  I am what I am and that is all I can be.  Because I am it can just be.  So therefore it be I am ARKANSAWYER.
  People do notice it and most can remember it even if they can not spell it.  Most just call me ARKY unless I am passing myself off as Bibbyman. ;D
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Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: WV_hillbilly on December 12, 2004, 07:38:56 PM
  it's a where I grew up thing . I was born and raised in West Virginia. I moved to Ohio when I got married , But I can look out my kitchen window and see the Ohio River and the GREAT state of West Virginia. I mostly work in WV and do alot of hunting over there .

 I think it's alot better than my brother's screenname used to be .  His was"CornFed"  . As in what we feedour animals on the farm . You know like Jeff's theroy on what grits are good for . Like him I will eat my grits after the pig has been cut and wrapped .
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: CHARLIE on December 12, 2004, 08:08:45 PM
My mom named me Charles and people call me Charlie.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: etat on December 12, 2004, 08:39:00 PM
Wanted something I could remember anytime, anywhere. besides without my wife I'd a never made it in life as far as I have.  In fact it was a big struggles for both of as and I wouldn't want to be without her.  Married to a real good woman for 23 years.

cktate----------------charles and kim tate
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Woodcarver on December 12, 2004, 08:49:12 PM
When I joined the forum I recycled a username that I had used previously when surfing the net in search of tools or information relating to my hobby.

Had I thought about it a little more, I would probably have called myself Country_Boy in keeping with the line from the country song to the left.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Bruce_A on December 12, 2004, 09:00:37 PM
my mother,  I couldn't remember another.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Paschale on December 12, 2004, 09:03:31 PM
This is a great thread!  My name really doesn't have anything to do with me at all.   ::) No interesting story.  Basically, just picked a word that I know I'll get a login and password at the very first try, cuz I got sick of everywhere I went, having to try a bunch of different names.  This was from one of my music history classes back in college that just popped into my head one day...it's from a Gregorian chant, Victimae Paschale Laudes, which basically means "all praise to the Paschal Lamb," and the "victimae" part refers to the crucifixion. It was sung at Easter time in the church in the middle ages.  We had to listen to all kinds of Gregorian chant in music history, and this one I really liked for some reason, and it always stuck in my mind.  One day, I want to compose a piece of music based on it.  So, when I was searching for a random word, that no one else would most likely use at webpages, Paschale popped into my head, and it stuck.  So, though I've never in my life been called "Paschale," it's funny that now, through the FF, I am!   ;D  It's set in stone, now that WV_Hillbilly made me a cool scrollsaw nameplate.   8)

Oh...if anyone wants to hear this particular tune, you can check it out here:

 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00006B1OC/qid=1102913158/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-3618236-4862310?v=glance&s=classical

Scroll down and listen to track seven.

Oh...and btw...I don't sit around listening to Gregorian Chant!   ;)

Oh...and for what it's worth...it's pronounced puh-SKOlly.  ::)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: VA-Sawyer on December 12, 2004, 09:10:16 PM
I thought that Arky had a great handle !   After giving it a little thought, I figured I might get away with VA-Sawyer. So far it has worked.  ;D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Timber_Framer on December 12, 2004, 09:16:05 PM
I had just finished a frame when I found this forum and needed a nick, TF sounded like a good one.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: sprucebunny on December 12, 2004, 09:25:18 PM
I love the woods and the trees and the animals. Even in the serious cold of January, soft critters with big ears (&big feet!) are hopping around under the young conifer trees leaving m&m s for the dog.
It's the first thing that came to mind.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: TN_man on December 13, 2004, 12:02:11 AM
I am a big Tennessee fan and my blood runs orange.
Good luck Hokie against the Auburn tigers--we didn't fare so well in the SECCG against them.
Proud to be a red-neck. 8)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: edsaws on December 13, 2004, 02:11:37 AM
My names Ed and I gotta lotta saws as in chain saws, table saw, band saw, miter saw, cicular saw, jig saw, scroll saw, hole saw, hack saw, bow saw, coping saw, gent saw, back saw, see saw,sawsall and last my homemade bandmill  ???
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: sawhead on December 13, 2004, 02:14:33 AM
Subscribed to a timber processing mag, that has free subscriptions if you are in the timber industry ,they require you to give your job title so I put in headsawyer, when they starting sending the mag , the mailing label had my name then they listed the job title as sawhead , my boss saw it and the name stuck .
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: breederman on December 13, 2004, 03:38:41 AM
Some of my customers kids gave it to me,as in"hey dad the breederman is here!" It's what I do so why not?
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: OneWithWood on December 13, 2004, 06:59:34 AM
The name was bestowed upon me by a Cherokee lady I work with to recognize my love of the forest and my far removed Iroquois ancestry.  
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: KENROD on December 13, 2004, 07:27:31 AM
Well, it just came kinda natural like.

                Kenny Rhodes
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Texas Ranger on December 13, 2004, 11:33:58 AM
Was a Texas State Forester for a while, got called forest ranger a lot by the uninitiated.  When the web came along it seemed appropriate.  Some forums it is truncated into TRanger, or on some, The Ranger.  Depends on the forum.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: MULE_MAN on December 13, 2004, 12:18:08 PM
Had Horse's & Mules since I can remember, Used to ride smaller Mules
coon hunting, & started getting big Mules for trail riding & hunting in the mountains
When somebody had a question about buying a Mule or anything
pertaining to Mules. I would get a finger pointed at me they would say
ask the Mule Man he'll know. Raised several Mules & sold several
over the years.  MISSOURI MULES  ;)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: neslrite on December 13, 2004, 01:11:31 PM
     Mine is a combination of my two jobs, New England Saw and Lumber and LogRite Tools.
Kevin
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: leweee on December 13, 2004, 01:24:24 PM
First name is Lewis...hence leweee....need i say more ;D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: SwampDonkey on December 13, 2004, 02:02:30 PM
I like those elusive long legged, antlered critters of the north woods and its nickname up this way is referred to as a swamp donkey. That name isn't far off because in years gone by they used to raise calf moose for pulling sleds or wagons in the bush country. ;)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: EZ on December 13, 2004, 02:18:35 PM
SwampDonkey, would like to here more on the calf moose pulling sleds, sounds interesting.
EZ
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: shopteacher on December 13, 2004, 02:35:33 PM
I wanted to use Ole Butch, but the guy to the left already had it.  Can't figure the shopteacher part though seeing how I'm a dance instructor and all. :) ;D :o
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: hosslog on December 13, 2004, 03:58:41 PM
Some body else was already using Horselogger :)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: old3dogg on December 13, 2004, 04:17:14 PM
Big time Dale Earnhardt fan and had 3 old black dogs at the time.
Old3dogg.I like it!
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: JD350Cmark on December 13, 2004, 06:59:27 PM
I got a few John Deere tractors and two of em are 350C dozers.  So, JD 350C and my first name is Mark.  
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Furby on December 13, 2004, 09:08:26 PM
My good looks! ;D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Swede on December 14, 2004, 01:02:12 AM
 ::) I don´t remember..............  :o

  ;D
Swede.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: moosehunter on December 14, 2004, 04:23:13 AM
I had just come back from a moose hunting trip when I registered on FF. I thought Moosehunter would make a good password....typed it in the wrong box.....
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Roxie on December 14, 2004, 06:34:48 AM
Roxanne is my given name.....actually given to me by my Granma, because I was supposed to be a boy and Mom and Dad hadn't considered any option except Richard.   ;D
My Granma had heard about an actress named Roxanne, so there you had it.  
I use Roxie because that's what I got called when every one was in a good mood.....if I got called "Roxanne" I knew I was in trouble.  
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Bro. Noble on December 14, 2004, 07:21:08 AM
I sing in a quartet that sings at various churches in the area.  One of my favorite churches is a little General Baptist church near Gainesville Mo.  They have always called me Bro. Noble there.

Besides,  Casper is banned and Stinkey Peterson is already claimed ;)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Murf on December 14, 2004, 07:48:58 AM
Last name is Murphy, nickname is Murf ..........

I think I'm gonna have to sit an think on this a spell ....... :D


I used to go by Iceman, as a pilot I never minded the cold, my 'back seat driver' was a southerner who froze if it was below 70° so I started calling him Frosty, he started calling me Snowman, then we had a real close call, I kept my cool and got us out of it and he called me the Iceman, it stuck, they repainted the call sign on the aircraft the next day.

I don't particularly care to dwell on those days anymore, so now I prefer to go by Murf, which is what a lot of the men in our family have been called for generations, although I still get called Iceman by those who know me as a pilot first.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: fstedy on December 14, 2004, 09:51:25 AM
 :) 8) :) 8) Bro Noble glad yer back this sleigh really needs some guidance with this Ye No thread goin on ya No what I mean ;) Murf I No about them close calls to been their twice I thank God he was with us those times. Hours and Hours of boredom interrupted by moments of sheer Terror  8) :) 8) :)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Barkman on December 14, 2004, 10:30:44 AM
Barkman is actually my last name.  Since it seemed to fit for the FF, so I didn't bother getting more creative.  8)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: gizmo on December 14, 2004, 07:44:13 PM
I got my username from a dog I have. He's kind of a legend with the kids up @ my cabin. He's a Rottweiler that my daughter stuck me with when she got married 6 months after she bought him and decided she didn't want him anymore. He actually weighs 182 pounds and really loves kids. They ride him like a horse. Named him Gizmo because he resembles a Gizmo. Lots of pics on my website.

http://users.adelphia.net/~gizmo/
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Buzz-sawyer on February 28, 2005, 12:53:53 PM
I really like learning what all your screen names mean.............and there are a lot of newer members so sound off.....
Heres my explaination.
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Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: sandmar on February 28, 2005, 12:56:31 PM
Combination of my name and my wife's name...........will let you all figure out which one is which  ;D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: jjmk98k on February 28, 2005, 01:06:14 PM
JJM my initials

K98k the kind of rifle I collect.....errr... used to collect...
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Ernie on February 28, 2005, 01:16:36 PM
I've had it for 63 years and with my disappearing memory, I thought I'd better have ione I was likely to remember :D :D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Fla._Deadheader on February 28, 2005, 01:19:12 PM

  Live in Fla. and hunt "Deadhead" logs.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Curlywoods on February 28, 2005, 01:36:20 PM
Needed a name for my business of selling figured hardwood lumber.  I looked around and no one had ever used the obvious name to me anyway for curly hardwoods.  Hence "Curly Woods" was born. ;)

   I am still called Mr. Woods or Curly when people that don't know me call the shop  :)  I can tell immediately who knows what about lumber  :D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: tnlogger on February 28, 2005, 01:38:13 PM
live in tenn and a usedtobeen logger  :D :D
buzz that saw shore brings back, Back breaking memorys blocking 4ft wood to stove wood length.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Paul_H on February 28, 2005, 01:54:07 PM
By the looks of that saw,Buzz could just have easily been "Lefty" cause Stumpy is already being used.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Buzz-sawyer on February 28, 2005, 02:00:51 PM
AWWW come on guys , that is the SAFE kind of buzz saw , did ya see the blade guard and movable table? :D :D
However, did you notice how shinny it is from rigorious use?? ;D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Paul_H on February 28, 2005, 02:23:46 PM
Sorry Buzz,I went back and looked at the pic.Didn't notice the first time how well guarded the blade is.  ::)  :D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: SwampDonkey on February 28, 2005, 04:09:44 PM
My grand father used one of them for years, setup in the field to buck stovewood before light chainsaws came about. Looks pretty much the same. The old saw is still up there in the field busted into parts........hmmm come to think of it he may have hauled it for weight to the scrap yard. I know in the 1980's he used to haul alot of iron, copper and aluminum for cash, which was near where he'd spend the summer fishing (angling) for salmon. The sawing end of things was before my time. ;)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: buck5611 on February 28, 2005, 05:06:20 PM
"Buck" is my preferred animal(deer) and "5611" was my badge number when I was working. I had to find a name that was very easy for me to remember.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Cedarman on February 28, 2005, 05:28:35 PM
I can talk cedar 24/7. I smell like cedar. Mill has over 4000 square feet of cedar paneling.  Live in a cedar house.  99.9% of what we saw is cedar.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: thecfarm on February 28, 2005, 07:02:05 PM
Used to call my grandparents place The Farm.Now that we live here,we added a C to The Farm.C is the first letter of my last name. We have a small greenhouse buiness,which I'm adding on to this year. We also sell produce from our gardens. My wife is in charge of the greenhouse.I'm just "The Builder".
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: sawdust on February 28, 2005, 07:11:43 PM


Seemed appropriate, every time I pull something out of a pocket...sawdust rains down on the floor. I really did not want to be known as Pig Pen, and some of the other  names I have carried, well, NOT. :)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: ellmoe on February 28, 2005, 07:32:09 PM
I'll chime in. My last name is Elliott. My sister's  married name is Garcia, so , playing with the Spanish influence, she became "Ellgarcia". Since she helped me with this new "internet thing", I followed along. My initials are MOE, so ... Ellmoe.
   Someone earlier mentioned using initials for a name. My late uncle was named BT. This was not uncommon in the North Florida woods. I remember a JC, a LD, and other combos. Anyway, during WWII my uncle enlisted in the US Navy. When asked his name, he told them. Well, this didn't "sit to well", with the fellow recording the vitals (probably someone that didn't know what grits were either!), so a rather heated discussion occurred. The question was finally asked, "Well, why BT?". My Uncle told him that his Dad was named Bartholmew Timothy. Immediately, my Uncle became Bartholmew Timothy, Jr. So, at the age of twenty, my uncle became a Junior, courtesy of the US Navy.  ;D

Mark
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: dutchman on February 28, 2005, 07:41:40 PM
I've used the CB handle "dutchman" since I drove truck in the 70's. Liked it then and still do.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Rockn H on February 28, 2005, 07:54:18 PM
Well let's see.  My company name is Rock'n H Endeavors .  I drive a truck, sell hay and farm, and of course saw lumber under the name.  Hence endeavors got stuck on for good measure.
Richard
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: farmerdoug on February 28, 2005, 08:19:01 PM
I truck farm and raise plants in greenhouses.  I love farming and my name is Doug so it works great.  By the way I was named after Douglass MacArthur.
I always like to hear where other peoples names originate.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: footer on February 28, 2005, 08:37:03 PM
This is what I like to do in my spare time, besides sawing that is.


(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/12011/footin_1.jpg)


(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/12011/footin_2.jpg)


(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/12011/footin_3.jpg)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: DanG on February 28, 2005, 09:11:36 PM
 :D :D  Boy did I have you mis-figgered!  I was thinkin' you was a concrete guy that pour's a  lot of footers.  What you're doing in those pics looks a whole lot harder than concrete! :o
Title: Well, I needed something...and it seemed obvious
Post by: oldsaw on February 28, 2005, 10:31:22 PM
I've got 5 chainsaws, none of them new, one older than I am.  When I got my 066 I just kept the name because "old and well worn saw" is kind of unmanageable.

Hey it's a real old 066...I'm still "in".



