"JohnH" wrote in message
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On 28 Apr 2006 11:41:21 -0700, "basskisser" wrote:


JohnH wrote:

Sunday is the day. The boat will be put in the water. I will attempt to
get
it running. Anyone who wants to fly in from parts unknown, watch, and
get a
good laugh is welcome to do so.
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'Til next time,

John H

Sorry I've got to miss that little gem! But, I've got a neighbor, real
nice guy, and is fairly adept at a lot of things. Trouble is, he is
just an accident waiting to happen. I call him Hardluck! Everything he
touches turns to ****! He rented a Bobcat (skid steer loader) to do
some leveling in his back yard. I go over there about a half hour
after, and in that amount of time, he managed to dig into the leach
field for his septic tank, which pretty much flooded the yard. In
flooding the yard, Georgia clay turns to mush. The bobcat is buried so
bad that it's almost on it's side....I just laughed. We had a chain
fall hooked to it, and tried everything. He ended up getting a wrecker.
First wrecker, $125, couldn't get near it. Second wrecker $300 was one
used to get semi's out of ravines and stuff!!!!

One of my dreams is to own a Bobcat. I love 'em. One day the church had a
'land clearing' and the guy in charge asked me if I could operate a
Bobcat.
(He knew I could operate a chain saw, which was plenty of qualification, I
guess.) Naturally I told him I could!

The rental company delivered the Bobcat, and the man asked if I'd ever
operated one. I wasn't dishonest with him, so he spent 10 minutes showing
me what the levers and pedals do. What a blast! I spent the next several
hours having a ball with the Bobcat. It was like a fantasy come true!
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'Til next time,

John H

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The are known as skid-steers in the trade, not bobcats. And I would love to
have one also. ;-)