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perchie.girl said:
actually probably nothing except build a house on it... An Earth ship. Half under ground with only certain walls above. I do believe thats what the original builder of my house was trying to do... He was growing orchids in my green house... my first summer there when it was ninety degrees outside it would be around 115 in that green house room... But he didnt think it through properly.

Beautiful land you have there... So much greeen.... Nice place to raise up some sheep or goats a steer or two and maybe even grow some pasture...

Here everything is grown else where and trucked in for livestock.

deb
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yep all good ideas ,thanks!
 
perchie.girl said:
yep i have never been there Baker was enough for me... Highest ever recorded temperature was 134 F at Furnace Creek in 1913... the record apparently still stands.

Though the Borax museum looks to be awesome.... some examples of the first steam engines used as tractors are there There are temperate times to visit in the fall and the spring...

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What ever that thing is ,it sure is awesome. Too bad it didn't work I would put it under a roof tho . You know, to keep it from rusting away.
 
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perchie.girl said:
No mud really to speak of... The road that goes through the property becomes a very flat stream bed... Still hard as ever underneath. even with a couple of inches of water flowing across it.

but yeah the Mountain lilac will look like a huge dead bush about three to four feet tall... All its branches folded up... When It gets rain it relaxes a bit grows leaves madly and in the spring will bloom with White flowers... the ones by the coast bloom with purple flowers...

But yea the wild floweer season is about in February march... the snow comes through IN January February... all Seventy two hours of it. Like I said the plants are aggressive they only have a short window to grow mature and propigate.... Maybe two to three weeks.

One month bare ground Then comes the green and finally the hills will be awash with Yellow purple and white flowers. My neighbor calls them belly flowers... because you cant see their detail till you lay on your belly... Many are only the size of a pencil eraser.

deb
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The sounds cool!! If you want you can post some pictures during spring time.
 
perchie.girl said:
They used twenty mules because they had two Wagons and one Water wagon for a total load of 77 thousand pounds... eleven days out to deliver Nine days back to return... They trained the mules to pull at an angle around the switch backs from the mine. Then to jump the chain back around.... All controlled by a single jerk line and a couple of out riders...

Its an amazing thing to watch. Mules are Smart very trainable but care has to be taken to not "abuse" them. Because they remember...

Right now I am Watching Sparrows hitch being hooked up... 40 Belgian Drafts... He was or is living history with regards to draft horse teams...

deb
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I would be interested in doing something like that .
 
Don 27 said:
What ever that thing is it sure is awesome. Too bad it didn't work I would put it under a roof tho . You know to keep it from rusting away.
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Its one of many prototype steam tractors used to transport Oar from the mine. In that part of the desert 0 percent humidity is very common. Takes water to cause steel corrosion or rust...

Some of that old equipment can sit fifty or sixty years and with a couple of repairs be able to run. Look at hit and miss engines... (I want one sooo bad)

deb
 
perchie.girl said:
Oracle is a heavy in the Data base management systems... When I worked for qualcomm we used it as well. Some people there had two computer systems... Dos based and Apple.... Dos is what Windows operates from originally, or Microsoft.

Back before Dos and Windows were integrated I was pretty good at writing batch files for swapping out windows in order to run Autocad. At the time Autocad didnt like sharing page space with ANY software. I had a hot key reboot that swapped the Boot file before turning the computer off then back on. The switches needed to be changed in order for Autocad to run.

My programming favorite in highschool was Fortran... It had logic statements that were very math based. I get math... I hated RPG and Basic. Though Basic was a bit easier.

ONce Windows became the main player I stopped programming my little Chit all together... I leave that stuff to the pros.

Though I still have Solid Works and Autocad hanging around here on disk somewhere. I miss desiging alot sometimes. Injection molding and Sheet metal and Wiring harnesses were my three main areas of design. Though I have designed circuit cards for pick and place manufacture. Not the circuits but the mechanical interfaces for the circuit cards... ONce that was done it was up to the circuit card designers to design around my stuff.

Gawd the memories.

deb
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Whenever something with a circuit board fails I try fixing it but never succeed.

:hmm
 
Don 27 said:
Whenever something with a circuit board fails I try fixing it but never succeed.

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Not really possible... Those circuits are not only complex but they are layered sometimes five to seven layers within the board. The chips Alone are a maze of circuits within their microscopic envelope. I saw a blue print for a logic chip much like would be a main chip in a computer.

The diagram blown up so many times Its hard to fathom. Ran Ten feet along the hall by about ten up and down...

Unless you have a Microscope and are capable of doing Very Very agonizingly delicate soldering... You have a chance to do R and D on a circuit card. I used to hang out with the Technicion that did that kind of work. She learned it in the military.

deb
 

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