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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'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?"...

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.

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

Bar and chain oil contains a "sticky" additive.

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.

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

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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.

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.

"... 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.

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...

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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'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.

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

Or at least one with a pull cord on it.

For oddity. Highway department used ground up tires as fill over a culvert. About a year later it ignited. Washington state som 30 years ago but I don't recallthe location.

I worked at an agricultural equipment factory. Final step in the process was into the paint shed for a good coat. The floor had to be scraped periodically toremove the builup of paint. Painter did that one day and put the scrapings into the dumpster. Yep, fire dept came put it out and...

I built a compost pile (my first) with shredded bark mixed in with lots of cow pats. Wasn't long before it was smoldering. I "noodle" firewood rounds too big for me to lift. That produces lots and lots of shavings that look like noodle. Neighbor raises chickens and loves those for bedding...

our farm was on top of a ridge above a canyon. Great fun rolling large rocks over the edge. Never gave a thought about what was happening down below. There was a farm there.

We had some of those in Germany in the HQ building. Supposedle one could ride up over and back down but I doubted that. IIRC there were little cabins you stepped into.

I had 7" on the 11th and snow every day since. Doesn't stick but there are a few drift remnants till around of the 11th. Drove through a couple heavy showers this morning, one enough to cut visibility for a few minutes.

Maybe match it up with the complete care hood I found in my driveway. Maybe we can collect an entire car.

Ooops. I was assuming a dug well with enough cleaance. The HF pump sounds like the good solution.

Put it on a platform and lower it to the water surface. someone has probably already suggested that tho.

The first thing that almost screams "false" is the number. No circus would have that many gorillas. I doubt there is any zoo with that many.

Stick it in my 8' bed and hang a red flag on it. You can't do that in a short bed. Or really haul much of anything. Unfortunately, my old 89F150 died and there are no used "work" trucks out there in my price rang ($15,000). Had to buy a short bead and making do with it but it is a headache...

It really sounds like a typical "horder" although those types usually don't hord just one type of thing. We had one lady in this county back when that had a couple houses, both jammed to the gills with new stuffl.

We had a well run recycling program in this county. Had to sort to glass, paper, plastic, metal, etc. Then the Far East consumers of the US output got fed up with all the plain garbage people were dumping in the bins and quit buying. I was absolutely shocked at just how much recyclables had...

You forgot the EIGHT FOOT BED! That would make it a real work truck rather than a play toy that can't carry and 8' 2x4

Not very practical but cats do a good job...at least on my garage roof on teh north side. Bad winter and I found the cats were using snow drift up there as a latrine. Came spring and no more moss.

July 4 1955 St. Lawrence Islland Alaska.That is in the Bering Sea. Me and 3 buddies were strolling on the beach, beautiful day, warm, sea calm. "let's go swimming" one of us brain buckets says. So strip down back off from teh edge a ways and charge with the idea of diving in. Not a good...

I served through that war albeit in the AF and not in that part of the world. Knew several people who were there. I had never heard that "black man's war" before your post. 6% above national averages is not a very big deviation.

That's Rock lake. Supposedly true story that back in the 20s a RR car load of new Model T dumped in a deep spot. No one has yet reported seeing it though.

One hiw property? YEs. Here doge roaming free and endangering one's animals are open game. When dispatching I had a call of animals chasing a LLama and Kria. Kria died. LLama owner shot both dogs. Dog owner called and complained, said she wanted to take to the animals owner. "Lady" I...

In the state of Washington the County Sheriff is the supreme law enforcement authority sstate wide. I think, but not sure it is Federal law. At least that was what I was told in my dispatcher's training.

I live 4 miles out of town. 5 dogs have appeared over the years, seems 4 miles is a convenient dumping spot for unwanted pets. I usually don't interfere, just let them roam.

Yes crime in the county goes to teh Sheriff except for traffic on state highways.

Yes. County sheriff is the one to handle these type complaints. The State Police are primarily traffic control on state highways, not rural roads. County Sheriff is the highest ranking official in any county and can tell the state police where to get off. I was dispatcher for awhile and had...

The common jeep had quite a range of farm equipment that could be pulled by it. I watched a distant neighbor plowing with one once.

