MyFishFinder.com Just like iceshanty but warmer
Nice engineering and quality work! Very impressive. I'd like to apply for the Sales Rep job for your product when it comes available to the general public. I am well qualified.Yes. Those are my feet, my socks and I am wearing them with sandals. Any other questions? I am obviously from the "Midwest"...
I haven't seen the tu-tu yet?
Don't own one Socks are a remnant of my working days. Pretty rigid dress code. So much so you could practically tell the pay grade by the required dress. I wasn't quite to the suit n tie club but had to hang out with those folks way too much. Socks were a way to push back a little, especially against those that took themselves too seriously. Had a whole drawer to pick from. Those flamingoes were one of my favorites along with the hula girls and multi-colored polka dots.
The tu-tu is a stipulation of using the trap Joe is building... The lucky recipient of said trap may or may not know that yet lol...
Thanks Joe... nice to see the progression and the techniques are reasons behind them you use.
it has a pair of stabilizers "feet" presumably to keep the big BIRD steady
nice design! i'd expect nothing less from you. i like those mini feet stabilizers, too.but i thought for sure it would have a big pink flag for the pink flamingo namesake. at least that way, nobody would question if it was their trap or not??
I don't fish this style of trap but I sure am enjoying the aesthetics! Your shop reminds me of my own: benches over sprayed, dripped on, sawed/drilled into, burned and the other projects, which are always in play, pushed back just far enough to have room to work on the current one. Sure, there's fits of neatness but that would mean I'm not doing anything.Yes, enjoying this very much indeed!
everyone has a preferance, sometimes its regional, it doesn't mean one is better than the other, i never understood why people fight over stuff like that and get "butt hurt" because someone doesn't like what someone else uses, it's silly, it's a preference, and it works and is comfortable for that individual, and it should be discussed, then people can make their own choice..You described my shop to a Tee... sometimes it's as neat as A PIN, otheres it's down right blown up ( right now it's nuclear).. and tucked away in amongst the carnage is a micro-brewery that cranks out Lagers, stouts and Ipa's.. it part of the reason I only sleep 5 hours a night.
everyone has a preferance, sometimes its regional, it doesn't mean one is better than the other, i never understood why people fight over stuff like that and get "butt hurt" because someone doesn't like what someone else uses, it's silly, it's a preference, and it works and is comfortable for that individual, and it should be discussed, then people can make their own choice..
Ain't that the truth. Funny part is in the "way back machine" all the traps/tipups here in the Midwest were stick types. Certainly pretty crude affairs. I've still got my Dads and great uncles in a bucket somewhere. Then some fella in Beaver Dam had an idea and the rails were born. Some would say they evolved whilst others would maintain "de-volved". I only went ice fishing once as a child/young man. Dad took me at three yo and told me not to watch for holes. Of course I stepped into a good size one just as he was setting up. Got wet to the waist and the day was over before it even started. Not long after we moved far from ice opportunities and I never had another chance until I was in my early 20's. Of course it was Wisconsin, scarcely 40 minutes from Beaver Dam 'cept cheap smack me bought into the cheaper but similar HT Polars. That's my excuse. I do own 3 pretty nice sticks that I'll call hybrids. HT makes an Arctic Bay that has the running gear of their Polars on sticks. I've got 'em for deep snow and a popped flag stands 3 feet above the hole. Thanks for sharing this as I am an appreciator of both ingenuity and craftsmanship.
The coffee brew was the best yet, I could drink that all day... I'd be hurting but I'd do it lol. Don't even chill it, I liked it better warm.