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Title: Need a Welder for Treestand idea?
Post by: joebuck on March 19, 2008, 12:04:00 PM
I'm needing a welder to make me a simple chain-on platfrom to use with my Guido web stand. if interested and can weld aluminum and or steel, PM me please. thanks
Title: Re: Need a Welder for Treestand idea?
Post by: Marty on March 19, 2008, 12:13:00 PM
Your Buddy Biggie is a welder, he's just not good on table saws. I still say it wasn't the saw, but I say when eating ribs he was goin too fast and gnawed on his thumb!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Need a Welder for Treestand idea?
Post by: joebuck on March 19, 2008, 12:21:00 PM
Marty , quit screwing up my thread...are you a welder or not?  get off
  :scared:
Title: Re: Need a Welder for Treestand idea?
Post by: JC on March 19, 2008, 01:20:00 PM
Joey, contact Mike Mitchum a.k.a. SquirrelBait...he can weld like no tomorry.
Title: Re: Need a Welder for Treestand idea?
Post by: Biggie Hoffman on March 19, 2008, 01:20:00 PM
I was gonna offer to weld up your dumb stand but if you're gonna be mean to my buddy....forget it!

  :knothead:
Title: Re: Need a Welder for Treestand idea?
Post by: Squirrel Bait on March 19, 2008, 01:24:00 PM
joebuck , what you need my brother? Send me your ideas ([email protected]). Biggie , easy on joebuck , he prolly hasn't took his pill yet!!!
Title: Re: Need a Welder for Treestand idea?
Post by: joebuck on March 19, 2008, 02:14:00 PM
Heck Biggie, you can't even erect a Double Bull, you think i'm going trust you reading a blueprint and following directions?
Title: Re: Need a Welder for Treestand idea?
Post by: Biggie Hoffman on March 19, 2008, 03:08:00 PM
And just who are you gonna get to make a blueprint for you???? Most blueprints have more than just pictures ya know, they actually have numbers and even....that's right, FRACTIONS!

Too much for anyone from Ole Miss..........
Title: Re: Need a Welder for Treestand idea?
Post by: joebuck on March 19, 2008, 04:18:00 PM
i have 6 hours credit in drafting from OSU and University of Mississippi...thank you...plus I'm hail at paint brush.......tell'em Squirell
Title: Re: Need a Welder for Treestand idea?
Post by: Biggie Hoffman on March 19, 2008, 05:56:00 PM
Mike you'd better go to 12 gauge material on his stand, he thinks he's still under 200#
Title: Re: Need a Welder for Treestand idea?
Post by: Kingstaken on March 19, 2008, 06:02:00 PM
LMAO....You guys are great...
I feel like I'm listening to a comedy act in a cheap Comedy club here in N.Y.      :clapper:    

Joebuck, that DoubleBull line killed my friend..    :biglaugh:
Title: Re: Need a Welder for Treestand idea?
Post by: joebuck on March 19, 2008, 06:27:00 PM
Jim, it's cheap alright!!!!!!...I may be 250# but I have the hips of a 180#er.

I am surprised Biggie even admitted the DB fiasco. Wensels and marty put up his deer stands anyway. he'll have them in no time putting up his turkey blinds. the guy is a natural !!
Title: Re: Need a Welder for Treestand idea?
Post by: Shawn Leonard on March 19, 2008, 07:43:00 PM
It would be way easier and probably cheaper to buy one, as by the time ya buy the materials and pay Biggie in cases of beer, you will have way to much invested!  :bigsmyl:  Shawn
Title: Re: Need a Welder for Treestand idea?
Post by: WidowEater on March 19, 2008, 08:41:00 PM
i love building my own stuff from metal,  I once built my own chamberd muffler to put on my Ford Tempo, and yes this was in the last year.

Build long, build strong.
Title: Re: Need a Welder for Treestand idea?
Post by: joebuck on March 19, 2008, 10:52:00 PM
Shawn your right..Biggie is too much trouble....but i have that redneck curse "i have to buy something new so i can fix it!"
Title: Re: Need a Welder for Treestand idea?
Post by: troutms on March 19, 2008, 11:27:00 PM
Joey, I'm ready to buy a huntin' buggy. Wanted to come by next week to look at your Bad Boy. Are you home next Tuesday?
Title: Re: Need a Welder for Treestand idea?
Post by: joebuck on March 20, 2008, 09:44:00 AM
Trent,, check your PM
Title: Re: Need a Welder for Treestand idea?
Post by: Marty on March 20, 2008, 04:51:00 PM
Joey, I am not a welder, but I know one. He already built you a turkey seat, remember? Now if you finish(Wait- start) my bow, I'll make arrangements with that welder!