Very late to reply but. I have one of the guides that clamps on the bar and sets all the angles. Most common setting is 35* across and 10 degrees up. At that setting the first and sometimes second filing will hang up on the raker. I decrease the across angle a few degrees and just use that...

May have been on those big harvesters. Sounds too big to be on any regular chainsaw even back in the early days. Those saws were beasts, all gear drive and hell on torque but slow. One could really lean on them and throw impressive chips. My big shock when I retired from the AF (21 years)...

And who do you take it too when it needs service, call backs, problem etc.? I can't see the 'no dealer' working very well.

I've been running saws since 1953 to present (and still cutting at 87). I run saws from 14" (stihl 193T) to 32" (stihl 363 and 441). I run skip tooth on all saws except the top handle. I can tell no difference in speed of cut on a 20" chain beween full and skip tooth. Skip sharpens faster...

More than it would if it didn't happen. Some is better than none

I used to run a 10llb sledge and 6lb maul with wooden handles. Had to replace both about every 3-4 years. Got tired of that so bought 8lb and 6lb with plastic handles. Beat the plastic handle sledge loose in 3 years - bought a hydraulic splitter. End of replacing handle

Fiskars has a 10lb maul 'dead blow' IIRCC. Will not ever stick from what little I used it. Same as their "splitting ax". When I first tried that I could NOT believe what I was seeing. Split stuff with it that I used to use the 10lb maul.

I split kindling with the splitter, Split slabs off rounds then stack and run back through producing kindling. 15 minutes will usually result in 2 5gal buckets full.

Yes. I posted that cutting wood is not aerobic on a firewood forum. Nobody believed it but the truth is that most of the work involves mostly standing around and moving in a limited area...and at a slow pace. At 86 I swing a saw with a 32" bar bucking logs for a good 3 hours or more but can't...

Yep. Sometimes I will split that way just for old times sake. Ejoyable, slow but steady stacks up pile. I have to watch what I am doing, splitting bhy hand yeilds bigger splits, sometimes too big while with the splitter I tend to split too small.

Correction. That is 50 cord Black Locust that I have in the stacks.

Same in Washington state wide and the state will pay a bounty for reporting someone using one.

I love everything to do with cutting/hauling/splitting/stacking/feeding fire/burning brush piles and I am sure there are a few more tasks involved. Looking forwared to my 87nd in a month and I am still good to swing the saws and all other equipment for 3-4 hours a day. Just came in from 1.5...

Stationed out on St Lawrence Island off Nome Alaska back in 1955. July 4 55 a memorable date. 4 of use were sorta beachcombing along the Bering Sea, nice sunny day, water looked inviting. We all strip down and take a running start. I chickened out. The other three almost succeeded water...

My Ta Ma Hal of burn barrels was a concrete block enclosure with angle irong bars holding up a barrel with BOTH ends cut out. Ashes fell through the angle iron grate to just be shoveled out. fill with burnables, light off from underneath and stand back. Drabacks? A barrel would burn out to...

I usually have a minimum of 2 with me, sometime 3 but mostly use jusst one I also carry bars from 14" to 32" and if I stick a saw I will usually drop the power head and put on another bar/chain. I cut and process 10-12 cord a year..or used to. I'm 86 now and for some reason it takes me...

You are lucky. Mine on google is 7 miles from where they think it is. That is odd as the address are assigned based on miles to the hundredth from the start of the road, thus I am 42 iles and a few hundredths north of the start of the state highway. I have checked a few others and almost NONE...

Went down to get the mail yesterday and saw the grass is greening up. This is in Eastern Washington. The grass greening now is very odd as normal here is about foot of snow cover every where and grass shouldn't even be visible for at least another month.

Same here except I have set my machine to pick up after just 3 rings. That way I don't have to sit there listening to multiple rings. I know that I probably won't get to the phone to pick up a valid call in time but those type callers will always leave a message.;

Exactly. And removing something, someone without explaining why is not good. This is the third time it happened, i visited the threads every day and never saw anything that out of line.

It took a couple minutes before I could see what it really was.

