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Post by Tater on Aug 28, 2021 9:35:57 GMT -6
Cool video. That is some old school equipment, not too many safety features.
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Post by hsbob on Aug 28, 2021 9:42:04 GMT -6
Cool pics.
To the bold: Why are they no longer in use? Not sure how they even work.
tbh, i'm not 100% sure either. i know we'd weigh our truck first, drive up a ramp, lift the box and dump the grain through a huge grating, then weigh the truck and head home. the "elevator" term is that somehow (mechanically) the grain was "elevated" by some kind of vertical conveyer and put into bins where it could be fed by gravity into trains or bigger tucks. keep in mind there was a big annexed building that sat beside the structure you see above where the different grains were stored. i shouldn't say they are no longer in use. but the old wooden elevators have been replaced by steel and concrete silos and elaborate pipework that in no way resembles the old style wooden ones. i'm only guessing the reason why but the main reasons for most change of any kind (cost and efficiency) are likely reasons 1 and 2. and grain dust is extremely flammable so the less wood the better i suppose. Very enlightening and informative ......'Ken Burns-like' almost! |
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Post by T-man2010 on Aug 28, 2021 9:46:02 GMT -6
Bigger danger with grain dust is not fire, but it is very explosive.
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Post by galaxytrash on Aug 28, 2021 17:35:31 GMT -6
Bigger danger with grain dust is not fire, but it is very explosive. yep...i should've used that word. same as coal dust i guess. like grain dust, you sweep it in a pile and put a match to it, nothing much happens. but once it's dispersed in the air as dust, look out. actually, a YT video i just watched says that grain dust is 9X more explosive than "pittsburg coal dust". i won't post the video...it's even more boring than the last one. : D |
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Post by T-man2010 on Aug 31, 2021 9:03:24 GMT -6
 My latest PC build. Being gifted to my nephew and his stepson. |
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Post by vadarx on Sept 24, 2021 9:48:10 GMT -6
My latest PC build. Being gifted to my nephew and his stepson. nice! where do I sign up for one? 😁 |
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Post by T-man2010 on Sept 24, 2021 10:23:56 GMT -6
My latest PC build. Being gifted to my nephew and his stepson. nice! where do I sign up for one? 😁 It wasn't quite finished at that point. Had to wait for the white graphic card to arrive. The card cost almost as much as the rest of the pc combined.  The final product after. |
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Post by Tater on Sept 24, 2021 10:37:59 GMT -6
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Post by galaxytrash on Sept 26, 2021 6:02:46 GMT -6
this can't be right...
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Post by T-man2010 on Sept 26, 2021 8:07:41 GMT -6
Thanks. It's really half as powerful as mine. It's more of a show looking PC for a nine year old. It's got a Ryzen 5 5600x cpu. But for a kid it's good enough for the next 5 years. Mine has a Ryzen 9 5900X cpu |
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Post by T-man2010 on Sept 26, 2021 8:10:29 GMT -6
My next one will probably be a complete water cooled PC.
That one I'll have a pro build it for me. There's no
way I can cut glass tubing and make it perfect.
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Post by vadarx on Sept 26, 2021 10:16:34 GMT -6
Thanks. It's really half as powerful as mine. It's more of a show looking PC for a nine year old. It's got a Ryzen 5 5600x cpu. But for a kid it's good enough for the next 5 years. Mine has a Ryzen 9 5900X cpu good god, man! how much do you charge to build one? |
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Post by T-man2010 on Sept 26, 2021 10:47:29 GMT -6
Thanks. It's really half as powerful as mine. It's more of a show looking PC for a nine year old. It's got a Ryzen 5 5600x cpu. But for a kid it's good enough for the next 5 years. Mine has a Ryzen 9 5900X cpu good god, man! how much do you charge to build one? HAHA, I've never built one for anyone else but myself. This white one was just a whim thought as I looked at mine and thought what it would like in white instead of black. I've seen places like Microcenter charge anywhere from 80 for a basic build up to 800 for a water cooled system. All depends on the bells and whistles you want to add. |
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Post by galaxytrash on Feb 22, 2022 23:12:22 GMT -6
funny how safety standards change over time. speaking of slides, this picture below is my school until grade 3 when they closed it and shipped us to a bigger town 10 miles away. the slide is the fire escape from the second floor. (first floor was grades 1-6, second floor grades 7-12). not sure it would pass code these days.  |
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Post by T-man2010 on Feb 25, 2022 10:03:30 GMT -6
nice! where do I sign up for one? 😁 It wasn't quite finished at that point. Had to wait for the white graphic card to arrive. The card cost almost as much as the rest of the pc combined. The final product after. I already upgraded this kids PC to be stronger than mine since my Nephew took it over. Have plans to start another upgrade on my personal build to a water cooled system. Just have to wait for GPU prices to start dropping by 50%. $4K to $2K Already got the water block for the CPU.  |
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Post by galaxytrash on May 10, 2022 20:56:59 GMT -6
i'm sure most everyone here has seen this but this clip gives me goosebumps every time i watch it.
