[AT] Culverts

john hall jtchall at nc.rr.com
Sun Mar 25 18:43:10 PDT 2012


2 hours east of you guys and we don't use culvert, trunk, or tile. We merely 
say drain pipe, and that usually means concrete. We get specific if we are 
talking about the plastic or galvanized.

John Hall

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Spencer Yost" <yostsw at atis.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2012 8:02 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Culverts


> David and I live pretty close, but I haven't heard trunk.   Not yet 
> anyway!  I will say that around here culvert often seems to refer to the 
> whole drainage project, the "pipe" is a tile.  Like:  "They put a new tile 
> in the culvert".
>
> Spencer
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Mar 25, 2012, at 18:14, David Bruce <davidbruce at yadtel.net> wrote:
>
>> The older set here use the term trunk.  That use is disappearing quickly
>> with culvert being the preference.  I have no idea where that term
>> originated.
>>
>> David
>> NW NC
>>
>> On 3/25/2012 1:56 PM, charlie hill wrote:
>>> Culvert or a drain tile here.  I guess the wind doesn't blow across the
>>> prairie fast enough here to call them a whistle?
>>>
>>> Charlie
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Ralph Goff
>>> Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2012 1:35 PM
>>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>>> Subject: Re: [AT] Culverts
>>>
>>> On 3/25/2012 7:41 AM, Larry Goss wrote:
>>>> OK, Cecil, this thread brings back old memories from my time spent 
>>>> living
>>>> in Oklahoma.  I now have a question for the group.  In Oklahoma, 
>>>> driveway
>>>> culverts are known as "whistles".  I grew up in Indiana, and never 
>>>> heard
>>>> them called that until I lived out along I-35.  What are they called in
>>>> other regions of the country?
>>>>
>>>> Larry
>>> Here in Sask. a culvert has never been known as anything other than a
>>> culvert as far as I know.
>>>
>>> Ralph in Sask.
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