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This homemade music video tells the story of how this all started. 

Bones

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"What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him"

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Life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid-in-sideways, totally worn out, shouting, WOW, What a ride!

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"Humor is the greatest form of acceptance"

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and one link to a new hobby site about belt sander drag racing just started by my good friend 

Mike Baeumel

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www.racingsanders.com

   ME WITH A BUDDY KOKO.                                       

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Once a year in June, competitors from all over the region of West-Central Ohio come together to compete in the Buckland Volunteer Fire Department Belt Sander Drag Races. 

These competitors line their belt sanders up on a plywood track, and as the tension rises they roll their cords in anticipation of the flip of the switch. The sanders tear down the track throwing sawdust as they cross the finish line and slam into a bale of straw. This event welcomes any age or any gender of racer. If you have a belt sander laying around, bring to the Jamboree and enter it in the race.

In recent competitions things have heated up with the entry of the sander by the racer you see in this photo It is believed that his sander was designed by NASA. This author had attempted to obtain the blueprints of his sander but they have been protected by the Patriot Act. This year (with the help of being off work for an injury) I am building a sander that will compete with his sander. It will have a propulsion system that should BELT his sander right off the track. I want to wish all the competitors good luck this year.

You see in this photo the year 2003 when I won the super stock, and my son Shane won the modified divisions. Here is a photo of my super stock winning sander.

For information on future races and photo's of past races click on this link to the Buckland Volunteer Fire Department.

Link to Al Bayless and the Coruna, Michigan 4th of July races.

Al Bayless