Hello frum up North!

[AlaskaRedneK]

Hey everyone!

My name is Matt Stouffer, Im 17 and live in Alaska.

I got into welding last spring, and am now a Welding Student hoping to go thru an apprenticeship program.

I like to Hunt, Work on Truks, Fab up stuff, and most of all, weld


Hope to git to know you all more
-Stouff

[BBchevy396]

Welcome Matt.
Sit back and learn from these guys, they can teach you alot, if your willing to listen!

And I agree...... spark plugs suck!...... unless they're stuffed in a rat motor!!!!!

[AlaskaRedneK]

Originally Posted by BBchevy396

Welcome Matt.
Sit back and learn from these guys, they can teach you alot, if your willing to listen!

And I agree...... spark plugs suck!...... unless they're stuffed in a rat motor!!!!!

Ha ha, no problem. I am here to LEARN.

Here are some piktures of me, and my non spark-plugged rigg, lol.






-Stouff

[TxRedneck]

hey Jim....mmmmmMMMMMMMmmmmmm fresh meat yuuummmmmiiiieeeeeeeee slurp...taste like bunny
Welcome Matt, hope you enjoy your stay and learn a lot. We got another matt here from AK too.

[SNT Welding]

Welcome......Wish I could hunt some of that land up there with ya...someday I will. Good to see a younger guy into welding!
Later 4 Now
Scott

[scott brunsdon]

I looked at Chugiak on Google. It was all green, so I guess it was summer. How far from Anchorage is it? What's it like living there?
Scott

[smithboy]

I thought you had to be 21 to live in Alaska...or, that's what my mom told me.

I read a story about a hiker being killed in Alaska a while back. He was just walking down some trail and a big kodiak or griz came running across the trail, ran into him and killed him. It didn't maul or eat the fellow...it just ran him over on its way to somewhere else. Man, imagine the luck. The guy didn't get killed by a hungry bear, entering the food chain after a mighty struggle. He just got trampled by a clumsy one by total accident. Talk about being at the wrong place at the wrong time...walking through the woods in a state twice the size of Texas and you just happend to be in the path of the ONE bear in a hurry.

[Pentawelder]

Chugiak is near Eagle River about 18 miles from Anchorage ... it's kinda white this time of year!! Cold too!! Alaska Redneck, ever go to the Northway Mall in Anchorage?

[Pentawelder]

Definitely WHITE up there ... eleven inches of snow in Eagle River today.

[AlaskaRedneK]

Originally Posted by Pentawelder

Chugiak is near Eagle River about 18 miles from Anchorage ... it's kinda white this time of year!! Cold too!! Alaska Redneck, ever go to the Northway Mall in Anchorage?

Wow, im really impressed.

Did you used to live up here, or do you just look it up.... and yeah, 11 inches at my house

Thanks fer the warm welcome guys.
-Stouff

[Pentawelder]

GF is currently trapped in Eagle River and working at the Northway Mall.
It's been cold enough to freeze your arc in mid weld up there. Anyway may I too extend a warm welcome to the forum (California warm not Alaska warm!!)

[AlaskaRedneK]

HA, thats krazy.

What store she go to... im not a real shopper, but I might have to go by and give her a hard time, lol.

-Stouff

[TxRedneck]

Hey Jim, you think he took my idea with his name

[AlaskaRedneK]

Originally Posted by TxRedneck

Hey Jim, you think he took my idea with his name

HAHAHA,

Hmm, well maybe, cept you gots the sitty boy spellin' of RedneK..... pffffft, propper inglaash

LOL, j/k
-Stouff

[Pentawelder]

She's at BLADERUNNER ENTERPRISES near the middle if the mall opposite Arbys. The short haired short redhead named Carol. Btw I'm 60 so you can guess her age!!

[Pentawelder]

Matt, forgot to tell you I'm Gordon.

[smithboy]

29 and holding, I bet...like all our ladies are. Is this the welding girlfriend?

[scott brunsdon]

Hmm, well maybe, cept you gots the sitty boy spellin' of RedneK..... pffffft, propper inglaash

Given necks in Alaska wouldn't see alot of sun, how can there be rednecks/redneks up there?

[Pentawelder]

Smithboy, what a memory!!! No this isn't he welding girl, I've known Carol since '82 bu we only go ogeher jus before she went to the B-I-G refrigerator state.
Hey, Scott everything up there is red and chapped if it gets exposed to the air ... it's so dry and cold.
Gordon

[AlaskaRedneK]

Originally Posted by Pentawelder

She's at BLADERUNNER ENTERPRISES near the middle if the mall opposite Arbys. The short haired short redhead named Carol. Btw I'm 60 so you can guess her age!!

22.

LOL, I shud still go give her a hard time for ya.

-Stouff

[Pentawelder]

Matt, I took the Spark plugs out of my truck but it wont run now, just makes a whooshing sound !! Looks as if break-up has started up there in 'fridgerator land.

[AlaskaRedneK]

Tell me bout it. It is really meltin up. With our HIGH temperatures (40F) lol

-Stouff

[sunpowered]

I used to work at the Video store in Eagle River,AK and stayed in a tiny little room right over the bar across the road from it, man those were the days,I worked in the big lake area for one of the outback gaming houses, there was a guy welding barge bottoms for making house boats right near the bar we drank at. geeesh what memories.

[AlaskaRedneK]

Ha, What video shop was that at?

-Stouff

[sunpowered]

Man that was 25 years ago, back in my party days all I rememeber was the owner had a black and white pit bull and a great looking ol lady,I even spent time over in unalaska/dutch harbor too that was 27 years ago.