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  1. 07-12-2010, 03:03 PM #1
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    Yee Haw!

    We had the XYL's family in town over the weekend to celebrate her mother's 86th birthday. Her brother George stayed here and on Friday he was wandering around in the back yard while I was doing some weed-whacking and happened on a 6 meter J-pole I'd built months ago but never got around to erecting. He suggested we do so, I told him that I didn't have the necessary hardware and, besides, I'd promised that I'd stay off the roof until I got medical insurance again. Looking around the yard, he came up with a solution so hillbilly that I just had to post a photo:

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    I'm going out today to get me a pickup truck to put on blocks on the front lawn.

    (The antenna works perfectly, BTW. And, of course, it's not going to stay this way permanently)
    All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
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    Ingenuity is the mother of dead rednecks.
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    Quote Originally Posted by KG4CGC View Post
    Ingenuity is the mother of dead rednecks.

    Kidding.
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    Y'all know anyone what's got a used single-wide mobile home? I gots me a hankerin' t' move to a trailer park 'n' fry sumthin'...
    All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
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    You want a trailer park, or a trailer subdivision? You'll have a real yard in the latter.
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    That's not hillbilly. The politically correct term is "Southern engineering" :rofl:
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    Red Green and his buddy Bill would have improved it with "Northern Engineering"... I see no sign of duct tape.
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    Quote Originally Posted by WØTKX View Post
    Red Green and his buddy Bill would have improved it with "Northern Engineering"... I see no sign of duct tape.
    Or bailing wire! JB Weld!!! These southerners are losing their touch, I tell ya!
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    Quote Originally Posted by KC2UGV View Post
    Or bailing wire! JB Weld!!! These southerners are losing their touch, I tell ya!
    We believe in simplicity. In this instance, no JB Weld or bailing wire was required. We save the bailing wire and JB Weld for important things, like tying up that loose engine on the crop duster.
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    Quote Originally Posted by W4RLR View Post
    We believe in simplicity. In this instance, no JB Weld or bailing wire was required. We save the bailing wire and JB Weld for important things, like tying up that loose engine on the crop duster.
    But what about mechanical stability? No duct tape at least?
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    Dude:

    That's SO Lakeside/Santee!
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