What if it Snows?

Years ago, MS Dept of Ag got it together and started a little operation in Prairie, MS (U.S.45 north of West Point.) Ground up corn cobs and laced the grindings with Mirex. When spread expertly across pastures and open land by the crazy crop dusters, they nearly wiped out the fire ant population in MS.
But, in a nick of time, EPA stepped in and stopped it. Said the Mirex was getting into things and was gonna cause terrible trouble.
Time passed and the fire ants prospered, not uncommon to see a mound a foot high and several in a 20 foot circle you looked over in your pasture.

Now this concerned me as a conservationist, but mainly because I had a Clark forklift rented to them, and was getting 6% of the monthly rent as the Customer Service Rep who placed it there. I drew commission on parts, service, and rentals I made quotes on.
Now they shipped a lot of it out rail. Fill a car, need to move it down and push an empty up. Well, no trackmobile, so push with the 4k capacity forklift.
Hard to push dead weight, so back up and get a running go, make it start. Forks are on a carriage, carriage runs up and down on large heavy expensive carriage roller bearings. This usage caused the rental charges to increase due to ABUSE... So, I got a cut of rent, the roller prices, and the svc call labor.
I was really economically affected by the EPA's final edict.

 

But it just seems silly and illogical to ship them standing up. Lay them on a pallet or 4x4's and the same forklift that picks up the standing ones, can pick up the laying downs too.
Just doesn't make good sense.

 

Soon there will be thousands of little Hindenburgs driving down the road with us all. Oh the HUGE MANATEE!

 

And they are building similar for something in Clay, NY. Suburb of Syracuse (G/Dau lives there.)

 

Well, don’t think George wrote any of his songs but surely made them big hits. He has “co-written” a lot meaning he had a starving songwriter cut him for half credit if he put it on his album. But dats the music bidness.

 

It was more of a reference to the ongoing feud between Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish, which is tearing it up on the interwebs these days. One of the girls insulted the other about not writing her own songs, from what I understand. Not sure who said what, just know there is a massive war being waged on social media between the factions.

"Who?" you ask. That's exactly right. I've never heard any songs by either of them, but the missus and the daughter both hate Taylor Swift, so I hear about these things. (I had heard of Swift because I watched a lot of football with my FIL last fall when I was home helping Mom while her knee mended. She's the Yoko Ono of the Kansas City Chiefs.)

Anyway, apparently among a wide swath of the female population it is not possible to be neutral on Taylor Swift. You must choose a side. Thankfully the women in my family are in agreement that they hate her, so there are no arguments about it, just occasional snide remarks and knowing smirks and side eyes when her name comes up.

 

Looking at his head I'm guessing this has gone badly for him previously.

 

You need to go into Hunter-Douglas's venetian blind plant. Course you have to be vetted a little and sign 4 ply non disclosures. They have this rack thingy that they hang a coil on so it can unwind... Quite simple two heavy thick support legs and a cross bar with a bushing to fill the coil hole. See, stick it out in the storage area, spin around, level up, and slide it over on the rack thingy. (Think putting a new roll of tape in the dispenser)

Now from there; running down a hundred feet or so, is this quite complicated machine. The end of the coil is fed into the near end, whirring sounds, control light flicker, and the machine groans. At the far end, you get a nicely finished, painted, holes punched in, stack of blind slats into a paper lined box. A human does look to see it it appears full before it is closed and strapped shut. This machine was developed and fabricated in Holland. But for a long time they could not make leather shoes.
So all this to say, you gotta have it upright, hanging, to unwind, non twisted. You should see a steel slitter in operations. 12' wide coil unwinds,thru a device that rewinds it off into maybe a 4", a 6". and a 2" widths in equal lengths. You can learn a lot by being in the forklift business... Pretty good money in it to.

 

You should see what they do with prefabbed aluminum bracing structures going to new ethanol plants.

 

The golden rule.. "He who has the gold (or access to it) makes the rules."