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[ranald]

They have quiet a few coal mines, why do you think clinton lost WV.

West Virginia Agriculture

Family farming ties are strong in West Virginia – 95 percent of farms in the state are family-owned, the highest number in the U.S. Around 23,000 farms averaging 157 acres in size call West Virginia home. The Mountain State is also the third most-forested state with 12 million acres of forestland.

West Virginia’s top agricultural commodity is broiler production, which makes up more than 30 percent of its agricultural receipts. Beef cattle and calves account for over 20 percent. Other important livestock products include dairy, turkeys and chicken eggs. As for crops, hay is No. 1 in the state. Additional crops include apples, corn for grain, soybeans and tobacco. Many farmers also produce sheep and lambs, hogs, peaches, honey, farm-raised fish and wool.

I once went out with an old broiler: but I was a young rooster back then.

Re the Clampets- it certainly seemed beautiful raw countryside in the show & one of the many places (like GC, yellowstone etc)) I would like to visit over there.
My eldest loves NY but I'm not croc dundee or croc dunny either.

hope they are replanting 3 for one.

cheers

[NeiljohnUK]

A former colleague lives next to a very popular golf course, even with the high fine net fences he receives 2-3 golf balls most days on his property, he sell's most of them on a charity tool stall, the most expensive newest one's make quite a profit from golfers. He's been building a 'spud' gun for shooting them back, as some seem to target his greenhouses, as the trebuchet he built wasn't accurate enough...

[meyer77]

My current home is at the 9th hole of a non operating golf course. When I take the dog for a walk I always find some golf balls, one morning I found 35!
Right now I have almost one and a half 5 gallon pails full.
I have used them for file handles, the belt tension release on my south bend lathe (the cast iron one was broken off when I got it), the core for a para cord monkey fist.
I even made up a pneumatic launcher to shoot them back on the course, so I could retrieve them
There must have some real duffers, I have found balls 20 or more yards in the woods and in the front yard of my house! (the back faces the course)

[NeiljohnUK]

Thank goodness that golf equipment can be usefully repurposed.

I share Churchill's opinion of the game...

"Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose."

"A golf course is the wilful and deliberate misuse of a perfectly good rifle range." From Jeff Cooper’s Commentaries

[WmRMeyers]

They're absolutely fantastic file handles, too. Starting at the beginning of the thread, so this is probably not really news to anyone reading though the thread...

Bill

[WmRMeyers]

Amusing how easily we are entertained by a simple picture of cut away golf balls

There are advantages to being easily entertained. Saves a lot of money, among other things.

Bill

[WmRMeyers]

Col. Jeff Cooper

"Golf is a good walk spoiled." - Mark Twain

I guessed it would be Col. Cooper. Thanks for confirming it.

Bill

[tlnixon]

I had been thinking about that for a handle on the old 618 Craftsman/Atlas lathe countershaft. My property borders a golf course and we always have a bucket of them we pick-up, not to mention those that we don't see before mowing. I think a golfball cannon is in my future.

[tlnixon]

I have used them for that purpose for several years now.

[tlnixon]

Same here! I find them 200 feet or further onto my property. I was out chainsawing-up a huge limb we lost from our weeping willow tree near the course, and almost got hit by one. It landed literally 3 feet from my foot. Same here on the buckets of them. A couple of times a year we give them back to the course for the driving range.