On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 08:33:44 -0800, Grant Erwin
wrote:

Gunner Asch wrote:

http://www.murphyauctions.net/marcoshipyard.html

Sigh...another American business down the ****ter.

On the bright side...all those welders are gonna hit the surplus
market in a year or so, as I cannot imagine any one company buying and
using them all, and they are likely going to be cheap.

Grant might score big on this one. Maybe he will buy me one G

Id LOVE to have one of those Miller 304s...hint hint Grant....

I used to work at Marco, great place to work. It was a family operation that
built very high quality fishing boats. It was amazing to see their operation
back in the late '70s during the king crab boom. In those days a guy could get
on a crabber as a deckhand and go up for one trip to Alaska, and come back with
enough money to finance buying his own $3M crab boat, and lots of guys were
doing just that. Marco was cranking 'em out every 28 days, top quality every
one. They had real good machinists there, but their best feature was their
shipwrights. They had an amazing wood shop (not using the nautical name there)
stocked with dozens of exotic hardwoods, and they used to outfit the living
spaces of those crab boats like throne rooms, just GORGEOUS.

I'm sorry, Gunner, I'm not going to that auction, not even for sentimental
reasons, don't care if they're giving the welders away, I just don't want to see
the old place torn to pieces. Another case of the old man dies and the kids ****
away a great business, I'm afraid, this one wasn't much to do with global economics.

GWE

Would you send your wife???? Id love to have a 304.....

Sorry to hear about the company. Far too much of that these days.
Im helping an older fellow try to restart a company, that his son
drank into the ground.

Anyone going to that auction that would trade Stuff if they managed to
snag a couple Miller 304s?

Gunner

"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire.
Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us)
off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give
them self determination under "play nice" rules.

Think of it as having your older brother knock the **** out of you
for torturing the cat." Gunner