Things that make you go HMMM...

audioluvr
audioluvr Posts: 5,601
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A great place to post the bazaar, funny and just down right stupid stuff you come across.

I'll start. Stumps for sale! Get your sumps here!

https://portland.craigslist.org/clc/mat/d/tree-stumps/7150928770.html

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  • NotaSuv
    NotaSuv Posts: 3,856
    with the root ball no less....nice find
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  • motorhead43026
    motorhead43026 Posts: 3,900
    For the adventurous stump lover there is even a stump “grinder”
    The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

    It is imperative that we recognize that an opinion is not a fact.
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  • maxward
    maxward Posts: 1,581
    And quite a bargain, too.
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  • aprazer402
    aprazer402 Posts: 3,149
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    No affil.

    Provenance? NOT!
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  • audioluvr
    audioluvr Posts: 5,601
    edited July 2020
    Ah crap! Someone got a grinder? Offered on their "Sasquatch Off-road Package" ??? I keep thinking of the Jack Links " Messing with Sasquatch" commercials! Hilarious!

    https://www.foxnews.com/auto/ford-erasing-wrangler-name-broncos-tires

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    There is about a 5% genetic difference between apes and men …but that difference is the difference between throwing your own poo when you are annoyed …and Einstein, Shakespeare and Miss January. by Dr. Sardonicus
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  • msg
    msg Posts: 10,126
    Running unshielded power and signal cables in parallel runs will make you go hmmm.
    I disabled signatures.
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,842
    There is a tree removal company here that will dig out desirable stumps rather than grind them down. They dig them out whole and take them back to their yard. They sell them to people who will then either slice the stumps up for the burl as a panel or laminate or they clean them up and turn them in to things like coffee tables and end tables, often with clear or colored epoxy to highlight the natural imperfections.

    The average price of the stumps from what I've seen is about $350. Size matters, obviously. But a $350 stump will get turned into a $1500 table.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,901
    Jstas wrote: »
    ...
    The average price of the stumps from what I've seen is about $350. Size matters, obviously. But a $350 stump will get turned into a $1500 table.

    Nearly as good a gross margin as audiophile wires.

    B)

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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,842
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    Jstas wrote: »
    ...
    The average price of the stumps from what I've seen is about $350. Size matters, obviously. But a $350 stump will get turned into a $1500 table.

    Nearly as good a gross margin as audiophile wires.

    B)

    Yeah, it's not hard to do at all, either. Makes me think I could build some tables that would hold audio gear and pre-wire them with some audiophile wires. Then I could turn a $100 tree stump and $50 of epoxy into $15,000 worth of audiophile coffee table!
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  • polrbehr
    polrbehr Posts: 2,834
    Jstas wrote: »
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    Jstas wrote: »
    ...
    The average price of the stumps from what I've seen is about $350. Size matters, obviously. But a $350 stump will get turned into a $1500 table.

    Nearly as good a gross margin as audiophile wires.

    B)

    Yeah, it's not hard to do at all, either. Makes me think I could build some tables that would hold audio gear and pre-wire them with some audiophile wires. Then I could turn a $100 tree stump and $50 of epoxy into $15,000 worth of audiophile coffee table!

    I got 4 or 5 monster oaks that I want taken down, probably measure between 2 or 3' diameter from the caliper up to about 8', might be worth keeping instead of just adding to the firewood stock.
    So, are you willing to put forth a little effort or are you happy sitting in your skeptical poo pile?


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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,901
    ... it wood would be cool, and novel (the 'found wood' hifi rack, that is). Seems like an opportunity that beckons! :)

    Be sure to listen to Fresh Aire III when you demo them. B)

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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 7,658
    edited August 2020
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    Ah, Mannheim Steamroller none other than C. W. McCall who gave the world of truckers their musical anthem: "Convoy"
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  • msg
    msg Posts: 10,126
    I thought that was Jerry Reed?
    https://youtu.be/8QAEmCuBnck
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  • Viking64
    Viking64 Posts: 7,111
    msg wrote: »
    I thought that was Jerry Reed?

    Pish-Posh!! Balderdash!!! Codswallop!!!!!

