Dennis Phillips

Well, I just learned a bit on the net about mason, carpenter, and bumble bees that I never knew!
I guess regardless of them pretty much looking the same, they are all three different species of bees! I had no idea!
Anyway, I think that with the CCD of the honey bees we all need to try to help any way we can to get our food pollinated so if you want, I'll surely dig up a bag or two of dirt and send it to you!
Ranger

I am not sure at all what you are talking about here! Am I correct in my thinking that bumble bees, mason bees and carpenter bees are one and the same or are mason bees something completely different?
I have heard them called all three here in Virginia all my life and they always drill holes in wood to nest!
We have what is know as a dirt dobber that uses clay soil to build their nest but I am not aware that they are good for anything except killing insects!
In any event, there is no shortage of good solid red clay around here in certain areas and if that is what you are looking for, it wouldn't be much of a problem to fill up a gallon sized zip lock freezer bag or two and package it up for shipment if you'd pay the shipping, what ever it would be! I wouldn't mind being neighborly and doing that for you and I could ship it COD so no money would change hands between us! You just paid the shipping charges COD! At least I think you can still do that!
E-mail me @ BadFordRanger2000@yahoo.com if you are interested in doing that!
Dennis

Jordan, if you are serious about building a hydro-electric power plant I'd like to talk to you on the phone but I'll be up front with you, I have never had the opportunity to build any type of hydroelectric plant, but I have studied everything that I can find on it for at least twenty years!
If you have enough water flow and head to be worth it, I will at the least lead you in the right direction, if I don't drop everything I am doing an come out and build it for you! And I am serious as a heart attack!
Building a waterwheel has been a dream of mine for many years and I want to build one so bad I can taste it!
I'd love for it to be my own when I did it, but I am 59 years old now and I think we have the last home I'll ever have now and while the small spring fed creek we have below the house is large enough that I will cool the house during the summer, it isn't large enough to produce but maybe 500 watts of electricity on a regular basis and that isn't enough for me to go through all the hassles that I'd need to if I were to build a water wheel!
If you will e-mail me at BadFordRanger2000@yahoo.com I'll reply with my phone number!
If nothing else, I can surely give you some good pointers!
Please, send me an e-mail!
Dennis