Thanks for every single post. Sorry that I am still busy with work (unfortunately not in wood). I try to reply soon in detail.
Hello, Corvus. have enjoyed reading your post!! The U.S. Army had me stationed in the Rhineland-Palatinate region, (The Hunsruck). Traben-Trarbach, Bernkastel-Kues along the Mosel were some good times during my stay and only a short drive from Flugplatz Hahn. I was fortunate to have been there long enough for 2 seasons of the grape harvest and traveled the Mosel in my car from Koblenz to Trier, "Wine Festing"!! My good friend, Klaus, kept me out of the tourist traps and showed me the "Real Deutschland" and how the average/everyday people lived. Man, we had a lot of good times.
Bingo! Koblenz is 35 min from my home. The river Rhine separates the landscape into "Hunsrück"on the west side and the "Westerwald" to its east side. Westerwald is where I live. It's the name of the region not the town.
Thank you for the reply. I really enjoyed the "rual" living. Lots of small towns, agriculture and forested lands,,much like it is here where I live in Indiana. I hope to return one day for an extended visit! Perhaps I'll have a bottle of of white sweet wine!!
You find all kinds of users here. If one lives in the countryside and likes the wood-processing-sports then he buys logs an splits himself. Some, who don't want or able to process themselves, purchase roundwood an let it split and saw by external service. Living in Metropolitan area, where nowadays many likes to fire wood too, they buy at hardware store. The total amount of firewood increases here in germany for years. For the saws it is likely as in the US. Stihl, Husqvarna, Dolmar, Oregon and some "no names" from Hardware store. When you come next time for the Porsche premium tour I welcome you to our home and we'll have a beer or two.
äüö here are some "Umlaute" – haha, seems you are familiar with the specials of the german language, nice. Hope we'll keep them and they won't be sacrified to EU approximation.
…just another idea concerning Porsche. Did you know that Porsche once constructed very fine, today almost legendary tractors? In the 60's they decided to stop. Unfortunately.
How about the esset? Sad to see that one getting pushed out also. It is the only character that only has a lower case representation in a western language or so I was told.
"ß" here it is - still alive! The "eszet" is still in use, even though there has been some changes in its application. We have had a Spelling reform where they tried to make some rules clearer, but in the result we have a chaos instead of the well known rules. By putting an end to the "ß" you only have to think of all the adresses in germany: Street is "Straße". Have fun in changing that.
HOLY CRAP!!! WOW!!! That is really cool. I did NOT know Porche ever made tractors. Thanks for sharing ....
Corvus, I knew that Porsche made tractors, air cooled diesels I think. I have never seen one here in the central US. Would love to find one. If you cross a Porsche & a fireplace you get this..... bowl kind of looks like a jug on a VW or air cooled 911.
Parents are from Kiel Germany. Years of the men went to sea. Grandfather was a boat captain on Baltic Sea, my dad was US Merchant Marine and I was in US Navy. I am in the early stages of planning a trip to Germany maybe in 2015 sometime.
This is great, I would like to encourage you to visit the baltic coastline of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern too. The Island of Rügen, the peninsula of Darß-Fischland-Zingst and island Usedom are all lovely, with renovated architecture of the Kaiser era at the seaside resorts. And you find many manors in the countryside. Still mixed with rests of the east german (socialistic) structures and embedded in an age-old farmland. I lived there for 2 years or so for education just a few years after the iron curtain fell.
