How Old Are You?

lsayre · Post by **lsayre** » Sat. Feb. 15, 2014 2:30 pm

Per Wikepedia zip codes started in 1963. Matches my then 8 year old memory.

freetown fred · Post by **freetown fred** » Sat. Feb. 15, 2014 2:34 pm

Who you callin old ya young woodpecker??????????

Flyer5 wrote:We get a lot of younger customers. They just may not necessarily participate here with the old folk.

Carbon12 · Post by **Carbon12** » Sat. Feb. 15, 2014 2:42 pm

After shoveling the driveway 4 times in as many days, I feel as old as old as the coal I'm burning. That reminds me,...I have to go lift 30 pound buckets to fill up the hopper

I've got to get to work on that coal bin and gravity feed delivery system.

freetown fred · Post by **freetown fred** » Sat. Feb. 15, 2014 2:43 pm

C12, what do you use that's a 30 lb bucket?

Carbon12 · Post by **Carbon12** » Sat. Feb. 15, 2014 2:51 pm

5 gallon plastic bucket full of rice coal. Actually 32-34 pounds if nearly full. I have a level marked on the bucket that is about 30 pounds of coal. Makes gongulating how much I load and burn easier.

Cap · Post by **Cap** » Sat. Feb. 15, 2014 3:04 pm

lsayre wrote:Per Wikepedia zip codes started in 1963. Matches my then 8 year old memory.

Larry is wrong! Try again. 1943 for large cities, 1963 for the rest of the country.

And it was a joke. And along comes Larry.....

freetown fred · Post by **freetown fred** » Sat. Feb. 15, 2014 3:07 pm

Uh-Ohhhh--now ya went & done it!

rberq · Post by **rberq** » Sat. Feb. 15, 2014 4:01 pm

freetown fred wrote:C12, what do you use that's a 30 lb bucket?

A two-foot piece of 7-inch stovepipe holds about 33 pounds. 6-inch holds about 22 pounds.
Bolt a small handle (screen door pull) on the side for ease in carrying and hoisting to fill the hopper.

Carbon12 · Post by **Carbon12** » Sat. Feb. 15, 2014 4:20 pm

Thanks rberq. I have some of that laying around.

mozz · Post by **mozz** » Sat. Feb. 15, 2014 5:01 pm

Correct!

lsayre wrote:Per Wikepedia zip codes started in 1963. Matches my then 8 year old memory.

CapeCoaler · Post by **CapeCoaler** » Sat. Feb. 15, 2014 11:42 pm

30.083333333333333333333333333333...
If you average the ages in the family...
Hint: three of them are under 2...
They will be coal burners...
Unless cold fusion comes to our house first...
Always liked hangin' at our friends house that had a coal stove...
so much 'warmer' then the kids who had wood burners...
I would register the kids but they can't really type well...

Age is a state of mind, never really give it much thought...

Post by **Lightning** » Sun. Feb. 16, 2014 10:59 am

Wow!! 80 Votes so far! Awesome response.. A big Thank You to all participants.

Freddy wrote: Someone's over 80? Who's the geezer? I think he (she) voted early too!

If its who I think it is, he has the broadest and wisest perspectives and a huge asset to this forum..

Post by **franco b** » Sun. Feb. 16, 2014 4:11 pm

80 votes which is kind of significant since I am 82 and no doubt the oldest member of the forum. Since Lightning has set up such an attractive soap box why waste it given the opportunity to expound on the world of geezerdom. It is said it is wiser to remain silent if you don't wish to be thought a fool rather than open your mouth and remove all doubt. Getting old means you don't have to care.

The nicest sobriquet I can remember being given to an old person was by the German people who referred to Konrad Adenauer, the leader who guided Germany (very successfully) through the dark days following WW2, as "Der Alte", the old one.

Wisdom has been associated with age, and if true, the reason given is usually that the old person has had more experience. The real reason is, I believe, is that there is a falling away of the imperatives of youth along with the opportunity to learn that which you knew but didn't know you knew it.

That transcendence has often been evident to me in many of the posts by what are really a pack of misfits in society's ordinary sense.

Thanks for the opportunity to be a part.

Carbon12 · Post by **Carbon12** » Sun. Feb. 16, 2014 4:13 pm

Very eloquently said!

scalabro · Post by **scalabro** » Sun. Feb. 16, 2014 5:20 pm

51

I found this forum while shopping for a wood stove

Can't believe 2 years in and I'm running a Crawford No 2.

The knowledge on this forum led me to coal nirvana.

I now find myself searching Craigslist several times a day and wanting to buy another stove, even though I have no where to run one

Thank you!

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