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[Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>]

At 8/31/2006, you wrote:
> Hey, Don, I like that 1860s chicken coop pictured on your travel
> journal! Looks like the roosts were cantilevered and had sloping
> floors beneath the roosts so the poop would slide down. Hm, how would
> one keep straw up there? Maybe they just let the poop dry. Not a bad
> idea, actually. Less likely to burn plants.
>
> Done right, that structure could qualify as a genuine Cluckingham Palace.

I liked the shape of the building but they would not let me look 
inside.  Only one person was on duty and did not want to leave her 
station.  If you were to line the bottom of the slope with tin, that could 
discourage predators.




Don Bowen              Awl Knotted Up                       KI6DIU
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At 8/31/2006, you wrote:
> I wish I'd known you were coming through my part of
> the state. I currently live in Moberly and you
> probably went right past my land between Huntsville
> and Moberly

Right now I am in Mount Pleasant, Iowa at the Old Threshers.  From here I 
will be heading west.



Don Bowen              Awl Knotted Up                       KI6DIU
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I know Gene is looking into Ram pumps and I think several others may be 
interested.  Today I looked at some home made ram pumps, made from plumbing 
parts.  These would be good to experiment with.  The name is:
Erosion Free Water Rams
Don Price
563-519-0248

He said that a ram needs a minimum of three feet of fall.  Lift water is 
proportional to fall.  For 10 feet of fall, if lift is 50 feet, the output 
will be 1/5 the input water, for 100 feet the output water will be 1/10 the 
input water.  Five feet of fall will be half that and three feet will be 
one third, 20 feet of fall will be double and so on.


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At 8/31/2006, you wrote:
> Anybody know a homesteading rabbi?

I picked up a bike off freecycle from a homesteader in Southern 
California.  She told me the problems with getting a Rabbi to watch over 
the kosher butchering of a sheep.  She was told that she could do it 
herself and call it Kosher.



Don Bowen              Awl Knotted Up                       KI6DIU
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At 8/31/2006, you wrote:
> It's not me that has studied linguistics, but it is a subject that I
> have always been interested in.

My oldest son has an MS in linguistics from UCLA.  He speaks several 
Asian  languages and has studied several native American languages well 
enough to be able to compare them.  He is currently writing automotive 
How-to books and magazine articles.



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> From the rabbinical standpoint, what makes something frum (not kosher) is
if you eat it. The Biblical command is to not touch the carcase of a swine,
so it becomes difficult to raise them. I understand some people in Israel,
on the kibbutzes do have hogs, but they sell them to the goyim (gentiles).

Rabbi not needed, just some study.
But, do you really want to eat animals which are raised on the feces of
other animals? When we were told it would help the protein level of our
dairy herd to feed them litter from neighboring chicken house, we quickly
turned it down.

> > >>Cluck-"n"-Ham Palace
> > >>
> > >>Especially if the hogs and chickens ran together.
> >
> > Is that kosher?
>
> Anybody know a homesteading rabbi?