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Never saw that technique. We always started at about 6:30 position and pulled UP. Can get a lot more force on the crank pulling up rather than pushing down. Our last tractor was a mcCormick Deering ?10? ?20?. Diesel, starts on gas then switch over to gas. Hand crank. That beast was so big I...

I was just thing the other day about the changes in my life. I can remember my dad gettin his hand cut on the license place when the ford kicked back. I think it was a T but may have been an A. Recall the Peral Harbor announcemtn. Getting the 'electric' via the REA (?1947?) To seeing men...

So if there is no written record,l how do they know it was the most violent etc....?

Anmd the bad thing is it tips off the guy behind you that yiou MIGHT be turning.

That brings back memories. First overseas tour in AF: St. Lawrence Isle Alaske in the Bering straight. That weasel was our crew bus from barracs to op center and transport the short distance barracks to runway.

Although they call it a "flight". I think that is stretching the definition of "flight" It was all in ground affect.

Nope, flown by Howard Hughes on what was supposed dto be a taxi test. He lifted it off for the short flightl.

Some history on the P51. The oiginal was a camel back, i.e., fuselage sloped from the top of the pilot cabin back to the tail. The original engine was an American design (as was the P51) but the fighter was pretty much not up toexpectations. It wasn't until the British replaced the enging...

IIANM that was gnome rotary.. crankshaft was fixed and the entire engine rotated around it. Seems stupid but it worked.Planes using it could turn sharply one direction but dog it the other.

As long as you remember not to stop!!

The original was to on the lines of 'remove one out of 10' "kill one out of 10" Used in WWI to "encourage" the troops. Picture a formation and the order "count off" and every 10th person knew he was doomed. Illiterates began useing it wrongly until the real maaning is now#2 in the...

And is both the eastern most and western most continental point in North America.

I tore down an old schoolhouse that was on my property with the idea of using the stuids for an 18x30" addition. I spent one whole day sorting the rough cut 2x4s to come up with enough matching ones to make ONE 18' wall. Went to town for a load of finish studs. I did use the rouigh cut 2x6...

I kinda go for "Take 30 minutes off, or add 30 minutes. ONCE and sthen LEAVE THE DAMN TIME ALONE!

Yes, back then you COULD get a short bed on speciasl order and wait for it. Running boards on PUs 30-40 years ago? That would have been in the 80s and already the "build 'em high" fad was going on. I never dreamed the day would come back then when a shortbed skiy scraper was all hyou could get...

Yap. 60s the day of horsepower. Go like scat in a sgtraight line but corner like a lead sled. AS for looks in vehicles you can take all of the modern "Pickups" and dump in the ocean. Ugly hulking huge thins that can't haul a load of wood in that short bed. Give me the old style WORK truck...

Speaks the true believer in a man-made god. One among hundreds over the centuries.

aSince you appear to be using water right out of thepond with no treatment, you might as well just install the pump in the pond. The real answer would be to call in a well driller for an opinion on a deep well.

Their excuse is "Loud pipes save lives". Nope, "Loud pipes say a Jerk is coming"

I was one of 11. The only time we were all in one place was at Dad's funeral. My yougest sister was born when I was in tha AF oveeseas.

Odd geography. When going through the Panama Canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific, one is going East Alaska is both the Western most and Easternmost state.

My first job after 21 years in AF was as a rod man for a USGS crew running "level lines" in E Wash state. Interesting work We worked from a known marker and wxtended lines of level markers every so far apart. I never though to ask how far apart they were supposed to be. I walked a couple...

But somehow they sure know when it is time for their treat At least my dachshund does. He'll come over and poke my leg with his nose to remind me.

I never tried that so I dunno.

My sister can hold onto a live electric ffence wire and says she doesn't feel anything. For sure doesn't flinch or jerk That was a standard trick back in my day for an older brother to convince a younger one to do that. Yes, I bit.

My sister can hold onto a live electric ffence wire and says she doesn't feel anything. For sure doesn't flinch or jerk

My sister can hold onto a live electric ffence wire and says she doesn't feel anything. For sure doesn't flinch or jerk

1965 or thereabouts. It wasn't that slow but it topped out at around 60.