This thread will die now that I posted. Always does.
Title: Re: Need a Welder for Treestand idea?
Post by: joebuck on March 20, 2008, 04:54:00 PM
Your bow has been started. I have never worked with Pink Ivory wood before but it should make an awesome riser.
Title: Re: Need a Welder for Treestand idea?
Post by: Marty on March 20, 2008, 08:47:00 PM
It'll be a reflection on the bowyer, that's for sure!Did it come from a pink elephant? I used to see those once in a while.
Title: Re: Need a Welder for Treestand idea?
Post by: Biggie Hoffman on March 21, 2008, 07:30:00 AM
Serial number should be 351

That's an inside joke guys...I can't share it with ya'll but Marty can..ask him
Title: Re: Need a Welder for Treestand idea?
Post by: Marty on March 21, 2008, 08:17:00 AM
351....is Biggie's fighting weight, he hasn't seen it in years, But he better get down to it if he pushes the 351 serial number!
Title: Re: Need a Welder for Treestand idea?
Post by: brettlandon on March 21, 2008, 08:57:00 AM
You guys are a HOOT!  :biglaugh:    :biglaugh:    :biglaugh:  

-Brett
Title: Re: Need a Welder for Treestand idea?
Post by: Biggie Hoffman on March 21, 2008, 10:20:00 AM
Gang, Marty has been after Joey for years to make him a Swamp Rooter Recurve. There are only 4 of these in the world. Matt Shuster has one, I have one, there's one at the bottom of the river in Alaska, and of course, Joey has one.
The problem is, Joey only wants his bows to go to people who can make hero pictures with them.......

 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v295/whoffman1955/Turkey/blindhog.jpg)
Title: Re: Need a Welder for Treestand idea?
Post by: Marty on March 21, 2008, 10:57:00 AM
Won't know until I get one, will I? How many times are you gonna show us Jill's pet turkey?
Title: Re: Need a Welder for Treestand idea?
Post by: alligatordond on March 21, 2008, 05:43:00 PM
Marty,

I'm hunting with Matt this weekend. If he has the bow I'll swipe it for you. Us Fla boys have to stick together.
Title: Re: Need a Welder for Treestand idea?
Post by: alligatordond on March 21, 2008, 05:46:00 PM
Also I may send up a treestand with Matt for you guys to look at. EMT and expanded metal and it holds my 245. Had my last couple for 20 years and they're still in great shape. I need a good welder.
Title: Re: Need a Welder for Treestand idea?
Post by: Biggie Hoffman on March 21, 2008, 06:33:00 PM
245 is light heavyweight at best Don, we're talking about stands for full grown men.....

Get ready to eat canned soup all weekend, Shusters specialty
Title: Re: Need a Welder for Treestand idea?
Post by: Marty on March 21, 2008, 07:16:00 PM
That Schuster fella sure gets around, I'd say he's permiscuis when it comes to huntin partners and camps!
Title: Re: Need a Welder for Treestand idea?
Post by: Squirrel Bait on March 21, 2008, 07:31:00 PM
Yeah permiscuis my butt Marty, He'll hunt with anybody that will feed his sorry butt.
Title: Re: Need a Welder for Treestand idea?
Post by: JockC on March 21, 2008, 09:37:00 PM
Joebuck,
If you have a step design that would allow me to shoot a longbow from my Web, I'd sure like to see it.  I love Guido's seat, but I have trouble with bow clearance.
Title: Re: Need a Welder for Treestand idea?
Post by: alligatordond on March 23, 2008, 01:37:00 PM
Well, We fed Matt beef tenderloin, one cooked traditional seared with salt pepper and garlic the other stuffed with peppercinis,pickled figs,some type of sweet onion preserve, served rare. Fresh turnip greens,garlic mashed taters,rattatouii(don't know what was in it but it was good)spinach salad, chocolate cake and Ben and Jerry's. Matt slept in this morning.

He was so appreciative that he gave me the bow Joey made. That is one nice bow so I don't think I can let Marty have it.

The highlight of Matt's turkey hunt was blowing out a bird that another guest was working. He needs to keep his hat on, that head is like a Q-beam.

I may have to make a trip up to see you guys. I want to pick up one of those hunting chairs and I need a good welder, that understands stands , to make up a few stands for me. Meant to send one with Matt but forgot.
Title: Re: Need a Welder for Treestand idea?
Post by: Biggie Hoffman on March 23, 2008, 02:19:00 PM
Matt goes all week eating cheese crackers just hoping someone will invite him hunting on the weekend so he can eat some real food....

we're wise to him but you guys fell for it....
wonder were he'll go next weekend???

Congrats on getting the Swamp Rooter...that's really gonna make Marty mad!!!
Title: Re: Need a Welder for Treestand idea?
Post by: Marty on March 23, 2008, 02:57:00 PM
Don, I'm pretty sure it's a fake. When Joey and Matt were roommates, Matt had access to Joey's Logo's and other raw materials.You know Matt, he couldn't pass it up. It's probably a Robertson, one's missing sinse he was down to see us!

