Homeowner Forum / Rural Living / June 2006

It seems like all the "gel" dishwasher detergents have sodium hydroxide and
Chlorine bleach to some extent!  The bleach scares me, although the
containers all say "safe for septic systems."  Question: does anyone have
comments about the safe use of these gel dishwasher ...

After 30 years of service, our old pump gave up the ghost.
The "well people" came out on a Saturday morning and fixed me up.   They
pulled up some 180' of pipe and put a pump from their truck.
So far as water delivery, I have no problems with the new pump.

Go Yooper Poacher!
http://www.charzamm.com/poacher.html

Kris van Saele of the Transvaal Agricultural Union of South African,
who speaks about the ongoing genocide campaign being waged against the
Boere farmers.
Since since monitoring of the farm murders began in 1991, approximately

We live in rural western NY state and in this particular area the well water
is very rusty. We have a Culligan water softener, which came with the house,
I'm assuming it's doing it's job, but the water is still very rusty. Is
there a whole house filter of some sort that I can add to ...

There is a cat of unknown ownership that I see around here ... which I'm
attempting to get to the place where I can get her to a vet to be spayed
and have a rabies shot.  I have seen bear avoid the area around the house
when they see her, but today is the first time I saw her ...

Ive been reading around on the internet, and finding that this seems
to be the place to post a question :-)
We've got about 10 acres of land where we live, and we'd like to
consider making a pond.  Size is of course determined on expense, and

I have an older well system with a non-bladder pressure tank. I do not
have the option of installing one with a bladder since my current
system has the pressure tank inside the well casing. I have searched
the internet on the exact procedure to charge a non-bladder well tank

I have a new yard cart to replace my 30 year-old cast-iron wheel barrow
that finally "dissolved" away....
Here's what the new cart looks like:
http://www.agri-fab.com/productslarge/45_0226.html

I have a problem with squirrels eating the fruit on my
trees.  I live in a suburban neighborhood.  I trap and
remove more than 20 squirrels every year, but a few
marauders always manage to get into the yard and damage

I finally got around to looking at your web site.
Interesting.
What is a "neon fire"?
also, does the mercury in the CF lamps return to the mercury

I am installing a 1 1/2 HP pump for irrigation but it won't prime and
pump.  The inlet is 2" and the outlet is 1 1/2".  I reused some old 3"
pipe from a pond to the pump.  The pump inlet is 5' above the pond
water level including a slight grade and 150' horizontally from it.

Does anyone remember what those sewing machines used to close grain
sacks were called?

I have a small place out in the country about 100 miles from my house.  I go
out there a couple times per month....averages less than four days.  I am
building a bathroom with a toilet and a shower for when I say out there
overnight.  The soil is sandy loam over clay.  The perc ...