yourname wrote:
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I've got a 90 foot long sloping driveway here in Red Sox Nation and
the Airens has never let me down through all the years.

I playfully call it "The Widow Maker" 'cause it comes from an time
before those effen' white shoed lawyers forced the manufacturers of
home power equipment to gussy them up with all sorts of safety gadgets
to prevent stupid damn fools from getting themselves into trouble and
then blaming the makers. My Airens was built to be operated by someone
who thinks about what he's doing before he does it.






Heh, blizzard of 78 made a ton o cash withmy dad's early 60's craftsman,
18 inch ~3 horse 'widow maker'

I still remember waiting 'till the end of that week and getting on the
first flight to the west coast leaving Logan airport. Happy to get out I
wuz. The place I was working for at the time made things like delivery
nozzles for the heating fuel oil industry and the boss decided that we
were an "essential industry" so we had to drag our asses into work all
week anyway. G

It had a full speed spinning pair or bars right out front with at least
1 inch long 1/4 inch bolts sticking straight out every 2 inches or so.
Single speed, no dead man. You could chip brush with the SOB. It left 18
inch diamter bulls eyes in the snowbank.

IIRC I had one like that before I got the Airens (and a new SWMBO). I
left that Craftsman with the first wife and kids. I seem to remember it
having no rubber tires on the wheels, they were just sheet steel disks
about 1/8" thick with little toes bent off them, alternating in and out.
It had a grey paint finish.

Jeff

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Jeffry Wisnia

(W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)

"Truth exists; only falsehood has to be invented."