Hegman Units

I have been searching for something that might prove my predecessors in the Hegman clan were important, that we added something of value to this pile of humanity.  Maybe, somewhere, a great thing was accomplished by one of us.  There is no Hegmanville nearby.  No Hegman Street.  A Google search will locate something called a Hegman gauge.  A Hegman gauge—as I am convinced you will not know what it does—measures something called Hegman units.

Hegman units.   

This makes perfect sense, of course. 

Okay, a Hegman guage is sometimes referred to as a grindometer.  They are used to determine how finely ground such things as the pigments in ink or paint are.  Good stuff that.  Important work.  Maybe next time you glance at the paint on your wall you will think: “Hegman units!”

I like blue paint, by the way.  A boy color. 

Blue Hegman units!

Here is the important thing: no direct relation there.  I don’t think my Hegman crew had anything to do with Hegman units.  Also not related to Mike Hegman, the retired black professional football player or Larry Hagman, the actor from the sitcom Dream of Jeannie and the soap opera Dallas.

So far I have nothing but the broken lot of us here in Montana. 

I love ‘em, famous or not.

 

 

A grindometer

 

 

--Mitchell Hegman