[AGL] Can you name this car?

Fri Nov 18 17:58:13 EST 2005

Cedar leaves it's "skeleton" around long after it dies, but it is so gnarly that it can't be sliced into boards. There are short straight sticks though that could be wired into a pale, I suppose. I think I've seen that.
  Frances

Wayne Johnson <cadaobh at shentel.net> wrote:
      It occurs to me...subject to the normal errors of my memory...that cedar...having, as it does, a lot of "volatile" oils, might be a good wood for the type of wooden structures shown in Mother Earth News and elsewhere as "stacked wood" walls.  Instead of long logs, typical of forests, these walls use "cord wood" size shorter logs laid perpendicular to the long axis of the wall.  There are other issues I know, such as stabilizing vertical struts and both exterior and interior sealing and finishing.  Cedar does not have very long branchs...or rather, very straight branches of good thickness.  Some sort arch/eng from either UT or A&M has probably fiddled around with this idea before.  Ain't new with me, I know.

  Just a thought for using what is there and what needs to be got rid of.  Always build "picket fence" corrals with mesquite, I guess.

  wayneJ
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Subject: Re: [AGL] Can you name this car?

  Igor,
  Good to know you're connected via keyboard. Bob Armstrong has an annual campout on his ranch up near Liberty, TX, on the San Gabriel. One of the benefits of the three day campout is the continuous fire uses up dried cedar tree stumps that he pulls free of the ground with a chain behind a pickup truck year after year before the event to stack up for a wood pile to feed the fire. After twenty five years of this, the property practically looks like a golf course, and is three quarters free of cedar, which had overtaken the property. 
  The annoying thing about cedar, sumac?, is that each tree uses a gallon of water a day or some obscene amount. That is what keeps other trees from surviving in it's midst. Maybe you can have a few of us out to burn some of that cedar. My nephews stack up used Christmas trees on New Years at the Hans ranch, on the Medina, and have a huge bonfire in the middle of a field. It seems as big as the Aggie b onfire, but it is just that cedar burns like gasoline. It's fun to take pictures with a flash on the subject and the bonfire behind--dramatic photographs.
  Best,
  Frances

Igor Loving <lovingigor at hotmail.com> wrote:
  The car is named Larry'

Leakey, Texas Nov. 2005

My pal the deputy sherrif (ex-caver Oakley) dropped in to pay a visit. Said 
I needed a 22 and a hand gun of larger caliber to deal with the hogs and 
sheep.

There are too many deer and not enough predators. There are way too many 
ferral hogs. The cedar trees drink all the water. The Aoudad sheep 
introduced in the Texas, Panhandle are eating up the ground cover. There are 
fifty of them on the ranch next door and the rancher begs people to just 
come shoot them. Problem is then what?
Yesterday we took three of them to a hug e pit and poured gasoline on them 
and set them afire. That is so the pigs won't root them up. It was Valeros 
gasoline.

The oak trees are being eaten before they can grow. Hege hogs are griddling 
the pine trees. We are cutting down and burning cedar as fast a we can. It 
is most amazing on the ranch two miles away they are seeing long dead 
sprongs coming back. Woody says that in 1959 ther was a spring on my place 
behind where I built my casa. So we are chopping out all the cedar.

The place look all so beautiful but under the guise of beauty it is being 
raped by mother Nature herself. Out here you actually notice the moon every 
night and can see the stars. The lack of cars and people makes it such a 
great place to be. No noise here except the noise of the earth and that 
which you make. You can hear a car coming for miles.

The red necks are fighting back best they can with their 30-30's and front 
end loaders and ATVs. No w I want one.Then they have lapses in sense when 
they see a predator and they shoot it. Except the ranche rnext door that 
feeds them horse meat.

The good thing here is that when you call people for service like the gas 
company or the phone company out here. It is like it was in the sixties. A 
Nice lady person answers the line at propane gas company and gossips after 
asking you how the little lady is doing? ten minutes about the weather and 
the next Sheep fest in Rocksprings. The DSL phone guy talks to his boss in 
Spanish. The phone operator says... 
"Good morning 
Mr.Loving, so sorry your service was interupted, that big wind blew in last 
night and tore things up along 337..." Say what?

South, Texas and three hours from anywhere.
--
Charlie Loving

Charlie Loving

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>That's a Henry J, a compact car produced by Kaiser Aluminum named after 
>Henry J. Kaiser, who jumped into the car market after WWII with the Kaiser, 
>the Frazier and, around 1952, the Henry J.
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>It was also marketed by Sears-Roebuck as the Allstate.
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>Probably a 1953 model.
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>Its competition was the Hudson Jet.
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