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18 hours ago, _Wilson_™ said:

thanks, I'm sure going to look into this, my grandfather was in military, I've been told the army branch, but also told he was a radio operator / mechanic in the Air Force..... i had asked him a couple times about his experience during his time in......and, he wouldn't EVER talk about it.

well being Bear Bryant was involved with the training flight school  football team and your grandfather was a mechanic for the Air Force , that cold be the connection , he worked on the planes 

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11 minutes ago, Fishfiles said:

well being Bear Bryant was involved with the training flight school  football team and your grandfather was a mechanic for the Air Force , that cold be the connection , he worked on the planes 

My Dad was also involved with planes but in the Army and not the Air Force  , he was a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne 

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hm, thank you there coild be a good connection there, but pawpaw just never told us much, i located the carvings also one of his cleats and an old pigskin (football) pics coming soon.....for some reason i keep recalling the phrase >> Morgan high school,<< i don't recall anymore (whether he was a teacher or student / player) I'm ashamed to say i just can't recall much of what i was told, WHICH wasn't much to start with, but i was told he played high school football under Bear Bryant..... i find that fact hard to believe, because I've looked online and i can't find much at all....... i don't think he ever went up, but rather  i was told a mechanic, and radio operator and technician, BUT i have no real proof of that ether......i was ALSO told he was asigned to one plane...and the base they were at was bombed and his plane crew were all killed so i gather he was asigned to a bomber (multiple crew members)

 

yeah i think i recall some fish didnt your pop almost end up playing professional base ball ?? 

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Baseball was my Dad's dream , he played semi-pro ,  then got a contract in 1954 with the Brooklyn Dodgers at the time  , then got drafted and never did get to play Pro 

 

Check out this project , buddy gave it to me after I welded up something for him , it floated the storm in Katrina ,  did a  lot of work on it , was really busted up , it's is the 1851 America 101 foot Gaff Schooner , that won the race that went on to become the America's Cup , it is 57 inches long

 

The Bear was an interesting guy  

 

Early life

Paul Bryant was the 11th of 12 children who were born to William Monroe and Ida Kilgore Bryant in Fordyce, Arkansas.[1] His nickname stemmed from his having agreed to wrestle a captive bear during a theater promotion when he was 13 years old.[2]

 

He attended Fordyce High School, where 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) tall Bryant, who as an adult would eventually stand 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m), began playing on the school's football team as an eighth grader. During his senior season, the team, with Bryant playing offensive line and defensive end, won the 1930 Arkansas state football championship.

College

Bryant accepted a scholarship to play for the University of Alabama in 1931. Since he elected to leave high school before completing his diploma, Bryant had to enroll in a Tuscaloosa high school to finish his education during the fall semester while he practiced with the college team. Bryant played end for the Crimson Tide and was a participant on the school's 1934 National Championship team. Bryant was the self-described "other end" during his playing years with the team, playing opposite the big star, Don Hutson, who later became an NFL Hall-of-Famer. Bryant himself was second team All-SEC in 1934, and was third team all conference in both 1933 and 1935. Bryant played with a partially broken leg in a 1935 game against Tennessee.[2] Bryant pledged the Sigma Nu social fraternity, and as a senior, he married Mary Harmon.[2]

Bryant was selected in the fourth round by the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1936 NFL Draft, but never played professionally.

Coaching career

Assistant and North Carolina Pre-Flight

After graduating in 1936, Bryant took a coaching job at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee, but he left that position when offered an assistant coaching position under Frank Thomas at the University of Alabama. Over the next four years, the team compiled a 29–5–3 record. In 1940, he left Alabama to become an assistant at Vanderbilt University under Henry Russell Sanders. After the 1941 season, Bryant was offered the head coaching job at the University of Arkansas. However, following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Bryant joined the United States Navy. In 1942, he served as an assistant coach with the Georgia Pre-Flight Skycrackers.[3] Bryant then served off North Africa, seeing no combat action. However, his ship, the civilian merchantman SS Uruguay was rammed by another ship and ordered to be abandoned. Bryant disobeyed the order, saving the lives of his men. Two hundred others died.[4] He was later granted an honorable discharge to train recruits and coach the North Carolina Navy Pre-Flight football team.[5] One of the players he coached for the Navy was the future Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Otto Graham. While in the Navy, Bryant attained the rank of Lieutenant Commander.[6]

