LOL, growing rust

Seriously going to keep you busy for awhile! Great idea for the cleaning...

Fly me out there and I will install it. Or I can send you one, cheaper that way.

Yours was heavy heavy.
It was a thick bowl to begin with, and add the smaller bowl under it. I think 330 Pounds total pallet weight.

19th generation got the labels.

I burn saw oil in a 24 inch pit(kerosene and 25% 10W-40). Burns a long time. Sludge leaves a funky talcum like powder.

I shipped a big pit to N. Carolina w/pedestal base. They ordered one w/legs(oops).
The next door neighbor bought it and the table top.
Now got to ship the right one to the original customer.

Most people cuss rust, do everything they can to prevent it, and work themselves to no end to remove it; and you culture it, whatta deal.

mohs, you make a great point.
Lots of nasty chemicals used to solve the rust and lubricant issues.
Both graphite and iron oxide and very natural chemicals readily returned to the soil, iron oxide a micronutrient for plants.
Once the surface has rusted to a point it stops shedding and becomes a durable patina.
Might as well passively supply oxygen, heat and acidic moisture rising off of highly acidic soil to expedite the all natural process.

quartz Been laughed at for removing pesky wetland plants from local farmers fields for years. At times 5000 plant clumps in several days.
They welcome the removal since it competes with their grass to make hay and tangles their hay harvesting equipment.
Talk about a muddy nasty job, but at a $1 per plant for wetland mitigation at resale I never remember complaining.
Farmers even laughing at me; their attitude, "if you can't drive a tractor over it then it's useless land"(speaking of their wet areas).
Their plants very healthy due to run off of animal excrements...(ammonias, phosphates, nitrates, etc). Call it organically grown.
It cost about $10,000 to clear the trees, reroute the creek to the right, install two dams w/level controlling stand pipes, and dig out to the water table in the above photo.
I paid my neighbor farmer to do the job with his big Cat 320 track hoe, the same machine he uses to keep his ditches cleaned out to dry his land.

Yes, jamesp does get into the grunge work rockpickerforever. About have to rebuild the wife's Maytag clothes washer every two years.
The rusty steel and the muddy plant biz has a toll on the cleaning equipment. You experienced my red clay...

But I figured out that there is money in getting dirty.
I do not know how many hundreds of days I have delivered $1000-$2000 worth of muddy stinky water plants in my pick up over 25 years.
Loaded and left the house by 9AM and unloaded by noon and stopped at an upbeat Atlanta restaurant to eat.
A muddy mess and getting stared at by all the yuppies and fair haired business people.
In many cases probably made more money in one day than they made in a week.
And they would die for my hours. Always raising my beer to them as they hustle to get back to their boss by 1PM.(best to arrive at 12:30PM)
Restaurant staff much friendlier after the lunch rush, kick back and enjoy them.

Mind you, the truck smells like a swamp gas and is full of rotting tadpoles frogs and an occasional snake.
Leaking muddy water all over the parking lot, hopefully splattering on the adjacent BMW.

It is what as known as getting paid to do the dirtiest work.(Dirty Jobs w/Mike Rowe....)
Thinking colleges should teach such a course.
And nothing feels better than a fresh shower afterwards.

That's kind how the industrial sharpening business was James
dirty business
heavy grind
(although the new tooling as improved immensely)
but it takes lots of room/space
and its a cut throat business
those sharpeners are keen to keep the edge

give me a couple more years
and I'll be able to specialize in say- barber shears
and have an additional income & something to keep me busy

anyway James your top notch
even if your at rock bottom

Reminded me of what Story Musgrave, retired E.R. surgeon, NASA astronaut and many other things, does in his retirement. He works with developers in Florida. When they start a new project, they pay him to remove the palm trees and he replants them on his land. When they finish the development, they pay him to bring them back and plant them again.

Not seeing such "obvious" money making ideas is one of the many things that keeps me from thinking I'm any brighter than anyone else.