just amazes me how this beast seemed to find another gear at about 30 seconds into the video.
at 80-1 he was the second longest longshot (91-1 in 1913) to win the derby. he wasn't even in the race until the day before when another horse was scratched. the owner paid $30K for him and in winning the derby he won over 60X that.
great call, great ride, great horse.
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Post by hsbob on May 11, 2022 9:22:09 GMT -6
i'm sure most everyone here has seen this but this clip gives me goosebumps every time i watch it. just amazes me how this beast seemed to find another gear at about 30 seconds into the video. at 80-1 he was the second longest longshot (91-1 in 1913) to win the derby. he wasn't even in the race until the day before when another horse was scratched. the owner paid $30K for him and in winning the derby he won over 60X that. great call, great ride, great horse. Great ride and some good fortune when the rail opened up but wouldn't ya figure the bastard would be tired afterward?...... www.thesun.co.uk/sport/horseracing/18518905/kentucky-derby-winner-bites-man-post-race-footage/Handled the stallions in a standardbred breading shed for a few years and some are MF'rs,especially once they start breeding but I was a young cow poke back then. NL Skipper picked me up and shook me one morning......no shit.....LOL! 95% of male horses are geldings for a good reason! Not a mean horse the trainer said? That's one mean stud horse right there......I guarantee.......I seen mean ones' |
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Post by galaxytrash on Jun 13, 2022 21:24:20 GMT -6
hope everyone here from the chicago area can look up and still see a roof.
terrifying and beautiful at the same time.
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Post by hwkn on Jun 14, 2022 10:12:17 GMT -6
Thankfully the real bad weather went south of me though the tornado siren went off for a few minutes.......false alarm.......dealing with extremely hot weather today.......high of near 100 with a heat index possibly of near 110.
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Post by T-man2010 on Jun 14, 2022 11:58:24 GMT -6
Thankfully the real bad weather went south of me though the tornado siren went off for a few minutes.......false alarm.......dealing with extremely hot weather today.......high of near 100 with a heat index possibly of near 110. It was fairly close to me. The sirens were going crazy. But the scariest part was the constant rumble of thunder, not just lightning and a clap of thunder, but constant thunder rumble. Found a few roof shingles in my yard but not any of mine. A few down tree limbs all around too. |
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Post by steamer on Jun 15, 2022 9:01:02 GMT -6
Thankfully the real bad weather went south of me though the tornado siren went off for a few minutes.......false alarm.......dealing with extremely hot weather today.......high of near 100 with a heat index possibly of near 110. It was fairly close to me. The sirens were going crazy. But the scariest part was the constant rumble of thunder, not just lightning and a clap of thunder, but constant thunder rumble. Found a few roof shingles in my yard but not any of mine. A few down tree limbs all around too. Fairly close to me too. Amazing how the trees can bend so far without snapping. |
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Post by galaxytrash on Aug 9, 2022 8:47:11 GMT -6
alright.
i'm impressed.
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Post by vadarx on Aug 9, 2022 9:23:39 GMT -6
hope you don't have any those running the streets in the early morning 'round those parts while you're biking... |
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Post by galaxytrash on Oct 2, 2022 18:31:19 GMT -6
my favorite leslie nielsen bit.
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Post by galaxytrash on Oct 13, 2022 7:14:50 GMT -6
i just absolutely love stuff like this.
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Post by steamer on Oct 15, 2022 15:06:26 GMT -6
i just absolutely love stuff like this. This is great! Yeah all the changes and where are we really? I am thankful for some of the medical advancements but otherwise . . . dunno. |
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Post by galaxytrash on Oct 18, 2022 17:03:06 GMT -6
pretty amazing the effects adding or subtracting one species from an ecosystem.
in this case, releasing 14 wolves back into yellowstone park 27 years ago eventually changed the course of rivers.
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Post by bigbarn27 on Oct 19, 2022 8:48:53 GMT -6
Look at those Beavers always working always trying to improve things !
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Post by hsbob on Oct 19, 2022 10:00:13 GMT -6
Look at those Beavers always working always trying to improve things ! All hail the beaver! |
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Post by galaxytrash on Oct 23, 2022 21:47:27 GMT -6
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