University of Maryland

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Bryant as Maryland head coach in 1945

In 1945, 32-year-old Bryant met Washington Redskins owner George Marshall at a cocktail party hosted by the Chicago Tribune, and said he had turned down offers for assistant coaching positions at Alabama and Georgia Tech. Bryant told Marshall that he was intent on becoming a head coach. Marshall put him in contact with Harry Clifton "Curley" Byrd, the president and former football coach of the University of Maryland.[7]

After meeting with Byrd the next day, Bryant received the job as head coach of the Maryland Terrapins. In his only season at Maryland, Bryant led the team to a 6–2–1 record. However, Bryant and Byrd came into conflict. In the most prominent incident, while Bryant was on vacation, Byrd reinstated a player who had been suspended by Bryant for a violation of team rules. After the 1945 season, Bryant left Maryland to take over as head coach at the University of Kentucky.[8]

University of Kentucky

Bryant coached at the University of Kentucky for eight seasons. Under Bryant, Kentucky made its first bowl appearance (1947) and won its first Southeastern Conference title (1950). The 1950 Kentucky team concluded its season with a victory over Bud Wilkinson's #1 ranked Oklahoma Sooners in the Sugar Bowl. The living players from the 1950 team were honored during halftime of a game during the 2005 season. Bryant also led Kentucky to appearances in the Great Lakes Bowl, Orange Bowl, and Cotton Bowl Classic. Kentucky's final AP poll rankings under Bryant included #11 in 1949, #7 in 1950, #15 in 1951, #20 in 1952 and #16 in 1953. The 1950 season was Kentucky's highest rank until it finished #6 in the final 1977 AP poll. At Kentucky, Bryant attempted to integrate the football team,[9] but the university administration would not allow it.[10]

Texas A&M University

In 1954, Bryant accepted the head coaching job at Texas A&M University. He also served as athletic director while at A&M.[2]

The Aggies suffered through a grueling 1-9 initial season which began with the infamous training camp in Junction, Texas. The “survivors” were given the name “Junction Boys.” Two years later, Bryant led the team to the Southwest Conference championship with a 34–21 victory over the University of Texas at Austin. The following year, 1957, Bryant's star back John David Crow won the Heisman Trophy (the only Bryant player to ever earn that award), and the Aggies were in title contention until they lost to the #20 Rice Owls in Houston, amid rumors that Alabama would be going after Bryant.

Again, as at Kentucky, Bryant attempted to integrate the Texas A&M squad. "We'll be the last football team in the Southwest Conference to integrate," he was told by a Texas A&M official. "Well," Bryant replied, "then that's where we're going to finish in football."[10]

At the close of the 1957 season, having compiled an overall 25–14–2 record at Texas A&M, Bryant returned to Tuscaloosa to take the head coaching position, succeeding J.B. "Ears" Whitworth, as well as the athletic director job at Alabama.[2]

University of Alabama

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Memorial of Bryant outside of Legion Field

Bryant took over the Alabama football team in 1958. When asked why he came to Alabama, he replied "Momma called. And when Momma calls, you just have to come runnin'." After winning a combined four games in the three years prior to Bryant's arrival, the Tide went 5–4–1 in Bryant's first season.[11] The next year, in 1959, Alabama beat Auburn and appeared in a bowl game, the first time either had happened in the last six years. In 1961, under his leadership, with quarterback Pat Trammell and football greats Lee Roy Jordan and Billy Neighbors, Alabama went 11–0 and defeated Arkansas in the Sugar Bowl to claim the national championship.

The next three years (1962–64) featured Joe Namath at quarterback and were among Bryant's finest. The 1962 season ended with a victory in the Orange Bowl over Bud Wilkinson's University of Oklahoma Sooners. The following year ended with a victory in the 1963 Sugar Bowl. In 1964, the Tide won another national championship, but lost to the University of Texas in the Orange Bowl, in the first nationally televised college game in color. The Crimson Tide would repeat as champions in 1965 after defeating Nebraska in the Orange Bowl. Coming off back-to-back national championship seasons, Bryant's Alabama team went undefeated in 1966, and defeated a strong Nebraska team 34–7 in the Sugar Bowl. However, Alabama finished third in the nation behind co-national champions Michigan State and Notre Dame, who had previously played to a 10–10 tie in a late regular season game.