Title: Re: DanG
Post by: footer on February 28, 2005, 10:49:19 PM
I have done my fair share of concrete, and I can say I would rather be on the water any day ;D
I can also say that learning some of the barefoot tricks have been the most difficult, and painfull things I have done in my life.  The most damage I have done myself, except for the ocasional bell ringer smiley_whacko, was a torn ACL in my knee.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: LIL on February 28, 2005, 11:38:29 PM
Hey y'all

What a great thread.

I got my name from the Mr Men and Little Miss series.  However Little Miss Naughty was too long for a handle so I got creative and changed it to Lilmsnorte! However when I logged into chat I was often mistaken for 'Snorte >:( - I got fed up with this and had another change - Lil_ms_norte.  This seemed to work just fine.  After having spent awhile in the same chatroom with regular chatters I was then shortened to LIL.  Which im still called. :)

As for having intials for a name I can relate to that as well.  My christian name is Mary-Jean.  Most of my family call me Mary. When I went on to University I didnt want to be stuck with the name Mary (No offence to others with this name.)  So started calling myself M-J.  Now whenever I meet someone new I introduce myself as MJ straight off as they often forget or call me Mary-Jane, Mary-Sue, Mary-Ellen or the most bizarre Mary-Elizabeth ::) - you get it!  The children at my kindergarten (Preschool) call me MJ - sometimes they will ask for my "real name". :D So it has stuck.  The most fun I have with my name is when I go into stores and they need to write my name - they ask name - I reply MJ, they look at me - ponder it then ask how do you spell it - which I reply "E M M - J A Y".  One poor fellow actually did write it and then I confused him by saying NO Im kidding its MJ as in the letters  - in the end I had to write it in the air for him  ;D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: redpowerd on March 01, 2005, 06:55:33 AM
still got all your toes, footer? :D

'mostly' everything i operate is redpowerd. hence.

my cb handle is mother goose :D
not sure where it came from, mabie the base station in the truck
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: woodsteach on March 01, 2005, 10:22:19 AM
Woodsteach------- well first hi to you all I've been lurking for a year and thankyou for all of the great info.  As to the user name, I have been teaching high school woodshop and drafting for the past 10 years, and that came to an end due to budget cuts last week.  So I might have to change it to exwoodsteach. 
But I am looking at purchasing a peterson this summer if things fall into place.  So you all keep posting and I'll keep learning.

Woodsteach
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: tnlogger on March 01, 2005, 10:36:24 AM
welcome to the forum woodsteach a lot to learn here but be warned it is very addictive  :D
as for the peterson i have heard nothing but good about the mills and the good people down under that build them. i'm waiting on moultie to get to look at one upclose.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: pasbuild on March 01, 2005, 11:47:20 AM
Its a shortened version of my business name, like so many others I had to come up with something that I would remember ;D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Papa Dave on March 01, 2005, 04:48:04 PM
I am the 5th generation of receiving the name David on my Father's side. A lot of people call me Dave. Then a little over six years ago, my brand new grandson came along and guess what.  He calls me Papa, which I really like.

So, I named my sawmill Papa's mill and use the handle Papa Dave because it makes me think of my grandson.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Tom Sawyer on March 01, 2005, 09:55:28 PM
If I ever get a mill of my own I want to call my business Tom Sawyer Lumber Services or something like that.  Thought I would try the name out here first.

Tom
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: J_T on March 01, 2005, 10:04:47 PM
It is a name most people already know a can rember easy . Glad you though of it I could of used my middle name and used it only I don't want much costom sawing . 8)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: wiam on March 01, 2005, 10:50:17 PM
My sister shortened William.

Will
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: KiwiCharlie on March 01, 2005, 11:09:17 PM
Hey,
I joined up reasonably early on, but Charlie (Toms brother) was was already taken then.  He beat me to it by 1 spot (hes #38, Im #39!! ;) :D)
I decided that it would be nice to have where Im from as part of my handle, so chose this one.
Cheers,
Charlie.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: kiwis_rock on March 02, 2005, 12:15:19 AM
Well 'Kiwi' because I'm a New Zealander and 'Rock' because we rock over here in NZ, hence kiwis Rock
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Gipper on March 02, 2005, 01:46:05 AM
A lot of people used to refer to me by my last name only, but about 25 years ago a fishing buddy and former co-worker (I say former because we are now both retired) started calling me "Gipper" and others picked up on it and it just stayed with me!  We had CB radios in our boats and he said he thought it would make me a good handle.

Has nothing to do with, nor any connection to, the former President or the movie. ;D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Vermonter on March 03, 2005, 02:30:43 PM
Started using it after a book called "Real Vermonters Don't Milk Goats" was published.   The book pokes fun back at the out-of-staters who move here and look down on the locals.  Very funny outline of the difference between flatlanders and vermonters.
I met most of the requirements to be a real Vermonter, except my mother's side of the family only went back three generations in Vermont and my father is from Georgia. 
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Skeeter on March 03, 2005, 10:27:23 PM
Great topic idea....great response so far too !

I dont post much here....but I shall deevulge me username.

I am Skeeter...Lord of the Jung.....

wait ...thats not right.

Ummm....

I am Skeeter....parasite to the world ???

hmmm....no....not right either...

How about this...

I am Skeeter, because I surf the web alot and hit alot of websites for info ?
Therefore, I quite literally am *flying* around the world  !!!

There ...I like that !!!

Skeeter
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: woodbeard on March 03, 2005, 11:05:38 PM
Well, what can I say? My face is usually plastered with sawdust. :D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: genedieter on March 04, 2005, 12:11:09 AM
Well, it's quite simple..........

it's my name; I'm kinda simple

GD
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: KiwiCharlie on March 04, 2005, 12:20:05 AM
Hi Gene (is that right?!)
Theres nothing wrong with that - I felt this was a good place when I joined, and therefore didnt have any problems using my real name.  Unlike other places where I use such names as threebigtoes or hickoryfoot!!  :D  I like the abstract names for forums like that!  :D
Cheers
Charlie.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: genedieter on March 04, 2005, 12:31:37 AM
Yes, Charlie...it's Gene

And Yes...this place is great! I have learned so much here; and I'm learning more every day! I appreciate all the knowledge and experience here that everyone is so willing to share.

I've been on here so often in the past few months, my wife now jokes with me when she sees me on the computer, asking "are you talking with your friends?" And that's funny and true as well! Even though I don't know anyone on here personally, I actually do feel the friendship in this place.

GD
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: KiwiCharlie on March 04, 2005, 12:40:57 AM
Hi Gene,
Yes, I feel the same.  Ive been away for a while, but I still really value the 'cyber' friends Ive made here.  They genuinely care.  This forum is very different from others.  Lots of really good feedback, and without the hassles you see elsewhere.  Jeff can be thanked for most of that.  He does a great job here, and its appreciated by me, and Im sure, everyone else here.
I would like nothing more than to be able to get to the US one day, and meet some of these people.  It really is like a big family.
Long live the FF!  :)
Cheers
Charlie.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Quartlow on March 04, 2005, 07:58:36 AM
An ex boss gave me mine 20 some odd years ago, I worked for this guy hauling local steel, had to haul six loads a day From the slittler to the tube plant. Since we got paid buyy the load I got real tired of working 12 hours a day. Most of that waiting in line.

So I started taking the shipper in donuts everyday. After a week or so I conned in into letting me double out, hey they where light loads only about 35,000 pounds each.  So now I'm geting done at noon instead of 6

This went on for about a week, one day he caught up to me in the yard about 12:30 as I was getting geady to go home

HIM: Whats going on?
ME : going home.
Him: How many loads you get in today/
ME: 6
HIM: Just what time did you start this morning?
ME: 6, like always
HIM your telling me you hauled 6 loads in 6 hours?
ME: yep.
HIM: BULL!!!!( Well he said more but I can' post it)
ME: sure did, not only that I only used 1/2 of the fuel this week as anyone else.
HIM. yeah sure you did, that is not possible.
ME sure it is, if you haul to coils at a time instead of one you only have to make 3 trips,
HIM: WHAT??
ME yeah , if you double up you get done in half the time>
HIM: Boy you are about a quart low.

It kind of stuck. there are people around yet today who don't know my real name but they darn sure know who Quartlow is.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Fraxinus on March 04, 2005, 09:32:13 AM
Well, I've always been partial to Fraxinus americana.  LOve those ash trees.   And I wanted a completely different handle than what I use on the tractor discussion boards that I frequent.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Roxie on March 04, 2005, 11:54:44 AM
Quartlow, it was very interesting to hear where you got your handle.  If I had used the same thinking, I would be known as
Three Bricks Shy
:)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Murf on March 04, 2005, 12:41:21 PM
Frax, what handle do you use on the tractor boards?

And which boards if I can be that nosey, it seems there several of us who end up in the same places on the net... talk about coincedences.  :o
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Quartlow on March 04, 2005, 01:35:24 PM
Quote from: Roxie on March 04, 2005, 11:54:44 AM
Three Bricks Shy
:)

or loose srews maybe?
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Weekend_Sawyer on March 04, 2005, 04:24:03 PM

I go over to Yesterdays tractors. My 2nd favorite website. I post as JonwithanM because I have a Farmall M

For here its simple Ihave a nice weekend sawmillin hobby.

Jon
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: pifan on March 05, 2005, 08:14:38 AM
I am a big detroit pistons fan and on there forum pfan was taken so i went with pifan and ive used the same name on forums ever since.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: DanG on March 05, 2005, 09:43:45 AM
Fraxinus, I'll admit I had to look that up when you first came here. :P   We don't have none of them trees here.  Then, when I saw what it was, I concluded you called yourself that cause you figgered to make an ash of yourself, anyway. ::) ;D :D :D

I'm glad you finally came over here, and I claim total responsibility for dragging you here.  I knew you'd fit in. :)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Fraxinus on March 05, 2005, 11:06:34 AM
Quote from: Murf on March 04, 2005, 12:41:21 PM
Frax, what handle do you use on the tractor boards?

And which boards if I can be that nosey, it seems there several of us who end up in the same places on the net... talk about coincedences.  :o
Les or Les...fortunate on YTMag (Tractor Tales, Talk and Case boards), also on Kountry Life and Red Power Magazine.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Steve on March 05, 2005, 11:29:23 AM
My Momma gave it to me.

Steve
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: ADfields on March 05, 2005, 02:17:26 PM
My first name, Andy.  My better half's first name, Dana.  That is the AD and Fields is our last name, so ADfields. ::)   We started useing it as a farm name for papers on our horses, cattle and Catahoula dogs way before the web came along.
Andy
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Fraxinus on March 05, 2005, 04:01:24 PM
Quote from: Weekend_Sawyer on March 04, 2005, 04:24:03 PM

I go over to Yesterdays tractors. My 2nd favorite website. I post as JonwithanM because I have a Farmall M

For here its simple Ihave a nice weekend sawmillin hobby.

Jon
Hi JonwithanM.  I also have an M.  It's a '48.  What a great machine.
You must post on the Farmall board.  I don't spend much time there.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: maple flats on March 05, 2005, 08:58:00 PM
Nothing special about mine. I make maple syrup and my land is sorta flat. Makes it harder to use tubing but I manage. Have to use an extension ladder to tap the trees farthest from the collection tanks. 8) 8)  I can't use sap ladders because I don't have electric for vacume and my operation is too small to warrent using the generator or a gas powered vacume pump.
maple syrup is great
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Weekend_Sawyer on March 06, 2005, 09:00:03 AM

Hey Fraxinus I read the Farmall and Ford bords I don't post too much because most of the information is allready there.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: DR_Buck on March 06, 2005, 12:31:18 PM
Nick names in our LARGE family span many variations.  Some funny, like a cousin called 'Chut', which no one seems to remember how she got it over 45 years ago, and another cousin called 'Oink for the last 50+ years.

My father has been known by the nickname 'Bucky' for as long as I remember.  My youngest brother took on 'Buck', and late in high school my son also adopted 'Buck', but to my grand kids, he's 'Uncle Buck'.  I've been able to avoid being permanently tagged with any nick name most of my life,. Even after 25 years Navy and Navy reserve.

In my non-milling profession I work in system engineering and we get LOTS of magazines offered free.  For years most have come addressed with my initials, D.R.   Due to my long last name many leave out the .. and just address to DR, So becoming a doctor was easy.  Didn't even have to mail order a degree.

David R. Buckwalter    aka   DR_Buck
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: woodhick on March 07, 2005, 01:40:36 AM
When I was a small boy "or should I say young as I have never been small"  :D :Dthe "old-timers" would call anybody that worked on a mill or in the woods a woodhick.  I guess I always wanted to be one.  I beleive that I was born with sawdust in my veins, cause when I'm not sawing i'm working in cabinet shop or trying to learn more about wood. ;D :P
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: bioguy on March 17, 2005, 10:52:53 AM
Biology teacher for the past  26 years ( Man,that sounds like a long time!) I still feel like I'm only 26!!
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: fstedy on April 01, 2005, 12:25:47 PM
  :) ;D :D Hey all you newbies its time to fess up.  :D ;D :)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: beetle on April 01, 2005, 01:48:47 PM
Well it has been with me since I was a kid, do ya all remember the army guy cartoon. Been called Beetle Bailey ever since I can remember.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Part_Timer on April 01, 2005, 02:02:22 PM
I would like to saw full time but need the medical insurance for our son so for now I must be "part_ timer"
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Doc on April 01, 2005, 02:22:28 PM
My friends used to watch me perform surgery on every vehicle that came into my possession in need of repair. Some of them even watched me perform surgery on myself a few times putting stitches in various places.

I think I am almost ready to try to do my own frontal labotomy!

Doc
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: woodchopper on April 01, 2005, 05:27:44 PM
When I joined I just picked up my old CB Handle  "Woodchopper"
My wife had tagged me with it back in the 70's when I was running My cabinet shop.... 
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: submarinesailor on April 02, 2005, 05:00:10 PM
Rode, taught and worked submarines for the better part of  20 years in the US Navy. Got 120 months of under water time – "OpSub" time as the Navy calls it. smiley_dizzy smiley_dizzy smiley_dizzy  That's why my wife (of 32 years) and friends think I'm a little strange. :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

DR_BUCK, what did you do in the Navy.  Also my LT15 isn't too far from your's.  I'm just two counties over, in Madison County.  Just up river from Graves Mountain Lodge.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: karl on April 03, 2005, 07:56:36 PM
Not much imagination here:
My Dad was Karl
I'll never be the man he was,
so I'm karl
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: babylogger on April 04, 2005, 01:52:04 AM
well i think mine is self explanatory lol but my mom also calls me dee! ;D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: UNCLEBUCK on April 05, 2005, 12:25:42 AM
About 8 years ago my little nephew watched the movie unclebuck with his little buddies and I guess I fit the bill . Everyone seemed to identify me with the movie character and everyone knows me even in town as U.B. , I tried to clean up my act after being labeled but I give up and have come to like it . 10 years truckin west coast and never got into the c.b. handle thing but a little nephew has dubbed me for life !   :-\
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: pappy on April 05, 2005, 09:28:43 AM
Was once known as termite here but since my granddaughters started calling me pappy I thought why not  ;D

Faith when she started walking a couple weeks ago
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10691/termite%20Faith%20Walking%202.jpg)


Kate was over for the day and just got a kiss from BW
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10691/termite%20Kate%20and%20BW.jpg)


now known as "pappy"

Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Patty on April 05, 2005, 02:23:59 PM
Those grandkids are sure cute, Pappy. Give 'em a hug for me!  ;)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: North Wind on April 05, 2005, 03:37:26 PM
Had a custom saddle and leather shop in Montana with some things made outa wood when the saddle work was slow.The name of my shop was North Wind Trading Post.Came to Ohio to be with grandson for a while,waiting for the wind to blow me back. :-\
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Ernie on April 05, 2005, 04:36:35 PM
Neat grand children Pappy.  Very patient dog too.

