Keith Marshall wrote:
I watched a rerun of Southern Steel this morning on Discovery Channel and
happened to notice at the end they displayed a message saying something
like: In loving memory of Gary Woodford, 1953 - 2005.

If you've ever watched the show you know Gary as the older guy with the long
ZZ-Top style beard that did nearly all of the metalworking and was fun to
watch. The show includes a bit more actual metalwork than others and a bit
less of the BS although the boss does get annoying at times. ;-)

Gary was obiously the most creative and impressive of the bunch. He seemed
to have a really unique outlook on life. Once when he was having a tough
time with something, rather than get ****ed off and rant and rave like many
of us might do he walked outside to find a 4-leaf clover. :-)

I'd never heard his last name and wasn't sure if he was the one mentioned so
I did a Google search but didn't find anything. Then I tried

http://www.milwaukeeiron.com

and found that it was indeed him. He passed away just a couple of days ago
but they don't say why.

Here's a link to a tribute to him:

http://www.milwaukeeiron.com/item.as...& Backlink=No

Best Regards,
Keith Marshall


"I'm not grown up enough to be so old!"



Small world. I did some work, through another vendor, some years ago for
MI. Looking at the website, some of the parts pictured looked familiar,
the triple trees in particular. I was in touch directly with them at the
time get questions answered and/or feedback on ideas I had, etc. ISTR
speaking with someone named Gary on the phone. If it was the same Gary,
he impressed me as being a genuinely decent person. I'm sure those who
were close will miss him greatly.


michael