Jim Lile has always been a natural mechanic and welder. Well, not quite always. But as Life was told more than a half-century ago, he's at least had a knack for fixing and welding things since he was a young tot. They say I started welding at 5 1/2 years old," says Life, the owner of Life Quarry in Strafford, Missouri. "My dad had a farm, and he repaired all of his old equipment. He did all of his welding, and he used to let me go out there and fire that thing up anytime I wanted to weld on scrap."
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