Ernie
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Bro. Noble on April 05, 2005, 05:03:04 PM
Man those pictures make me jealous :-\

Wish I had an excuse to change my name to 'Bro. Pappy' :D :D :D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: badpenny on April 05, 2005, 06:32:10 PM
Been badpenny since my truck driving days. Used to haul aluminum from Franklin KY once in a while, always seemed to meet the same driver there. One day, he said I was like a bad penny, always showing up when least expected, and it stuck.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: jimbo on April 05, 2005, 06:37:08 PM
     moma gave me mine so it stuck  so now im useing it

                                                    jimbo 8)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: sawguy21 on April 05, 2005, 11:09:32 PM
I have been involved with saws for longer than I care to admit. I kept changing numbers until I found one that had not been used and I could remember (not many of those). ;D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: woodbowl on April 06, 2005, 01:42:37 AM
I got my username from making primitive style, oblong shaped wooden dough bowls. I've been making them for over 20 years now. Never made a round one though. This is the traditional style here in the deep south. People talk about their grannys old bowl and what ever happened to it. So and so's got it and they wouldn't part with it for nothin'. After hearing that story over and over, I figured they would like to have one even if it wasn't granny's old bowl. I've made about 700 or so now. I've sold them all over the country and given away no telling how many. What's really nice is to finish up a sawing job for a customer and give them a bowl made from a slab off one of their logs.-----An old man told me one time, if you give a fellow a little more than they barganed for, you'll always come out ahead. Now, that stuck like biscuit dough!
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: asy on April 06, 2005, 02:36:46 AM
Hiya Woodbowl!

What is a 'dough bowl' used for?

The one in your picture looks lovely, and I love wooden bowls...  But doesn't "look" deep enough to mix dough in.

Could you show us some more photos of your work?

asy :D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: woodbowl on April 06, 2005, 11:05:06 AM
Asy,
    Back in the wagon days, metal pots and pans were a luxury and dead weight on the wagon if you had to go very far. Every culture had it's own style, but the southeast seemed to like the oval shape. Back then people made biscuits about 3 times a day. That sounds like a lot of biscuits and it is, but sometimes if you didn't get a biscuit, you didn't get nothin'. Times were hard and the very shape of the bowl lends itself to that type of hardship. Because the bowl was used several times a day, flour stayed in the bowl all the time. Mama would doodle a hole in the flour, pour in a little lard and water then pattie out the biscuits to put in the bake pan. When the flour got a little lumpy from several days of biscuit making, they didn't just throw it out, they would move it to one side of the bowl and sift it through a hand crank sifter to the other side. That's where the oval shape comes it handy. All the lumps went flyin' out the back door for the chickens unless a yungen' got there first for a crunchy munchy. Since there were no refrigerators, a rag was laid across the top to keep the roaches out and then placed in the safe untill the next meal.------ Most people want them now because they look nice as a center piece and make good gifts. It hard to find something different nowdays that folks don't already have or need. Times sure are different now. I don't know of anyone that makes  biscuits in a wood bowl unless it is demonstrated at a pioneer settlement. The attitude nowdays seems to be   "I thought biscuits came out of a can !"
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Bro. Noble on April 06, 2005, 01:06:18 PM
Grandma had a bowl that looked just like that.  She kept it full of pecans.  I don't know whatever became of that bowl,  but I know where most of the pecans went ;D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: etat on April 06, 2005, 02:42:23 PM
Woodbowl, that's exactly like my Mama Tate used to make biscuits.  With the flour and the hole and the lard and sifting the flour and storing the pan and covering with a cloth and everything.  They bought flour in big sacks and it always had a washcloth or small towel sewed to the top of the sack. I and my wife tried many many times to duplicate the recipe and the process without success.  The closest we ever come to good biscuits and the way we are making biscuits now are with the recipe Bibbyman posted awhile back.   :)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: asy on April 07, 2005, 07:04:35 AM
Wowwee Woodbowl!

Thanks heaps for the info, how FASCINATING!

Now, a techie question...  :D

How do you make them?

I haven't got to faceplate turning, got as far as spindle turning then got too busy at work...  But... I can't see how you can turn an oval...

Please enlighten me!

By the way, do you have a website? And, do you ship to Aussieland?

asy :D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: woodbowl on April 08, 2005, 12:19:50 AM
Asy, the pioneers used regular hand tools such as chisels, ax, foot adz, draw knife ect. He shaped it from the swell of a Tupelo Gum "in our region". Shore nuff bowl makers had their own tools. One in particular, was called a scorp. It was used to dish out the inside. Foot operated laths could turn an oval shape by mounting the wood blocks on a spindal. Just imagine turning a wooden football shape that separated into two halves. That was high cotton back then. As for me, I must admit I use electricity. Wonderful tool, that there hand grinder!--------- I don't have a website. Not yet any way, but I think I could figure out a way to ship down under.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: tnlogger on April 08, 2005, 01:01:46 AM
 hey woodbowl you would't happen to be from midtenn area would  ???
if you can update your profile and plant a tree on the members map.
if ya likes them GRITS then i  knowd ya a hillbilly  :D :D :D :D :D ;D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Tome on April 08, 2005, 07:30:57 AM
My name is Tom and that name is always taken so I attached my middle initial to my first name, Tome.  I am going to sell hardwood lumber some day and I think my business will be called, Tome's Hardwood Lumber.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: asy on April 08, 2005, 08:09:22 AM
Quote from: woodbowl on April 08, 2005, 12:19:50 AM
Asy, the pioneers used regular hand tools such as chisels, ax, foot adz, draw knife ect. He shaped it from the swell of a Tupelo Gum "in our region". Shore nuff bowl makers had their own tools. One in particular, was called a scorp. It was used to dish out the inside. Foot operated laths could turn an oval shape by mounting the wood blocks on a spindal. Just imagine turning a wooden football shape that separated into two halves. That was high cotton back then. As for me, I must admit I use electricity. Wonderful tool, that there hand grinder!--------- I don't have a website. Not yet any way, but I think I could figure out a way to ship down under.

Wowwee.

I am absolutely fascinated.

I can understand turning an oval then splitting it, then hollowing out the inside with an adze or such. Must say, the hand grinder sounds a lot faster and easier.

Ya gotta wonder, what would a craftsman of 150 or 200 years ago say if you turned up with a grinder in his workshop!

asy :D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: pappy on April 08, 2005, 09:39:03 AM
QuoteYa gotta wonder, what would a craftsman of 150 or 200 years ago say if you turned up with a grinder in his workshop!



asy,

I bet it would be close to something like

Wowwee ;)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: woodbowl on April 08, 2005, 10:16:43 AM
Thanks for jogging my memory cktate. I now remember seeing the wash rag sewed to the flour sack. Buying 25lb - 50lb of flour at one time was the commom thing to do and a free wash rag was was a big deal back then.-----hillbilly, I don't live in Tenn. I'm down here in the NW Fla Panhandle about 50 miles from DanG and 30 miles from Cooks saw. I'll try to plant a tree soon.------Hey wowwee..........uh........I mean asy, the bowl halves are already in two pieces "before" the 19th century operator turns the blocks on the foot lath. This thread is becomming a bit unravelled. Anyway, that's how I got my user name.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: swamp-drifter on April 08, 2005, 10:34:05 AM
it seemed to describe pretty well what i end up doing while out in the field
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: firtol88 on April 08, 2005, 10:39:02 AM
Fir = men or man in Irish used to designate males kinda like Mr in it's use
TOL = Tree of Life, a very old Celtic symbol which I happen to have a large depiction of on my back (shhhh not many know that one)
88 = the number I wore playing hockey before I was transplanted to the south and started wearing 11 playing football. Notice which one I prefer, I can let my kids watch hockey...

Beyond sports though I must say in general I like southerners much better than most yankees (too liberal and too often fake)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: maple flats on April 08, 2005, 09:13:48 PM
My uncle used to work in the oil business as a geologist and gave my sister a bowl shaped like yours but made of stone. He had it dated somehow (carbon?) at 3500 years old. Back then they probably used it rather similar to what you explain. 8)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: LSUNo1 on April 08, 2005, 10:31:43 PM
No explanation necessary!
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: firtol88 on April 08, 2005, 11:48:39 PM
Quote from: LSUNo1 on April 08, 2005, 10:31:43 PM
No explanation necessary!

http://fightmusic.com/mp3/sec/LSU__Geaux_Tigers_Cheer.mp3

That was for my business partner, I'm too anti Ebonics to put up with football nowadays.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Tom on April 09, 2005, 12:04:16 AM



uh oh!   What are we starting here. :D

The Real Song (http://graphics.georgiadogs.ocsn.com/multimedia/audio/band/track08.mov)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: twostroke_blood on April 09, 2005, 08:53:07 AM
Was out of beer, so i got to drinkin my chainsaw mix. My wife always said i was full of gas anyway. :D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: StihlDoc on April 09, 2005, 09:23:01 AM
Have had STIHL in my blood for 30+ years and am in a postion where I can offer a broad spectrum of STIHL and other two-stroke technical knowledge that might help answer questions others may have.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: rbarshaw on April 09, 2005, 10:20:01 PM
rbarshaw, Robert Barshaw. First initial of first name and last name. Every one in my family has a first name that starts with R. I thought of it first so I get to keep it.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Tom on April 09, 2005, 10:26:05 PM
I think that's neat. 

My Grandfather, Dad, me and my three boys are all TC.  Four of us are TRC's  :D

We used to put TC on our Christmas presents so that we knew who's was who's. :D :D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: asy on April 09, 2005, 10:47:45 PM
Quote from: Tom on April 09, 2005, 10:26:05 PM
I think that's neat. 

My Grandfather, Dad, me and my three boys are all TC.  Four of us are TRC's  :D

We used to put TC on our Christmas presents so that we knew who's was who's. :D :D

How many times did you open parcels with toy trucks in them?

Oh, And, how many times did you give them BACK!?

asy :D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Tom on April 09, 2005, 10:59:58 PM
One of my big jokes was "That's mine!" when they would open a package.   I let them open all of the packages and then would see if they would give me something. :D

The trick was to make sure that they got their stuff. :D   I would put their first names inside of the package to be sure.  It's a good thing they all had a good sense of humor and liked different things.  We've always gotten a lot of laughs over it. :) :)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Furby on June 12, 2005, 01:01:30 AM
Bump to the top for the newer members. ;)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: mometal77 on June 13, 2005, 03:26:20 AM
i love steel
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Stamp on June 30, 2005, 08:47:24 PM
STAMP is an acronym for my husband's first and last name initials and my first, middle and maiden name initials.  When we were dating we would put "STAMP" in the high score when we played the trivia game at the end of the bar.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Chris J on July 01, 2005, 01:56:16 PM
I chose a slang expression I hear frequently in my neck of the woods (so to speak) that means "much nothing."

?Que paso?  = What's happening? What's up?, etc.
Mucha nada = Bunch of nothing, not much, etc.

It can also be used to tell some one that that they might be working, but they're not getting anything accomplished.

Umm...maybe I should've given it more thought  :-\.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Jodi on July 03, 2005, 01:47:59 AM
Oh man, mine's just my name...how embarassing.... :)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Bro. Noble on July 03, 2005, 10:01:05 AM
Welcome Jodi,  mighty glad to see you here ;D

Jodi is a real  8) name :)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: rpg52 on July 03, 2005, 11:14:13 AM
Not very interesting, but I can remember it (getting harder as the years pass).  My initials and birth year.
Ray
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Timburr on July 03, 2005, 08:20:52 PM
My first name is Tim. My surname is Burr :D :D not realy.
Burr comes from my love of discovering of, opening up, seeking that figured grain and dealing in burrs 8)

You folks sell lumber, I sell timburr. smiley_British_jack

When waifs, strays and lost souls are walking by in our woodland, I shout "TIMMMBURRRRR" when I'm about to fell a tree. eh? :D ;D :D


Cheers Tim
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: PawNature on July 03, 2005, 10:23:53 PM
My wife has alway been know as manature cause animals take to her. As her worst half I was taged pawnature.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Kirk_Allen on July 04, 2005, 11:18:47 AM
Kirk -  Named after my great uncle
Allen - Family name which consists of 8 generations of men and has been traced back to the 1600's.  Furthest back that my Dad was able to trace turned up that one of ancenstors in the late 1600's was a slave rower on an English Ship.     ? Does someone owe me some money for that ?

George Allen was my Great Grandfather and was the FIRST person to bring sheep to the Midwest across the Apalachains.  He took FIRST PLACE in the 1893 worlds fair in Chicago with his sheep.  My dad still has the Original Oil painting of the prize ram with his ribbon at the fair.  Took home $500 prize and  that launched the Allen family farm!  His name is on a plaque in the AG hall at Purdue as one of the key contributors to the success of the Shropshire sheep in the US. 



Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: DouginUtah on July 04, 2005, 01:31:05 PM

Well, my real first name is Harold, and I am from Nebraska, but, like so many people who are too paranoid to identify themselves on the internet by their real name, I thought DouginUtah sounded good, so there you have it!

-Doug
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Tom on July 04, 2005, 01:32:28 PM
 :D :D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Jodi on July 04, 2005, 05:16:36 PM
Haha thats really clever! ;D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: red on July 05, 2005, 08:36:10 PM
for some strange reason


people just call me   RED
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Jeff on July 05, 2005, 08:50:26 PM
I met red at the Sawlex. He said he was our greenest member, I still thought Red fit. :)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Minnesota_boy on July 05, 2005, 10:24:33 PM
I'm from Minnesota and I don't plan to EVER grow up.  8) 8) ::)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: biglake on July 07, 2005, 06:37:10 PM
I've got a camp on the largest fresh water lake in the world (Lake Superior), so thought biglake would fit.
;D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: woodman on July 09, 2005, 12:17:00 AM
    When I go to someonens yard to cut logs thay say hay WOODMAN can you cut this log that way, and I say ok.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: treeboy on November 17, 2005, 11:58:56 PM
I went to school to be a forestry tech, my two younger sisters thought it would be funny, so it stuck.