Me and a buddy from Idaho got Change of station orders to Turkey. He bought a new VW van. We rowed that thing all the way from Idaho to NY city to put it on the ship. That was a looonnngg slooooow trip.

I'm 88 last year after a short stint in the hospital posst operation I was put on home health nurse. She had me do that. I asked to go over to the vinyl flooring to get off the carpet. Yep. 2 sec in I almost lost it. Then stood there for a long time till she said I couild stop. Today out...

I noticed with the first snowfall that my left foor points a bit too far to the left when I walk. Not a problem but it does leave an odd track.

Sorta on the side of the cheek. Fun part was discovering that I was allergic to vinyl tape. Day 2 had a rash and an itch that I couldn't scratch "perfect square" was the nurse's comment.

I had both hips replaced at around age 65 (one at a time). I followed all the physical therapy plus added reps above the required plus more times/day. I was out scouting my firewood sources while still on a cane (2 months worth IIRC). My first question to the doc "What are the restrictions?"...

Wild turkeys, yes. Domesticated, no.

I also hadn't hear that. How did sheacquire it?

"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly"

I grew up on the old system of "central". Manned usually by women. Customers were one rural party lines and teh "numbers" were coded rings on teh wall hanging phone. Ours was 4 short - 2 long rings. To talk to someone on anohter line you had to go through "Central" where they patched the two...

The picture shows thde next improvement over the headeer/thresher. That is a combine (combined header/thresher), I can't tell if it is ground or motor power. First combines were ground power so the horses were both pulling the machine plus the drag of the "bull wheel" My first harvest was the...

They go good on a pizza also.

Which science has explained without any need of a god of any kind. True they haven't, yet, made a "life". There is still that infiniismal split second whare a god could have stepped in but from that first beginning there has been no need to use a god to explain it. Nor is there any even...

No. No it is not an oblate spheroid.

An assertion only, no evidence for it.

I wasn't aware that Volvo did that. I had a new 1959 one. Loved it 60 mph 5grab with right hiand, jab, and you were hooked up. No need to hunt around to find the latch.

That is he dumbest thing I have seen so far trying to deny climate change. "Published next week, it is expected to address the fact that 1998 was the hottest year on record and world temperatures have not yet exceeded it, which scientists have so far struggled to explain." Per that 1998 was a...

There shouild be only one checkvavle at the pump, no shutoffs befoe the pressure switch. He will be fine cutting in anywhere on the line between the pump and pressure switch as hydraulic pressure is equal through out thesystem static (no water running). Pressure will vary a little depending...

I bought the 310 (I don't know what the modification was in the 311) back when they first came out. A very good, reliable saw. It ate literally acres of trees. I actually ran it until I started up grading to commercial grade Stihls. It had almost no compression at that point but still ran...

I can honestly say that in the 50 odd years I have been running saws keeping the house warm that I have never put the chain on backwards....since the last time.

I don't hink it is good for them, thay have plenty of their own.

But whose counting....

Thanks. I had looked on the 'net but couldn't find a pic showing the front view.

That looks like a motorized buckrake. I don't see an operator postion on it though. I stacked hay with a team of horses pushing a buckrake. Can't watch teh film, way too long for my dog of a server, it would take all day to load.

I don't have a cite for this but didn't the P51 Mustang account for a MIG 15 in Korea?

Must have something to do with politics.

"but as they grow from the larval to juvenile stage through metamorphosis" And here I always thought flounders were fish. Fish do not have a larval stage or metamorphosis...or so I thought but it is on the internet so....

Yeo, Renting it out to harvest wind pasys far better than any crop they could grow.

All OK as long as they don't run out of gorillas.

I missed that one.

Bar and chain oil contains a "sticky" additive.

One of the great movies. I watch it every few years and will still occasionally catch a sight joke I hadn't noticed before. Example the sign outside the church lissting the membership.

Yes, that is new method, bar and chain oil takes care of any needed on the nose also. I have worn out one nose sprocked since the greaseless thing came in but that bar had eaten years and hundreds, possiblly into the thousands of cords of wood. It didn't owe me anything.

