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More Paul Harvey of Jamestown Hill Gangs United The rest of the story: How the Great Jamestown Hill Gangs' Union Oak Basketball Court was conceived, engineered, and constructed by two of God's chosen few - in need of a child of a lesser god, unavailable at the time. With moral about how long to sit on a limb one is sawing off. By Ralph Roy Waggener A Rodney Thompson's memory of the basketball court was mostly correct. The part he missed was who put up the basketball goal. Two lefties did this job. Darrell Young was the engineer of this project and I helped. We found 3 big limbs that could be sawed off to make perfect attachments for a basketball goal. The rest of the story is about the doing of this difficult, highly engineered job. After a lot of figuring, we needed to cut the 3 limbs off exactly even, to attach the basketball backboard at the right height and angle. First off. the top limb was too high for our ladder to reach, and after a lot of thought, Darrell backed his dad's 52 Ford pickup (I think it was a 52) so we could put the ladder in the bed of the truck to get us to the upper branch. Now this comes to the proper need for right handed people (I new they are good for something); both Darrell and I are of God's chosen few and are left handed and in this case we actually needed a right hander because in order to saw the highest limb off Darrell had to sit on the part he was sawing off to get this job done. In theory he would only saw to almost the breaking point and change hands for the rest. That is, in theory; but of course that makes for the Paul Harvey the rest of the story. The limb broke off earlier than he had intended. As luck would have it the limb hit the ground and Darrell landed on the tailgate of the cheaply built Ford pickup and the tailgate bowed to the shape of Darrell's tail. Good thing we did not use dad's tough built 51 Chevy pickup. Darrell walked away a little sore but unhurt.- Ralph Roy Waggener This story was posted on 2012-06-25 10:31:15
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