THE Random Chat Thread - AKA "The RCT" - No shirt or shoes required - Open 24 / 7

[RustyRelics]

Rusty,

Well for what it's worth when all is said and done go with your gut. What do you think are they the real deal or not?

To give yourself a margin of safety if it's an auction cut your maximum bid in half....if it's a buy it now with an option to make an offer lowball it.

Some times in life we have to take chances and hope for double 8's.

My gut says real, as well as my friend on there. The problem is it has a fake "Chicken Wire" on the helmet, and it appears to have been preserved with some sort of lacquer. I can remove Chicken Wire, so that doesn't bother me. If it's laquered, I'll say no. If it's oiled, I can work with that.


Honestly at this rate, I think I'm going to buy a shell, paint, liner, chinstrap and decals and restore one myself.

 

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[bill from lachine]

Jim,

Yep I spent 35 years in Railway Marketing and was pretty good at it. Learned it by doing it just with high school education and was mentoring MBA's at the end of my career.

My challenge now is trying to outfox the stock market since the meltdown. Probably took a 20% or so haircut with my portfolio back in March when I sold everything on the way down.

When things calmed down I went back in with both feet at a lower level and have been buying and selling bluechips on the dips and managed to recoup about half of the shortfall from the meltdown.

Frankly I don't need the extra money it's just the challenge of outfoxing the system....

If you don't have a reason/challenge to get out of bed in the morning time to cash in the chips folks...my words of wisdom for today.

 

[bill from lachine]

No other baby.

 

[bill from lachine]

I saw her standing there.

 

[bill from lachine]

Tougher than the rest.

 

[pepperj]

How life treats us sometimes.
I asked a farmer about some wood processing equipment that was across the road.
He said it belonged to his brother and had I ever met him.
I replied "No"
Well just go over there and have a conversation with him, then come back over and tell me how it went.
Second time I met up with the farmer he was loading bales up into the barn-go ask the wife, or come back when it's raining.
Third time was this past winter, and he apologized for how he treated me a few years back.
Met up with him today at a new 50acre permission.
He tells me that there is 3 known homesteads on 450 acres, and for me to go and find something.
Now it's a great day when the farmer gives the permission even before asking for it.
Had 20 minutes and I had a sniff around the one site that was in hay.
He said he was going to spray and disk up the soils this fall.
"I don't let anyone on my lands, first thing they'll do is see something, then go tell on you.
You go ahead Jim, detect all you want anytime.
I guess the message is I see no evil.

 

[releventchair]

How life treats us sometimes.
I asked a farmer about some wood processing equipment that was across the road.
He said it belonged to his brother and had I ever met him.
I replied "No"
Well just go over there and have a conversation with him, then come back over and tell me how it went.
Second time I met up with the farmer he was loading bales up into the barn-go ask the wife, or come back when it's raining.
Third time was this past winter, and he apologized for how he treated me a few years back.
Met up with him today at a new 50acre permission.
He tells me that there is 3 known homesteads on 450 acres, and for me to go and find something.
Now it's a great day when the farmer gives the permission even before asking for it.
Had 20 minutes and I had a sniff around the one site that was in hay.
He said he was going to spray and disk up the soils this fall.
"I don't let anyone on my lands, first thing they'll do is see something, then go tell on you.
You go ahead Jim, detect all you want anytime.
I guess the message is I see no evil.

Timing really matters with some folks on their own turf.
On the right day he'd have welcomed help tossing bales.
On the next he might have run you off...L.o.l..

Keeping his business his business works best by keeping folks off...Heck , you kill a cattail plant in a mud puddle and you're in danger of violating the wetlands act here in some places.
It's not a bad act. But farming is farming too. Crawling around looking for cattail fluff seeds before they sprout is not going to happen. But prove they were not there before they sprout and someone reports you knocked them down with tractor tires. Yes , I exaggerate. But sometimes you can't fart sideways without some one complaining.
And should something else be growing. Well , who's business is that?

You obviously didn't rub him the wrong way with the patient approach. And more importantly , didn't give up on him/communication yet.
Reads like a site with potential....

 

[ARC]

Morning.

 

[pepperj]

Timing really matters with some folks on their own turf.
On the right day he'd have welcomed help tossing bales.
On the next he might have run you off...L.o.l..

Keeping his business his business works best by keeping folks off...Heck , you kill a cattail plant in a mud puddle and you're in danger of violating the wetlands act here in some places.
It's not a bad act. But farming is farming too. Crawling around looking for cattail fluff seeds before they sprout is not going to happen. But prove they were not there before they sprout and someone reports you knocked them down with tractor tires. Yes , I exaggerate. But sometimes you can't fart sideways without some one complaining.
And should something else be growing. Well , who's business is that?

You obviously didn't rub him the wrong way with the patient approach. And more importantly , didn't give up on him/communication yet.
Reads like a site with potential....

Some are very private when it comes to giving permission to their lands.
The neighbor that boarders him is also.
O got the open permission 6yrs ago or so. I mentioned it to somebody and they couldn't believe that they had given me permission to dig.
"Gee they don't even like anyone even turning around in the driveway."
This farmer was a complete surprise actually.
I didn't even consider asking him for permission.
Maybe it was the fact that the pouch was full of iron and a horse shoe was the only item that was a piece of something.
I said I think sometimes I'm just the trash collector cleaning the owners fields for the permission.
He liked history, putting the bug in the other farmers ear. A friendly get under the skin type thing.a comment to get them going
He said he was going to tell the other farmer I found a big piece of gold, just to get him going.

 

[pepperj]

Morning world

 

[pepperj]

Morning AARC

 

[Rookster]

Good Tuesday morning folks.

 

[Rookster]

Suppose to hit that 107 mark today.

 

[Rookster]

Morning AARC AND PEPPERJ

 

[pepperj]

Morning Rook
Sounds like it's going to be uncomfortable to say the least.
It's going to be 90F feeling like a 104F for us today.
I guess I'll try to cut the lawn, didn't get a chance yesterday as the skies opened up.

 

[bill from lachine]

Good morning ARC, Jim & Rook.

 

[pepperj]

Morning Bill

 

[ARC]

Morning Pepper... Rook... Bill.

 

[pepperj]

Morning Dave

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Morning guys... ARC, Jim & rook!

Just in case you're interested in seeing the finds from my last three visits to this site... http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/t...ing-spoon-coins-egyptian-god.html#post6566897

The weatherman is calling for rain here this afternoon, I'm looking forward to it to be honest.