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["Franklin W. Davis" <knarfme AT comcast.net>]

  Hi Warren...I don't think the MagicHeat reclaimer is a gamble...will 
tell/know more in the spring when heating season is over. If you get one make 
sure you install it according to manufacturers instructions...it's not a toy 
and you can't treat it as such unless you wanna burn yourself down...:-) I 
bought mine from Northern Tool.
  Ayup...Ol' Uncle Clyde was an old time Mainer...with an accent so hvy you 
couldn't understand what he was sayin' at times...:-) Anyway... uncle was 
older then dirt...nobody knew how old...guess bein' over a hundred when he 
went to his reward... active right up to the end.
  Uncle was an old time logger...using horses only. When he retired he went 
to lobster fishin' to have somethin' to do. Had a souped up lobster boat that 
he would show off with by blowin' away more then one speed boat...:-)
  One of his close friends was Rev. "Lefty" Frizzel...pastor of the "Church 
With No Name"
  Another of his pastimes was makin' high octane hard cider...Franklin
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  Hi Gene...before ya light your wood fire... ball up a bunch of newspaper 
and put it in your stove...and touch it off... it will preheat your flu so 
that the draft will be there when ya get your wood goin'...and ya won't smoke 
yerself out...;-) tip from an Ol'Mainer...;-) Franklin
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.ask them if the like gadgets or not..if they are labor saving ones...I love
um...:-)

That's not criterion.  Ask a drug addict if they like dope.  Ask a drunk if
he'd like another drink.

And by the bye, those had operated diary farms had existed for hundreds of
years without machines.  Then in the 50's and 60's the machines came.  Where 
are
the dairy farms now?

Gone.

The machines and gadgets weren't a lifestyle, they were only a transition to
oblivion.  There is a piece of property not far from here that has been
occupied by a gadgetologist gentleman farmer four times in the 18 years I've 
been
here.  "Ayup"  .. they come in with the Kubota to till up the 10' x 20' 
garden,
electronically controlled hot house vents, automatic electric potato peeler,
... I fully expect the next one to bring an automated **** wiper.  Sooooo much
easier tilling up the postage stamp garden with a tractor.

Then like clockwork, a couple of years and they are gone.  Seems that if a
shovel was too much trouble and a tractor was going to save them from that, 
then
the next very easy to accept step was just to go to the Mart and buy the
stuff.  After all, they had more important things to do with their time.  I


Sure as hell saved them alot of labor...just in milking their cows twice a
day...which
> they did by hand. Had to haul their milk two miles in cans to put it in a
> spring to keep cool...refrigerated bulk tank helped alot there. And I could 
> go
> on and on...but you should have the picture by now...:-)


"Ayup"  I do indeed.  Those farms are all gone now.  Indeed I do get the
picture.



>
>   You have to be careful when your chopping cabbage and yakking at the same
> time...could end up wid a finger part in the slaw...;-) Franklin
>

Well, Franklin, as Long John Silver said to his pirate comaptriots when
Hawkins was evesdropping from in the apple barrel, " 'Tain't for fools, and 
ye may
lay to that!"

James   </HTML>