How Great The Yield From A Fertile Field

Random musings from an old farmer about life, agriculture, and faith

Thursday, April 12, 2007

Milepost

After a week and a half, we finally have our computer back and operating. It seems to be running slower than before, but maybe that's because we updated all the software(?).
Anyway, we passed a milestone a couple of weeks ago. Our van turned over 200,000 miles! Its the first time I have put that many miles on a vehicle. Back when the Old Farmer started driving, it was rare for someone to put over 100,000 on a car. By then they were burning oil and the body was rusted out. Nobody wanted a car with that many miles on it, so it was basically worthless. Not anymore. With proper maintenance, cars last much longer now. Our van still doesn't use any oil between changes. We have spent a lot of money on maintenance - but not all of it was the vans fault. I hope it has a few more miles in it before we have to put it out to pasture.



1 Comments:

At 8:04 AM, Blogger Luke said...

Wow...that is something. That's a lot of combustion cycles. You should do some numbers and figure how many gallons of gas that's burned one injection at a time...how many cylinder explosions that is...how many crankshaft revolutions that is...etc. :-)

I think it would be interesting...but then again, I'm kinda weird.

 

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