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What My Father Taught Me: Mike Rowe
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Posted on 06/03/2013 5:52:40 PM PDT by virgil283
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H/T Instapundit
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posted on
06/03/2013 5:52:40 PM PDT
by
virgil283
To: virgil283
Yes, but will he run for President as a democrat?
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posted on
06/03/2013 5:55:24 PM PDT
by
higgmeister
( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
To: virgil283
if he grew up in Baltimore, I wonder where all this happened?
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posted on
06/03/2013 5:56:36 PM PDT
by
bigbob
To: virgil283
But splitting the larger chunks into pieces that fit the insatiable wood stovethat was a chore without end. Every day after school meant an hour in the woodpile with Dad. I can still hear his voice as I prepared to swing the ax: That was his problem right there.
You don't split wood with an ax. You split it with a splitting maul.
I ought to know. I heated with wood I cut, hauled and split myself for 11 years.
To: virgil283
Rowe is one of the smartest guys out there. A GOP president would do well to seek him out for more than just a photo op. Here he is a few years back talking about his regulatory epiphanies. I especially agree with his feeling that America needs to stop looking down on manual labor.
Mike Rowe on Discovery, Realization and Lamb Castration
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posted on
06/03/2013 5:57:24 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: virgil283
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posted on
06/03/2013 5:59:01 PM PDT
by
mylife
(Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
To: Sherman Logan
You don’t split wood with an ax. You split it with a splitting maul.
I ought to know. I heated with wood I cut, hauled and split myself for 11 years.
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I dont know what a splitting maul is but maybe you should have been around wood a few years longer...
we used an ax like everyone else did...
It was my brothers chore but sometimes I did it too...
We heated the house, heated our water, and cooked with wood and coal...
To: Tennessee Nana
Splitting wood with a wedge is an extra special treat.
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posted on
06/03/2013 6:37:01 PM PDT
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cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: cripplecreek
Chain saw isn’t that bad.
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posted on
06/03/2013 6:40:28 PM PDT
by
Cvengr
(Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
To: cripplecreek
Oh a wedge
Yes my Dad had one of those
To: verga
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posted on
06/03/2013 6:49:29 PM PDT
by
verga
(A nation divided by Zero!)
To: Tennessee Nana
Coal works great.
I remember fondly, making grill cheese and ‘mater soup on the old pot belly coal fired stove in the old work shack where Pop worked.
I think that was all he knew how to make LOL
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posted on
06/03/2013 6:49:32 PM PDT
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mylife
(Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
And Fried baloney sangwichs..
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posted on
06/03/2013 6:50:25 PM PDT
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mylife
(Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: Tennessee Nana; Sherman Logan
We started splitting wood with an axe, then with wedges and a sledgehammer, then splitting mauls and finally a hydraulic wood slitter. I can’t recall exactly the years of transition from each, but rest assured the last one was the best.
To: F15Eagle
I used to have to get up half an hour BEFORE I went to bed and go out and lick the road clean with my tongue! LOL
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posted on
06/03/2013 6:57:49 PM PDT
by
mylife
(Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
To: mylife
grill cheese and mater soup Still one of my favorites.
To: Alaska Wolf
I remember old Mr Conway wanted me to make a wood splitter out of an air powered train brake.
I was like ... umm air compresses.
AT any rate I had to make the thing, but I hid behind a wall when they let it loose on the maiden flight.
Hoo boy! did it launch that wood LOL
Luckily no one sustained shrapnel injuries.
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06/03/2013 7:02:07 PM PDT
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mylife
(Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: Alaska Wolf
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06/03/2013 7:02:34 PM PDT
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mylife
(Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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