The 1967 team was billed as another national championship contender with star quarterback Kenny Stabler returning, but the team stumbled out of the gate and tied Florida State 37–37 at Legion Field. The season never took off from there, with the Bryant-led Alabama team finishing 8–2–1, losing in the Cotton Bowl Classic to Texas A&M, coached by former Bryant player and assistant coach Gene Stallings. In 1968, Bryant again could not match his previous successes, as the team went 8–3, losing to the University of Missouri 35–10 in the Gator Bowl. The 1969 and 1970 teams finished 6–5 and 6–5–1 respectively.

After these disappointing efforts, many began to wonder if the 57-year-old Bryant was washed up. He himself began feeling the same way and considered either retiring from coaching or leaving college football for the NFL.

For years, Bryant was accused of racism for refusing to recruit black players, but he merely said that the prevailing social climate did not let him do this. He finally was able to convince the administration to allow him to do so after scheduling the Tide's 1970 season opener against a strong University of Southern California team led by black fullback Sam Cunningham. Cunningham rushed for 150 yards and three touchdowns in a 42–21 victory against the overmatched Tide. After that season, Bryant was able to recruit Wilbur Jackson as Alabama's first black scholarship player, and junior-college transfer John Mitchell became the first black man to play for Alabama. By 1973, one-third of the team's starters were black.

In 1971, Bryant began engineering a comeback to prove that he still had it. This included abandoning Alabama's old power offense for the newly fashionable wishbone formation. The change helped make the remainder of the decade a successful one for the Crimson Tide. That season, Alabama went undefeated and earned a #2 ranking, but lost to #1 Nebraska, 38–6 in the Orange Bowl. The team would go on to split national championships in 1973 (Notre Dame defeated Alabama in the 1973 Sugar Bowl, which led the UPI to stop giving national championships until after all the games for the season had been played - including bowl games) and 1978 (despite losing a regular season matchup against co-national champion USC) and win it outright in 1979.

Bryant coached at Alabama for 25 years, winning six national titles (1961, 1964, 1965, 1973, 1978, and 1979) and thirteen SEC championships. Bryant's win over in-state rival Auburn University, coached by former Bryant assistant Pat Dye in November 1981 was Bryant's 315th as a head coach, which was the most of any head coach at that time. His all-time record as a coach was 323-85-17.

Retirement and death

After the 1982 season, Bryant, who had turned 69 that September, decided to retire, stating, "This is my school, my alma mater. I love it and I love my players. But in my opinion, they deserved better coaching than they have been getting from me this year." His last regular season game was a 23–22 loss to Auburn and his last postseason game was a 21–15 victory in the Liberty Bowl in Memphis, Tennessee over the University of Illinois. After the game, Bryant was asked what he planned to do now that he was retired. He replied "Probably croak in a week."[12] His reply proved ominous.

Four weeks after making that comment, and just one day after passing a routine medical checkup, on January 25, 1983, Bryant checked into Druid City Hospital in Tuscaloosa after experiencing chest pain. A day later, when being prepared for an electrocardiogram, he died after suffering a massive heart attack. First news of Bryant's death came from Bert Bank (WTBC Radio Tuscaloosa) and on the NBC Radio Network (anchored by Stan Martyn and reported by Stewart Stogel).[13] On his hand at the time of his death was the only piece of jewelry he ever wore, a gold ring inscribed "The Junction Boys".[14] He is interred at Birmingham's Elmwood Cemetery. A month after his death, Bryant was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award, by President Ronald Reagan.[15] A moment of silence was held prior to Super Bowl XVII, played four days after Bryant's passing.

