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wanttorun100
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 Posted: 10/02/06 - 09:16 Post subject: Value of good neighbors
Contractor estimate to put in new culvert ‘out back of the west field’ $1,100
Cost done with help of Neighbor
$250 culvert pipe
$5 two tubes of black jack tar
$10 pork shoulder
$1 head of cabbage
$1 charcoal
$0 hickory and apple wood chunks (to cook pork shoulder)
$15 new shovel (to replace the one the neighbor accidentally ran over with his excavator)
$282
chowing down on pulled pork sandwiches and homemade ‘slaw after putting in culvert with neighbor
priceless
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JACKED UP
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Location: www.johnnydu.com
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Posted: 10/02/06 - 09:21 Post subject:
Isn't it great to use other peoples stuff to benefit yourself??!!!  Keep the tools too! 
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wanttorun100
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Posted: 10/02/06 - 09:25 Post subject:
| JACKED UP wrote: | | Isn't it great to use other peoples stuff to benefit yourself??!!! Keep the tools too! |
well he ran the excavator - I just did the idiot work
yesterday afternoon I borowed my bother out laws air nailer to help a buddy roof his house
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Floridaboiler
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Posted: 10/02/06 - 18:18 Post subject:
Can he drive the excavator down here. I want to dig out my drainage ditch so it is all one width so it will be easier to mow.
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andydp
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Posted: 10/02/06 - 19:36 Post subject:
I think its a BIG Freakin' help when your neighbor happens to have an excavator just sitting in his back yard...
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MechEngDropout
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Posted: 10/02/06 - 20:17 Post subject:
| andydp wrote: | | I think its a BIG Freakin' help when your neighbor happens to have an excavator just sitting in his back yard... |
No kidding. I think there are rather few people that own excavators for personal use.
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gretriever
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Posted: 10/02/06 - 20:29 Post subject:
| wanttorun100 wrote: |
well he ran the excavator - I just did the idiot work
yesterday afternoon I borowed my bother out laws air nailer to help a buddy roof his house |
Reffered to Riff Raff Hall of Fame without comment.
Nice deal you struck there.
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wanttorun100
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Posted: 10/03/06 - 06:59 Post subject:
| andydp wrote: | | I think its a BIG Freakin' help when your neighbor happens to have an excavator just sitting in his back yard... |
not as uncommon out here as you'd think but he's a contractor also a retired police officer also a taxidermist
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RangerG
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Posted: 10/03/06 - 07:14 Post subject:
| gretriever wrote: | | wanttorun100 wrote: |
well he ran the excavator - I just did the idiot work
yesterday afternoon I borowed my bother out laws air nailer to help a buddy roof his house |
Reffered to Riff Raff Hall of Fame without comment. |
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gretriever
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Posted: 10/03/06 - 07:36 Post subject:
| gretriever wrote: | | wanttorun100 wrote: |
well he ran the excavator - I just did the idiot work
yesterday afternoon I borowed my bother out laws air nailer to help a buddy roof his house |
Refered to Riff Raff Hall of Fame without comment.
Nice deal you struck there. |
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