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.
Thank you Unknown, I knew they were used at lumber mills though thought they were used for municipal trash also; so, I did not quite remember. I think Kid's reference may have been to actor Andy Griffith's tv series Salvage One, though the top of that rocket was a cement mixer.
I used to LOVE that show! In my addled adolescent mind, making a rocket out of a cement truck barrel was a genius idea. Didn't they have a vulture instead of an eagle on their logo?
Used to see 'em around cotton gins too, burning gin trash and such. Considered bad for the environment, I hear. Kinda makes me want one, put it out by the road to piss the L-F's off. I don't see a downside.
Back then, about 40-50% of the timber was wasted, so these were used to manage the vast amount of wood scrap and sawdust. Now we press all of the waste into boards and make houses out of it
There's one in Grass Valley, California, just west of the parking lot of the Tractor Supply store. The screen on top is mossed over and it's occasionally used as a nest site for a couple of Honkers.
I worked out of Eureka in 1969. There were so many burners operating in that day that in the right conditions the air could get as bad as the worst air day when forest fires are burning out of control.
Used to be one in the western part of the city of Missoula, Montana, when I was a kid growing up there. The unburned sawdust still found its way into the city swimming pool just downwind of this Tipi burner! All gone now!
There was one of these on Hwy 71 just south of the Mena, AR city limits. Its associated sawmill went out of business in the 1960s. Everything was torn down and gone by 1970.
I still have one on top of my home made moon rocket.
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Thank you Unknown, I knew they were used at lumber mills though thought they were used for municipal trash also; so, I did not quite remember. I think Kid's reference may have been to actor Andy Griffith's tv series Salvage One, though the top of that rocket was a cement mixer.
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DeleteI used to LOVE that show! In my addled adolescent mind, making a rocket out of a cement truck barrel was a genius idea.
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There are only two of those left within a hundred miles of me.
ReplyDeleteUp hwy 22 to Detroit, 7, 7 mill's you knew who had contracts by which wigwam burner was smoking.
DeleteI know that highway, I know exactly what you're talking about.
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ReplyDeleteUsed to see 'em around cotton gins too, burning gin trash and such. Considered bad for the environment, I hear. Kinda makes me want one, put it out by the road to piss the L-F's off. I don't see a downside.
ReplyDeleteBack then, about 40-50% of the timber was wasted, so these were used to manage the vast amount of wood scrap and sawdust. Now we press all of the waste into boards and make houses out of it
ReplyDeleteThere's one in Grass Valley, California, just west of the parking lot of the Tractor Supply store. The screen on top is mossed over and it's occasionally used as a nest site for a couple of Honkers.
ReplyDeleteI worked out of Eureka in 1969. There were so many burners operating in that day that in the right conditions the air could get as bad as the worst air day when forest fires are burning out of control.
Used to be one in the western part of the city of Missoula, Montana, when I was a kid growing up there. The unburned sawdust still found its way into the city swimming pool just downwind of this Tipi burner! All gone now!
ReplyDeleteThere is one today in Adin, Ca. just 30 miles east of Fall River Mills or 100 miles east of Redding on 299.
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ReplyDeleteThat's what I thought, too. Great minds think alike.
DeleteThere was one of these on Hwy 71 just south of the Mena, AR city limits. Its associated sawmill went out of business in the 1960s. Everything was torn down and gone by 1970.
ReplyDeleteI remember seeing these but never knew what it was until now.
ReplyDeleteThere is one in Forbestown CA. The berry vines are crawling up it now.
ReplyDeleteI would assume in Russia, China and the SE Asia countries they are still using these.
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