It was worth reading through all these posts to find out SwampDonkeys story, the name is so odd (I mean good). But the Klondike is on the other side of the Country isn't it?
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Max sawdust on November 18, 2005, 05:57:40 AM
My name Max was taken by someone else on the forum; did not want to be like the boss and just use my last name initial so sawdust seemed appropriate ;D Since I am coated in the stuff most of the time :D

OK I will fess up my first name is Paul and middle name is Maximillian, family has called me Max since I was one month old.  Kinda handy If the phone rings and some one asks for Paul I know they do not know me :o
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: TexasTimbers on November 18, 2005, 06:13:30 AM
I always thought Maximillian was one of the cooelst names I ever heard. I thought about giving it to my son but I figured we needed a large estate with tons of dough in the bank to name him that :D
I also thought of the possibility that if I named him that he might turn out to be an evil villian who would attempt to sieze control of the world  like Maximillian Largo in Never say Never Again :D

On my scuba board (which is now defunct) my name was Gator, shortened from GatorBait which was given to me when I joined the forum after having told how I enjoyed diving with and seeking out alligators in East Texas lakes.  ::) I've never claimed to be a genius.  ;D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: RoadKill on November 18, 2005, 07:19:38 AM
A few years ago, I decided to get back into motorcycle riding after 25 years raising a family.  The first time I proudly gave my smart aleck teenage daughter a ride on my new HD Road King, we had to swerve to miss a big ole coon dead on the road, so she thought it was funny to call my bike the Road Kill, and it kinda stuck.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Deadwood on November 18, 2005, 08:07:03 AM
I've got quite a few user names and each has their own funny story.

On one forum I am know as Seasick, because even though I go lobstering quite often, I always manage to get seasick.

On a snowmobiling website I am known as Snowflap, because I love the snow and I make long posts so I am always "flapping" my gums.

On this website I am known as Deadwood. I stole that nickname from a guy at a fabrication shop. He was quite lazy and his real name was Delmont. We called him Deadwood as that was how lazy he was. He hated it, but the name works well here.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Frank_Pender on November 18, 2005, 09:16:20 AM
My fathers name.  I reckon it was just easier the name me after him than trying to come up with something different. :D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Modat22 on November 18, 2005, 09:29:51 AM
I like to modify stuff.

So its modat22 for mod that 22 times.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: getoverit on November 18, 2005, 10:02:49 AM
My wife says it so many times, I figure it's my new name anyway..."GET OVER IT! :-X
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Deadwood on November 18, 2005, 11:12:08 AM
Boy its a good thing my wife did not give me my user name. If she did I would be using the username of Doodlebrain.

As for my father, well I love him to death, but we can't work together cause we tend to get irratated at each other. Heck for the first ten years of my life I thought my name was Useless. As in "you're a useless piece of dirt"...only he did not use the word dirt. 
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Gecko on November 18, 2005, 02:24:28 PM
Newbie here. That was some good reading. :) Mine, well I like geckos. When in Hawaii visiting mom I am always trying to catch the darn things. Guess I never outgrew catching lizards. I even have a black band of them tatooed on my right bicep. So when I needed a nick for the woodworking type forums, I chose Gecko as it just seemed right.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: SwampDonkey on November 21, 2005, 07:39:22 PM
Quote from: Deadwood on November 18, 2005, 11:12:08 AM
Boy its a good thing my wife did not give me my user name. If she did I would be using the username of Doodlebrain.

As for my father, well I love him to death, but we can't work together cause we tend to get irratated at each other. Heck for the first ten years of my life I thought my name was Useless. As in "you're a useless piece of dirt"...only he did not use the word dirt. 

I started pick'n spuds at aged 7. I've worked with my father and was  told on accassion I was gonna get my ash kicked, but never been called useless even when I was just in the way of progress. ;D I did get the occassional back-hander from mother when getting a little bit too cocky. Father was always asking mother 'where are those spoiled rotten kids'. Father always wanted us around in case he needed us and mother said 'get out of the house'. ;D It has nothing to do with my username, but maybe it's good for a chuckle. :D :D :D ;D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Skytramp on December 05, 2005, 11:00:25 PM
I have been facinated by airplanes as long as I can remember, I have built and flown several model planes disigned one that has flown pretty well, am in the process of gathering materials to build a full size experimental  class airplane.  I have the wood, engine, most of the instruments and the plans for three different planes, but am considering another one.
     My user name came about because I would-will bum a ride going anywhere, with anyone, in anything that will fly,ie -- SkyTramp;
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Medina on December 06, 2005, 08:07:32 AM
Its my last name, just stuck when I was working landscaping, mining, machining and working my way through grad school :P. Now even my students just call me Medina.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: woodbowl on December 06, 2005, 09:07:10 AM
Quote from: Skytramp on December 05, 2005, 11:00:25 PM
I have the wood, engine, most of the instruments and the plans for three different planes, but am considering another one.
     
Skytramp, I thought your user name had some meaning behind it. What A/C plans do you have? I've got several myself including the Zeneth CH701 STOL, Volksplane, Minimax, Himax, Double Eagle, Herbert Beaujon's ultralights, Fly Baby, Nieuport 11, Roger Manns Heath Replica, Parasol, RW-19 & RW-20 Stork, RW2 Special, PT2S, RW11 Ragabond, Geobat. I just recieved in the mail the other day the drafting plans to build the Flitplane. There are several pilots with different A/C on the forum including an ultralight helicopter.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: lawyer_sawyer on December 06, 2005, 11:55:30 AM
I just found this thread and it is really cool to see where everybody got their names.

mine. lawyer-sawyer
I am studying to become a lawyer (and if you can imagine a country boy in a suit that would be me) and after the first couple of months of law school I missed the country life and outside work and started looking online for information on things I could do that would be connected to wood.  I came across portable sawmills and and started reading as much as I could and took opportunities to visit some mills to learn waht I can about this.  Now I have a passion to learn all I can, hope to cut the wood for my dream home some day.

and so

Lawyer_sawyer

and it is kinda catchy if I do say so myself
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: fstedy on December 06, 2005, 12:09:24 PM
Woodbowl and Skytramp
I've been helping a buddy of mine restore a Long EZE it should be a show winner when its finished he owns a auto body shop and spares no amount of time, money and talent on this project. We also have a highly modified KR-2 about 85% completed but its on the back burner with this EZE restoration going on. I'm just an old DHC-6-300 pilot tagging along waiting for the flying fun to start. Skytramp just be careful who you hitch rides with a close friend of mine was killed when he jumped a ride with some IDIOT who ran out of fuel. He was flyng over to another airport to fuel up because their gas was a few cents cheaper.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: woodbowl on December 06, 2005, 10:01:08 PM
fstedy, that Long EZY is a dream. I would love to be in on that project. Is he planning to take it to Oshkosh? I feel that this thread could be hijacked so here's a thread to pick it back up. https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?topic=15800.0
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: 3584ELK on December 07, 2005, 10:31:11 PM
I am a big elk hunter, and like most of you folks, post on more than one forum.  SO...my favorite elk rifle is chambered to .358 Norma Magnum, hence 358, then 4 to substitute as "for" and the ELK is self explanatory.  So, 358 for elk.   I even had a Colorado license plate made with that moniker!   :)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: stumpy on December 07, 2005, 11:10:35 PM
I have my fathers hands (actually just like his). They are wide, big, and have short fingers. All my nephews call me Uncle Stumpy. So there ya go
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Burlkraft on December 09, 2005, 08:29:47 AM
I do a lot of turning and straight grain just doesnt do it anymore. I LIKE BURLS 8) 8) 8) 8)

A friend of mine mixed burls with part of my last name and that's how Burlkraft came about. That is also the name of my business.....for tax purposes it should be poorkraft :D :D :D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: treecyclers on April 09, 2006, 08:39:16 PM
My handle is what I do, who I am, and what I love.
Treecyclers started as an idea on a Taco Bell Napkin after I saw what a "big tree company" was doing to hte forests south of town, and I had a better idea. Besides I was PITHED!
Them DanG boneheads were choppin up ponderosa by the WHACK3 (That's a Whack, Cubed!)
So, I figgered out how to tie in tree recycling and my custom furniture operations together, pumped about 45K into the whole schlemeel, and have been ramping it up since.
I take the trees that would otherwise be wasted, recycle them into lumber and firewood, convert the lumber to furniture and the firewood to heat and ash, which then nourishes my garden, along with my planer shavings and sawdust from the shop!
Hence, Treecyclers!
However, my CB callsign is scarface, due to a faceplant on my buddy's rocker panel at 1AM after being awake for 48 hours straight, without eating, and being dehydrated like a champ!
smiley_dunce
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Woodwalker on April 09, 2006, 10:09:12 PM
Mine came about from how I use to get to work. Electrical lineman, climbed a few trees starting out.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: barbender on April 10, 2006, 08:17:00 AM
I had just gotten a new 24" bar for my jred from Bailey's. Got it pinched cutting the top off a birch, so I got the skid steer to free it.  Well, I got moving the tree and didn't notice a stump on the side the saw was on, it cuaght and bent the bar real bad. I was lucky it didn't bust my saw up. Anyhow, came in that night and I was on here and needing a handle, and I was still feeling guilty about bending that up and needed a reminder to not be so stupid. So Barbender it was.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Reddog on April 10, 2006, 07:09:31 PM
Just the current monster we have :o Red the dog. :D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Tim L on April 10, 2006, 07:14:49 PM
I'm not very bright but thats what it says on the mittens my wife clipped on my coat !
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: SAW MILLER on April 10, 2006, 07:21:24 PM
  I saw and my name's Miller hence,SAW MILLER
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: sawguy21 on April 14, 2006, 12:38:54 PM
Quote from: Tim L on April 10, 2006, 07:14:49 PM
I'm not very bright but thats what it says on the mittens my wife clipped on my coat !

:D :D :D :D :D :D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: DoubleD on April 14, 2006, 03:15:44 PM
However you call me Davide Dade DD or DoubleD there are always two D  ;D ;D smiley_divide smiley_divide
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: mudpupdave on April 14, 2006, 10:59:48 PM
Hi ya'll,
I was 16 years old when I got into drywall finishing, I was the youngest finisher on a crew of 4.....they kept calling me the "pup" soon it became "mudpup" on one of our jobs we were doing lathe and plaster-about 25-30 feet in the air.... it was too hard climbing up and down so we started slinging the plaster to each other and I was able to hit my target about 90% of the time..they started calling me "mudslinger" but I kept mudpup......
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: jon12345 on April 14, 2006, 11:35:49 PM
My name is Jon and I like the number 12,345. :D  Really I was just in a hurry to sign on and couldn't think of anything good at the time. :)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: asy on April 15, 2006, 01:27:52 AM
Quote from: jon12345 on April 14, 2006, 11:35:49 PM
My name is Jon and I like the number 12,345. :D 

You'll like the fourth of may then... 

Early in the morning on the 4th May the time will be:  01:02:03 04/05/06   :D

asy :D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Paschale on April 15, 2006, 02:48:44 PM
In America, that date has already happened.  That would be the fifth of April, according to the way we label dates over on this side of the pond.  Doesn't make much sense, does it?   ::)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: SPIKER on April 16, 2006, 06:05:32 PM
I've had my nickname since I was active duty in Military:  had a longer spiked hair flat top:   it stands straight up on it's own and straight OUT so I look like I have a FRO as it grows out.   though I also had a reputation for emumm chasing & catching manny of the oposite sexs too ;) so the guys knew for both reasons wy my nickname was what it is and well the girls only got 1/2 the story :D O0 smiley_biggrin01

Mark M AKA SPIKER
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: james on April 16, 2006, 08:56:00 PM
two parts
iv had this handle since jul 13 of 1961 ,
.
..
...
i tend not to caitalize things when typing ;D
james (lee baker)
see ma , no capitals :D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: IMERC on April 18, 2006, 02:40:46 AM
I was covering for an electrical contractor in a grain mill while he was out fer surgery...
while I was there I fixed several other things for some other contractors that couldn't show in the alloted time...
After a while the plant manager would just tell me to fix "it".. what ever "it" was

when I gave him the bills for about a month's work / living there he had "a lot" to say... including you are some kind of Industrial MERCenary...
must not have been too bad because I had the preferred slot for over two years after that...
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Raphael on August 22, 2006, 01:10:47 PM
I always wanted to be a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.  :D ;D :D

  Actually I was already using my real name on the Timber Framers Guild's Ask the Experts BBS and my first post here was to the TF/Log Building forum so I used it here for consistancy.
  My usual handle (CB, BBS, usenet, etc.) is Archangel, I got it before I was born but after I was named.  An artist friend asked my mother if I was going to become a famous artist and she replied "No, he's going to become an Archangel".  No pressure, eh?  ;D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: jack on August 22, 2006, 02:51:34 PM
Ya it was me muther,  but my screename in most other parts is DIRTDOCTORjak@aol.com   As a soil guy,  prevayor of fine organic soils,  one of my customers gave me the Dirt doctor... so it stuck,
I didnt use it on this forum so i could track what traffic was from the FF or what SPAM came from the FF.......and ya know what?
its only been traffic,,  no spam,.  good work FF>

Jack aka dirtdoctor
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Sprucegum on August 22, 2006, 10:25:36 PM
We moved to the country when I was 6 years old and I was told I could get chewing gum right off the trees!

I tried and tried but no matter how hard I chewed that DanG stuff still taste like Spruce  >:(   ???
I expected it to taste just like store-bought.  :D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: tcsmpsi on August 23, 2006, 03:13:43 PM
I got/formed it when we got internet service in town about 10 yrs ago (local phone company).  When I went in to sign up for it, as it was for the business(s), I just used the first letters of the two dba's.  As time has gone by, I have found that I have to have a LOT of usernames (many of which have to be of specific configurations), and use the original as much as possible to keep from having to remember and/or write down and keep up with so many.  It is also one that is never taken (unless I already have) and never had to wrestle .com for. 
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: limbrat on August 24, 2006, 03:19:45 AM
The only night of the year that i have trouble sleeping cause im excited is the one before squirrel season starts.
When i was in junior high we were taking a easy test i started making cat squirrel distress calls whistles,chirps and grunts. Didnt realize i was doing it got caught,got in trouble, got named. ;D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: joelmar10 on August 24, 2006, 05:33:23 PM
Joel is my first name, though I went by Joey and Joe at different stages in my life.  My mother named me after my grandpa Joseph, but didn't like the name Joseph.  She also named my brother Jody after my grandpa (huh?!).  She was married to a Mr. Martin whose surname I share.  Then about fifteen years ago she had her first two initials followed by MAR10 on her license plate.  I started using joelmar10 when I got my first email account years ago and have used it ever since.  And I still get a chuckle when someone online addresses me as joelmar.   My name somehow remains hidden in plain sight.    smiley_curtain_peek
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: jon12345 on August 24, 2006, 10:18:35 PM
I feel your pain Joel, I've been addressed as Jon12345 several times  :D :D :D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: IMERC on August 27, 2006, 05:17:27 AM
Quote from: 3584ELK on December 07, 2005, 10:31:11 PM
I am a big elk hunter, and like most of you folks, post on more than one forum.  SO...my favorite elk rifle is chambered to .358 Norma Magnum, hence 358, then 4 to substitute as "for" and the ELK is self explanatory.  So, 358 for elk.   I even had a Colorado license plate made with that moniker!   :)
why such large artillery.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: DWM II on December 24, 2006, 11:21:44 PM
Been reading thru, heres me. Born Donald Wayne Myers II. named after my dads best friend who by coeincidence had the same last name as his. He didnt make it back from Veitnam. I got named in his honor. I chose LA. Sawyer because thats what I what to be and with the help and advice I am slowly learning to be that. Thanks to folks like everyone here that anserwers these posts. I wasnt trying to rip-off Arky or Va. ;D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: DanG on December 24, 2006, 11:40:21 PM
LA. SAWYER makes a good user name, but I keep thinkin' you're from Lower Alabama until I look at your location. ;) :D :D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Furby on December 24, 2006, 11:48:18 PM
I keep thinking he's milling in Lost Angels, but it don't take long to relize that wouldn't be practical. :D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Jeff on December 24, 2006, 11:50:26 PM
Thats what I think everytime I see it, then I think Cheech and Chong, then it gets weird. :D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: sgtmaconga on December 25, 2006, 02:28:10 AM
I got mine because of my place on the police department. i'm a sergeant, in macon, ga.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: blaze83 on December 25, 2006, 02:52:52 AM
Well, I just use my nickname  blaze  short for blasenhauer and the year I graduated from hish school   1983   hence  Blaze83 .......wish I had a better story :D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: DWM II on December 25, 2006, 07:31:29 AM
Cheech and Chong! Thats funny. Nope Im a long way from that LA, thank God. I might have to consider a new handle. Do they even have trees left in Los Angles? What can you build with those palms in Beverly Hills?