And a lot, if notl most are encrypted. I sedd to monitor my local cop frequencies. All I get now is squelch break.

An "Oosick" is a walking stick made from the bone of a walrus dick. Just the right length and looks almost like ivory.

Same except my working life was mostly spent working shifts. 4 hours sleep coming off shift, another 4 before going back on. It became such a habit that aloghtou I have been reiired for 20 years, I still do 4&4

IIRC they had two headlights in the fenders and 1 bullseye in the middle of the grill that is the one the turned with the wheels. Then came the Edsel that did the same think and people were saying What a great idea Edsel had. Stolen credit.

Wasn't the nazi swasticka a reverse of the old ones?

Agree but instead of, or in addition to, 8 hours/day walking the roads picking up trash.

I dunno about that picture but I have seen down trees do that. ONe spectacular one was a log laying over a 30' wide ravine with a big tree growing on it right in the middle of the span.

Keep an eye on them. Untended piles tend to breed and multiply (I don't know about the 'divide' bit).

Then there was a new Nash, late 30s where the starter was under the gas pedal. Neighbor had one.

Retired from AF 1976. Moved in with Mom till I built a house. Used Dad's 1938 International. I don't recall the exact stafrting procedure but I had seveer 30s cars and drove the folks car and trucks. All had a different starting procedure. Somthing like pull choke, stomp on gas 2.5 times...

I'm coming up on 88 in a week or two, just got the latest report from me docotor. All normal. Odd. That's not what my friends say.

I have to watch my weaight also. I limit myself to 1/2 slice for breakfast every day...except for that heal off the fresh loaf. Something that tastes that good just HAS to be healthy.

Oh, yeah. Fresh out of the maching onto the cutting board and the heal gets a slather of real butter. Almost too hot on the first bite.

I've had bread machines since way back in the 80s. Love them I am a fan of whole wheat bread. The recipes that come with it are for REAL whole wheat not the fake stuff they sell in the stores. I had to buy my third one last year. Came with a recipe fore 100% whole wheat, not even a pinch of...

A bit of correction. Land owner not only has to be aware of the adverse use but take active steps to end it. Or also agree to continue the use thereof but under whatever conditions the owner wants. That 'agree to continue' must be renewed periodically, If it lapses for the 15-20 years, the...

Squater's rights rest solidly on the principle "knew or SHOULD HAVE KNOWN" that the adverse use was happening. Period of years svaries in states. In mine I think it is 7 years without the original owner doing anything about it. A simple registered letter to the squatter periodically can allow...

Unless you are embalmed and buried - then you are there for the ages. Humans are parasite on Mother Earth. All take, no give and even poison our dead so they can't be recycled.

What's this "planting" bit?? I get all mine from teh grocery store.

A long way from being stock. The streamline design was common to all GM cars of that period and looked quit nice.

God will get you for that!!!

I don't know about ash but Black Locust will do that.

Too manhy of the new cars have had that fault for many years. Get in an accident where the battery is destroyed or cable cut and just sit there. No way to unlock the door. Kick a window out is about the only recourse. Well,there is that emergency type tool that will break a window...IF IT IS...

I get mine now from "The Grandmother's Shop". The take donations and sell used clothing, dishes, towels, etc. etc. for almost nothing. They have a good bookshelf, paperbacks .25C, hardbacks 50C. Pretty good selection also. When my wife died all her things wound up there. Somehow out of...

I rented a front end loader, one the pivoted in the middle. The pivot dropped out after about 30 minutes use.

Are you sure? Looks more like the 'coming home' trip to me.

There is also the danger of their buyying farmland by the square mile. Won't be long and they'll own some states.

Same heree but it took me almost 30 years sto find that out. 30 years later and I am still getting new cards in the mail from them trying to sign me back up.

My first try would have been a long bolt screwed into one of the holes. If that didn't work I probably would not have thought about suction.

I heard an hour or two ago that they had recovered some of the wreckage.

***** wanted to shoot it down but the Generals talked him out of it "Due to danger for people on the ground". It was in Montana at the time which is an extremely sparsely populated state.

