On Sunday 20 September 2015 16:58:29 TJoseph Powderly wrote: > very few people remember maytag being a stationary power source > like a kick start moped engine. used to run washers and refrigerators > etc. thx Gene > tomp tjtr33
Thats one advantage (or disadvanatge) of the accumulated years TomP. You get to educate the younger set, until one of them comes back with "Whats a Maytag?" which as often as not means anybody under 75 unless they dabble in old antique engines. I'll be 81 in 2 weeks, so yeah, I _was_ there. That farm, before REA went thru, was 2 miles of mud road from the main road where that 2400 volt line went by. My wife and I visited the place about 10 or 11 years back, its just the original 3 room cottage with front & back porches now, and all the farm buildings are gone, so I have to assume the outhouse and thunder mug have been replaced by 1950 style indoor facilities, with the land where they stood leveled & sold so someone else can grow corn. The people renting the house were amazed at what I told them about it from about 1940-41. A 25ish couple just getting started, he worked someplace in Winterset that I didn't commit to wet ram. Treated right, that land was quite productive, and Grandpa knew well the business of crop rotation to conserve and enhance the soil, which was good, black loam Iowa soil only about half a mile from the Coon River. [snip] Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