Donnie
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Tom on December 25, 2006, 03:04:08 PM
QuoteWhat can you build with those palms in Beverly Hills?

They're working on Jesus Christ, but I don't think they have realized yet that there will be only one.  :D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: scgargoyle on December 25, 2006, 05:11:29 PM
On a lot of forums, I'm flgargoyle (Florida + gargoyle). But since all I care about anymore is getting up to my woodlot in South Carolina, I figured scgargoyle is more where my head (and heart) is at. Why gargoyle? As I get older, I'm startin' to look like one!
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: DWM II on December 25, 2006, 07:28:57 PM
Couldnt stand it no longer, had to get some seperation from Los Angles and Cheech and Chong. ;)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: WDH on December 25, 2006, 11:47:51 PM
My initials.  In the company I started with, all inter-office correspondence was with your initials,  so it kinda stuck.   

Also easy to remember!  I enjoyed reading and learning a little about the members here; this should be required reading for all new members. 
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: DanG on December 26, 2006, 12:13:36 AM
DWM II, I'm sorta glad you changed your user name, in a way.  It's not that LA. SAWYER wasn't a good name, 'cause it was a really good one.  But, your real name has a lot of meaning.  Your Dad named you after someone he really respected.  By honoring him, he has honored you even more.  Wear that name with pride!  Whenever I see the name "DWM II", I'll think "Donald Wayne Myers", and I'll know where it came from. ;)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: saddletramp on December 26, 2006, 12:39:20 AM
Lots of good stories here. Back in younger wilder days ranches in the sandhills would hire day hands in the spring. Work at a ranch for 2 or 3 days maybe a week, collect your pay and they would send ya down the road to another ranch. Do the same there. Rode the sandhills quite a bit South Dakota some and even lease ground on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Worked mostly cattle but a few buffallo too. Ranchers called us saddle tramps. Many fond memories but too old to do it now. Thats my story.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Raider Bill on December 26, 2006, 09:23:48 AM
My Passion, the Oakland Raiders. I was named Raider Bill by a long time friend many years ago while we served together in SEA Although, most years lately it's been a hard name to have. MAybe next year....................
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: LedlieLogs on December 26, 2006, 09:52:34 PM
My great grandfather, his wife and another couple came to America together. The New World. They both had son's in the first year, born within a week of each other. Our side the "Conger" side and there side the "Ledlie" side. The son on our side was named Ledlie Conger and the son on the Ledlie side was named Conger Ledlie. I'm the III and my son is the IV. The "logs" came from my board of directors at the camp. I did not want to look at kit cabins for the camp, wanted to mill and build myself. So in there love for my hard headed ways the saying "Ledlie Logs, No Kit, No S#@%" came to be. I still wear it with pride. One little cabin built and more on the way for less money than just one kit.
LedlieLogs
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: blueduck on December 27, 2006, 09:56:40 PM
blueduck was my chosen cb handle way back when two ways were fashionable [like they ever werent or still arent?] and as the internet came about being available to me i just naturally progressed to using it, found out i could get by with the haxoring kids if i changed my blueduck to Blu3duk and all of a sudden i had split personalities, and i got more knowledge of computers to the point my sawmill set for a whole year without me doing more than starting it up a couple times to make sure it was still runnable and to keep the wasps out of it....

so i am present on the net with a couple of handles but they are still me or I them.  and once in awhile at a rendezvous you can ketch ole blueduck a shooting fer hair.

William
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Blue Duck on December 28, 2006, 07:57:17 AM
Well a half dozen years ago I started taking on other peoples coon dogs to train and needed to declare it as a business in order to take my allotted deductions from my income taxes for the IRS.  I decided to call it Ghost River Kennels.  I'm also a waterfowler and a huge Lonesome Dove fan so my, like the other gentleman, my CB handle has been Blue Duck since about 1992 and that's the username that I go by an another dozen or so message boards.  This morning I noticed a post by blue duck and thought "I didn't type that" and realized I wasn't he only duck here.  Sure enough he was here first so I changed my handle to my logging business name Ghost River Timber Company.  But if your ever in western NC  and you see a good looking old International straight truck go by with a shiny blue paint job, Im still answering to Blue Duck on 19.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: sparks on December 28, 2006, 08:19:03 AM
Back when I worked in the automotive repair industry, I was working under the hood when my watch band touched a hot wire and the engine block at the same time. Sparks went flying off my wrist and my sympathetic coworkers gave me the name. Haven't worn a watch when I'm working on equipment since.  :-\
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Hi-Country Orange on December 28, 2006, 11:53:01 AM
my wm 70 runs @ 9500' to 10,000' most of the time so i figure that qualifies as Hi- Country Orange 8)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: jbeat on December 28, 2006, 12:43:01 PM
Short for John Beathard. Helen and Harold layed the name on me 55 years ago. Been called many other things since-jbeat is one of the better.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: thecfarm on May 23, 2007, 08:44:44 PM
Would like to see how the new members got thier user names.This makes for some nice reading.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: metalspinner on May 23, 2007, 09:38:58 PM
That's what I do for a living.  It's kind of a mouthful, or should I say a fingerful to type, but "Spinner" was taken when I signed up.  It's a cool thing to see, but the large production runs are boring, so I check in here every now and then to see what's new. :)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Loghead on May 24, 2007, 10:39:15 AM
I just seem to always have my favorite (Loghead) hat on and am destin to be a Loghead!
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: fishman on May 24, 2007, 04:59:49 PM
when ya have the only fresh fish market in 100 mile radius, they ain't much else to be called ;D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Jeff on May 24, 2007, 05:07:50 PM
Quote from: fishman on May 24, 2007, 04:59:49 PM
when ya have the only fresh fish market in 100 mile radius, they ain't much else to be called ;D

Oops, for a second I thought I was in the "Smells that make me happy" thread. I'm glad I'm not.  :D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: fishman on May 24, 2007, 06:07:50 PM
 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D   ya, that works too ;D ;D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Paschale on May 24, 2007, 06:32:50 PM
Quote from: metalspinner on May 23, 2007, 09:38:58 PM
That's what I do for a living.  It's kind of a mouthful, or should I say a fingerful to type, but "Spinner" was taken when I signed up.  It's a cool thing to see, but the large production runs are boring, so I check in here every now and then to see what's new. :)

I have some of metalspinner's spun metal here at home, in the form of a terrific trombone mute.  Yup...as part of his work, he makes some awesome mutes.  It's one of the best I've ever tried, and it's my "go to" mute now.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: WDH on May 24, 2007, 07:26:08 PM
OK........so what is a trombone mute ???.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: beenthere on May 24, 2007, 07:57:05 PM
Ya prefer dat da guy in front of ya stuffs it in yur horn, and not summers else.....but it does quiet things down..... ;D

Paschale can 'splain it better.. :)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Tom on May 24, 2007, 08:01:08 PM
Now that you mention it, I'm curious if there is any difference in a Metal mute as opposed to a wooden mute, or  a Derby hat?   And, is a Wow Wow really any different than any other kind of mute, or is it the way the instrument is played?
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: metalspinner on May 24, 2007, 08:07:39 PM
Yes, Tom, all of those things have different sounds and are played in different ways.  In fact, the type of metal the mute is made of effects the tone quality as well.  Certain passages need a particular "color" of tone.  We have over 20 different trumpet mutes alone in our line.

QuoteYa prefer dat da guy in front of ya stuffs it in yur horn, and not summers else...

That is very funny. :D :D  Around here, the trumpet section sits right behind the violas in the orchestra - within 6'.  Its pretty funny to us (the trumpet section) but they do not think it is very funny at all. :D :D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: happyj on May 24, 2007, 11:45:51 PM
Combination of what my folks called be growing up and when i played football.
My folks called me happy because is am a junior and my dad did not want people to call me junior or jr. Then when i was playing football some of the team started calling me happy - j
I can not even answer to my real name because i never heard it even when roll call would come around someone would have to poke me. At one point i planned to add it legally but man that would create all sorts of issues this far along in life. loans, social security, retirement...
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: musikwerke on August 01, 2007, 08:31:41 PM
A number of years ago I was doing a fair amount of musical antique repair - enough so that even though it was part-time, I figured that I ought to be claiming it as income.  Then I thought that if I did that I should file as a business and get the benefits of the deductions that are allowed for such.  Then I thought that I should have a name for my business and being the cheap, I mean financially conservative, person that I am, I tried to come up with a unique name that had my name in it so that people could find me in the phone book without my having to pay for a commercial listing.  Not having any luck with my imagination, one night I happened to glance at the Austrian made barrel orchestrion in my collection and there in plain site was the beveled glass nameplate " Oskar Scheuring's Musikwerke, Ebermannstadt"  My problem was solved.  I simply changed the first part to John Powers' and the last part to Harpswell.  I has come in handy on the Internet.  I have yet to register anywhere on-line and find that it has already been used!
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Handy Andy on August 02, 2007, 10:46:25 PM
  More than 30 years ago I did a couple school terms as a shop teacher.  The kids named me "Handy Andy".  Still consider some of them friends.  Jim
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Warbird on August 03, 2007, 12:32:41 AM
I've been "Warbird" online since before there was a world wide web.  Chose it because 'phoenix' was too common and I like war planes.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: zopi on January 11, 2008, 08:35:33 PM
Zopi is short for Elzopilote...which means "buzzard" in spanish....cribbed it out of The Milagro Beanfield War....the New Mexico Trilogy...it was an insult in the book for a guy who was quite the *** hole...i've always been compared favorably with killer the buzzard...mama done tol' me......to bring her some dinner.....

hence....zopi...

and,
www.buzzardscustompaint.com

it's a hobby.

go figure...harley black and orange...and woodmizer black and orange...coincidence?


nahh.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: DanG on January 11, 2008, 09:19:56 PM
Wow, Zopi!  Dat's yo' work?  Really nice stuff! 8)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: zopi on January 11, 2008, 10:07:19 PM
Yep..that's me...and got started by accident too...my wife is a writer/journalist/wood splitter/off bearer ;D and she wanted to do some work in motorcycles....we did a buch of product reviews (free stuff! Woohoo!)  and the deitor wanted something technical...so i did a home powder coating how to....first one thing and the next we are airbrushing helmets...holy cow! i can do this!

did a couple of bikes and helmets and it takes off....

it is ust a hobby business at this point...maybe i'll try to go full time whne i retire out of Navy....or maybe i will be a sawin' ;D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Tom on January 11, 2008, 10:11:29 PM
Or get a camper trailer and set up shop on the road.  The Good airbrush artists work  Daytona on Bike week (they are there a couple of weeks) and don't have to work the rest of the year unless it turns them on.  You have to build a name.  Sign everything you do.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: zopi on January 12, 2008, 09:27:15 AM
Quote from: Tom on January 11, 2008, 10:11:29 PM
Or get a camper trailer and set up shop on the road.  The Good airbrush artists work  Daytona on Bike week (they are there a couple of weeks) and don't have to work the rest of the year unless it turns them on.  You have to build a name.  Sign everything you do.

Funny you should mention that...I built my studio in a 28ft Haulmark jobsite trailer...office, studio and spray booth.

I really try to stay away from the big shows...If I go full time It will be necessary though.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Bill on January 13, 2008, 12:48:17 AM
I mighta made it up -

Seems that when I went to my first ever day of school the kids couldn't or wouldn't use my    right first name ( don't remember nor know whether any bloody noses were involved ) but when I went home seems I announced to my folks that from then on I was to be known as Bill. Mighta been the teach offering a nickname off my middle name - probably what happened but it's turned out to be handy - when there's a call or mail for my first name ( which I use for legal type documents ) everyone knows to be on guard because anyone I've met calls me Bill.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: sleepy on January 13, 2008, 10:25:01 PM
I'm a truck driver and I am not a morning person  ::). When I was training to drive we would leave out early in the morning. When my trainer was driving I would often doze off. He gave me the CB handle "Sleepy" after the seven dwarfs. It stuck, now some of my fellow drivers don't even know my real name and I've kinda gotten attached to it.  I guess you could say I earned it. ;D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: a old timberjack on January 14, 2008, 07:51:00 AM
sounds like i am a old fart, but i am a young guy ( 35 ) but my old beast is just  A OLD TIMBERJACK .
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Piston on February 29, 2008, 08:57:35 AM
i wanted to name my dog "Piston" i guess cause i love anything with an engine, and enjoy tearing them apart (its gettin em back together that can get confusing  :D) i thought it would be a cool name for an english mastiff, well when we got our mastiff, he already had a name, so i guess i figured i  needed to use it somewhere...
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: thecfarm on March 15, 2008, 08:59:59 AM
New members,tell us how.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: sawdust on March 15, 2008, 10:16:42 AM

Zopi, you mention home powdercoating. This is possible then? I would like to be able to coat my jigs. I used to take them to a shop but our area is so booming that it took three weeks turnaround. To speed things up I would take any color they were doing that day and the varying paint thickness would interfere with the working of the jig.
where am I going here.... do you have a copy of your article or can you suggest a book?
and Is it difficult?

much appreciated. Sawdust
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: snowman on March 15, 2008, 11:45:41 AM
My user name was my nickname before I ever discovered these dang computers. In winter I don't wear a raincoat, they make me sweat. I wear wool instead and the snow from trees unloading on me all day just sticks.That and the frosted beard as I came up out of my strip each day earned me the name. Riggin crew always joked, "here comes snowman". I guess it's better than griz which was my nick name when I was hookin. :D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: SwingOak on March 16, 2008, 12:24:42 PM
I've got lurchers - three of them at the moment. I like lurchers!

Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: SwingOak on March 16, 2008, 12:29:12 PM
Quote from: sawdust on March 15, 2008, 10:16:42 AM

Zopi, you mention home powdercoating. This is possible then? I would like to be able to coat my jigs. I used to take them to a shop but our area is so booming that it took three weeks turnaround. To speed things up I would take any color they were doing that day and the varying paint thickness would interfere with the working of the jig.
where am I going here.... do you have a copy of your article or can you suggest a book?
and Is it difficult?

much appreciated. Sawdust

One of the guys who works in my department builds trials and dirt bikes as a hobby, he likes the old Hodakas and Zundap motors. He's got a full machine shop in his basement and garage, and bought a used electric oven for powder coat curing. There's lots information on the internet about home powder coating, it's not hard to do but requires a investment of a few hundred bucks in equipment. It's worth it if you are going to be doing a lot of it.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: masonjar on March 18, 2008, 11:06:07 PM
The beverage i was drinking at the moment i registered was from a "masonjar"! Couldn't think of anything else.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: mad dog on March 20, 2008, 09:00:25 AM
                                                                                                                                                       It was my nickname at work,I was a locomotive engineer-conductor for thirty years. I had another nickname ,HH short for heater-hater
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: KarenKae on March 21, 2008, 09:29:27 AM
I made part of it up.  I was born Karen Johnston, then married a KOHLBACHER, then a POLK and after they run off with other women, I decided to have my OWN name.  So... Karen is still my first name and K A E is Karen without the R and N.
I am happily married to a Skaggs boy now, but still use the Karen Kae for all online and written work, since I write books too.
All my e-mails are kkaek@ whatever.. aol, hotmail, gmail. ect. I was a road saleman for MANY.. MANY years and anytime my old clients see the kkaek name somewhere.. they know it is me.. NATIONWIDE.
Karen Ann Skaggs, now happy wife.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: asy on March 21, 2008, 12:03:50 PM
Hey Karen!

A friend of mine did something similar. She separated from her husband, then he took his own life, leaving her to explain to two small children why he'd gone :( . She didn't want to keep his name, but didn't feel it right to go back to her 'unmarried' name, so she chose the surname Francis, because she loves the story of St Francis.

Must admit, I've gone back to my Maiden name, it feels odd, but it's only my Mum and I with it now. Stephanie wants to change her name to that, too, but I won't let her. Even though she doesn't see her father anymore, I've told her she has to wait till she's 18 and then maybe. I would rather she didn't burn her bridges with her father. They may patch things up one day (I don't hold much hope, but still...).

Anyway, I think it's a great idea in the situation you found yourself. Good on you.

asy :D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: olyman on March 21, 2008, 06:35:05 PM
mine--cause the first chainsaw i bought--to heat the house with,was a olympyk. Then i sold them and johnys for a few years,till the big box stores!!!! And now am slowly collecting, and using them, as i get them rebuilt.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: kd5udb on April 17, 2008, 02:57:21 PM
Hi all, Im new here and just wanted to say hi to all. To answer the question, my user name is just my ham radio call sign. I use it on all of the forums that I am signed up on.

Chris 
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Jeff on April 17, 2008, 09:17:27 PM
Hey there. Welcome to the Forum. I think I'll call ya kd5 for short... ;)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Jeff on April 17, 2008, 09:19:12 PM
kd5, you just gave be a flash of memory. Something I figured I would have forgot years ago. My registered call letters on the C.B were kbip9252  Back then that was like a forum handle. :D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: WDH on April 17, 2008, 09:31:20 PM
Welcome kd5!!
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: PineNut on April 17, 2008, 09:57:46 PM
Welcome KD5

Pinenut     W 5 V V E
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: olyman on April 18, 2008, 08:55:55 AM
Quote from: biglake on July 07, 2005, 06:37:10 PM
I've got a camp on the largest fresh water lake in the world (Lake Superior), so thought biglake would fit.
;D
also known as schagumey????  edmund fitzgerald??? ;D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Jeff on April 18, 2008, 08:58:51 AM
Thats Gitche Gumee  and ojiwa word meaningbig water.  Edmund Fitzgerald  was a freighter, not a lake.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: olyman on April 18, 2008, 09:10:58 AM
jeff--i know the freighter--i was referring to that so he knew what i meant by the lakes indian name---
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Leslieann on April 23, 2008, 06:26:07 PM
I just used my name  :D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Woodchuck53 on April 24, 2008, 02:13:22 AM
MORNING ALL, STILL NAVIGATING THE PAGES AND THOUGHT I WOULD ADD MY 2 CENTS WORTH.  MINES EASY MY NAME IS CHUCK AND I HAVE BEEN INTO  WOOD MY WHOLE LIFE  BUILDING BARNS AND SHOPS. BUILT MY HOME AND ALMOST ALL THE FURNITURE. OH AND THIS MAY I TURN 53. HAVE A GOOD ONE. CV
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: timberfaller390 on April 29, 2008, 01:55:04 PM
Timberfaller is self explanatory and the 390 is cause I run a MS390
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Dodgy Loner on April 29, 2008, 11:21:55 PM
I'm a big fan of dendrology (tree identification).  I spend a lot of time alone in the woods just looking at trees.  One day for reasons I cannot explain, I realized that the word "dendrology" could be rearrenged to spell "dodgy loner".  Although I don't consider myself to be either dodgy or a loner, I found the irony to be irresistable.  I gave a hint of where my name came from in my profile, but so far Swamp Donkey has been the only one to figure it out (or at least the only one to tell me about it).  It was mentioned in a thread in the Tree and Plant ID section (where else?) a while back.  So there you have it. :)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: old joe on June 26, 2008, 04:58:52 PM
my son and I share the name Joe .I used to be big Joe he was little Joe  There must be something in the water in Alabama. He is 6'3  and now I'm old Joe
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: JimMartin9999 on June 26, 2008, 07:59:44 PM
I´m not very original.  I tried to use my name and found out there were literally thousands of Jim Martins.  I added numbers until I got tired  and then just jumped to 9999.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Radar67 on October 28, 2008, 10:54:07 AM
Bumping this back to the top. There are several new members I'm curious about, Zopi for one.  ;)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Dave Shepard on October 29, 2008, 09:09:43 PM
zopi spilled the beans somewhere, but I don't remember. It's short for something I can't remember how to spell or pronounce. Possibly a mythical Greek figure?
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: bd354 on October 29, 2008, 10:10:34 PM

Stole it from a friend of mine who always calls himself BIG DADDY, all 140 lbs of him. since i'm over twice his size i thought it fit me better. added my birthmonth and year. plus he doesn't know i stole it.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: fstedy on December 12, 2009, 05:39:57 PM
Bump to top
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Banjo picker on December 12, 2009, 05:56:23 PM
Mine is pretty self explanitory....but I am glad someone bumped it back to the top....Don't know how I have missed it so far....Tim
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Hilltop366 on December 12, 2009, 07:59:57 PM
My house is on top of a hill & 366 is my civic #.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Magicman on December 12, 2009, 08:20:26 PM
OK, in a former life as a telephone equipment technician I would get the call on the really difficult cases.whiteflag_smiley  After I arrived, the problems usually disappeared......like magic.smiley_thumbsup  My co-workers nicknamed me the Magicman, and after these many years, they still call me Magicman. 
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: WDH on December 12, 2009, 08:23:08 PM
I am going to start calling you the Cherry-Magic Man after seeing that cherry lumber you just sawed  :).
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Magicman on December 12, 2009, 10:18:41 PM
Thanks WDH.  And thanks FF for a great read......all 16 pages and 300 post.  In my short time here you have learned a bit about me, and now I know a bit about some of you.  You are truly a great bunch..... :)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Chuck White on December 12, 2009, 10:54:10 PM
I thought I was already in this thread, but I guess not!

Anyhow, my username is just me.   I am into so many forums, it would be confusing to have a different username for each of them, so I just use my own!
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Meadows Miller on December 13, 2009, 08:21:43 AM
Gday

This is the reason for my username  ;) Ive loved them since i saw this one getting put together out of the box by my Grandfather,Uncles and Dad back in 84  ;) ;D ;D 8) 8)



(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/17724/2195/gates_sawmil_weddingl_146%7E0.jpg)

(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/17724/2195/gates_sawmil_weddingl_137.jpg)

(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/17724/2195/gates_sawmil_weddingl_142.jpg)

the old girl should be up and running like new  ;D within the next few months as ive just taken on a business partener  ;) ;D 8) 8) but then again hes also got me looking into a brand new auto meadows aswell  :o :) but we'll see what happens as i reckon we could upgrade this one to auto for about $30K extra ;) ;D ;D 8)

Regards Chris
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: mcfcfan on December 13, 2009, 08:46:36 PM
Got mine when i came to live in New Zealand some 16 years ago.
MCFC are the initials of my favorite soccer team Manchester City Football Club, the FAN is exactly that fan.
I still played a little bit when i came over and the local guys just used to call me mcfc for some reason, still really not sure why, i think it was because they only new of Manchester United at that time.
:'( ::)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: motohed on December 14, 2009, 04:20:34 PM
It started The day I was born , We just didn't know it yet . My dad was proud and is proud , My mom worked days and my dad worked third shift . I was with him every minute of every day when I was a baby until I started school we did just about every thing together . He taught me everything  and I mean everything , how to fix rearend gears anything mechanical ,weld and fabricate any thing you name it ,he was and  he is smart ! He even taught me to drive standard when I was four , my uncle drove up , my dad and I were just driving the old truck all over the field ,well I was driving he was riding , and I seen my favorite uncle and stopped ! He walked up to the door , and joked with dad , and in the process called me motohead . My father reamed him out . I was no motohead and my name was Scott ! My uncle , said the usual sorry , and everything was as if it never happened ! Well it did , I heard it and I liked it .I thought it was cool. I knew better than to interrupt an adult when they were talking ,but when they finished I piped up and ask dad ,why can't I be motohead ! He answered in that voice we all know , Because I said so ! Well that was that ,and I knew better than to challenge  again.   I started to learn to read and write with my father , before I ever started school which was a short time after that . I was also learning to spell ,and on the side I was  trying to spell motohead , but I spelled it by myself and it came out motohed ,over and over . Well My dad was looking through the spelling he was teaching me an seen I had spelled motohed ,he  said good job but thats not the way to spell your old motohed , he giggled an said let it go son . Well I did , and a couple month past and dad got a new jeep ,(new to him) he was happy and said to mom he was going to jack it up and do something . Well I heard that and got busy , I was going to do him proud ! I got the two bumper jacks and jacked it all the way up one on each end perfect ! I'm getting ready to climb under and next thing I know my fathers got me , and he's beating my you know what , and I am screaming at the top of my lungs ! Next thing I know he's got me up hugging me so hard I can't even breath ! The new jeep is still up on the two jacks about 3 feet off the ground ! He calms down , mom calms down ,here I am shocked and holding my rear end with one hand and both of them with the other , we are sitting on the door step . we sit there for what seems like a long time  to me ! He finally gets up says son don't ever do that again you could have been hurt or killed ! ( well my rear end was hurt and I felt like I was killed ) He said with all I have taught you , I have never thought to teach you the most important lesson of all , safety ! He was mad ,upset with himself ! I think mom was mad at him a little too ,and I think it's the only time I ever seen him shed a tear ! He started walking to the jeep with me watching , it fell before he got there and snapped the axle off ,he turned to me an said see ! Well you bet I seen and I was  smart too ! I was lucky to get that safety lesson from dad , not the experience  ! I still spell things wrong all the time , nut  I always remember safety ! Oh and I also remember dad calling my favorite uncle , hearing him say , wait till I tell you what your little motohed did today ! Oh I forgot about the jeep , funny it never moved and we never had bumper jacks after that experience .I asked dad when I was older if I could have that jeep and he said over his dead body !  He is still alive ,and its in the same place ,and I shiver forty five years later , when I go home to see dad ! My mom's been gone over twelve years now , dad and I sit on the step  and we can feel her holding us . I still drive fast and take chances !  Ride it like you stole it   ,  has always been my motto !
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Ole CB on December 15, 2009, 04:20:14 PM
  I don't have near the story that motohed does.

  When I joined the USN they decided that I'd be a BU (Builder/Carpenter) in the SeaBees (CB). This was at a time when if you let people know you were in the service you would most likely be spit on and called baby killer.  I'm older now and happily things have changed...    As a carpenter, I've worked on from tunnels to highrises. Some of my best and worst memories are from the Bee's! Still have the same attitude. If you ever have the chance to watch the movie, "John Wayne and The Fighting SeaBees." there is a scene you should pay close attention to. This old dragline operator snags an enemy soldier in his bucket, jumps out and shoots the guy, then releases the bucket and drops him, another Bee runs up and asks, "Why'd ya shoot him." the answer is, "I was afraid the fall would kill him!"

ed
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: easymoney on December 15, 2009, 08:36:44 PM
on page one someone mentioned mixing oxygen and acetylene in a baloon to make a boom. in the late 78s i was working for an auto dealership body shop in nashville one day business was slow and someone came in with a baloon, he handed it to me and i turned on the oxygen and then a bit of acetylenr to blow it up. i tied it off when it was about as big as a basketball and threw it on the floor. one of the other fellows threw a cigarette at it it wen fooom and the rafters shook. people came from the front showroom wanting to know what blew up. a brown cloud slowly drifted from the rafters. it was lucky that no one was holding the baloon when it was hit with that cigarette. i will have to say do not try that at home.
oh where my user name came from. for some one reason a friend used to call me easy money every time he saw me. he was the only one who has ever called me that. i thought that might be better than some things i have been called. ;D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: sawdust on August 02, 2010, 10:43:10 PM
I have often been grateful for the names that did not stick! Some would be difficult to explain.

sawdust, cause my pockets usually have some.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Brad_bb on August 02, 2010, 11:24:36 PM
Mine comes from my name.  I have two b's in my last name.  It was also one of my first email addresses.  I use the same name on the other forums I haunt - Timber framers guild, Chevytalk, yesterdays tractors, Performance years pontiac, and a number of others.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: mad murdock on August 03, 2010, 04:18:14 PM
When I was younger, I was a bit crazy, whatever I did, I attacked it head on, full steam ahead.  I started flying airplanes at 16, and about the same time the A-team was a hit show on TV.  My buddies in HS, started calling me mad murdock, after the character on the A-Team show.  Still involved in aviation after all of these years, between stints in the woods, now and again to keep the "itch" satisfied, along with carving out a board now and again.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Buck on August 03, 2010, 09:43:20 PM
Allright folks....Thomas Theodore Switzer III....I didnt even make it home from the hospital and dad had nicknamed me Buck....You will see me around as Buck, Bucko,daddybucko@yahoo.com,Thomas, Tom, Big tom,       Just dont call me late for supper.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Jeff on August 03, 2010, 09:46:59 PM
How about LFS?  ;)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Buck on August 03, 2010, 09:59:16 PM
 ???  hmmmm, hadnt worn that one.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Jeff on August 03, 2010, 10:28:44 PM
Late For Supper  ;)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Rooster on August 03, 2010, 11:53:35 PM
I started out on this forum through an invitation by Jim_Rogers.  I became a member in the hopes of drumming up some support for an up coming public barn raising that I was co-hosting...and since Jim used his name, so did I   (Craig Roost).  But I have had the nick-name Rooster for as long as I can remember.  In fact, every male child in our family since Great-grand dad came over on the boat in 1906 has had that nickname once we started school.  It's hard for the other kids not to make the "fun connection".

