On 5/3/07 1:49 PM, "F. W. Owen" <fwo@bright.net> wrote:
> There was a lot of snow here since Valentines Day. We got 30 inches in 30
> hours. I plowed that snow off the driveway on both sides so that the
> driveway was between two 4-5 foot high banks. Then that blew levelfull.
>
> I had to abandon the driveway and plowed out across the fields. That was also
> kind of useless, as the temporary driveway I plowed across the fields was in
> far better shape than the state highway. We were snowbound, on and off, for
> about 5 days.
Isn�t it lucky we have global warming!!
New Zealand has just had a very late and cold summer and two winters with
heavier than usual snow and frosts.
So now the gloom predicters promoted by the media talk about climate change.
It has always changed and New Zealand�s 10 million million cattle and 50
million sheep get the blame - for producing 0.4% of the world�s methane.
Our government and NZ AgResearch are spending millions of dollars of our
money trying to reduce it.
FW, in 1960 when I bought neighbours land and had to roll up wire I made a
three foot diameter pto driven winder that pulled the wire in and wound it
up. The circle was tapered and the back un-bolted to let the roll of wire
slide off. To feed it out again we put it back on and pulled it out.
Best wishes.
Vaughan Jones
Hamilton
Waikato
New Zealand
