[AT] Culverts
Spencer Yost
yostsw at atis.net
Sun Mar 25 17:02:21 PDT 2012
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
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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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