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Posted by David Sherman on Friday, June 19, 2009 at 13:13:40 :
In Reply to: Wrecking yard finds posted by Russ Roth on Friday, June 19, 2009 at 12:56:30 :
I've seen a lot of interesting jerry-rigged logging equipment around there built out of all sorts of things by loggers of the 1940-1970 generation. They were pretty handy with a torch, and sometimes with the other parts too. I saw a pretty fair yard crane made out of a carryall not long ago. The trouble with that neck of the woods is rust. And blackberries. And mud. Anything that sits for long sinks into the ground and gets overgrown with blackberries. Look out in any cow pasture and you'll see house-sized mounds of blackberries. Some of them contain actual houses. Others contain vehicles of all sorts. A few just contain stumps. I know that rust never sleeps, but in southwest Washington, rust is on a 14/7 meth binge. Cast iron survives if sufficiently greasy. Sheet metal doesn't. Wood lasts about 2 years and then turns into mushrooms.
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