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Old 30-08-13, 17:16
David Dunlop David Dunlop is offline
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Default How to disassemble a HUP 2

You might think Bubba has a problem when all the big bits are gone, but not so fast. Bubba has a plan. The big money is gone now. Just the HUP body is left. Not much there at scrap value. So, while there is still gas in his pickup, he drags the HUP close to 'the Wee House'. The gas is gone, the fast women are gone (and the slow ones are scary - even for Bubba), but there is still beer to buy.

As we all know, beer input = beer output. Any excessive energy spent for beer output limits one's time available for beer input, so Bubba keeps his assets close to the Wee House, cuts scrap from the HUP enough he can hump it up the road on his back for cash, hit the beer store and head home.

Bubba's a thinker and he has lots of relatives around the world who think just like him, and they all probably have just as interesting stories.

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Old 30-08-13, 17:26
Alex van de Wetering Alex van de Wetering is offline
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If only Bubba would still have that frame from the last pic....I am sure some of our members would be willing to swap that for a few beers!
Nice pics.....and nice to see the roof of a HUW for a change!

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Old 30-08-13, 18:07
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Default Where does Bubba throws his empties.....

Those bodies could be worth good beer money..... what a shame.

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Old 30-08-13, 19:20
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Both have since been recovered by local collectors. One of them stayed locally, and the other went West if I recall correctly.

As to the owner, he wandered into the bush one day and never did return.
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Old 30-08-13, 23:01
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He'd played his part in the recycling process just as his genes compelled him, exactly as a maggot is programmed to do.
Do scrappies work to higher ideals? They leave nothing behind.
Know your enemy.

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Old 31-08-13, 01:04
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Default Great pics David...

keep them coming. Cheers Rob
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Old 31-08-13, 04:39
David DeWeese David DeWeese is offline
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Default Make friends with Bubba....

Bubba is not a monster, he just doesn't share your interests in historical artifacts.... after all, it's all about money in this day and age.

Bubba is just a guy who sees money laying all over the prairie. If you stop, be courteous and maybe share one of his beers with him, then next time he finds something "green" he will call you.

Problem is, with this economy, he will call you with something that you feel is not currently "economically viable", you don't buy it and it goes to the scrap yard.....next time something like it he finds goes directly to the scrappers.

But still keep in touch with these guys, drop in and have a beer once in a while...after all, they are the ones out there looking every day while you are at work...

Didn't mean to butt in...just my two cents.

Thanks, David
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