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[hvw]

Good things are where you find them! And that is a world class find. (quoting from my now deceased cousin finding bales of Marijuanna in Key West, where he lived)

[docwelder]

as to that milwaukee drill; been there and done that. unless i could rest the handle against a column or some other immovable object while drilling i might use it.

[Poleframer]

3/4" npt thread. I burned the armature out of a couple augering 1" holes through railroad ties, with a 3' cheater. I'd say a 18" to 2' side handle is what ya need for that kind of drill. Even then, be ready to get whacked.

[Popeye an old miner]

We had one of them I think it was a Black and Decker, when i was a young snot workin in a coal breaker, i was usin it to drill some holes in some i beams we were gonna mount another feed chute to. The bit, i think it was 13/16", got caught and broke off, i fell into the busted off end of the bit in the beam. it went through my hand, my other hand was caught between the beam and the driil and i couldnt get off the trigger and the leftover spinning bit caught my shirt sleeve on my arm that my hand was impaled on the bit, i hollered and Dave yanked the cord out the plug. Had it not been for Dave i might have lost an arm or a hand.

After that and seein some other accidents up close and personal I have a very healthy respect if not fear about anything that spins, whether its a shaft a fan a drill.

Be safe

[bent]

If you need to use one of those big drills, wrap the cord around your foot so that if anything happens you can easily unplug it. If it has a switch that locks on take the switch apart and remove the locking mechanism.

[123weld]

Good things are where you find them! And that is a world class find. (quoting from my now deceased cousin finding bales of Marijuanna in Key West, where he lived)

i'd kinda like to hear a lil more about it. how he came about it/value,year,how much and what he did and happened w/ it etc., and um, did the deceased part have anything to do w/ the bales

[bigb]

We had one of them I think it was a Black and Decker, when i was a young snot workin in a coal breaker, i was usin it to drill some holes in some i beams we were gonna mount another feed chute to. The bit, i think it was 13/16", got caught and broke off, i fell into the busted off end of the bit in the beam. it went through my hand, my other hand was caught between the beam and the driil and i couldnt get off the trigger and the leftover spinning bit caught my shirt sleeve on my arm that my hand was impaled on the bit, i hollered and Dave yanked the cord out the plug. Had it not been for Dave i might have lost an arm or a hand.

After that and seein some other accidents up close and personal I have a very healthy respect if not fear about anything that spins, whether its a shaft a fan a drill.

Be safe

Every time I hear about those accidents I think of this guy https://www.sierrasun.com/news/drill...rs-tale-on-tv/

[CAVEMANN]

i'd kinda like to hear a lil more about it. how he came about it/value,year,how much and what he did and happened w/ it etc., and um, did the deceased part have anything to do w/ the bales

Yep, I was just hopin his cousin didn't get spotted pickin' up the weed, Isee trash bags or backpacks along the roads here, I'm tempted, but there's WAY too much cartel activity around here. There's been a few from our small town disappear and were later found with a self inflicted gunshot wound to the back of the head (AKA CLINTONIZED).

[Popeye an old miner]

Every time I hear about those accidents I think of this guy https://www.sierrasun.com/news/drill...rs-tale-on-tv/

Damn...thats scarey. I got a headache just lookin at that xray.

[hvw]

i'd kinda like to hear a lil more about it. how he came about it/value,year,how much and what he did and happened w/ it etc., and um, did the deceased part have anything to do w/ the bales

He owned a place in Key West and lived there during the colder months of the year as his "home" here had no heat or running water. One of his many hobbies was searching remote areas for stuff that came loose from boats or was discarded on purpose. Finding bales was not an everyday deal but happened every so often. He would bring the pot back to Georgia to sell it. Over the years he gave me pieces of mahogany and once some wood that was pinkish red and hard as a rock. All stuff that was found floating. He had no visible means of support for at least 25 years and was, all in all, a free spirit. Picking through his finds was quite an experience.

[123weld]

Yep, I was just hopin his cousin didn't get spotted pickin' up the weed, Isee trash bags or backpacks along the roads here, I'm tempted, but there's WAY too much cartel activity around here. There's been a few from our small town disappear and were later found with a self inflicted gunshot wound to the back of the head (AKA CLINTONIZED).

made me think of clintons too. instead of bales, it was parachuted crates filled w/ kilos, of a white clear like granular powdery substance, that routinely fell outa the sky near mena airport, while being gov/att gen. and they just simply killed about half dozen citizens that caught on , including them two kids they put on the rr tracks.

can you imagine being part of such an operation, and your little brother is selling half grams to the hs kids in the little town of arkansas




just listen to the coke-boozed fool. this bands name is "dealers choice" , - how appropiate. what an embarrassment to our white house/country, hillary probabaly woulda liked to make him dissapear. that was really thoughtful of bill to pardon him before leaving office

[123weld]

He owned a place in Key West and lived there during the colder months of the year as his "home" here had no heat or running water. One of his many hobbies was searching remote areas for stuff that came loose from boats or was discarded on purpose. Finding bales was not an everyday deal but happened every so often. He would bring the pot back to Georgia to sell it. Over the years he gave me pieces of mahogany and once some wood that was pinkish red and hard as a rock. All stuff that was found floating. He had no visible means of support for at least 25 years and was, all in all, a free spirit. Picking through his finds was quite an experience.

thanks for the story on that hvw, sounds like he enjoyed what he did