And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Those are (mostly) the sounds of MADE IN AMERICA. I once toured a gold mine in Dahlonega, Georgia, and it had been submerged in water for several decades after it ceased mining operations. A few years ago, the town drained the old mine to turn it into a tourist attraction, and you can still go there. At the bottom of the mine they found an abandoned Massey-Ferguson pneumatic drill, and after they cleaned it up, it fired right off, noisiest damned thing you've ever heard. MADE IN AMERICA, by damn!
We were doing the dirt prep for a giant Exxon gas plant in Wyoming, I had to come in 2 hours early to do start up on a long line of 651 scrapers, back hoes, dozers, blades ect ect. I was running down this half mile line of equipment, climb up, start , climb down, over and over again. I loved the smell of those diesels, that blue smoke was great. I wish I could climb like that now. Those 651's were just monsters. I had it good, after finishing the dirt work I transferred to the const outfit building the plant, was in on the heaviest lift ever made in the US. (at that time) Toys for boys!
Those are (mostly) the sounds of MADE IN AMERICA. I once toured a gold mine in Dahlonega, Georgia, and it had been submerged in water for several decades after it ceased mining operations. A few years ago, the town drained the old mine to turn it into a tourist attraction, and you can still go there. At the bottom of the mine they found an abandoned Massey-Ferguson pneumatic drill, and after they cleaned it up, it fired right off, noisiest damned thing you've ever heard. MADE IN AMERICA, by damn!
ReplyDeleteThere is just something about watching old diesels fire up. Great watching.
ReplyDeleteAnd new tractors refuse to move if they don't connect to the internet and can receive key codes from the manufacturers server.
ReplyDeleteThose ONE CYLINDER motors are called "One Lungers" by the cognoscenti.
ReplyDeleteDan Kurt
We were doing the dirt prep for a giant Exxon gas plant in Wyoming, I had to come in 2 hours early to do start up on a long line of 651 scrapers, back hoes, dozers, blades ect ect. I was running down this half mile line of equipment, climb up, start , climb down, over and over again. I loved the smell of those diesels, that blue smoke was great. I wish I could climb like that now. Those 651's were just monsters. I had it good, after finishing the dirt work I transferred to the const outfit building the plant, was in on the heaviest lift ever made in the US. (at that time)
ReplyDeleteToys for boys!