American Historian Frederick Jackson Turner often remarked that the Anglo-American frontiersman always managed to find a way to make things work out in the wilderness, even if it didn't look the greatest. With that in mind, here's how one Anglo-American is dealing with the forest fires around Billings.
Excerpt: This year, Eggers is at the wheel of a Timberjack 460 skidder modified with a 460-gallon water tank. It's a machine that, when brand new, costs about $200,000, not counting the engine modification.
The 20,000-pound piece of equipment has tires about 5 feet tall that are partially filled with calcium to weigh the rig down and keep it stable. A 190 horsepower diesel engine pushes the machine's 7-foot blade, used for road building, or in this case, for fire-line building.
Friday, September 08, 2006
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Is this what you mean?
JJ, that's another great example of Professor Turner's 1893 thesis. We don't even need to see a picture of the creator: we know Anglo-Americans were responsible for Carosaurus.
what would a late-mediaeval canosaurus-equivalent be?
Why is this different?
That (the yellow show pick up) is different because it's incapable of picking a $150 Ford Taurus up with two front claws, belching flame all over it, dropping it, and smashing over it with tank treads while well-fed Anglo-Americans hup and hurrah with 32-ounce plastic cups of Busch Light in one hand, and tube steaks in the other.
The yellow show pick up has a similar degree of absurdity, if one, in fact, is purely a utilitarian (some days I am).
America is as ethnically polyvariant as it is complex, but I suppose you are more likely to find the yellow pickup in the South or American Southwest than in, say, Dakota. Yes: MexAmericans like their low-riders too.
Let me ask you this: is Canosaurus better if it can crush the yellow pickup? Or is the yellow pickup better because it can out-shine and out-drag Canosaurus?
Connecting to another thread about premature ejaculation perhaps the question is which machine will have the chicks queuing up at the footpegs to repro with you. Probably truckosaurus is good for rustling trailercrack and lowrider good for banging barriobutt.
That's about a draw.
I am not into quarter-mile times much, preferring F1 and MotoGP, and neither do I care much about the power of construction equipment, preferring destruction equipment.
I guess it's a draw.
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