Steam Boat Load and HOW!
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Steam Boat Load and HOW!
Take a look at this boat load of cotton bales plus other items. The weight of the cotton alone (if the standard 500 pounders was in use then and I think it was) is over 2,300 tons!!! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/crazy.gif"%20alt="[/img] Now, that is what you call a deck full of cotton. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/cool.gif"%20alt="[/img]
Unka(Glad I wasn't on that boat)Jesse
Unka(Glad I wasn't on that boat)Jesse
"The same hammer that breaks the glass, forges the steel" Russian proverb
Re: Steam Boat Load and HOW!
That ain't cotton in tham bales at all Unk - it's dandruff from Arizona
Tel
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Re: Steam Boat Load and HOW!
Nah, Bloke, at that time of the year there ain't that much dandruff in all of Arizoney.
Unka(Wish I could have seen the waves that boat made) Jesse
Unka(Wish I could have seen the waves that boat made) Jesse
"The same hammer that breaks the glass, forges the steel" Russian proverb
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Re: Must have been exciting to maneuver ...
George, I bet they didn't try crossing any submerged sand bars on that trip! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/crazy.gif"%20alt="[/img] Mark Twain in his book "Life on the Mississippi" told about having to memorize the location of every sandbar and snag because when the river was up and running in the spring, those bars were hidden. Didn't have any Corps of Engineers dredging back then! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/frown.gif"%20alt="[/img]
Unka(Can't remember where I live anymore much less where there might be sandbars hiding in "The Big Muddy")Jesse
Unka(Can't remember where I live anymore much less where there might be sandbars hiding in "The Big Muddy")Jesse
"The same hammer that breaks the glass, forges the steel" Russian proverb
Re: Steam Boat Load and HOW!
Hey Unk, are you sure that isn't a Columbian drug boat making a run? Wow, what a street value! [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/cool.gif"%20alt="[/img]
Re: Steam Boat Load and HOW!
That would mean the guy is moving operations..... Must have had a hell of a crop though...... That would make a druggie suffer a heart attack seeingthatmuch weed
Fred
Fred
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Re: Steam Boat Load and HOW!
Fred , are you sure you don;t have personal experience with "the weed. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/wink.gif"%20alt="[/img]
Unka(I didn't inhale) Jesse
Unka(I didn't inhale) Jesse
"The same hammer that breaks the glass, forges the steel" Russian proverb
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Re: Steam Boat Load and HOW!
Steve, from what I have read in a Dave Barry book, the drug runners drop the stuff out of airplanes instead of trying to run the mighty Mississippi with it. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/cool.gif"%20alt="[/img]
Unka(I still say I didn't inhale, but that depends on what you mean by "inhale" )Jesse
Unka(I still say I didn't inhale, but that depends on what you mean by "inhale" )Jesse
"The same hammer that breaks the glass, forges the steel" Russian proverb