Defamation suit

In 1962, Bryant denounced The Saturday Evening Post for printing an article that charged him with encouraging his players to "engage in brutality" in a 1961 game against the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. The magazine claimed that Bryant and Georgia Bulldogs coach Wally Butts had conspired to fix their 1962 game together in Alabama's favor. Butts, also on Bryant's behalf, sued Curtis Publishing Co. for defamation. The case went to the Supreme Court. As a result of Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts 388 U.S. 130 (1967),[16] Curtis was ordered to pay $3,060,000 in damages to the plaintiff.

Honors and awards

  • 12-time Southeastern Conference Coach of the Year
  • Three-time National Coach of the Year in 1961, 1971 and 1973.[17] The national coach of the year award was subsequently named the Paul "Bear" Bryant Award in his honor.
  • Was named Head Coach of Sports Illustrated's NCAA Football All-Century Team.[18]
  • He received 1.5 votes for the Democratic Party Presidential nomination at the extremely contentious 1968 Democratic Convention
  • In February 1983, Bryant was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Ronald Reagan.
  • Bryant was honored with a U.S. postage stamp in 1996.
  • Country singer Roger Hallmark recorded a tribute song in his honor.[19]
  • Charles Ghigna wrote a poem that appeared in the Birmingham-Post Herald in 1983 as a tribute to Bryant.
  • Super Bowl XVII was dedicated to Bryant. A moment of silence was held in his memory during the pregame ceremonies. Some of his former Alabama players were on the rosters of both teams.

Legacy

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Many of Bryant's former players and assistant coaches went on to become head coaches at the collegiate level and/or in the National Football League. Danny Ford, Howard Schnellenberger, and Gene Stallings all won national championships as head coaches for NCAA programs while Joey Jones, Mike Riley, and David Cutcliffe are active head coaches in the NCAA. Charles McClendon, Sylvester Croom, Jim Owens, Jackie Sherrill, and Pat Dye were also notable NCAA head coaches. Ozzie Newsome is active as the general manager of the Baltimore Ravens. Jack Pardee was a college head coach at the University of Houston and an NFL head coach with Chicago, Washington and Houston.

Head coaching record

In his 38 seasons as a head coach, Bryant had 37 winning seasons and participated in a total of 29 postseason bowl games, including 24 consecutively at Alabama. He won 15 bowl games, including eight Sugar Bowls.

Year Team Overall Conference Standing Bowl/playoffs Coaches# AP°
Maryland Terrapins (Southern Conference) (1945)
1945 Maryland 6–2–1 3–2 5th      
Maryland: 6–2–1 (.722) 3–2 (.600)  
Kentucky Wildcats (Southeastern Conference) (1946–1953)
1946 Kentucky 7–3 2–3 8th      
1947 Kentucky 8–3 2–3 T–9th W Great Lakes    
1948 Kentucky 5–3–2 1–3–1 9th      
1949 Kentucky 9–3 4–1 2nd L Orange   11
1950 Kentucky 11–1 5–1 1st W Sugar 7 7
1951 Kentucky 8–4 3–3 5th W Cotton 17 15
1952 Kentucky 5–4–2 1–3–2 9th   19 20
1953 Kentucky 7–2–1 4–1–1 T–2nd   15 16
Kentucky: 60–23–6 (.708) 25–19–4 (.563)  
Texas A&M Aggies (Southwest Athletic Conference) (1954–1957)
1954 Texas A&M 1–9 0–6 7th      
1955 Texas A&M 7–2–1 4–1–1 2nd   14 17
1956 Texas A&M 9–0–1 6–0 1st   5 5
1957 Texas A&M 8–3 4–2 3rd L Gator 10 9
Texas A&M: 25–14–2 (.634) 14–9–1 (.604)  
Alabama Crimson Tide (Southeastern Conference) (1958–1982)
1958 Alabama 5–4–1 3–4–1 T–6th      
1959 Alabama 7–2–2 4–1–2 4th L Liberty 13 10
1960 Alabama 8–1–2 5–1–1 3rd T Bluebonnet 10 9
1961 Alabama 11–0 7–0 T–1st W Sugar 1 1
1962 Alabama 10–1 6–1 2nd W Orange 5 5
1963 Alabama 9–2 6–1 2nd W Sugar 9 8
1964 Alabama 10–1 8–0 1st L Orange 1* 1
1965 Alabama 9–1–1 6–1–1 1st W Orange 4 1
1966 Alabama 11–0 6–0 T–1st W Sugar 3 3
1967 Alabama 8–2–1 5–1 2nd L Cotton 7 8
1968 Alabama 8–3 4–2 T–3rd L Gator 12 17
1969 Alabama 6–5 2–4 8th L Liberty    
1970 Alabama 6–5–1 3–4 T–7th T Bluebonnet    
1971 Alabama 11–1 7–0 1st L Orange 2 4
1972 Alabama 10–2 7–1 1st L Cotton 4 7
1973 Alabama 11–1 8–0 1st L Sugar 1* 4
1974 Alabama 11–1 6–0 1st L Orange 2 5
1975 Alabama 11–1 6–0 1st W Sugar 3 3
1976 Alabama 9–3 5–2 3rd W Liberty 9 11
1977 Alabama 11–1 7–0 1st W Sugar 2 2
1978 Alabama 11–1 6–0 1st W Sugar 2 1
1979 Alabama 12–0 6–0 1st W Sugar 1 1
1980 Alabama 10–2 5–1 T–2nd W Cotton 6 6
1981 Alabama 9–2–1 6–0 T–1st L Cotton 6 7
1982 Alabama 8–4 4–2 T–3rd W Liberty 17  
Alabama: 232–46–9 (.824) 146–22–5 (.858)  
Total: 323–85–17 (.780)  
      National championship         Conference title         Conference division title
#Rankings from final Coaches' Poll.
°Rankings from final AP Poll.

