On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 05:28:57 GMT, Fitch R. Williams
wrote:

"Tony" wrote:

Once one gets involved with trailering equipment you are kinda leaving the
realm of HSM.

You are kidding, right?

Fitch

ROFLMAO!!! Thats in Chapter One of the HSM Handbook.

"How to get your chunk of scrap home"

"Since you have failed to heed all warnings and enter the HSM Zone,
you will find a particular kind of madness taking over your life. Its
called many things, Cast Iron Addiction, Machine Noncompus Mentus
etc, but the official diagnosis is Machine Fever. While not fatal,
there is no cure and it will debilitate you for life.

You will find yourself driving the back alleys of industrial parks,
craning your neck, looking for that telltale speck of gray or rust,
indicating the presence of a hulking machine tool, cruelly turned out
to pasture, rusting away. The maternal side of your illness kicks into
overdrive as you find yourself climbing on the hood of your vehicle to
get a better look over the wall or fence...weighing in your mind,
assessing, pondering if it will fit in the cubby hole you have started
calling Your SHOP.

Even though you realize you have 25 square feet of shop, a complex
chemical process now occurs, removing totally spatial proportion
ability from your brain. Your heart beat increases, a sense of
excitment and a seething madness sets in, and within an hour or
two..the fog rolls away, and you shudderingly realize you now own 3000
pounds of rusting cast iron...."

snip

Gunner
"Gun Control, the theory that a 110lb grandmother should
fist fight a 250lb 19yr old criminal"