So just recently Jeff let me change my username to Rooster. 

And just like I told my son when he started school....

Don't get upset, it's going to be your name from now on,...wear it with pride!
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Buck on August 04, 2010, 07:41:33 AM
Jeff, we do get Monday night football on wednesday and they pump sunshine in here twice dailly but I was with you on the LFS. :D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: 01crewcab on August 04, 2010, 11:15:37 AM
I drive an 01 Ford crewcab, not much more to it than that. ;)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: wood monger on August 04, 2010, 08:40:23 PM
Back when I was an urban forester,(part owner of a tree service), people always stopped to ask what we were doing with the wood. We used to call them wood buzzards or wood vultures. When I joined this forum I didn't want to be a buzzard or vulture, so I opted for monger. I believe this implies that I sell firewood, but I don't, I just always keep my ear to the ground to hear of any cheap,(free), wood. I heat with wood so I'm always looking for it.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: petefrom bearswamp on August 08, 2010, 08:55:05 PM
Nothin fancy just my name and where I live
pete
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: jdtuttle on August 09, 2010, 06:14:12 AM
Jim Douglas Tuttle Hill Road, JDTuttle
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Planman1954 on August 09, 2010, 09:31:13 PM
I draw house plans...for 32 years....born in '54. Hence the handle...Planman1954.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: jamesamd on August 10, 2010, 11:04:59 PM
I'm a disabled Vet,memory ,not very good,head injury....1975 april I think....
Name,James....first computer I built by myself in 1995 needed a logon I could remember.
I had used a AMD CPU,I think it was a 200 MHZ chip with Win 95.

Only name I've ever used,'cause I can remember it!
Jim
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Pudge on August 13, 2010, 04:55:21 PM
Named a cat Pudge cause when she sat down as a kitten she looked like a fat budda man with all her hair fluffed out. Couldn't come up with anything else and I am pudgy so it fit.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Burlkraft on August 13, 2010, 05:04:15 PM
Welcome Pudge, it's good that you are here  ;)  ;)  ;)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: pyrocasto on November 09, 2010, 05:26:57 PM
Got mine for being the biggest firebug alive. Grew up burning stuff and blowing stuff up. Couldnt stop lighting myself on fire or shooting fireworks. Now I shoot professional fireworks occasionally and still play will fire even more than when I was a kid. Just intrigues me too much still. Casto is my last name. So this is the name I use for the internets.

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Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: bill m on November 09, 2010, 06:36:10 PM
My parents gave it to me on my birthday ;D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Holmes on November 09, 2010, 06:51:17 PM
Holmes is my middle name given to me in honor of my dads mother. Her maiden name was Holmes and she stayed alive just long enough to see me born and named.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: JamesE. PikeLogging on November 10, 2010, 03:02:09 PM
mine is my dads loggin business
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: ibseeker on November 12, 2010, 12:44:45 PM
Well, I live in Imperial Beach...IB...and I've always been curious about lot's of stuff so I'm always seeking knowledge...seeker...now if I could just retain what I found, maybe I could change it to...knowing! That'll never happen!
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Black_Bear on November 14, 2010, 07:15:09 AM
University of Maine BLACK BEARS!!
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Postman on November 20, 2010, 06:18:37 PM
Retired Mailman, 54501. . . . Karl
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: whiskers on November 20, 2010, 07:31:35 PM
threw the wristwatch, necktie and razor off a bridge on retirement day, still celebrating three years later. along the way granddaughter likened me to a neighbor's goat with lots of whiskers.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: caveman on November 20, 2010, 10:33:02 PM
While filling out the application to join the forestry forum I realized that I needed a user name.  Years ago when one had to register a name and buy a license from the FCC to operate a VHF radio, which I needed on my fishing boat, we regiestered as Captain Caveman.  About a week or so before joining the forum an old man at church told me that I looked like a caveman due to my disheveled appearence (my hair and beard tend to grow quite a bit in the summer due to lack of maintenance).  I resisted telling him to return to Michigan and actually found his comment quite humerous and decided that it would make a good user name for me. 
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Hanson on November 20, 2010, 11:13:11 PM
Its my last name...been lurking for awhile now...
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Bandmill Bandit on June 08, 2011, 01:30:16 PM
When I graduated from high school i bought a NH 1049 Hayliner bale wagon and started custom  stacking the small square bales. One of the neighbors hired me to stack his hay for him from a 1/4 section that was about 2 mile from his yard and he really didn't want to use his little 60ish bale pull type wagon.

His wife brought lunch out on the second day at noon and said I needed  a "CB handle" and "christened" me (literally, with a quart of cold water) Bale Bandit.

I just changed it to Bandmill Bandit since my custom operations machine is now a bandmill.       
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Taylortractornut on June 08, 2011, 05:51:47 PM
Im Taylor and  I really  like tractors lol
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: RPF2509 on June 08, 2011, 07:50:57 PM
California Registered Professional Forester # 2509
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Barebuttminer on August 12, 2011, 03:07:31 PM
I know that this is an old thread but I just stumbled upon it today and found it a good read so I'll put my two cents in here if that's Ok.

BareButtMiner is a nickname that I rightfully earned when I was mining/dredging for placer gold on the Middle Yuba River in the late 70's and 80's. I'm an avid skinny dipper. I'm also known as the naked miner. Most of the stories about how I got the name are true but I'll leave them alone for now and just let your imagination take over.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Raider Bill on August 12, 2011, 03:20:00 PM
Quote from: Barebuttminer on August 12, 2011, 03:07:31 PM
I know that this is an old thread but I just stumbled upon it today and found it a good read so I'll put my two cents in here if that's Ok.

BareButtMiner is a nickname that I rightfully earned when I was mining/dredging for placer gold on the Middle Yuba River in the late 70's and 80's. I'm an avid skinny dipper. I'm also known as the naked miner. Most of the stories about how I got the name are true but I'll leave them alone for now and just let your imagination take over.


I sure hope Beenthere doesn't ask for pictures on this one......
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Patty on August 12, 2011, 04:55:01 PM
Yep...way too much information !!
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Jeff on August 12, 2011, 04:58:08 PM
He's apt to... :D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: shelbycharger400 on August 12, 2011, 05:07:02 PM
my name is a project in the making.  83 shelby charger prostreet.  400 bigblock 4 speed with 8 3/4 rear diff

motor is BUILT,  aluminum 4 speed a833 overdrive stits in the corner,   car is completely taken apart, floor is all cut out.  tube front end sittin in the garage, with the rear diff sittin under the car in the  rear,  been their for 3 years.  waitin for a frame.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: paul case on August 12, 2011, 05:13:07 PM
make one out of wood and you would have a deffinite 1 of a kind.   pc
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: shelbycharger400 on August 12, 2011, 05:59:06 PM
i think wood wont hold up to the 450 hp + big block! plus, dot will frown apon it, as will any race tracks
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Autocar on August 12, 2011, 08:10:49 PM
Got mine from my tri axle , knuckle boom truck = Autocar
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: paul case on August 12, 2011, 08:31:12 PM
 ;D :D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: thecfarm on June 26, 2012, 05:26:33 PM
Need to get some more usernames on here. Been almost a year now.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Ken on June 26, 2012, 05:51:25 PM
I'm not very creative so I just used what my parents gave me.   Also makes it easier not to get confused which often happens.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: reride82 on June 26, 2012, 06:21:19 PM
When I was young I had a bit of a speach impediment and when asked my name, instead of Levi, it came out sounding like Reride, so that is how I came about that nickname  :D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: muddstopper on June 26, 2012, 06:43:06 PM
I used to landscaping and hydroseeding. I once hydroseeded a big bank behind a house that was washing mud down around the foundation. The lady that was paying me to do the work called me her muddstopper and it stuck.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: blackfoot griz on June 26, 2012, 09:19:52 PM
I live in the Blackfoot Valley of Western Montana and I'm a University of Montana grad and a big U of M Grizzly football fan.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: POSTON WIDEHEAD on June 26, 2012, 09:22:29 PM
I can't tell ya...... ;D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: red oaks lumber on June 26, 2012, 10:04:47 PM
i use the name of my company. at first i was going to use my nickname    stymie but decided against that
in case anyone is wondering why i have the nickname stymie, its from the little rascles oh i'm white tho. :D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: POSTON WIDEHEAD on June 26, 2012, 10:15:58 PM
Quote from: red oaks lumber on June 26, 2012, 10:04:47 PM
i use the name of my company. at first i was going to use my nickname    stymie but decided against that
in case anyone is wondering why i have the nickname stymie, its from the little rascles oh i'm white tho. :D

"Stymie's Lumber Company"....... :D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: bugdust on June 26, 2012, 10:17:51 PM
When I first started sawing it seemed like every time I uncovered a lumber pile I saw "BUGDUST." So ... there you go ....
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Bogue Chitto on June 26, 2012, 11:09:33 PM
Bogue Chitto river runs behind my house.  We swim, fish, boat, camp and almost live on it.  We love it.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: NWP on June 26, 2012, 11:52:32 PM
NWP stands for Nicholson Wood Products, the name of my company.  Real creative I know.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Okrafarmer on June 27, 2012, 12:08:18 AM
Quote from: POSTONLT40HD on June 26, 2012, 09:22:29 PM
I can't tell ya...... ;D

Why not? Too embarrassed?  :-[
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Okrafarmer on June 27, 2012, 12:11:28 AM
A few years ago, when I was severely underemployed, my wife and I raised a huge garden and sold produce at the local farmers' market. I'm not sure how much money we brought in, but any was better than none. Our biggest seller was okra, the plant that never quits. We sold our organic okra for $3 / lb. and sometimes sold $100 / week of it. We also discovered it was just about the only plant in the garden that wild hogs don't bother with.  :-\
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Migal on June 27, 2012, 12:19:12 AM
I just liked it from a day or two ago err Lord Migal LOL  8)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: log cutter on June 27, 2012, 01:10:36 AM
Thought Log Cutter was better than Tree Killer.  ;)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Migal on June 27, 2012, 01:15:53 AM
 8) 8) 8) got to lot dat one leaf raker JK  8) 8) 8)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: hardtailjohn on June 27, 2012, 01:17:26 AM
Got mine from riding "hard tail" Harleys.  Never smartened up enough to like a rear suspension, I guess.... haha
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: WildDog on June 27, 2012, 06:07:14 AM
I deal in Wild dog/Dingo destruction at work....Second thoughts I probably should of chose something different that doesn't remind me of my day job when relaxing around the FF ???   
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: thurlow on June 27, 2012, 09:27:23 AM
Thought I had responded to this thread, but in quickly scrolling back, didn't see that I had:

Nearly all of my 24 years military service was in the Tennessee Army National Guard; the last 15 as a section leader in Headquarters Detachment of a MP Battalion. It was a small, close-knit unit with about 25 EM and 5-7 officers. The (SFC) supply sergeant was full-time (AGR) and a nice guy, but he took everything much more seriously than the rest of us......his livelihood depended on it. The last 2 hours of each monthly drill were devoted to care and cleaning of individual equipment. The whole unit was never there to clean weapons and they all had to be cleaned, so weapons cards weren't used; just serial number on 'roster' and signature. One day when the supply sergeant had been particularly 'horsey', everyone gathered for final assembly/dismissal. The armorer came out and said, "Sergeant Moss, we're missing a weapon". "Well, look and see who's got it".........in a voice filled with sarcasm. "Thurlow Beaver". Well, of course, there was nobody by that name. He jerked the roster out of the guys hand and looked for my name, since I had a reputation for practical jokes. My name was on there where I had checked out/cleaned another weapon or two. Well, the weapon was found over in a corner of the room where everybody had gathered to clean them and it was in as many pieces as it was possible to disassemble it.........far more than was supposed to happen at unit level. The supply sergeant had an impressive command of the English language and we were treated to a fully array.........until he finally ran out of breath. We all enjoyed it immensely!. I happened to meet the como chief's eyes and realized that he was responsible. The supply sergeant carefully monitored what was going on for the next 2 or 3 months, before he forgot. For the rest of my time in the unit, the como chief, another guy and myself would occasionally sign "Thurlow Beaver at any 'appropriate' time..........never with any prior planning or consulting each other. We never signed a pay roster, but pretty much everything else at one time or another...........dozens of times.   No one except the three of us ever knew. When I left the unit in '89, I carried the handle thurlow with me and have used it on a lot of forums.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Misfit on June 27, 2012, 12:57:18 PM
Travelled to a lot of different countries and lived in a few different ones too. My friends kept referring to me as the Canuck since I was born and raised in PEI, Canada.

Plus I don't have the imagination to come up with anything clever and "Bull-headed S.O.B." might not have made Jeff's cut.  ;D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: chain on June 27, 2012, 04:09:25 PM
Chain...an everyday tool for me when working on the farm or forest. A man of many chains, I am.

I'll tell this story of a special historical 'chain 'of the early American Civil War era: I live several miles south of the Columbus-Belmont, Kentucky State Park. This park is located on the east bluff of the Mississippi river south of Cairo, Il. The park also was once a early-war military post as located stratgically to guard against Union gun-boats plying down-river.

The confederates had a very large chain forged, the links weighing near 9lbs. each and the chain-links extended across the river laid on wooden pontoon rafts, the  distance apart as to hang-up enemy craft so the shore gun-batteries could sink them. Some historians say the chain did not last long as the rising river and currents broke and sank the chain. Nearly a century later parts of the original chain were dredged up and today, that very chain is on display at the Park along with a federal siege cannon. I've been to this lovely State Park many times, both as a civil war re-enactor and visitor. If you are ever in the vicinity of Western Kentucky, you owe yourself and family  this special treat of American history and artifacts...and beautiful river view.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Woodhauler on June 27, 2012, 07:47:29 PM
Its what i do!
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: mooleycow on July 02, 2012, 01:12:05 PM
The ll Bean guide to the outdoors by Bill Riviere.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: OneEyedJackIndy on July 02, 2012, 01:49:19 PM
I have a disease in my eyes.  in 1999 I had an operation that cost me the vision in my right eye.  From 20-15 to 0-0 for the low price of 30k.  I had to relearn to shoot(my favorite thing to do) mow hay, spot a wagon, throw a punch(another favorite of mine-little guy u know), swing a hammer,ect.  So I set out to relearn all the trades I had previously been a Jack of.  Now I am a one eyed jack and depending on my mood I may be wild.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: giant splinter on July 02, 2012, 01:55:24 PM
I think you figured it out before you even got to this point and yes it hurt big time.
Fish hooks are more difficult to get out and flies even with a bent barb are nasty when you get one hung on your ear.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Jeff on July 02, 2012, 06:25:01 PM
When I was about 12 years old, I wore a flopping northern pike home from the river after he drove the treble hook from the spoon I was using clear through my thumb while trying to release him. I was about a half mile from the house.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: sandhills on July 02, 2012, 08:00:19 PM
Quote from: OneEyedJackIndy on July 02, 2012, 01:49:19 PM
I have a disease in my eyes.  in 1999 I had an operation that cost me the vision in my right eye.  From 20-15 to 0-0 for the low price of 30k.  I had to relearn to shoot(my favorite thing to do) mow hay, spot a wagon, throw a punch(another favorite of mine-little guy u know), swing a hammer,ect.  So I set out to relearn all the trades I had previously been a Jack of.  Now I am a one eyed jack and depending on my mood I may be wild.
Sorry to hear about the vision (mine isn't any better, just didn't pay 30k for it) what did get me was your user name, I live about 35 mins away from where Two Eyed Jack was born and raised, not sure if anyone here knows or cares but he was a world famous quarter horse, as far as bloodlines go, good horses but the colts always seem to buck a lot.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Okrafarmer on August 21, 2012, 09:37:03 PM
Quote from: chain on June 27, 2012, 04:09:25 PM
Chain...an everyday tool for me when working on the farm or forest. A man of many chains, I am.

