> In friendly defense of Oklahoma, here's a pic from an article in the Austin Chronicle...
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Paden, I wish you hadn't posted that photo. Now we'll have all sorts of folks driving down from above the Red River to get that computer they've always wanted.
That was why I didn't mention that one of the items I saw along that backroad was a 36in. inkjet plotter (some reassembly required).
And not only tomorrow's. I have several former co-workers who were renown dumpster divers, and could figure on at least a half hour of pillaging when working rural areas. Our deal was, stick to the job until it is finished, and I'll give them time afterward to rummage.
The record find for me (well, if I'm waiting on them anyway...) was a 1935 Olds 'The Olds' trombone in almost pristine shape, sold it for 1500.00.
One of our crew found a professional grade video camera with the local TV station's logo on the case, called them and got a 500 dollar reward. It had been lifted out of their van several months before, and the replacement camera went 5 figures.
Pretty poor taste of you to post a picture of the McMillan office setup and call it trash!
I was going to ask you if you could run out there and pick it up and keep it for me, it's gonna be Monday before I could get down there! 😉
for some reason this thread reminds me of a song...
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for some reason this thread reminds me of a song...
I was thinkin' more like...Alice's Restaurant
Well, it use to be in the tax base everywhere. As they raised prop. taxes they tried to hide the magnitude of the increases by starting fee dump sites. They charge five dollars per TV or monitor when you buy the items as a recycling fee and then have the audacity to charge you another 5 dollars when you dump the item. The same goes for tires.
I had a poor lady who lived in an old trailer in a rural area who had someone dump 500 tires on her property. She called the police who notified the DEP. The DEP ordered her to dispose of the tires at the local recycling center and to pay the five dollar fee per tire. The DEP, as I was told, wouldn't budge an inch on the issue.
I agree.
California is completely doofed up by voter initiatives which "cut" taxes but now we have all sorts of fees for everything.
The General Fund used to cover education, Parks, Fish & Game, the list goes on but all that stuff is being starved.
for some reason this thread reminds me of a song...
Every time America the Beautiful is sung at some patriotic event I think Arlo's Dad's "This Land is Your Land" is a better choice.
for some reason this thread reminds me of a song...
I've got that Woody Guthrie 45, it's clear green.
I also have Oklahoma on reel to reel.
There are only two things that will scare a Texan, an Indian with a knife and an Okie with a football.
staking technique, please excuse tangent, but on point
now Deral, i like that idea for staking! i'm gonna use that! thank you sir!
We use Carsonites as witnesses for control on a certain project. But even though they supposedly have a UV protective ingredient, the damn things are fading and washing out in just a couple or 3 seasons. Probably doesn't effect their strength or anything like that, just would like a more permanent, bright visibilty. Do you see this in your Carsonites?
thanks,
david
Seems that a few aliens doo that...
Free trash pickup discourages recycling.
> >It would be so much wiser for government to fully fund trash removal and make it affordable for citizens to get rid of their trash.
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> That is certainly true. The cost to pick up the roadside trash has to be huge by comparison. The irony is that there is a mammoth landfill operation just two about miles North of where that photo was taken,
The great thing about the PAY PER BAG system, is it actually gets people to recycle (since recycling is free). We have over 60% recycling rate in my town because people are too cheap to pay the money to throw stuff away. It is surprising how little trash we generate when we recycle and compost everything.
> A question: would two witness marks; at appropriate offset distance, off the carriageway be more appropriate in cases such as these? or your survey regs. would not allow that? Imagine try to set that on a more traveled road..beside that looks a little like vandalism, no offence..
BTW it rained last night, so I stopped by that same road intersection where I'd set Rod and Cap 153 about 6 inches under the pavement yesterday. Here is a photo of what it looks like today, if you can imagine the scene without the yellow boundaries and annotations that I added to the photo.
This image looking down the other road shows the Rod and Cap witness monument (as we call a reference mark on the line leading up to the corner in Texas) that I set out of the roadway.
The darker asphaltic-looking material in the locations where there were potholes in the photo taken yesterday is the cold patch that I mentioned.
ahh..looking much better..I therefore retract back my vandalism charge..
In Delaware County, OK there are dumpsters placed around the county for free dumping of household trash. They serve another purpose also, as most directions contain the phrase "go til you git to tha green dumpster then......."
Hey that's like TV football, how they show the first down line.
for some reason this thread reminds me of a song...
I would say that America, the Beautiful would be better.
Everyone has heard the Ray Charles version but years ago, I heard the Odetta version and it was very inspirational.
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