(*) Before the 1974, the final Coaches' Poll, also known then as the UPI Poll, was released before the bowl games, so a team that lost its bowl game could still claim the UPI national championship. This was changed as a result of Alabama claiming the 1973 Coaches' Poll national championship despite losing to Notre Dame in the 1973 Sugar Bowl.

 

 

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the war messed him up some, which i can understand so you had to be carefull what you asked him, he saw some really bad things (i reckon) just wish he would have talked more about his life..... anyways i sure do miss him...... this always gets me to laughter......the man chewed more tobacco then anyone i have seen!! i never liked driving his trucks..... bacca jiuce all over everything on the steering wheel, gear shifter, brake, clutch, gas peddle, drivers side window, all down the drivers side of what ever he was driving!! but he never chewed in the house  and never smoked at all...... but he could raise some of the best tobacco crops around, not to even mention his garden okra, sweet corn, straw berries, cabbage, onions, maters, taters, lectace, cucumbers, water Mellon, cantaloupe, radishes, squash,...... im sure ive missed a few other he raised, but all i recall is those.....we ate GOOD! always had fresh red ripe maters, squash  dish of some sort plus a tater casserole fresh green onions,  sweet corn and my grannys cornbread, and that cucumber dish with onions  and spices , red wine viniger.....but  i can't think of the name of it...... and a gallon of tea....... and a meat dish...... her ham Casserole was off the hook!! that had to be my fave, and sheesh..thanksgiving and Christmas..don't even get me started...... man alive you talk about some good eating, she could put the Cracker Barrel to shame. 

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3 minutes ago, _Wilson_™ said:

 red wine viniger.....but  i can't think of the name of it...... 

is balsamic  what your looking for 

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yeah that's the name of it. very tart before hand she used she used apple cider viniger. 

 

so growing things for him was a hobby, and he was really good at it, i never got his green thumb..... heck i dont know of too many people around my area that do..... maybe 3 ? Clyde, billy, little Johnny, but Clyde is the only one that has a stand each year....... i used to see him on the I-road coming back from some place in Alabama with a pickup truck load of sweet corn, taters and no tell what else .so it's kind of a hobby with him, at one time he was making home made sausage. ribs, chops, etc....then Dennis took over........... sigh  that was partly  my doing but at the time i had no idea Clyde was doing the same..... so i KIND OF stepped on Clyde's pork operation but! a year later -+ he ends up with one of the best gardens....... he knows nothing about my involvement and ended up with two stands, one down here in mcains, and one in columbia on river side drive...... a short time later he was riding around in a brand new show room long wheel base 2wd silver chevy......... i didn't feel too bad after his son (mike) told me it was actually purchased in full (no payments) 

