Hey Wardner

Remeber 2 years ago when I asked about what to do with my H, and you mentioned hooking it up to an ice cream maker? And you also said maybe I could get a motorcycle and do tricks...

and then I jumped all over you calling you disrespectful, and insulting?

Yeah... I remember that. I was just going through my old posts (looking for something) and I came across that thread and re-read that whole event.

I'll tell you what... now that I've gotten to know you better, I'm embarassed to read what I wrote.

I don't know if I ever apologized for it, but I'm doing it now. You gave me a great suggestion, and made a funny joke, and I took it totally the wrong way. I think it may have been because you suggested I not get a tractor till after I retired from the Navy. But that was your opinion based on what you knew of my life, and it was sound advice. Advice I didn't take, of course, but sound, just the same.

Anyway, my apologies for that "tantrum", or whatever we want to call it. I respect your opinions, and consider you a solid guy, and great member of this forum, and am glad you are here to help me and others. I would be happy to shake your hand and buy you a beer and call you friend. But you live in Massachusetts, and I don't like people from Massachusetts. :lol: ok, just kidding. You make great chowder, and we have entrusted you with the USS Constitution.

As far as the ice cream idea... I love it, and hope to do it. I saw in Red Power some guy who made a portable rig on his H. I don't know that I'll ever get that fancy, but I want something someday so I can sell ice cream as a fund raiser for our junior Sailor program funds. I just wanted you to know that idea stuck, and I was a small puncture wound for overreacting.


The rest of you reading this can dry your eyes on your skirts now, you nancys!

:lol:

I called myself a p-r-i-c-k, and the board changed it to "small puncture wound".

:lol: :lol: :lol:

In my latest post, I used the word a n a l and was
denied. I had to change it to "museum quality".

Thanks for the apology. But I can be a little
abrasive at times.

Frankly, I don't see how you manage to restore a
tractor on military pay and five kids to support.
But I know your pay is better than the $78 per
month I got as an E-1 with less than 6 months in
grade and service. (1965). I think 0-10's were
getting about $2000. That may be close to what
you are getting now.

I thought you were shipping out. You certainly
can't be writing your posts from the Persian Gulf.

I no longer get Red Power. Can you post a picture
of the H and the ice cream set-up? Thanks.

(quoted from post at 05:01:05 10/25/09) But I know your pay is better than the $78 per
month I got as an E-1 with less than 6 months in
grade and service. (1965).

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I remember that... I enlisted in Jan.'65 :lol: But what could we spend it on beside shoe polish, soap and shaving cream?

The most I ever made was $305 as an E-5 drawing
overseas and combat pay. But the Battalion
commander insisted that we file allotment chits
for the lousy savings bond program. In effect we
were funding our own pay. The money did come in
handy when my enlistment contract expired and I
was on my own as a civilian.

I never could understand how come there were so
many GTO's, SS Chevelles, Chargers, and Mustanges
parked outside the barracks in NC.

I thought you were shipping out. You certainly
can't be writing your posts from the Persian Gulf.

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Negative. I'm transferring to a sea duty squadron in early November. Right now I'm on leave following the schools I went through over the summer.

I no longer get Red Power. Can you post a picture
of the H and the ice cream set-up? Thanks.

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My scanner/printer/fax decided to break, so I only have an old printer hooked up. I'll search the net, but maybe someone else could scan it.

I assumed you would take a photo of the picture.
Your camera works well with closeups.

Here's the pic that I swiped off the net.

It takes a big man - and a good one, too - to publicly offer an apology. Your stock just went up with me, Mike.
mike

6'4", 250 pounds. Yeah, I'm pretty big. :lol:


Wardner, sometimes when the obvious answer doesn't come to me, it actually hurts my sides to read it, and then ask "why didn't I think of that!"

I'll get that up tonight.

Thanks for the picture. Looks like a 3 to 5
reduction ratio but we can't see the sprockets.

I think I may already have that picture from a site
devoted to antique engine ice cream making. There
are a number of people doing that in the mid-Atlantic
states. Their machines, perhaps 40, have all been photographed and collected on one site.

Wish I had the link handy but google can find it alot easier than I.

Here's one link with a whole lot of pictures.
Country Freezer