{"id":600,"date":"2008-10-18T23:41:34","date_gmt":"2008-10-19T03:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=600"},"modified":"2009-02-25T18:57:37","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T22:57:37","slug":"ironman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=600","title":{"rendered":"Ironman"},"content":{"rendered":"

We started out Saturday with a trip up to IronMan Welding in Bridgton. The kid from the stone yard suggested last weekend that IronMan was the person to talk to about making a grate for the firepit once we had it done. We’re not ready for that yet, but we do need to build something into the firepit to support a grate. We were thinking of sticking some pieces of rebar out of the sides. The kid at the stone yard said that wouldn’t be enough — that straight pieces of rebar would eventually come loose, and that we should get something welded across the end to make a shape that couldn’t twist or pull loose. So last weekend from the stone yard we went up to Bridgton.<\/p>\n

Nobody was there at Iron Man that time, but we did look around. The sign says something like “Iron Man Welding and Handy Hands Property Maintenance,”<\/p>\n

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(do you love those weekend hours?) but it really might say “Iron Man Welding and Sculpture Garden.” Besides a couple of dozen faces made out of shovels,<\/p>\n

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there is a dragon,<\/p>\n

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a Pushme-Pullyou,<\/p>\n

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a turtle smoking a cigar, and an alien invasion.<\/p>\n

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… and other sculpture too numerous to mention. But nobody was there last weekend. I phoned on Tuesday to describe what I wanted. Iron Man said he’d make up the pieces and leave them out for me to pick up. Sure enough, there was a bill for me in the box by his door and the pieces were there on the table.<\/p>\n

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We started out Saturday with a trip up to IronMan Welding in Bridgton. The kid from the stone yard suggested last weekend that IronMan was the person to talk to about making a grate for the firepit once we had it done. We’re not ready for that yet, but we do need to build something … <\/p>\n

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