Saturday, January 24, 2009

Chainsaw, Copper

We have three people from Canada here for 10 days. One of them is the Canadian President of the Baptist Haiti Mission board. They are great guys to be with!

They brought quite a few goodies for the mission. One of them is this great, big chainsaw to replace one that was crushed by a tree and will now be used for parts. It has a large engine and will come in handy. When hurricanes come and trees fall, there are VERY FEW chainsaws around to clear roads and peoples' houses. This will come in handy - no doubt. Mr. Kyrk and I will probably fight over who gets to use it first. The weight of the machine will prevent one person from using it all day, so it should be fair. :-)


Copper

I spent most of the day on Thursday taking some transformers apart that have been sitting around the mission for a while. There is also a large, old welder that I have to take apart yet. We are taking the copper out of them and will be taking a trip to the Dominican Republic to sell it to benefit the Mission. I'll take a shot of all the copper we get out of it. It'll end up probably being more than 50 pounds. (ignore the Kitchen Aid mixers on the workbench - we are not taking the copper out of them)

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