Women Changing the World

[Solus]

It's cool that you did that, but to show you the change in America, my Dad taught me how to set a dynamite charge before I learned to read, no biggie, it was only $18 a case cash and carry, and they threw in a coil of fuse and the blasting caps free.
Those were the days when a 10 year old could send of his money and have a gun come in the mail.

No safety labels, no restrictions....only the smart and careful or the lucky survived.

Those that survived were tough enough to deal with the bad apples that made it through and knew how to do it too 

[TAB]

It's cool that you did that, but to show you the change in America, my Dad taught me how to set a dynamite charge before I learned to read, no biggie, it was only $18 a case cash and carry, and they threw in a coil of fuse and the blasting caps free.
Those were the days when a 10 year old could send of his money and have a gun come in the mail.

  when I was 10-13. I use to ride my bike infront of the capitol build in Sacramento on my way to shoot ground squirrels with my 22 straped to my back. The yolo county flood control traded 22shells for ground squirrel tails.   They were destorying the leaves.  It was cheap and  effective.  Just think of what would happen now if some one did that.  This was only 25 years ago.  Damn shame that boys can't have that kind of fun anymore.  I must of killed hundreds a month, between all of my friends that did the same it had to be thousand plus a month.  For maybe a brick of 22 shells.    Things are changing and it is not pretty

[tombogan03884]

The .22 would never be mentioned. They would be to busy trying to hang your parents for allowing you to be a "free range" kid.

[fatbaldguy]

In the sixties:  Firewood, if you weren't lucky enough to have a coal furnace.  In the early spring (Feb/March), cut and rick the wood.  Plow, get tobacco beds ready, plant tobacco.  Cut ricked wood to stove length and split.  Fertilize, plow, and disc tobacco fields.  Stack firewood in cords to season for NEXT year.  Set tobacco plants.  Plant corn and beans, plant garden.  Clean farrowing pens, cull chicken flock.  Dress out chickens for canning.  Now it's just June.

This is how I grew up.  Working.  We also hunted as we had the time to put meat on the table too.  One shot had better bring something for the pot or an asswhoopin was on its way.  Punk ass kids today think they are owed everything they want.  When the economy tanks, (think Euro collapse because of Greece) these oxygen thieves won't be able to find their way out of their neighborhoods because the GPS in their phone or car quit working.

[GASPASSERDELUXE]

Showing my ignorance but what is "rick" the wood? Not familiar with that term.

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[Timothy]

A rick is roughly a half cord of wood.

[GASPASSERDELUXE]

FatBaldGuy  said "cut and rick the wood" I though it was something in the prossesing it between tree and stove.

[fatbaldguy]

 rick means to stack the logs in a somewhat orderly fashion before cutting to stove length.  It may just be a hillbilly term I learned back in the sixties.  Seeing as how there's so many hillbilly's that migrated to this part of the country after WW II, it doesn't seem odd to use it, and most people here know what it means.  I didn't even consider that it wasn't a generally known or accepted term.

[Solus]

http://worldforestindustries.com/forest-biofuel/firewood/firewood-measurements/

[Big Frank]

I thought a rick was just a pile like a hayrick. I learned something new today but will likely forget it by tomorrow.