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To: JRandomFreeper

It might be worth the time for a tractor but I can’t see wasting the time on a truck when a horse and wagon are a reliable alternative.


11 posted on 12/14/2011 6:15:28 PM PST by cripplecreek (Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
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To: cripplecreek

If you don’t feed the horse for a week, it dies. If you don’t feed the wood-gas truck for a week, it just takes a little longer to start.


14 posted on 12/14/2011 6:19:54 PM PST by wrench
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To: cripplecreek
I have neither horse nor wagon. And want neither. A horse is a hole in the pasture that eats time and treasure.

I can, in a pinch, get a truck without a computer.

Your mileage may vary.

/johnny

18 posted on 12/14/2011 6:25:32 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (gone Galt)
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To: cripplecreek

Horses die. They require daily maintenance and require removal of lots of waste products. Also need lots of quality hay. Talk to Texas folks about problems of trying to get hay for their horses now.

Also many roads are not graded well for horse pulled wagons. Lots of relatively steep hills and valleys.


33 posted on 12/14/2011 10:51:13 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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