Monday, March 14, 2016
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Ag Mechanics
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continued from Page #1 the students will split the net profit. "Being Eagle Scouts, we've all known each other for a long time." "When we got the Loy Lake, we said Duerr. saw some other projects that were really really nice, but ours was Coco and Duerr received their magnificent." said Welch. "There Eagle Scout ranking on the same was another trailer that was a 16 day in November of 2014 while foot flatbed. There was also a Welch was one year ahead in cattleshoot that I thought might 2013. Duerr built weelchair ramps win. There was also a hay fork that for his Eagle Scout Project while was reserve grand champion." Welch build a barbed wire fence for Hall Cemetary. After the judging was over, they were complimented by the judge Duerr is headed to Texas Tech for and told that they would have a a civil engineering degree after nice chance at Houston. graduating from Howe High School. After college, his Welch took third place a year ago intentions are joining the US Air at Loy Lake with a 24 foot flatbed. Force. Ag teacher Dustin Lambert helped form the partnership of Welch, Welch wants to get into physical Coco and Duerr to collectively put therapy with a start at Grayson their talents together for this College. remarkable achievement.
Early stages of the 24 foot trailer assembly. money goes to the animal portion of FFA and mechanics struggles to find any news coverage much less dollars. The boys started a project back in October to build a trailer from ground-up. The students even added a flare to the interior by torching the wood and giving it a burnt look. They put in 410 man hours overall by working on the trailer during ag classes during weekdays and then would get help on weekends from some of the dads such as Jerry Welch who has expertise in welding and Bob Duerr who helped with the blueprint book. The students cut the boards, burned the boards, assembled the unit and painted it a charcoal metallic color that stood out at the show. Part of the project is showing the progress with pictures from beginning through the ending. The students are then questioned on the procedures of assembly in order to make sure that the parents aren't the ones that actually completed the project. The trailer that they decided to put together was similar to one that won first place two years ago. Cody Welch says that the project was a little overwhelming at times especially when they had to work on weekends and didn't even get
the finishing touches on the trailer until just two days before the show. As far as the burnt wood look, Welch says that may have put them over the top. "I've never seen one done like that before but we decided we were going to put wood in it and then burn it half way through." The school doesn't foot the bill for the project so this was funded by the families and the trailer has already been sold for $8,000 which turned a profit of $1,500 over what it cost to build. Welch says that
