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Published: 2007-07-09 11:16:30 +0000 UTC; Views: 289; Favourites: 4; Downloads: 3
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Dragline 1370W, Polk County, FL. The dragline was completed in 1972. It has been cut apart and transported down to Florida to work in the phosphate mines. It will weigh approximatly 300 million pounds when completed.Related content
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oka then: so it doesn't really move. it's more like a conveyor belt right?
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Hey Mike! Tired as hell-probably like you. Hope to get on the answering of messages this weekend. Just thought I 'd say howdy. Oh ja-it walks. It isn't a conveyor belt. It is more like a huge errector crane with a bucket.
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damn! seems like an awful lot of expense for little accomplished. I mean that bucket is humongous, but I wonder how much phosphate could have already been extracted by the time this thing is assembled and working.
I suppose once it's up and running it's more efficient,
but then I'm not in the mining business.
not so tired right now. having a period of non-work between jobs. starting a long week of work tomorrow.
not tired so much as just down.
the heat's bothering me more this year than in previous.
I'm okay until about two or three in the afternoon,
after that I just want to lay around and do nothing.
not a preferred thing when I finally have some time to paint.
it's actually been a cool down period. only been a 100 the last few days. this time last week it had reached 110 on my porch thermometer.
anyway, I hope you're refreshing yourself from time to time with a PBR or two.
got to replace those vital nutrients.
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Good Lord Man! Throw that thermometer away! It is as bad as looking at a watch. Definitly a white thing-wanting to qualify precicely how miserable it is. I wear a watch by the way. It should just say "you will be miserable a bit longer -6:00 ain't anywhere near here"
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Yeah there's a point where reading a thermometer only makes you feel worse. like back in Wisconsin. They weren't happy to have the Wind-Chill index in the winter, which is really just a meaningless term, because -20 is -20 no matter how hard the wind blows, but now that have a Heat----Index to tell you how miserable you are with the humidity factor.
But then Wisconsinites aren't happy if they're not bitching about something. You can give a Wisconsinite a hundred dollar bill free and clear and he'll bitch about it being wrinkled.
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Funny, but sadly true.
The worse thing that could happen to a Wisconsinite is to have nothing to complain about.
Once upon a time I thought I'd be a song-writer and had a song in mind about this:
The Nothing to Bitch About Blues.
A Wisconsinite bitching because he doesn't have anything to bitch about.
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WOW! This is like a monster!! Now I get a better idea of what your journal was about. This is quite impressive. Talk about "Transformer" fear
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Speaking of fears-do not read the newspapers.
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Oh, you so knew what I was thinking! I just drove through Milwalkee and saw tons of bridges half done and it made my heart freeze. And then, I saw the footage! How aweful!!!
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