The right tools for the job

[countryboy]

One of my friends called me today to ask if I could help him and one of his friends knock down a 40'x120' old horse barn that wasn't being used anymore. I strapped on my Busse Basic 9 and grabbed my work gloves and sledge hammer. Four hours of swinging sledge hammers and a couple of well placed cuts with the Basic 9 and the majority of the work was done. The guys couldn't believe how well the Basic 9 cut, especially after I told them that I hadn't sharpend it since it purchased it two months ago. We are supposed to go back and finish the barn next weekend. I'll have to wait and see if I need to sharpen the Basic 9 then, because right now it still shaves.

-Clay

------------------
"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."

-Theodore Roosevelt

 

[Jerry Busse]

Country Boy, I'm gonna have to hook you up with Bubba Blades. You guys can start the Nuclear Combat construction crew. If I'm not mistaken I think it was Don L who knocked the tar out of his kitchen with one of our blades. Anybody else out there done any recent remodeling?

Yours in nuclear construction,

Jerry Busse

 

[tallpaul]

I too have done demolition work with my Busse'. I had to fill a dumpster and used my trusty,not rusty basics 9 to cut up a door and frame that would not fit... it was a solid exterior door with hinges and the frame full of nails and glass... it did not stand a chance against the busse. I also used it this past weekent to help build a pole barn, I used it instead of chissell to help notch the main supports... gotta love that basics nine...

------------------
If You Abide in Him then,"All His Promises are YES and AMEN"

 

[Bronco]

Clay,
If you'd taken a BM-E with you, you wouldn't be going back to finish next weekend.

------------------
Semper Fi

-Bill

 

[DonL]

The Busse Remodeling Company? Yep, I'm in.

I'm kinda tickled that Jerry remembers the tale. I used my SHII to gut the kitchen cabinets to upgrade all the shelves in the lower units to "sliders". They were old cabinets that were built in place, and you couldn't quite get a trim or reciprocator in at an angle to finish the cuts to remove the shelves. A bit of hacking and prying (my wife came home right at the height of the lumber debris pile on the floor - oops!

), and I was able to start installing the shelf roller kits. That Busse worked great.

Also, for the record, a Mean Street makes a great piton-like "step" to brace yourself against while stripping an older style slatboard-construction roof down to the boards for a reshingling job. Jam that little bugger between the boards, and don't stray too far off "center". Piece of cake.

Heck the barn sounds like fun!

------------------
Don LeHue

"You want what? On the friggen' ceiling?!" - Michaelangelo Buonarroti