Maybe Matt will do an article on Who's Who of hunting camp cooks. He's mooched off the best!

As far as turkeys, All you can do is put 'em on 'em. It's up to them after that!
Title: Re: Need a Welder for Treestand idea?
Post by: alligatordond on March 23, 2008, 04:43:00 PM
Oh we'll invite anyone for steak weekend. He'll have to earn an invite for fish fry weekend. And he's not qualified for nurse's weekend.

A fake bow?? That fits Schuster's m.o.

As far as next weekend , he said something about having to sign autographs at some banquet.
Title: Re: Need a Welder for Treestand idea?
Post by: Steve H. on March 23, 2008, 09:18:00 PM
I'm goina get me a Swampy Rooter too.  I'm going over to Uncle Ed's tonight for dinner and he said he'd tell which river to look for the lost bow!

You should of seen the look on Shoe's face when I handed him a bag of Mtn House 8 miles up the Kalalou trail on Kauai.  I won't make the top ten best camp cook award with that!
Title: Re: Need a Welder for Treestand idea?
Post by: Marty on March 24, 2008, 08:50:00 AM
Nurse's weekend? I 've been feelin poorly lately, does that qualify?

Matt signin autographs , Who's he impersonatin there? I heard he's givin a seminar about regional hunting camp grub-from coast to coast.

I like that Swampy Rooter name. Before you know it everybody will have one. Biggie killed a turkey over the weekend behind his house, BUT didn't use his Swampy Rooter! He'll never get another one!
Title: Re: Need a Welder for Treestand idea?
Post by: joebuck on March 24, 2008, 03:07:00 PM
Steve Ho....it's the Aniak River south west Alaska.....Ed almost killed us twice on that trip...I gladly didn't mind donately my bow to the hunt demons. If you go anywhere with Ed, leave a last will and testament handy. he has 2 left oars!

GatorDon, Schuster must be smokin crack toting my bow around. He has been tied at the hip with that Quillian bow since 1995!

Hoensese and Schuster are lost twins....no hair, CHEAP, will eat anything, bowhunt 350 days a year, highly educated and never changed a diaper
Title: Re: Need a Welder for Treestand idea?
Post by: swampbuck on March 24, 2008, 03:18:00 PM
LOL I take it your all set on the welder....

By the way that EMT conduit welds up nice with a torch and filler rod.I'd almost prefer it to my bigger machine that'd blow hole's thru way to easy without nockin the power way way down.Thinkin of adding the tig attachment to her but I only use it for myself and when the power goes out.Thats the main reason I bought it needed a generator and for a few bucks more got a welder/gererator

I test all my stands 1-2' off the ground with myself and 2 lg bud's in the stand at the same time app. 700#s I don't want to be up real high and find out there's a problem

good luck!
Title: Re: Need a Welder for Treestand idea?
Post by: joebuck on March 24, 2008, 03:44:00 PM
I hadn't Swamp.. I'm still drawing it out..i'll PM you a drawing and ask you if it will fly. it will be a cross between the old climax stand and Steppladder!?!
Title: Re: Need a Welder for Treestand idea?
Post by: Kingstaken on March 24, 2008, 04:02:00 PM
Tom I guess ya buds are not Bud Lights..  :biglaugh:
Title: Re: Need a Welder for Treestand idea?
Post by: swampbuck on March 24, 2008, 04:36:00 PM
"old climax stand"

Never heard of that one,I'll try to get ya a pic or sketch of the one's I built.Their chain on's and can be folded up and locked that way so nobody can hunt it when your not there.Very much like the screaming eagle stand that they show the VW bug hangin from
Title: Re: Need a Welder for Treestand idea?
Post by: alligatordond on March 24, 2008, 07:04:00 PM
Joey, I'll send you a pic of my EMT stands. If you decide on a good welder(I like brazing)let me know. May be worth a weekend trip somewhere for a good product. My guy totally screwed up the bends and the welds are sorry. And you're right about Matt. I think he must sleep with that Quillian, I'm pretty sure he was roasting marshmallows with it.

Marty, That may be a good article for Mr Matt to write about "Top Chef-Hunting Camp Edition" . You of course, are invited to drive up to Kenansville to join us for supper whenever you can.

Swampbuck, post a pic. I'm always looking for the perfect stand.
Title: Re: Need a Welder for Treestand idea?
Post by: Steve H. on March 24, 2008, 08:55:00 PM
I gotta fondle Uncle Ed's Swampy Rooter last night.

P.S.  Learn how to spell Joey.
Title: Re: Need a Welder for Treestand idea?
Post by: alligatordond on March 25, 2008, 03:33:00 PM
I know how to spell Joey
Title: Re: Need a Welder for Treestand idea?
Post by: joebuck on March 25, 2008, 05:43:00 PM
Hoe....you backed out of PBS I heard.......well that leaves Shuster only bachler at PBS hitting on friend's daughters