That's not a "trickle" in any language, it's a flood. 60 gal/hr

Another very good reason for NOT burying the tank and contols in a hole in the ground. The is no reason under God's blue sky not to have it in a heated building. My neighbor is an example of extreme stupidiy. He dilled a new well and installed the tank a workings in a shed next to the well...

One can't go by toilet drain as the input to the bowl is a violent jet. It would overwhelm any other force present.s

Yeah. Turn left and stand on it. If you are in the first two rows you might have a chance to win...barring crashes. booorrring

Last is a good point. We jsut went through a spell of very cold (below zero wind chills). People panicked about pipes freezing. FACT wind chill WILL NOT freeze a pipe. Temp in pipe will only go down to what the real temp is.

I am in much the same situation. 87yoa and good relaltion with my younger siblings. Will specifies the estate to be distributed equally amongst survivors but has a add on "if no survivors local HS is to establish a scholarship but it must be in the STEM curicula. I am sick of seeing money...

Same here but haven't resorted to google yet. I can sort see their anatomy not being able to raise the head really high though.

When I see something that doesn't sound right, I check google. Here is the first two hits: Hand-in-hand Polar bears are not left-handed. This is a common misconception—research has shown that both paws are used equally. Polar Bears Aren't Left Handed (and 9 Other Things You Didn't ...

I'd have to see a cite before I believe that. We are very near relatives of the other primates - we all eat, drink and breath through one pipe.

Just wait, you will also be able to add "evacuate" to the list. Don't ask how I know. 87 yoa.

Teal = turquois by men.

Market hunters were a big part of it. Askillful hunter by picking off the right animals could make a "stand" and kill the whole, or most of the, herd. There was also a booming business afterwards on harvesting the bones to be ground for fertilizer

Yep, I asked for one when they installed my well. I also asked for a 110 outlet there. That has gotten quit a bit of use.

Just a JD rider mower but it gets used heaviley dragging firewood around my "wood yard" I used to cut 10-12 cord a year but being 87 now that is slowing down. I have had to cut all be one off my customer list and will be limiting his order this year.

Prices that rise during inflation never return to the original.

But they did whip ass on the US army at the battle at Whitebird

Gee, I never would have thought of that...but then they would be hard to fit into my 3/4 acre.

FWIW I have long thought of changing to 40-60 if for no other reason better sprinkler operation. I had to install a filter system lasst year. Yep, no irrigation without pulling the filter cartridge and low pessure as the filter clogs up. Yes, elevation difference between pressure tank -...

What does that have to do with it? FWIT worth none but grew up on a farm.

40psi barely gets the soap oout of your hair??? Wow!!! I think you need a refresher course in the use and functioning of NON CSVs. You keep making very ignorant comments about how they function. My system is 30-50 and 30 will run a lawn sprinker quite well and give a "needle" shower.

Thanks. I always wondered where that name came from.

Hardly a "short time" for a standard stysstem. It will deliver around 25 gallons before pumps starts again. That would be hours between cycles in my house unless I am irrigating.

I think you have just insulted single cell invertebrates!

"... When pumping from storage tanks or a well a pressure tanks only purpose is to limit the on/off cycles of the pump. The water comes from the well and/or storage tanks, not the pressure tank. ..." Wrong...at least with a standard, not cycle stop valve. Pump runs until the cut-off...

late to the feast but if it hasn't been mentioned. It will add storage but do nothing for frequency of pump cycle.

Oddly the report in my local paper ended "....not an accident"

Yep. With a flowing stream they work quite well. Low output but it is outputting 24/7 so...drawback is hardly any pressure at point of use. There are homebuilt one using nothing but pipe fittings. Neighbor had one feeding his house (50 gal barrel in kitchen) Pump was almost severy hundred...

Pipe and fitting friction with dynamic pressure. I have an interconnect to my neighbor's well 1/4 mile away. System pressure 30/50. That runs sprinklers at his place just fine. Won't run one at my end. we are just about level for elevation between the two points. After thinking about my...