 

 

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Hobby Farmer --  When I lived in New Orleans , had a large lot for being in the city and grew all kinds of stuff really well , my favorite thing to grow was Peyote Squash , also called Mirliton Squash , cause that is good eating with shrimp stuffing  ---- I can't grow crap  on this side of the Lake , soil is acidity and it is colder over here by 10 degrees at night 

 

I got that  little 16 hp tractor and  like 6 implements for a garden and don't use them , got a plow , row maker , blade , aerator  and a couple I don't even know what they are ---- after I get this land graded off , I might give another try with  a garden 

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yeah you could say he was a hobby farmer.... you recall when i grew the maters ? a few years ago ? i never could get them to get as big as his did, he had some the size of grape fruit, man you skin one of those slice it up, add just a tad of sea salt. talk about hog heaven......lol! 

 

i wouldn't mind seeing pics of what you have, but no rush. you might also take a soil sample and send, it in for checking and they can advise you how to treat the soil, >> I'm just guessing when i say this << but lime might very well bring the acid of the soil down....... i think you send the soil sample to the USDA ......heck fish it's been so long, i ant be sure if lime will work, but we used to send soil samples in and yes high acid was an issue sometimes especially when raising tobacco...... i spread alot lime for farmers around here whitely dairy, us, herald Johnson, my farming pals moser, bone, Haney, gilbreath farms etc etc...... and a number of my pops long time farmer friends.......we didnt get / want money payment.. back then we swopped favor for favor. bones stepfather owns Columbia rock, which is where i hauled lime from, you've seen those old hopper spreader trucks ? used to go to columbia, to get loaded up, and i enjoyed driving in those tunnels they had carved out....... I'd get loaded up tarp it, head back to Whitley farms and unload, then head back up to columbia rock, rinse and repeat...... send a soil sample in, they'll get you fixed up. 

 

i used soil around where Dennis stacks his round bails good rich soil, of corse i made a soup with cow s--t and few other certain adds..... plus those were hanging bucket plants..... i think i watered them too much, and the soil was too rich..... be a use the taste was on the acid side.

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On 2/10/2022 at 1:40 AM, _Wilson_™ said:

well......lol! yeah your one for the books jeep.....BUT! y'all lost him to Alabama..... wow! you and my ex GF would get along real good.... lol! she'd have you stuffed and mounted over the fire place.... if you said ome bad word about bama.... i couldn't be around when she watched college football....screaming and throwing things at the tv ?? talk about crazy..... even her parents were leery of her when college football was on...... recall ? this is one who dyed me pink,and shaved my head blad and beard off!!!

 

Sounds like a bama fan.  Made me think of this cartoon.

 

When you see bama clothes.......beware!

 

 

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uh hu you could say that, maybe add a die hard bama fan, and hates the Vanderbilt commodores with a passion..... lol! i didn't go to sports bars with her ether, but i reckon it turned out well, i never had to bail her out of jail........ just a note there are no more sports bars in columbia that i know of...

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On 12/22/2019 at 8:55 AM, Fishfiles said:

Ted , you are talking about the shrimp trawler pic right  > it is a serigraph pic , my first encounter with one that I knew about  , to see it in person is totally different than the way it looks in the pic , it is like dark chrome 

it looks too good, the way the picture is now. like to see it in person.

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I found a really cool piece at the flea market last weekend , put out the oil bring in the new , found a spot for it -----     I want to paint it , but something tells me leave this alone 

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Yeah I would leave it for now. It wouldn’t look better If ya cleaned it up or repainted it—it would look newer. Don’t know if that would be an improvement. Besides it looks like it belonged where ya put it.

is it metal or wood?

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11 minutes ago, Goober said:

Yeah I would leave it for now. It wouldn’t look better If ya cleaned it up or repainted it—it would look newer. Don’t know if that would be an improvement. Besides it looks like it belonged where ya put it.

is it metal or wood?