    That would be Dave Dudley.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdpf4nw5BzI
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,563
    Jerry Reed was a bada$$!!
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,901
    KennethSwauger wrote: »
    Ah, Mannheim Steamroller none other than C. W. McCall who gave the world of truckers their musical anthem: "Convoy"

    aka Chip Davis "IRL" :)
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  • aprazer402
    aprazer402 Posts: 3,149
    edited July 2020
    ^^^ William Dale Fries Jr. (aka C.W. McCall), "Fries wrote the (Convoy) lyrics and sang, while Chip Davis, later of Mannheim Steamroller, wrote the music."
    Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._W._McCall
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,446
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  • joecoulson
    joecoulson Posts: 4,943
    New York did it right. Hmmm
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,901
    aprazer402 wrote: »
    ^^^ William Dale Fries Jr. (aka C.W. McCall), "Fries wrote the (Convoy) lyrics and sang, while Chip Davis, later of Mannheim Steamroller, wrote the music."
    Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._W._McCall

    Right-o! Good catch. Fries was an ad-man, if memory serves. All started with a bread company's ad campaign -- again, if memory serves.

    FWIW, I liked the first "big" CW McCall hit, Wolf Creek Pass, even better than Convoy, I think. Sort of a close cousin to Harry Chapin's great 30,000 Pounds of Bananas.

    https://youtu.be/OGldNpngDws



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  • seabeerob213
    seabeerob213 Posts: 1,843
    edited July 2020
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  • aprazer402
    aprazer402 Posts: 3,149
    edited July 2020
    https://omaha.craigslist.org/ele/d/omaha-money/7167799740.html

    No affil.

    WTF - Strange, never seen this before. The bills are stamped COPY on them.

    EDIT: I guess you can buy this stuff, even on Amazon, fairly cheap.

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  • Clipdat
    Clipdat Posts: 12,949
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  • audioluvr
    audioluvr Posts: 5,601
    That's just a cavity search waiting to happen.
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    B&K M200 Sonata monoblocks refreshed and upgraded
    Polk SDA 1C's modded / 1000Va Dreadnaught
    Wireworld Silver Eclipse IC's and speaker cables
    Harman Kardon T65C w/Grado Gold. (Don't laugh. It sounds great!)

    There is about a 5% genetic difference between apes and men …but that difference is the difference between throwing your own poo when you are annoyed …and Einstein, Shakespeare and Miss January. by Dr. Sardonicus
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  • audioluvr
    audioluvr Posts: 5,601
    Oh if I just had the money for this beaut!!!

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    https://portland.craigslist.org/clc/ele/d/clackamas-vintage-stereo-jc-penny/7158364397.html
    Gustard X26 Pro DAC
    Belles 21A Pre modded with Mundorf Supreme caps
    B&K M200 Sonata monoblocks refreshed and upgraded
    Polk SDA 1C's modded / 1000Va Dreadnaught
    Wireworld Silver Eclipse IC's and speaker cables
    Harman Kardon T65C w/Grado Gold. (Don't laugh. It sounds great!)

    There is about a 5% genetic difference between apes and men …but that difference is the difference between throwing your own poo when you are annoyed …and Einstein, Shakespeare and Miss January. by Dr. Sardonicus
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  • teekay0007
    teekay0007 Posts: 2,289
    audioluvr wrote: »
    Oh if I just had the money for this beaut!!!

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    https://portland.craigslist.org/clc/ele/d/clackamas-vintage-stereo-jc-penny/7158364397.html

    Great news! You should have plenty of time to get your pennies together to pick this one up. The lister posted it as a 'JC Penny' rather than a 'JC Penney' model. It won't come up for all those collectors searching with the proper spelling.

    Good luck!
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,901
    teekay0007 wrote: »
    audioluvr wrote: »
    Oh if I just had the money for this beaut!!!

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    https://portland.craigslist.org/clc/ele/d/clackamas-vintage-stereo-jc-penny/7158364397.html

    Great news! You should have plenty of time to get your pennies together to pick this one up. The lister posted it as a 'JC Penny' rather than a 'JC Penney' model. It won't come up for all those collectors searching with the proper spelling.

    Good luck!
    [emphasis added]

    That's a pro tip, right there, folks!

    Sort of like "Soundesign" and "Sounddesign" B)

    or "harmon/kardon"

    B)


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  • audioluvr
    audioluvr Posts: 5,601
    This made me giggle. What about a dump truck?
    https://www.usaudiomart.com/details/649658829-bampk-m200-monoblocks/
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    Belles 21A Pre modded with Mundorf Supreme caps
    B&K M200 Sonata monoblocks refreshed and upgraded
    Polk SDA 1C's modded / 1000Va Dreadnaught
    Wireworld Silver Eclipse IC's and speaker cables
    Harman Kardon T65C w/Grado Gold. (Don't laugh. It sounds great!)

    There is about a 5% genetic difference between apes and men …but that difference is the difference between throwing your own poo when you are annoyed …and Einstein, Shakespeare and Miss January. by Dr. Sardonicus
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,446
    fish357 wrote: »
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    That's the Git-r-DUN spirit right there, I tell ya wut...
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