The static pressure (no water bneing drawn) will be equal. The dynamic pressure (water in use) will depend on distance the water is traveling and the altitude difference between tank and point of use (pump not running). There can be a lot of pressure lost (dynamic)_ in long runs and number of...

EV for my use an EV would fit perfectly. In case of a protracted long drive a rental would be the solution. I see no drawbacks other than the outrageous initial cost.

IIRC you claimed it was bain washing and it isn't that either.

In spite of the comman belief, wind chill factor will not freeze a pipe or car radiator. The inanimate object will only cool down to whatever the thermometer temperature is.

I recall in grade school being very clearly explained the different projections and distortions. No conspiracy at all.

The odd part is closest route point to point is a great circle. i.e., Seattle to Japan goes via Alaska!! NW Orient used to have a refueling stop on Shemya isle way out near the end of the Aleutian isles.

there are idiotic conspiracy theories for any subject you care to name.

Wedge on ram allows vertical operation.

Not saying they don't exist but I have never seen a wedge at an angle to the beam. I thought about doing that on my homebuilt but didn't.

Yep. Due to 'sinking into the bog' is not the reason as I posted above.

I am on me third one now. One homebuilt by me and 2 commercial home grade. All three have had chunks pop off and fly. Not often. I caught on right in the 'nads. Fun time. I have been doing around 15 cord a year but am slowing down now. Only cut about 7 cord.

??? Those stilts would sinkdeeper in the marsh than shoes. And if the stilts have some sort of boot or something to keeop from sinking, why not put them on your own feet? I suspect the stilts are fore an some totally different reason.

and probably cheaper than either of the other two.

Pressure builds until a split starts and releases all at once, I have had several fly on on me. There is a safety defect built in on mosdt commercial spliotters - the wedge is on the ram and when a split 'lets go' it flies right at the operator - most times right in the groin. I home built...

Odd trivia: If you enter the Panama Canal from teh atlantic and get out in the Pacific you would be farther east than when you started...by a lot.

Whatwas the last thing Lorena Bobbit said to her husband? Now don't go off half cocked!

I did that to my rider mower for moving the log splitter and small dtrailer around the woodlot. Very handy.

I'll put my back seat up agains anybody's. 4 chainsaws, chains, maul, ax, pickaroon, cables and stuff I haven't seen in years. Ah, yes! The trailer hitch is also floating around back there. Roll that vehicle and I'll be beat to death in sthe first roll.

The herbicide you paint on the stump will not effect anything else around it. By the time the flush stump rots out the hericide will be inert.

Thanks for the explanation. I had thought it would go straight down due to the speed it is moving eastwards.

I had the hots for one of them back in 1956 Even signed up for one at the dealer but they turned me down on financing. Not surprising. My pay as an Airman 2nd class was around $100 a month.

That's my GMC. It beeps just as I connect.

Or, as in my case. We both work. She has a car, I have a truck.

I'm 87 and guess that I would be in the running for 2nd, or 3rd place.

I rode Greyhound Chicago to Spokane, WA in the late 60s. New construction, part of the interstate that replaced US2. Joints so bad that the bus was driving with the right side tires on the berm - even then it was jolt, jolt, jolt, for miles on end.

Better: Leave the log off and run the ram forward as far as it will go. If you have auto-return, stop it manually. Hmm.. further consideration leads to. It depends on the weight of the round which way is better. The log one would be even better if the it were put on the splitter sideways. I...

I watched part of an early one. Not for me, just a soap opera on a ranch.

I do that with my chainsaw bar/chain oil. empty gallong cans sit arund until I have aroun 6 then they go on a funnel into an 'empty'. I have gotten as mush as helf a pint out or 6 or 8.

Not doing anything is levaing it open of 'squaters rights' In this state IIRC 7 years 'open and notorious' use' (i.e., owner knew and didn't do anythibng) the user can claim the land. One of the recommented things is a certified letter to the trespasser every few years renewing the status of...

I had a carpet claning crew in the house. One guy, obviously several years out of school, was wearing his pants that way. But then it would have been around 15 years ago.

I was on handicapped parking after hip replacement for awhile. I always wondered why the cart returns are so far away from the handicapped parking.

