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To: Big Bucks who wrote (2850)3/29/2006 10:08:09 AM
From: Bill on the Hill  Read Replies (1) of 16955
 
Big,

I used to go out to my uncle Billy's ranch when I was young. 8 years old or so. Billy and Betsy my aunt (no kidding) had a ranch of over ten thousand acres on the Platte River outside of Fort Morgan.

I remember the day we went over and Aunt Betsy was so happy because she had just gotten running water in the kitchen.

It was a 1/2" galvanized pipe with a bronze boiler drain screwed onto a coupling at the end of the pipe. The pipe ran through a hole in the wall that Uncle Billy had drilled and over 20' away to a wooden stand about twelve feet tall. On top of the wooden stand was a two hundred and fifty gallon fuel tank that Uncle Billy pumped the water into with his Aeromotor windmill. The overfill ran into the stock tank a few feet away.

Gravity fed pressure but was still better than going out to the pump handle to get dishwater.

True story. Less than fifty years ago. That ranch family is now gone. The ranch remains but it is part of a large corporation and has a huge feedlot on it. Most of the workers there live in town and drive their foreign vehicles to the feedlot and go home each night to DISH network feeds of Life as we know it.........

Thermodynamics is like that. All this change has happened but we do not always see it. Get a few years away and it comes into focus.

Less than fifty years.

Thermodynamics still apply. I am keeping a few pieces of 1/2" galvanized pipe around. Just in case.
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