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Serial #10

All Checked Out Cabinet

Stockmen know that when a well goes down they will most likely have to replace leathers or checks or a rod. All Checked Out Cabinet brings some of these seldom seen parts of the windmill system into the light of day.

Well checks and sucker rod ends make the cabinet feet; and brass spools out of other checks serve as door pulls and finials. The special striped tin came off the roof of the Akers Barn. It was hot as hell the two days we worked getting that tin off and the buzzard smell coming out of the barn loft hit us each time we pulled off another sheet.