I pulled into the local grocery store for the morning coffee call. Amazing, A big Dodge suberban type towing a trailer had managed to block FOUR spots by angling in. He only needed two straight in. In 2005 it was time to buy a new car. We were both retired so I didn't want the usual 4 door...

with difficulty, yes? Why?

Or, as happened to me I was parked in a handicapped spot when he county sheriff tapped on window and told me to move it "you don't need to use that spot". i replied "I don't don't but she does" just as my wife stepped out of the store. She was the owner of the handecapped placard.

The "bark" of a D6 when the govrner comes open on an uphill pull. Now all one hears is turbo whine.

Back wen big wheel tracdtors began to take over from the crawlers, there was one brand that leveled like a combine. It was rather odd seeing work these hills in the Palouse (E. Wa.)

The old manuals is where I learned typing...that and 20 years using one in the AF as a Russian Linguist. Firsst one in AF was all caps and last one was a cyrillic alphabet. On a good day I could cruise at 70wpm English, russian, or russian transliterated with english letters. Worst was trying...

Yep. And now the antiabortionists are prohibiting CONTRACEPTIVES!! I swear their only goal is to turn women into law breakers.

Save the cost of fuel. My burn barrels back when where cut open BOTH ends. set on a grate of scrap iron, filled about 1/2 full and touched off. Nothing left in short order and even burns thick books. What little ash remains is shoveled out from under the grate. The drawback? The scrap...

Picky, picky, picky. :)

Sorta. He was above teh speed limit so he would not have been "camping". I'm not sure if some one in the left lane can leagally be ticketed for "camping" if they are at or above the limit. Yes, it pisses me off to see peoople in the left lane not passing anyone no matter what speed they are going.

I seriously doubt that figure. Got a cite?

I have debated an EV for several years. 99% of my driving does not exceed 150 miles with most well under that. So and EV would work. As for long trips I could rent a car. Now if EV was anywhere near reasonable in price...

Had a letter in the paper yesterday explaining how re-generation on a train could acturally produce more power on train in-bound than it used outbound. Had to think about it. Yep, run empty train from say Lewiston Idaho, load grain in Nezperce, idaho and return. The outbound climb is some...

That's a new one to me. I used just about every tool known to man on hay back when I was growing up. What was that for?

My best buy back in the day aroun 1984 was beer. I was buying at the base liquour store. $4.50 a case and it came with a mail-in rebate of $5.00. They were paying ME to drink their beer. First (and last) time I ever made money by getting drunk.

I learned about them in my Russian language class 1955 Syracuse U. Small AF detachment off campus.

not going aroud 2 90 and a 45...oops, I read a bit farther and see those are long bend corners, They will still add some resistance though.

Freezing hot water faster than cold is possibler but only under very technical laboratory conditions. You'll never do it in your kitchen.

This. I am surprised by how many people think the controls and pressure tank HAVE to be at the well head. They don't. Mine are all in a group, pressure and hot water tanks right next to each other and right by the breaker box.

Oddly I spent two winters in Alaska on St. Lawrence and Shemya Islands. I cannot remember even once stepping out to see them but I must have. I did see a spectacular display once here in Eastern Washington. Got off shift at midnight in a town in the bottom of a small canyon. North rim (where...

oregon grape So if it's anti matter, how did they weigh it? And what do they keep it in?

Just a thought and it probably has already been suggested. If there is enough water above the top of the broken pipe, jusst put in a new pump and new pitless adapter and leave the junk in there.

Back when I was a kid, balers were just starting to become common. Every bit of hay that our animals got was harvested with a fork: from shocking it after mow/rake, load on wagon with fork, nets into the barn and most fun was picking the bunches apart up in the hey mow with a fork on hot days...

I was coming up on my 87th birthday when a home health nurse visited and put me through that test. I went over to the vinyl section to have firm footing and almost lost it in the firs 10 seconds but after that was stable. She finally told me "you can quit now"

During my time in the AF of some 21 years, I made many trips east coast to Washington both ways. That was back in the days of 60mph limits, 2 lane roads. I used to hate to come over a rise and see a stretch like that! Hard to stay awake. Worse was during the double nickel days. 1.000...

