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Colin, I often think about that night in the shredded paper. I think it was snowing by morning. It was very cold. And the old guy thought we were the young guys sent there to work with him.
1 year agoThis is the St. Lawrence? I thought big ships traversed this, but maybe it’s smaller tugs and barges.
1 year agoAn old pedestrian bridge?
1 year agoFlush toilets? Lights? Wow. So some one is keeping things up. Sort of.
1 year agoThat one is goner.
1 year agoLocks must be the most expensive part of the canal. Lots of stonework or concrete, and pumps to move water, depending on the direction of travel.
1 year agoThat’s a lot of water!
1 year agoNice but I will take the hills of Pennsylvania.
1 year agoA major piece of work, the highway overpasses of the time.
1 year agoThe only tractors that big in Maine are up in Aroostook County where they farm huge tracts, usually for potatoes. A new tractor with special rigs for planting or harvesting 12 rows at a time can be $0.5 million or more. It takes a lot of potatoes to pay for that. So they have to farm thousands of acres. It’s kind of a vicious circle.
The rig in the pic is older and a local welder made the cab and is probably maintaining the rig. Saves a huge amount of money and risk for the farmer.
Dames rocket
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesperis_matronalis
Billionaires and corporations have done a fine job convincing the people that empathy is evil.
1 year agoYeah, thats not a campground, thats a trailer park. Necessity has overtaken leisure.
1 year agoOSHA got some questions…
1 year ago
Yes, it's a sub tribe of the Mohawk nation, I think.
1 year ago