I love the grocery stores with handicap parking right by the door....and then have to push your empty cart halfway across the lot to the cart carousel

My brother found a stick in an old abandoned house. He laid it on a stump and lit with a match. All it did was burn. That's when I found thatburning dynamite does not set it off - takes a blasting cap.

Well...darn. 6" of powdery fluff last night. Went to town for coffee. Had only minor problem getting through the state's plow berm then got totally stupid on the way home. Stopped IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PLOW BERM to pick up my newspaper. Just as I came to full stop I realized what I had...

About 10 uears ago, I would draw $300 'walkaround money' out of the bank. It would do me 2, sometimes, 3 months. Inflation has gone so far that now I draw $400 and sometimes it doesn't even make a month. Alot of it goes to my favorite grocery store that does not take credit cards. Debit yes...

Dad did to. He was a firm believer "if a little is enough, more is better". He left some big holes.

And Mommy and Daddy would make sure never to enter the showroom there!

Many of them were AFTER I came along. I hate to think what that makes me.

Naw....I'm 86 and not looking forward to getting old.

I went out partying on a leave from the AF and went to a bar. Got thrown out on my birthday eve just about 2 hours before I turned 21. I guess the 2 years I had been gone they had forgotten me. Used to go there regularly until I joined up.

I got called on a Washington State law. At a bar and saw a friend at a table. Grabbed my drink and went over to talk to him. NO - You can't do that, a wait person has to carry the drink over for you. It was canceled a few years later. I did get a weak excuse 'to keep guys from unwanted...

4 out of the last 5 I have had the blower out. Only had a few inches each day culminatine in 5 on the 4th day. Today only clearing a small plow berm from the state's donation into my drive. Dry out hear. Way behind on moisture last year and amount of out 'wet season' started out about normal...

And short stick the oil.

First paying job a 16. $6 day and found working summer fallow. The day was a farmers day, Daybreak breakfast and hit the fields, quit about 6 or 7

Oh yeah!!

Washington state back in the day had tokens to pay the tax so in addition to some change one also had carry some tokens. I don't rcall where one bought those tax tokens. Perhaps jusst got them in change with purchases? I think those tokens were still in use for bit after the War.

I cannot recall if the gradations on the scale were only in full gallons or the fractions were also marked. If only gallons a lot of estimating would be needed.

Yes, the glass was calibrated in gallons. How they sold by the dollar I have no idea.

Picking potatoes was the high school boys cash cow. My brother did it all through HS. I started a job of it 1953 but soon talked my way into a loadeers position. Pickeers picked the potatoes off the ground after the potato digger went through and put them in a sack. Finish a sack and put one...

Gas wars were the thing down in Texas where I was stationed back in late 50s, early 60s. I vaguely recall 11 cent gas but I'm not sure of that now.

Pre WWII and some my have been in use after it, the gas station pumps were hand pumped into a glass tank on top of the pump cabinet. Ask for $1.oo and the attendant pumped the gas up to that mark on the tank. Gravity dispensed it.

Same here plus add: Every bit a water packed about 60 ft from the hand pump spring. First had running water in about 1948 when the REA came through. Prior to that one neighbor had "running water" in the kitchen. Hand pump drew from a spring under the house.

I had a 3 year tour in Germany (Hof) 1968-71. had a a walk-up apartment on the third floor. Free beer delivery, full case of the large German bottles once a week packed up all three floors.

our 'turntable was a wind up, First TV ia saw had a screen about 5" square.

86 here, I sstill remember the announcement about Pearl Harbor. Also a few scattered memories of life on the farm back to about 1938.

On our party line, one broke into the conversation to request that favor.

I was squeezing those teats on 6 cows from teh time I was big enough to sit on the old 1 legged milkstool until I went in the AF at age 18.

Old enough to remember the Watkins guy coming by in a horse and delivery wagon. Quite a custom wagon with drawers, shelfs, etc. Big est new thing was seeing the REA bringing electricity out to the boonies after WWII

Oh, yeah.

what happened? All those posts had only the picture link, not the picture?

I have an x27, x25 and the splitting maul. My buddy also has an x27 and bought a fiskars hatchety. Used it once and refuses to use it again. "It is too sharp".

