now stop skirting the issue's your just trying to get between the sheets with this thread, weveing this way and that way....then throwing your belt over there and....smoke break!!! we can see you over there looming in the corner....
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now stop skirting the issue's your just trying to get between the sheets with this thread, weveing this way and that way....then throwing your belt over there and....smoke break!!! we can see you over there looming in the corner....
I still have that LP....somewhere....in a stack...probably all wonkey due to the wifes stacking nature.
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Originally Posted by marksbug
Well bar-tack my gussets looky there! The fabric of new conversation, a pattern finely embroidered without any bias, hemming or us seaming to bolt from the room, and nary a cross stitch between us.
The Ms. and I were Civil War Reinactors in the 116th Pennsylvania Infantry. We campaigned directly under U. S. Grant and spouse [Julia] as W.T. Sherman and [Eleanor]. She made our perfectly accurate period clothing, my job was locating all the materials and fastenings. It was quite an education. That historical period has a lot of the industrial revolution in it, where the populace began to receive benefit, such as machine made clothing overtook handmade as desirable.
How'd our readers like my little snip of movie script?
yikes your old!!!!Grant was a little before my tyme,but you were in your pencillvaina infancy so I reckon your not too old.... I do love history and all the sweet and wicked stuff that built the world we now and seems to be also destroying....one day at a time...well not so fond of the world&civilization destruction stuff..the building of everything from the first alloyed materials( including alloyed humans and other critters), to the modern everything we have today.but the old stuff is more interesting to me.thats the stuff that got us hear slowly and steady and a few spurts hear and there of revelation and reinvention. it seems now days true craftsmanship is about exstink in somany areas. but there still are some very talented craftsmen out there...somewhere. I wish I still had it.but I know I don't.well in some areas I do.
FBI fingerprint storage warehouse. 1944.
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and now days... the size of a phone..... a hackers delight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RwEpUHynTc
Oh, I thought he meant dames. . .
And the amount of fingerprints has only increased exponentially since then. My understanding is that they have many buildings full of them now, and the civillian and military prints have been separated. The prints were all classified in those days and filed using "The Henry System," which was a a very involved formula for classification. Nowadays fingerprints are classified using the NCIC method with 2 letters or a 2 digit number for each print. I was trained classification and how to search for prints but it has been too many years ago now to remember all of it. I did the darkroom work making all the enlargements for court testimony etc.
Where did the phrase "****load" of dimes or whatever come from?
Ralph
IDK, cause pennies sound cheap? Far as quantity goes, anybody whose stabled just a couple farm animals find out quick how much collects overnight.Quote:
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Not same topic, but related. I partnered with some horse owners long ago. Despite they'd been owners for decades, an afternoons work would disappear by the next day after work, causing them dismay. Like repairing fences where horses had cribbed [nervous chewing on fence wood] for example.
As explanation, telling the girls how it be so extensive. "They have ALL day!"
I was thinking a USB.Quote:
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With empty pockets, I guess he had slim pickins.Quote:
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Employees on roller-skates tend to a Volkswagen at a gas station in Deidesheim, Germany -- 1954
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IIRC this is what we also had; not filling stations but 'Service Stations'. Washing window glass, checking out tires, oil, coolant, drivers daughter. . .
This is one of my all-time favorite pics in this thread. The car, the gas pumps, the sunroof, the skates, the hats, the haircuts, the horse, the barrel, the doorway. Even if they staged it all (lots of these work crew pics are staged) - good for them, they nailed it.
Awaiting their turn at the cotton gin. Greenville, Texas. Early 1900s.
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Looking at the sign, I wonder if this company could be part of the Mobil gas that we use to know.
Has to be, same logo, just spelled different in foreign markets. But how does a economy car like a VW warrant high octane fuel?Quote:
Originally Posted by Ronj
It is like ordering a medium drink at a fast food place, they don't have small size. The "Super"Quote:
Originally Posted by Toolmaker51
is probably the low octane and the high octane is probably "Super Duper", "Super Xtra", or some such meaningless iteration of fancy name.
re hemmjo's note on octane.
It's been a l-o-n-g time since [motorcycling] octane was considered during fuel purchase. No distracting female attendants either.
