A few years back I ran a reconstruct/paving job on a city street in my home town, working for a large Bay Area contractor at the time. On the last day of paving, my apprentice screedman was going to have to put a crown in the paver screed for the last pass down the center, and being a rookie, didn't have a wrench. So I loan him my 15" Crescent and laugh "don't lose it". Sure enough, end of the day, ummm, sorry, I lost your wrench... So a couple weeks later our dispatcher calls and says come by the office when you get a chance, we have something for you. So a couple days later, I stop in, and on the dispatch counter is a 1' x 2' x 2" neatly sawn chunk of asphalt- with my wrench flush in the middle of it. It had fallen off the screed, and been just under the surface, and exposed itself after about a week's traffic. We had gotten the punch list for the job, and Item #3 was "Remove wrench from southbound #1 lane at Stonehouse Drive". The labor foreman went out to work down the punchlist and cut it out and patched the hole. They realized it was mine when they saw my initials engraved in the head of the wrench, and saved it for me. Still have it out in the shop, in the chunk of asphalt
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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