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Greenjackets Baseball & the Nuthouse

jstafford@nutandbolt.com (James Stafford) — Tue, 08 May 2012 19:48:31 GMT

What's more American than apple pie? What about Mom or even Willie Nelson? It's Minor League Baseball. Unlike Major League Baseball, minor league baseball is played in small and medium sized markets. It allows a closeness to the game that cannot be gained in large markets.

Nuthouse Returns Corn to the Grill

mark@wierhouse.com (Skylar Thomas) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

After 30 plus years and 20 plus billion in subsidies, the federal government begrudgingly admitted that corn ethanol was not such a bright idea after all. Thought to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and be more environmentally friendly, ethanol proved to decrease mileage, increase wear and tear on engines, and drive up the price of corn, all while being subsidized by the American taxpayer to the tune of 45 cents per gallon. Its use has been decried by sources as divergent as Sen. John McCain to Vice President Al Gore (who did admit his earlier support of the program was due to pandering to Iowa corn farmers during his presidential run).

Stud Cutting

jstafford@nutandbolt.com (James Stafford) — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:19:04 GMT

Here at the nuthouse, we offer a stud cutting service. What is that excactly you might ask? Simply put, we take large pieces of fully threaded rod (usually 12 foot) and cut them into smaller pieces per order. It sounds simple but there is a little more to it than hacking up some rod with a chop saw.

Baking Bolts

mark@wierhouse.com (James Stafford) — Thu, 12 May 2011 20:09:03 GMT

People get confused by the grades of bolts. The different grades can denote any number of different aspects of the fastener, but most of the time the chief component is the hardness of the bolt. What a lot of people don’t realize is that almost all bolts break down into three classes of hardness. I will attempt to break that down here as it applies to ferrous steel fasteners using layman’s term with the requisite technical jargon thrown in just so you know I know.

Re-brand

mark@wierhouse.com (James Stafford) — Thu, 12 May 2011 20:09:03 GMT

We've always done our own marketing, for better or worse. We refined our logo somewhat. We made our own catalog on Vic Baker’s kitchen table primarily. We've had a web site for some time now although it has been the type that informed, “excuse our mess, under construction” for more years than I would care to recall. We needed to update it and knew we were out of our depth. So we sought out the creatives at the wierhouse.