We didn't get REA power until '48 after WW II. The Delco went in sometime very early but I don't know exactly when--the first picture I have of the barn shows the power to it and the house was wired in preparation when it was built in '15-'16.
I do not know (never thought to ask Dad) how they powered the equipment, the 32V DC windcharger surely didn't.
The elevator (first overhead grain storage on farm in the county) was initally powered w/ gasoline engine and jackshafts/flat belts; I presume they must have set up a shop area somewhere similarly but that's supposition, not knowledge.
Having recently used a chainsaw for the first time, I'm much less in awe of those chainsaw sculpture guys at the fair. It didn't take long at all to get very accurate with the thing.
For crying out loud, do you have to keep this endless stream of pedantic, stilted horseshit going on to make sure you get the last word? Is being thought of as =93right=94 that important to you?
Are you thinking Karl might be a 16 year old girl? A Martian? Lee Harvey Oswald? What does that even mean? Did you stick your tongue out and wiggle your fingers behind your ears when you wrote that?
I know Karl. And his wife Linda. I have met one of his children, a charming young lady. I sat in chairs he built, and ate a table me made and finished himself. I have seen *many* pieces of fine furniture he designed built, all of which were top craftsman quality. I have even seen production cabinets that were in process, all impressive examples of custom quality.
I stayed in the man=92s house and was privileged to his hospitality, including his home. He lives in a house he restored and renovated, a large old house (20's, maybe?) that is a lovely, warm place to be. With his wife as his decorator and design partner, they also restored another house I also visited. His expertise and practical experience in building is evident at every turn with just those two houses as they not only restored the houses to the convoluted codes of their area of Houston, but also kept them within the demands of their historical committee. He has the pictures and slide show made up to showing several of the other homes he has built.
He=92s real alright. And he can back up what he says.
Karl doesn=92t need me to take his part. He is perfectly capable of his own verbal defense, but shit, this is really getting annoying. You taunt, insult, and worse than a nagging wife, insist on that last, walking away snipe.
WTF was this if it wasn=92t a taunt?
=93Here bitch, let me throw your dumbass a bone from my magnanimous self=94. It meant nothing to you of course, cost you nothing, but you want to play the big man and give him a lead on his own money? You could just feel the sarcasm.
If you were more full of horseshit it would blast out of you like Yellowstone=92s geyser. YOU were snooping around, looking for some kind of shit on Karl, and that=92s how you found that lead. YOU were the one looking for some kind of crap to post here, Googling away in the sewers of the internet to find something you could you use to embarrass him. I wouldn=92t believe for one moment that you were simply looking around the net and happened on the Texas Unclaimed Property site, and out of the blue your old pal Karl=92s name came up as if by magic.
No sir. You were shit digging. And to prove it even further, you know his name, as well as his last name, something none of us know about you. So since you actually do know his name as witnessed by your intense search results to find his personal information, I=92ll have to pull one from the guys that work for me.
I was involved in a 'discussion' with someone else and was viewing the whole thing subjectively. You are of course right, and it is being inflicted on the newsgroup. I made my point and have nothing else to say on the matter. Thanks for pointing this out to me.
Why didn't you e-mail Karl with that information if your intent was honourable? There was no need to hang this out in a public newsgroup. And what other reason would there be for you to point out differences in code/construction unless you wanted to show off how superior YOU are? And if it was to be helpful, why not via an e-mail?
Karl needs neither me, nor Robert (nailster) or anybody else to 'stick up for him', he's perfectly capable of taking care of himself.
With all due respect, I did feel you were being mean-spirited about the whole thing.
Now.. when are we going to see some of your work? I can't wait.
Sure, I can give you a description. What Lew describes is another way of saying "Take a flying f*ck at a rolling doughnut." If you want a picture you'll have to use your imagination.
This has gone from completely ridiculous to sheer absurdity. I almost fell out of my chair.... you do that for everyone you meet? What would possess you to do that? Friends, family, associates, internet contacts you are digging up dirt on? Really?
WTF is next? Will you next declare you research the automobiles of =93everybody=94 you meet (????) for recall notices? It would take a lot less effort you know, but hell, at least you could tell people you were saving lives.
Do you make sure =93everyone you meet=94 gets the best rate on their CDs? (You know, while you are fooling around in their financial affairs...)
Come on. There is really lame, and then there is completely unbelievable.
Want proof? Really?
To how many others here on this newsgroup have you provided this altruistic, selfless expenditure of your efforts? How many others have you so thoughtlessly given away your time to making sure they have no unclaimed property available to them?
Are you kidding? There are plenty here that have posted their first and last names, and some even use them in their posting name. Yet this is the first time I have ever heard of anyone (including you) looking into the Unclaimed Property Registry as a favor to the people they meet here. Incredible you would even make that claim.
In fact, around here Karl seems to be the only one you have extended this fantastically thoughtful gesture to in keeping with your description of =93everybody=94.
Well, a couple of thoughts crossed my mind after digging out of the baloney. 1st - maybe Karl insn=92t interested in your help. Hard to believe he would turn down a generous benefactor like yourself that is simply interested in helping others, but that could indeed be the case. And 2nd, you seem to feel pretty good about yourself; anyone that could spin out these yarns for all to see with confidence probably doesn=92t have a self esteem problem. ( No... don=92t post all your credentials again. I saw them all.) If I were you, I wouldn=92t worry to much about how badly I felt if I was minding my own business.
As far as you taking the high road and opting not to ignore basic principles that is a bit high minded for someone that posts personal financial information on an international platform. I don=92t know; I was guessing you meant basic principles of personal decorum, but after reading your post I realize you don=92t observe those.
Sorry.... no deflection allowed here. A bad attempt to turn the tables and make yourself look like you are being called out for just trying to be a great guy. A thoughtful man that helps everyone he meets.
Horseshit. You were digging for dirt and didn=92t think it through before you posted. For a man that claims to be so smart, you sure didn=92t think how it would look for you to be snooping around in his affairs. You didn=92t find that money, nor bring it up here because you are just a great guy providing the same service to Karl you provide to =93everyone=94. You just wanted to look like a big man to the boys.
I would never have to face the burning, ethically challenging, moral question of
because I wouldn=92t have been snooping into anyone=92s private affairs in that depth. Certainly not over having my feelings hurt in a petty internet dust up.
A bad straw man argument indeed. A deflection tactic brought to argumentative fruition by the introduction of a self created moral dilemma.
Time to man up. You were caught being a chickenshit. Better to let it go than to keep heaping on more asinine baloney.
I have to agree with your entire assessment. It occurs to me that if he's so capable of finding all this money for people, then it sounds like an ideal model for a business. Advertising that he can find lost money for a percentage of the money found would certainly bring out the clients. No money found, no charge. When authorized to look for that lost money by a client and then finding it would make him look good and the clients happy. Seems to me like he's lost or ignored an excellent opportunity.
No record for posterity? I'm surprised that they don't keep all of the presentation videos, stick them on a DVD and sell them, or even just post them on a YouTube channel to attract more people to their shows. Thanks for asking, though.
There's a fair to middling chance that I might make it up to this year's show. If I say I know you, will they let me in for free or charge me extra? ;)
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