Not just how to ride them, but how to connect with them?
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“Silver Bear Emporium is a vibrant, community-focused gift shop located in downtown Gloucester, MA, featuring a curated collection of handmade goods from local artists and small businesses. From unique jewelry and candles to artisan crafts and gifts, the shop celebrates creativity and supports local makers. In addition to retail, Silver Bear Emporium hosts art classes, workshops, and community events—including candle-making, painting, and game nights—creating a welcoming space for creativity, connection, and local culture.”
Went there on Saturday and was very impressed with the gift ware. Jeff Northcott has a great outlook for this retail Store. All artists are local with beautiful gift ideas.
For more information: come on in and visit: 242 Main Street, Gloucester, MA, 978-325-7072
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I was able to make my first visit of the season to Lobsta Land on Causeway Street a few days ago for a weekday lunch. We were greeted in a friendly and efficient manner and seated in the bar area. Shout out to Lauren and Shawn for their awesome serving! I enjoyed the cajun haddock tacos and Jim had the haddock chowder on a cold spring day. We recently returned from a weeklong trip during which we did NOT have especially good food or drink so this was a very welcome meal for us! Thanks Lobsta Land! We’ll be back soon.
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At the dock there are a couple of key pieces of equipment. The winch, the forktruck, the scales and the carts. Any one of these go down and we’re in serious trouble. We rely on them to work day in and day out. In the worst of all conditions.
You know how the fishing industry is the second most dangerous profession in the world behind coal mining? Well it might be the second most dangerous profession but handling saltwater fish is absolutely the deadliest profession for machinery. Salt, and saltwater, fish grease and massive tonnage being handled daily create the perfect storm of corrosiveness and opportunity for mechanical failure.
That’s why whenever I have an opportunity to secure a Fairbanks Cart to help perform our job at the dock I leap. This morning at 5:00 AM I drove a couple of hours to get my hands on the newest member of the Captain Joe and Sons Lobster Company Family. One of the best parts about the Fairbanks carts are the plug in caster systems. If after years you need new casters, you contact the company and they can ship you out new ones.
The decks are absolute beastly and handle incredibly poundings without skipping a beat. I routinely lower 400Lbs of lobster crates on them when offloading the boats and then add another stack of 400. No problem.
Here’s the new one. I put a couple of coats of linseed oil on the oak decking and greased up the greased fittings and she’s ready for servicing our lobster fleet!
Our “Old” Fairbanks cart that’s helped offload millions of pounds of lobsters through the decades and our newly acquired Fairbanks Cart with the pretty green paint.
For more than 125 years, the Fairbanks Company has been shipping quality material handling equipment from our manufacturing facilities in Rome, GA. Our facilities encompass more than 200,000 square feet of production and warehousing space. To maintain our leadership role in the industry, we have modernized our facilities with the latest in robotic welding, electrostatic powder coating and CNC machining of wood parts.
These techniques have resulted in the expansion of our product offerings, making us a premier supplier of casters, wheel, handtrucks, platform trucks and dollies.
The “New” Old Cart At The Dock @CaptJoeLobster #GloucesterMA
Here’s the “new” old cart Brian O’Connor found on Craig’s list in Haverhill and I picked up Friday morning. The “old” old cart I claimed at an old industrial site in Chelsea and it was being thrown away about 20 years ago. I had no idea what the brand was, all I know is that it was extremely rugged. The type of rugged that could withstand the brutal saltwater conditions of a lobster dock year in and year out. In the Craigslist ad the man listed the similar “newer” old cart as a Fairbanks cart so I googled the company and found out they are still in business. http://www.fairbankscasters.com/ from the website:
For more than 125 years, the Fairbanks Company has been shipping quality material handling equipment from our manufacturing facilities in Rome, GA. Our facilities encompass more than 200,000 square feet of production and warehousing space. To maintain our leadership role in the industry, we have modernized our facilities with the latest in robotic welding, electrostatic powder coating and CNC machining of wood parts.
These techniques have resulted in the expansion of our product offerings, making us a premier supplier of casters, wheel, handtrucks, platform trucks and dollies.
THE “NEW” OLD CART
You can see the difference between the “new” old cart and the “old” new cart in that the cart below has it’s main load carrying wheels based in the middle of the cart so if you place the load in the middle there is a even disbursement of the weight and makes it easy to move on the larger wheels. They call it a tilt style cart. The “new” old cart has the two big wheels pushed further to the front corner of the cart and two big casters at the back. In the “old” old cart you could turn it 360 degrees in place, with the placement of the wheels on the “new’ old cart it will be slightly less easy to maneuver but will make it easier to pull the crates off of the platform of the cart without the cart wanting to rotate needing for another person to hold the handles while the other worker pulls the crates onto the platform scale. Also the weight bearing wheels on the “new” old cart are much larger.
Here’s the “old” old cart that has been used to offload millions and millions of pounds of lobsters over the past decade.
THE “OLD” OLD CART
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