I left late Mon night and arrived early afternoon on Tues. Was a long haul after working all day. I brought 4 walkers down for the 2nd bolens reunion, my D, DQ, flat handle bar 12A and the 12A and sulky I have painted up along with my 3 bolens chainsaws. Aaron (gunstuff1000) helped get everything set up. Was a real treat to see Doug (dougt) again. Had a great time talking with him and his buddies. Also thanks Doug for the luxury accommodations.
I was in heaven with all the old equipment to look at, let alone the swap meet. On Wed Jerome (wilberj) and Curtis (curtsgarage) showed up. Was finally nice to meet Jerome in person after talking on the net for so long. It was real nice to talk with all the Bolens guys there at the show. It just sucked that my phone was being a pain and did get to take very many pics of things.
I got an air compressor attachment that a member here had for sale a few weeks back that was delivered to Portland and to my surprise I found another one in the swap meet! Although they need bases its the compressor that's the hard thing to find. The rest can be made.
So that gets us to Thurs the day I needed to leave. I didn't want to go but I had to get back home. Was a even tuffer drive back home and seemed to take forever. Arrived home early Fri and unloaded the trailer and loaded the trailer for LeSeuer. Brought The model D and the A I brought back along with the chainsaws I have. Brought a few other engines I have too.
It was a long week but worth it! Thanks again to Aaron, Adam, Curtis, Doug and Jerome!
Here's a couple of pics
If you haven't been to the Portland show I would suggest you try and get there. You won't be disappointed!
