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10 years 5 months ago #40542 by MrMarty51
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HHHMMMMMmmm, I wonder what ever happened to Our old copper wash tub.
It was long enough to cover two burners on the stove. I remember Dad plumbing in the gas for the stove, then an old converted to gas heating unit into the basement. No ducting, just a hole in the floor with a grating over it. When there was wood, out would come the gas contraption and in with the wood/coal grates, then, it was up to Me to pack in the wood, enough to last at least three days. I tripped once, going down the stairs and got skinned up pretty good. Dad then dug out and made a hatch way so I could just throw the wood down into the basement, I wood then have to go into the basement and stack the stuff into a neat pile, no way could that wood have laid there without some sort of an order. Must have had something to do with His Military experiences. :cheers:
About that same time, as the stove in the basement, He plumbed in the water, from the well in the basement, no hot water, just the cold, and a bath tub too, heat the water in the copper boiling tub, pour it into the bathing tub and add the cold water.
A water heater would come later, much later, I was in middle school before that contraption arrived. :rotfl:

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10 years 5 months ago #40552 by Ranchwagon
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Perhaps that's where the phrase half baked came from?

No, LOL

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