While stationed in Germany in the 70's I ran a 63 VW with a 1200 cc engine on a dirt track. Most guys would steal the 78octane MOGAS out of the jeeps and other vehicles to run in their cars. My engine was honed polished balanced and tweaked everyway possible and still remain basically a stock engine. And the way I looked at it why steal gas out of a jeep when I had a 1200 gallon tanker full of AVGAS. We were allowed a certain percentage of shrinkage monthly due to evaporation so 10 gallons here or there never showed up unlike when the col's driver would run out of gas while driving the Post commander around. AV Gas was aviation grade gasoline 120 Octane all of the tweaking we had done to the engine would nearly double the hp over the other guys but a 50/50 mix of AV- Gas and the 92 octane stuff we bought at the local German petrol station really made the thing pop. When we would win against the largest class of engines though would be cause for contesting our engine. they would drain out some gas and see that it was red so they thought it was just because we spent money for our gas instead of the bluish green MO gas so many were using.Quote:
Originally Posted by Toolmaker51
So yes I can see running super in a VW they ran better and got fetter fuel millage.
Just like now I will only run Premium in all of my small engines and my old 8n tractor it doesn't do much for the old tractor but sure helps the carburetors last longer in the small engines. With the exception of my chain saws in those I will only run that $31.00 a gallon fully stabilized properly mixed 2 cycle fuel
I think this was somewhat of a stunt, maybe like the early 1900s version of hamming it up for Instagram. Right?Quote:
Transporting logs in Northern Michigan 1908.
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Mayebe it was a rare stand of North American Balsa Trees ;)
I have my doubts that two horses could move that load! Might of loaded it that big just for the photo op.
My Dad remembered loading logs with horses back in the 30s. (rolled on to the wagon using ramps with ropes going over the trailer) He said a local hauler had a pair of horses that were so well trained, the owner could have them easily move the log 1/2 an inch if needed.
Good one! We've seen that trick before:Quote:
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:rofl: Even it is were balsa if those poor animals ever got that sled moving they better never slow down because it would run them over.
It took a lot of man power to load those logs that high.
Judging the way that log hits the ground it is not light weight at all!
Ralph
That is a stack of awesome looking board stock! I wish I had 1 or 2 of those to take to the sawmill!
It would have been one huge selfi, would the millennial's be prepared to stand for a five minute exposure on old photographic plates - I think not.
there was plenty of trick photos from the beginninnning of tyme.....like heyzus walking on watter or that guy moseying through the reed sea as he farted it. my views may not be the same as yours.dosent mean there not right.
you ever see a sled with 90 degree ends.....not I think somebody was pulling somebodys wet leg.
OMG, careful MejasonT, we now have a rabid and easily offended millennial lurking about!Quote:
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In other news, I ran across this and thought of your signature which always gives this reader a chuckle. The other Continentals will like it too....
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Double post. Quantum leap? Time travel? Fat fingers, yeah probably.
I do in fact have a time machine. but I dont let any body else mess with it.( I have trust issues,Ive seen a lot of history being made) look at the end of those logs..not quite right. nothing with that pic is quite right. it could of just been oh never mind. not worth the time it would take to go back and see.I have better things to see and doo.
I don’t think these men would put that much work in a stunt back then. Look how the chains are placed on that load. More than one team of horses might be needed for this load, but the sled is on snow. You would probably be surprised what a horse or mule can move.
Stunt or not, not uncommon. Thought I had seen several similar pictures.
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Eric
I have seen similar picture before come to think of it. I still think off shot their are more horses ready to hook up. compacted snow with a light covering is indeed an easy slip surface, ie a deliberately made road way, Soft snow no. also the time taken to load the logs would result in the sled effectively freezing to the ground so power would be required to create hat initial inertia required to move such a load. as Jon has already shown in a previous post the wood could be Balsa.
Don't know about horses but i'm all over the place trying to carry an 8'x4' inch ply sheet.
The Millennial snow flake (see how i did that, we now call millennial's snow flakes) may be correct in the assumption that the image is either fake or a stunt. I'm sure its possible to do such things in cyber world, so why the doubt.
I am over 70 years old, and I have several pictures similar to these from the woods of Minnesota. The horses had special shoes with spikes like football shoes. A horse power rating has nothing to do with a real horse. Ours weighed about 1200 lbs each and could out-pull a small tractor. Loads like this were harder to load than move. Also, my first job was to take buckets of water and poor it along the runner path so it pulled easier. As I said, not that unusual.
Yep, no way that was a real photo of a real event. Also, I don't believe I've ever seen any photos, trick or otherwise, of "heyzus walking on watter or that guy moseying through the reed sea as he farted it" - (marksbug). Those weren't actual photos in between the pages of that bible.
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I am constantly amazed at the things our forefathers, and foremothers were able to accomplish. Things had to be done, they figured out how to do them.
Unfortunately, we need to view some of the things we see today with a bit of skepticism. However, also have to be sure not to diminish what they were able to do, just because we cannot comprehend how hard they worked.
