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Dave Sublette

Re: cord vs. rick

I "woodn't" have believed it had I not read it all for myself :-)

K4TO

Thom R LaCosta wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Simon Brown (HB9DRV) wrote:
>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "W2AGN" <[hidden email]>
>>
>>> I have been wondering how come the "OT POLICE" haven't pounced on
>>> this thread yet, then I realized, it was leading up to the Elecraft
>>> announcement of a new, wood powered transceiver. One piece of split
>>> Oak will give 5W out for 6 hours. I understand the official
>>> announcement will be April 1st.
>>>
>>
>>
>> I am sure we would all pine for a radio like that.
>
> ANd this liast, of course, is where one could get the answers to any
> knotty
> questions about the above.
>
> 73,Thom-k3hrn
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Re: cord vs. rick

In reply to this post by Thom LaCosta

When I asked the question, "whatsa rick?", I had no idea the thread
would morph into Haggis and arachnophobia.

Doing a "define:rick" on Google yields:

* pile in ricks; "rick hay"
* crick: a painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back
(`rick' and `wrick' are British)
* haystack: a stack of hay
* twist: twist suddenly so as to sprain; "wrench one's ankle"; "The
wrestler twisted his shoulder"; "the hikers sprained their ankles
when they fell"; "I turned my ankle and couldn't walk for several
days"
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

* Rick is a 2003 movie based on Verdi's Rigoletto starring Bill
Pullman and written by Daniel Handler.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_(movie)

* Rick was the professional name used by a long-haired, male model
of Chinese origin, most famous for appearing in The All-Nude
Workout Video (1992), which was widely marketed in the UK
throughout the 1990s. He appears along with Susan and David
Martin, a naturist couple, performing a variety of aerobic
exercises and also practising weightlifting. Additionally, he
featured in the video guide to naturist photography, Shooting
the Nude in the Nude.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_(model)

Note: No mention of lumber, wood, cooling off, warming up, fires,
stoves, haggis, gas, spiders, or Yorkshiremen, clothed or not. After 18
years of heating with wood and wondering if there was a better way to
warm up in winter, we discovered that someone had already invented
central heat.

Fred K6DGW
Toasty in Auburn CA CM98lw
K2 #4398 (+KPA100, KAT2, KAT100, & KSB2 that still doesn't work)
KX1 #897 (+30m & autotuner, all of which do work great)
SG? (that I have yet to build)

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Chris Kantarjiev K6DBG

Re: cord vs. rick

In reply to this post by David F. Reed

> Well, a cord is a fraction of a cord; more specifically, a 8'x4'x24"
> rick is 1/2 cord, but if 16" pieces, it is 1/3 cord; one-third of a cord
> is also sometimes called a fireplace cord, stove cord, rick, or rank.
> Webster defines a rick simply as a pile.

Interesting.

I knew about cord and rick dimensions from my youth. The term I run into
around here is "face cord". I'm guessing that it's just another term
for rick.

It's been a cold winter at the cabin; last year's wood isn't dry enough
to burn yet, and we've used up what we stacked last summer. Oh well.
A lot of our wood is 'deadfall' from the creek ... we had a really good
crop going, until a particularly high flood which swept it all (including
a few 15' telephone pole-sized chunks) downstream somewhere. We may
have to search farther afield this year.

73 de chris K6DBG
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Peter Howson

Re: cord vs. rick

In reply to this post by Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy-2

Just chase them the other way and they fall over!!

I always thought that it was the Haggis that had these legs, but as a
Sassenach living in God's own country I have still a lot to learn.

Peter
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy" <[hidden email]>
To: "Thom R LaCosta" <[hidden email]>
Cc: "Elecraft Discussion List" <[hidden email]>
Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 12:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] cord vs. rick

> You think? Our spiders have short legs on one side and long on the other -
> makes it easier to run around mountains :)
>
> Who started this? Sorry Eric.
>
> 73,
> Geoff
> GM4ESD
>
>
> On Monday, March 20, 2006 12:02 PM, Thom R. LaCosta wrote:
>
>> Look at your own good fortune, you have livestock within easy distance.
>> Perhaps you have divulged one of the secret ingredients of Haggis?
>>
>> 73,Thom-k3hrn
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