I live several miles south of the Columbus-Belmont, Kentucky State Park. This park is located on the east bluff of the Mississippi river south of Cairo, Il.

My parents live in western Kentucky. They just moved there two years ago. It's beautiful there.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Delawhere Jack on August 21, 2012, 09:52:04 PM
Delaware, the first state to ratify the Constitution. But if you ask most people outside the mid atlantic area, they'll say, "Dela-where? Oh yeah, that's a county in Pennsylvania, right?".............. :-\

John gets really old after 40+ years..... Too many "Johns" around. Needed a change of pace......

Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Okrafarmer on August 21, 2012, 10:05:55 PM
Quote from: Delawhere Jack on August 21, 2012, 09:52:04 PM
John gets really old after 40+ years..... Too many "Johns" around. Needed a change of pace......

My freshman year of college, I was overwhelmed by all the new people. I had a hard time remembering people's names, or when I had met them. My sophomore year, even worse. New classes, new roommates, etc. So my sophomore year I always introduced myself by my initials. That way whenever anybody said, "Hey, ---" I could tell whether I had met them my freshman or sophomore year, so that helped me to remember how long I had known them, which helped me to remember the context. At least that was what I was hoping. My third year, I gave up on the idea and went by my name again, but I was still able to tell the people who had met me for the first time the year before. . . .
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: BBTom on August 21, 2012, 10:08:09 PM
I signed up with my name, but Jeff thought it was too long for normal use.  So our esteemed leader is the one that shortened "Tom Baumberger" to "BBTom". 

If he had any a reason for putting my last name first and first name last, he never told me. 
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Migal on August 21, 2012, 10:18:32 PM
Quote from: BBTom on August 21, 2012, 10:08:09 PM
I signed up with my name, but Jeff thought it was too long for normal use.  So our esteemed leader is the one that shortened "Tom Baumberger" to "BBTom". 

If he had any a reason for putting my last name first and first name last, he never told me. 

Hmm! or was He thinking Berger/Baum/Tom Just a thought  8)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Magicman on August 21, 2012, 10:42:43 PM
Just think, if he had known about your Maple Syrup talent, you could have been MS Tom.  But then that would have been your wife's name.   ::)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Okrafarmer on August 21, 2012, 11:57:26 PM
Quote from: Magicman on August 21, 2012, 10:42:43 PM
Just think, if he had known about your Maple Syrup talent, you could have been MS Tom.  But then that would have been your wife's name.   ::)

And people would have thought he/she lived near you.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Cypressstump on August 22, 2012, 12:45:18 PM
Mine, cuz after telling a coworker of my interest in the remains of old growth virgin cypress stumps left in the swamps of my property, how wide spaced they were and wonderment of what the ancient trees must have looked like during the days before logging, he referred to me as the "Cypressstump" man to people at his going away dinner. That was 2 days before me finding this forum,,, so I thought it fit well.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Jeff on August 22, 2012, 12:48:21 PM
Quote from: BBTom on August 21, 2012, 10:08:09 PM
I signed up with my name, but Jeff thought it was too long for normal use.  So our esteemed leader is the one that shortened "Tom Baumberger" to "BBTom". 

If he had any a reason for putting my last name first and first name last, he never told me.

I honestly have no recollection of that. :)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Misfit on August 22, 2012, 01:01:37 PM
Quote from: Misfit on June 27, 2012, 12:57:18 PM
Travelled to a lot of different countries and lived in a few different ones too. My friends kept referring to me as the Canuck since I was born and raised in PEI, Canada.

Plus I don't have the imagination to come up with anything clever and "Bull-headed S.O.B." might not have made Jeff's cut.  ;D

Guess the first part of this doesn't apply anymore since I changed my username. Misfit is how I've always viewed myself as far as fitting in with family life and "normal" society. I seem to feel comfortable on this forum though.....hmmmmm..
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Bandmill Bandit on August 22, 2012, 02:20:33 PM

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I honestly have no recollection of that. :)
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:D  Time has a way of doing that to us Jeff! Or is it age?

No matter its a good name for you BBTom. Jeff is a good guy even if he dont remember.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Mark Wentzell on August 22, 2012, 04:00:47 PM
Seeing this thread makes me wish I had picked something more creative.    :D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Okrafarmer on August 22, 2012, 10:31:07 PM
Maybe you could change your name, like the Misfit Canuck.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Misfit on August 23, 2012, 10:21:16 AM
Quote from: Okrafarmer on August 22, 2012, 10:31:07 PM
Maybe you could change your name, like the Misfit Canuck.

:D  :D  :D

I like you, Okra; you're a goof like me.  8)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: BBTom on August 23, 2012, 06:36:52 PM
Jeff, It has been over 10 years since you did that, so I don't expect you to remember, but if you look at my profile it still shows my username to be "tombaumberger".

I tell people that I have a bad case of CRS disease, cause I "Can't Remember Sh uh.. Stuff" 
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: gspren on August 23, 2012, 07:48:22 PM
  For the many years that I worked for the Army Research Laboratory they told me what user name to use, first initial and first five of last name Gary Sprenkle = gspren. After using it for all those years I couldn't see changing, that would require thinking!
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Tree Killer on August 25, 2012, 10:13:15 PM
................It's a livin.........
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: thecfarm on July 23, 2017, 01:02:10 PM
We have many new members since and I reread back through the replies.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: WV Sawmiller on July 23, 2017, 03:44:24 PM
    When i found out about this site about 3+ years ago and signed up it just seemed like the handle to go by given my new venture since retirement was not keeping me busy enough.

   BTW - I'm still trying to figure how Tree Killer shows up as 117 years old. Now that is a goal to work towards! Then again, his last post on this tread was 5 years ago.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: coxy on July 23, 2017, 04:21:11 PM
never new this was here          I could not use my nick name but ill give everyone a hint my dad was called big    and they called me small   but I used coxy instead   :D :D 8) 8)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Bruno of NH on July 23, 2017, 04:39:03 PM
My Dad called me Bruno in front of my best friend when I was 14 years old it stuck
In high school some people thought it was my real first name.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: 78NHTFY on July 23, 2017, 09:40:02 PM
In honor of my old man: 1978 New Hampshire Tree Farmer of the Year.  He would have loved this Forum!! All the best, Rob.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Stoneyacrefarm on July 23, 2017, 11:43:41 PM
Mine is pretty self explanatory.  :D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Woodcutter_Mo on July 24, 2017, 09:31:30 AM
I tried several user names when I was registering on the forum but none worked so I just made this one. I do cut a bit of wood and I live in Missouri. Simple as that  ;D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Logger RK on July 24, 2017, 10:13:59 AM
Well,I'm a Logger & My first names Rick. But I do wish I would've used a big L in Logger though. But this is the first forum iv been on.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Grizzly on July 24, 2017, 12:20:17 PM
We don't take part on any other social sites but I needed this one for sawmilling education. Thus no experience with picking handles other than for trucker cb but I'm a bit young for that. ("The Duck" from Convoy was before my time) So the only thing I could think of at the time was that the children thought I must look like Grizzly Adams from some book. Gentle Ben maybe? But I wasn't comfortable using his full name so I just used part of it. Since joining I've become educated that their is a tool manufacture of that same name.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: dukndog on July 24, 2017, 12:48:13 PM
Duk....short for Duck. N for "and", then Dog for Labrador Retrievers. Being from Arkansas and enjoying hunting and dog training, it seemed to fit.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Babylon519 on July 24, 2017, 02:04:07 PM
Mine's from the road I live on and my telephone exchange. It's the handle I use for anything farm related. It has enough of a ring to it that an old TV show lifted most of it from me!  :D
- Jason
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Ljohnsaw on July 24, 2017, 09:39:11 PM
I, too, thought I added to the list but after reading through for an hour and a half....

John is way too common for a login id as is JohnS.  I even have tried more of my last name (JohnSaw) but I found that used in places.  So, I took my first initial, middle name and part of my last - LJohnSaw.  However, I typed it in as all lower case here and it came out ljohnsaw.  It sort of reads as "I, John, Saw" - which kind of works as I am sawing logs for my cabin build...
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Magicman on July 24, 2017, 09:50:16 PM
John, there are at least two of these "username" threads, so you probably put yours in one other than this one. 

Mine is somewhere in two of them but I ain't spending an hour and a half looking.   ;D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: coxy on July 24, 2017, 10:08:46 PM
you just cant make it appear your the Magicman  :D :D 8)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Magicman on July 25, 2017, 08:12:31 AM
I may be da Magicman, but I ain't no Magician. 

My "handle" was given to me by co-workers back in the early 70's during my telephone equipment trouble shooting days.  Anytime that they had a trouble that they could not find, they would call Magicman, he could fix it.....like magic.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Jeff on July 25, 2017, 08:33:29 AM
Quote from: Logger RK on July 24, 2017, 10:13:59 AM
Well,I'm a Logger & My first names Rick. But I do wish I would've used a big L in Logger though. But this is the first forum iv been on.

I see a big L in your future. :D ;)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: goose63 on July 25, 2017, 03:17:58 PM
In 1946 my uncle sent a christmass card to house of goose St Regis Montana the postmaster didn't know who to give it to so he got to thinking our last name is Geesey when you have one geese you have a goose so he gave it to dad inside it said ha ha how long did that take so we still have the name.

When i joined the F. F. I was 63 so it is goose63  ;D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: GRANITEstateMP on July 25, 2017, 05:23:45 PM
This is another great thread!

Let's see GRANITEstateMP

Granite State - Yup, born and raised NH so that was easy.  MP, those are my initials, Matt Pitkin, gotta keep stuff easy!
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Savannahdan on July 25, 2017, 07:57:31 PM
I had to sit on a login the backyard, like all great philosophers, to figure out my Username.  I wound up using the KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) approach and went with Savannah since it's where I live and Dan for my first name.  I should get a Nobel prize for this stroke of genius.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Bert on July 25, 2017, 08:23:13 PM
I used my nickname. Most people in the lumber world know me as Bert but please write Ryan on the check. ;D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: muggs on July 25, 2017, 09:29:44 PM
In Vietnam You could not use your real name on the radio. So you had to pick a nickname. Remember the old Deadend kids movies. The one character named Muggs. There you have it.     Muggs  :D
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Sixacresand on July 26, 2017, 08:44:21 AM
When I bought my six acre lot, An older cousin commented that I had bought six acres of sand.  He told me that owner in the forties would not farm it because it was too sandy. 
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Logger RK on July 26, 2017, 11:15:33 PM
Thank you
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: chubby on July 26, 2017, 11:23:36 PM
I think mine's pretty self explanatory. haha
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Banjo picker on July 28, 2017, 04:03:51 PM
Mine as well. Just look at my avitar.  Just dont pick as much as i use to. Banjo
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: PineHill4488 on July 28, 2017, 06:42:36 PM
Local name of my residence
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: btulloh on July 29, 2017, 08:56:26 AM
Not much mystery in mine.  When I was signing up for the forum I thought (for some reason) that I was just picking a login name and didn't realize this was going to be used for everything.  The security experts advise against using your last name for public display, but it was too late to change it at that point. 
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: reelman65 on July 29, 2017, 12:24:42 PM
I used to sell fishing reels on ebay for extra money, also compared to the geeks i work with, i guess i am a real man, but compared to you guys that earn a living in the woods,, I am the geek.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: upnut on July 29, 2017, 03:03:05 PM
For years, my wife and kids knew vacation meant north, and you are not truly north in Michigan until you cross the Mackinac Bridge. They accused me of being crazy about Michigan's Upper Peninsula, so upnut seemed logical... :D

Scott B.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: paul case on July 29, 2017, 07:09:34 PM
My MOM gave me this handle. She was tricked by her mother in law who told her that Max( my dad) would name his kids paul and john. She did and he didnt complain.

Thank goodness for that. She was thinking of naming me basket or mental. I do have a cousin named justin and my wife's name is Anita when you say it all together it sounds like I need a case.

PC
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Magicman on July 29, 2017, 07:15:06 PM
I once knew a lady named Anita Mann.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: thecfarm on July 29, 2017, 11:11:37 PM
I had a teacher,Mrs. Mann.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Jeff on July 30, 2017, 07:14:41 AM
I went to school with a Penny Nichols.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: sandhills on July 30, 2017, 10:21:15 AM
I once (and only once) met a kid named Raymond Ray Raymond.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Jeff on July 30, 2017, 11:30:18 AM
Now that is one outstanding middle name!
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Ruffneck on July 30, 2017, 12:48:28 PM
Because, someday I'll make Ruffneck 'cause I'm gonna stick it out...

https://youtu.be/n9MbV2BCGKw?list=PL4041w-KMR6LXcwpoFchFdktdauqUjaCA

:D :) :D
    8)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: WV Sawmiller on July 30, 2017, 02:43:08 PM
   Had an instructor in USMC TBS named Major Majors.
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Papa1stuff on July 31, 2017, 10:10:21 AM
Quote from: Ruffneck on July 30, 2017, 12:48:28 PM
Because, someday I'll make Ruffneck 'cause I'm gonna stick it out...

https://youtu.be/n9MbV2BCGKw?list=PL4041w-KMR6LXcwpoFchFdktdauqUjaCA

:D :) :D
    8)
I did that once ,,stuck my finger in to check the linement and dang near lost my finger,never again!!
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: Ruffneck on July 31, 2017, 10:53:07 AM
Papa1stuff, that's how a guy gets a user name of three finger Joe :D

I had it rigged pretty dang good. How many people ended up in the ER after thinking that? That was a long day up that ladder. I ended up changing my set up later too  ::)
Title: Re: How'd Ya Git Yer Username
Post by: RPF2509 on August 15, 2017, 07:17:47 PM
Registered Professional Forester 2509;  Earned the right to use that back in 1995.  Of course California makes me pay every two years to keep it.  The register is only up in the 3000's now - not may people pass the exam each year.  It is intimidating, usually a 50% pass rate or less.  7 hours to answer 7 essay questions with an hour for lunch halfway.  I could barely hold my beer mug with my right hand after it was done... 42 pages.  You could clearly see my handwriting deteriorate from the first page through the last.