Believe it or not , it is high impact plastic and heavy  , it really does look like wood , I would say it looks like the 1970s 

 

This is a smaller version that I repainted , the flat paint and it looks alright 

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Project   have going on , my buddy moved up north and came down last week, he brought and gave me a cool Jack Daniels barrel top , had a couple of wooden stools , painted them black , going to screw the barrel top down to a stool to make a table for around the pool table , thinking of applying some epoxy of the top 

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2 hours ago, Fishfiles said:

@56Sierra might like this video 

 

 

Wow!  Go big or go home.  My last build was a 17.5" wingspan Beech Staggerwing.   Came in under 3oz and flies like a housefly.

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4 minutes ago, 56Sierra said:

Wow!  Go big or go home.  My last build was a 17.5" wingspan Beech Staggerwing.   Came in under 3oz and flies like a housefly.

If I remember right , that is modeled after the largest plane in the world , and it was recently destroyed by Russia in the Ukraine , there were two others that were never finished , it was the only one of it's kind 

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21 minutes ago, Fishfiles said:

If I remember right , that is modeled after the largest plane in the world , and it was recently destroyed by Russia in the Ukraine , there were two others that were never finished , it was the only one of it's kind 

You are correct.  Many of the YouTube comments mention that.  I read some looking for info on the 6 engines.  Two are actually kerosene burning mini turbojets and 4 are electric ducted fans.  The one that got knocked off was electric. 

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56 minutes ago, 56Sierra said:

You are correct.  Many of the YouTube comments mention that.  I read some looking for info on the 6 engines.  Two are actually kerosene burning mini turbojets and 4 are electric ducted fans.  The one that got knocked off was electric. 

I seen them filling from a 5 gallon can , didn't realize four  were electric , but did think two were bigger by just a bit ----------- I was freaking out when he was taxi-ing after the hard landing with the guy holding the engine by the wires hanging with his fingers , if it would have kicked on , it seems it  could have cut fingers off 

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Traded 7  rusted folding chairs to my bddy at the flea market for a turtle shell , it is very old , story is , it came out a barn in Lacombe , was the guys grandfather's , so we figure it is from around 1920-30 ---- it was kind os cracked here and there , so I use Plastic Wood , smoothed it out and then painted it a copy f times , still not happy with the color , thinking  drab dead grass green next 

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8 hours ago, Fishfiles said:

Traded 7  rusted folding chairs to my bddy at the flea market for a turtle shell , it is very old , story is , it came out a barn in Lacombe , was the guys grandfather's , so we figure it is from around 1920-30 ---- it was kind os cracked here and there , so I use Plastic Wood , smoothed it out and then painted it a copy f times , still not happy with the color , thinking  drab dead grass green next 

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Cool!  You've certainly got the eye and imagination to take something like that and make it desirable.   Is that from a Snapper?

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4 minutes ago, 56Sierra said:

Cool!  You've certainly got the eye and imagination to take something like that and make it desirable.   Is that from a Snapper?

Thanks .....  I call this kind  an alligator snapper , three ridges on it's back -----  good eating >>>>  7 different textures of meat , limit , one per day , per  boat , per vehicle , don't matter how many people are involved , to tell the truth , you can make turtle soup just as taste with chicken and leave the poor turtle alone as they are getting rare , I remember as a kid seeing them caught and weighing 200 pounds and up ------   now days , you can't "  commercially sell " turtle meat in Louisiana that was caught in Louisiana , turtle meat has to come from out of state ( to be legal ) to sell 

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5 hours ago, Fishfiles said:

Thanks .....  I call this kind  an alligator snapper , three ridges on it's back -----  good eating >>>>  7 different textures of meat , limit , one per day , per  boat , per vehicle , don't matter how many people are involved , to tell the truth , you can make turtle soup just as taste with chicken and leave the poor turtle alone as they are getting rare , I remember as a kid seeing them caught and weighing 200 pounds and up ------   now days , you can't "  commercially sell " turtle meat in Louisiana that was caught in Louisiana , turtle meat has to come from out of state ( to be legal ) to sell 

Very interesting.   We have snapper, painted, box and softshell here.  I'm that guy pulled over on the side of the road to remove a turtle from harms way....OK, snakes too.  Now a Coon?  I run them over every chance I get.

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