black dog
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Some of the Clinton Memorabilia is priceless, I bet the Ford conversations are funny also. Doc and his sons have always treated me Top Shelf.
He would love you long time if you bring him a tub of baked beans from Bear Creek.
Comedian Bill Nye gets schooled..
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Some of the Clinton Memorabilia is priceless, I bet the Ford conversations are funny also. Doc and his sons have always treated me Top Shelf.
He would love you long time if you bring him a tub of baked beans from Bear Creek.
LMAO. Yes it is indeed. Don't know if you knew, but Doc is most often at the Lex Park store since Witty passed away (that's the location I deal with regularly...machines..consumables..gas bottles. Dropped 2 grand on a new portable TIG machine last month..because I just had to have it, err..one of my guys had to have it). If he's not there his nephew is. I've been doing business with Three Mules for right at 25 years now...jeez, I feel old.
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black dog
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Yes I am aware, I miss Wittys humor and interaction with the local working girls that were prevalent then. I have bought all my migs, suitcase, plasma cutter and Tig from either Doc or his son Brian up North, my Bobcat gas drive I bought in Indiana. I have a Air Products supply a few miles from me but it's $hit compared to the Oliver's.
All I can say is when my business was new and when the economy tanked and not making alot of cash, The Oliver's treated me like I was the best paying customer they had. And when I need to add or replace a machine, I will call Brian and give him a CC and have it shipped.
One of these days I'll tell the story of those Oliver boys getting me to go to Potomac Speedway one night, sitting up in the nosebleeds with them and talking me into drinking from a few jars and eating the peaches and apples floating in them.
Or when I complained to the esab rep about how loud the cooling fan is on my 260 machine when I bought it. I told him we couldn't hear the girls on the TV moan when the fan is running. I #### you not, two weeks later Brian called and said he had a package from esab at the store. I went and picked it up and inside was a add on circuit board that controlled the fan with temperature.along with hand written instructions on how to install the extra board.
A man has to be able to hear his porn.
Or when my son around 5 yrs old turned the key on a gas drive in the showroom and it almost started.. he hauled ass upfront making the statement,,,,, don't turn the key... Don't turn the key.. a few years later he turned the voltage on my Bobcat while I was welding and blew all the rectifier's out of it.
.Lots of fun and laughter with all those boys....
Good down to earth people..
PS... It's ok to go to Anderson's with them, but don't make the mistake of going to Quade's.
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LMAO. I wonder how many people have experienced that? ;-)
The ESAB rep always had it out for me because I've bought many of the yellow machines (still have most of them) but refused to use their crap spool guns and wire handlers. Doc and the boys always rigged up and sold me exactly what I specified; ESAB rep be damned. All my welder extensions are either Profax or Tweeco..which, I believe, might have recently merged in to same company.
I cracked a joke the other day that almost had Doc in tears...I was almost worried for a second. He's what..75 now? We're all a gettin' old.
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black dog
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I'm a firm believer that if I continued to participate much longer that faithful night, they would have let me fall through the bleachers and spend the night sleeping among the paper trash, soda and beer cans and the endless stream of chewing tobacco spit.
About the time I realized I was in trouble, I called my wife to hurry up and come get me..
I think that was the same night that one of the son's wifes left his ass there also.
I got picked on for a few years over that..
I've limited my adventures with "fruit soaked clear liquids" to our long stays at the Cove, in Gore, Va, or when back south in Brosville, Va and the Franklin County area. Or when I'm back in Alabama. Or...