Same here!

Hedge is top iof the charts for firewood. You might be able to get a wood cutter interested in doing the removal for you. What to do about the thorns left on the ground? i dunno. I removed ONE very small thornless honey locust from my windbreak - it reverted to ltype. I was still getting...

Oh yeah they have...at least for splitting axes. Check out Fiskars Splittring AX. Almost the same as that viking except the addition of 'cheeks' on both sides. First time I used mine my thought was "this think can NOT be doing what I am seeing...

Thanks, I'll be checking them out....WOW!! They are actually affordable! What model are they? I don't see a picture like on that site looking like yours, Goliath comes closest.

' I like the looks of those. I'm still mobile but have had two open spine surgeries so may be needing one. Where did you order from? The brand name?

I have been cutting/splitting/piling/burning for 41 years now. Did a lot of handsplitting at first then hydraulic splitter. I know people who have the really small electrics. I am VERY impressed with how well they work. I didn't even know they had electrics as big as what you ordered but...

POst and beam construction!!!! I don't know what your goal is but you might consider selling that barn for salvagge - it's worth a lot, and then rebuilding what your want. The salvage price might pay most or all of the new construction.

I had to think about that a bit longer than I should have.

Odd. Where did everybody go?

I'm 86 and still cutting, hauling, splitting, butning and selling. Been at it since 1977...well, really since I was a pup as I was spliting and piling wood back when I was a kid. 20 years out due to AF service. I do it to keep in shape as well as enjoying the work. Used to do aroun 14-16...

This will date me but...did you try looking in the yellow pages of your local phone book? I usually try google first but sometimes the phone book helps.

Right there is why I run all Stihl saws. The inboard clutch makes dropping the power head off a jammed bar a snap.

I cut one out of a farmers field. right at 48" butt. I got 3 cords + out of nothing but the top. I left the base log 25' about 30" at the top end. Farmper put an add on the internet and poeple came with equipment to haul it away. It was solid all the way and I didn't see any sign of rot...

I see a couple willow groves that have been badly damaged by spray. I doubt any deciduous tree would be resistant to RU.

I took on a job of clear cutting a 3/10 mile of old dying willow trees. Farmer had trapped out the beavers in it and wanted the trees cleared for new and better trees. Took me 7 years of harvesting 7-10 cord a year. year 5 I had been out working on it a few days before, showed up and the...

I spent a weekend waiting on a ship there. Toured navy base. Bullet holes still in the headquarters building.

They didn't fly from Japan anyway, they flew off aircraft carriers only a few hundred miles off Hawaii.

My sister, about 16 asked "Mom, who are Shrin folk? Mom: ??? Sister: You know, Shrin folk are acomin, their tails are in sight.

The ????groan2 thread.

Odd. It's back!!

all I saw was the one aabout the flasher and that wasn't even near knotty.

Is it reusable?

I'd like to be able to weld that well!!

quite common out here but usually RR flat cars. There are two within 10 miles of my house.

That's suspicious. All alone like that they could be scouting for a nefarous purpose.

My best 'instant karma' happened just leaving Spokane, wa on US2. Intersection coming up and lots of 'constructions signs, right lane cloaed etc. Every on pulls over in the Lane (2 lane each direction) up to a stop light. I was #4 in line. right at the beginning of the left turn bay. #5...

As if my cell phone wasn't distracting enough.

Depends on the state. In Washington nothing would happen as it "legal to speed while passing" Nothing said about any limit to that speed.

Perhaps a second 'window washer' in the trunk with a spray nozzle above, or even in, the trunk lid. I'll have to think about that. Even with clear fluid it would be annoying by about the second squirt.

Well said!! My philosophy on the road is "Don't cause problems for other drivers". 'going with the flow' is a simple part of that.

I must be the exception then as my cruise is 'with the flow' which is almost always over the posted. There is no exuse for tailgating.

Pull as far right as I can if if he still needs clearance pull into the ditch. I cut truck drivers and people moving machinery a LOT of slack. I grew up on a farm so...

I turn on right turn signal well in advance, pump brakes a few times as a warning and get over on shoulder if it is wide enough.