My dad wants to buy one for when those dang pesky Russians hack the grid.
The 90 year old lady that lived there baked cakes, did everything on that stove.
Lacy Swopes, the weather chick on one of those OKC tv stations was there with her husband that took a bull two weeks before us. She has privately commented that stove was one of the pinnacles of the hunt. As a milleneal, I'm sure she has never seen one of those. Very Cool.
Very few folks realize that people from that age woke up every morning in June thinking how they are going to keep heat in the house in the winter.
How they were going to prepare and store food, how they were going to prepare the field's for next year.
In this case, the log home is built on the side of a hill. The back room is a root cellar with chain falls to raise meat for curing and processing.
There are two Cisterns in the mountain behind it for drinking water, bathing, as well as a pond as we call it.
The cisterns are high enough to provide water pressure and the Pond provided water to the "vega" which is a cow pasture. Its about 40 acres with a hand dug irrigation canal around it. When the vega needs water in certain areas, one only needs a shovel to open the canal, and irrigate that zone.
Ive been there for 7 years and learned that on this trip. Finally spotted the canal. Amazing time trip.