This will date me. I don't recall haveing to pass a driver's test but if I did it would have been teh family 35 Plymouth or dad's 34 chev 1.5 ton crash box. I know i already had my license when I bought by first car 37 Chev 2 door.

Big farms with lots of acres could hide a well or more but a residence? Not a chance. Enforcer just comes by and demands to see your meter. Somewhere aound 30 years or so ago, Washington sate propsed to do that. It got shot down before it even got off the ground.

I believe Volvo was one of the leaders of 3-point seat belts (one buckle) I had a 59 volvo with it and loved it. Grab belt latch with right hand, blind jab and it was latched - had a big upside down u on the tunnel it latched into.

So was I. Dad sent me to town with the truck to get a load of seed wheat. I figured 100lb per bag but was having problems loading them. Got home and discoverd they were 120lb baga.

And finance it for 3 years. Even with today's wages I doubt anyone on hourly wage can afford to finance a new car for less than 6 or 7 years.

I'm sorta in the same postion. Very computer illiterate. I get the newspaper 4 day/wk on paper and 3 days e-mail. That has somehow quit sending it and the paper inisists it is the outfit that is supposed to deliveer it. They tried to connect me via computer but no luck. I am consideering...

Actually, it seems I was wrong. I noticed this morning that someone had changed the dialing system from rotary to push button.

Not really antique, I think you can still get them from the pone company. I have one on my nightstand still working. Of course I am pretty much of an antique myself (87) and still have a landline.

I got a "parking on the grass" at the AF base in the upper peninsula MI (?Kinross?). As it was February I had to wait till spring to see if It was valid. Yep I was on the grass.

I'm right in the middle of the Palouse. No really special equipment is used but farms have gotten so big and he equipment massive that the "normal" tractors can handle those hills. They used to farm them with horses!!!! I was the header puncher/machine tender for my dad one harvest on steep...

This has been the wetttest spring I can recall. We were in severe drought the past 2 or 3 years. The soil moisture down deep is no longer there. Hoping our wet spring will be enought to carry the crops through to harvest. Crops are looking great so far. We have a lot of catcing up to do...

I'm still out there almost every day in good weather doing something with firwood, cutting/splitting/hauling/stacking/ filling woodshed and porch. Heating season keeping the fire going is at leasst a bit of exercise. I'm 87 and just sat in the house for almost two weeks only getting a day in...

Rig it to hoist vertically nose down, lift as high as you can, rig to stop just before it hits ground. Drop it.

right you are. I tried google and that is what came up.

Not sure about that. It could be going uip a mountain in a haze.. I came across a road like that in Utah. Topped a ridge and way off in the distance the highway had shrunk to almost a point as it disappeared over the next ridge. Looked about 50 miles away.

My Great Grandparents were among the first settlers in Colton Wa. Spoke German in the house, Their kids, my grandparents spoke English but used German with their parents. My parents could understand some of it but didn't really speak any. That was the line up all dduring WWII except for the...

Yep, that was what we had on the shop roof.

There were acdtualcasualties in at leassdt one case. People came across one that had come down but not ignited. It apparently did when they disturbed it I can't recall the details but one at least death.

And back before rural electrification, charged the 6 voldt car batteries powering the house radio.

I don't know if it still applies but when that first came in back in the ....hmmm....80s?. The state would pay you a bounty for turning someone in for using a burn barrel. I got checked once but I was burning a brush pile very near my unused barrel. I pointed out the oddity that I could...

Make and break idnition. operated by a governor. A lot of single cylinder utility engines back in the early days had them.

And, due to the centrifugal force could turn much better one direction than the other.

yep. Dad had a 5 gal buket about 3/4 full with ashes. Dump a bunch of diesel in there and light it off.

Thanks. I wanted to say the same

Good point on obesity. My parents generation were all farmers some going back to the days of horses, hard working both men and women. All were slim and in good health. Then came my generation. All the females are overweight, some grossly. Men,me included, carry more than they should. I...