Posted on 04/21/2012 7:09:56 AM PDT by Pontiac
It may take explosives to dislodge the frozen carcasses of a small herd of cows found in an old ranger's cabin high in the Rocky Mountains.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
“Let’s hire those three farm boys to run NASA. We will be on Mars by June. “
No; that would take until at least July.
“Only cows and no bulls? It violates the new violence against women act.”
It’s the new Republican war on Rosie.
If the work is done by rangers or park maintenance workers I don’t think those rules would apply.
I just wonder how long it will take the government to fine the rancher and stick him with the bill for disposal of the carcasses.
But they would never allow him to go in to the park with his own equipment (light trucks or four runners) to remove them. Even though if he got in before the ground thawed there would be little impact on the environment.
If happy cows live in California, then exploding cows live in Colorado!
Check out Discovery Channel, or NatGeo websites..A while back they hav a program about an “exploding” whale..It’s very popular, airs often, and should be oin the website. A whale had died, and beached in Japan..they were towing it to an aquarium, to do an autopsy ( or is it necropsy?)..anyways, they’re hauling it on a flatbed, though downtown of some some large Japanese city..and in the moddle of the city..the whale explodes....the videos ar equite funny..they finally figured out that the gases from decompositon had build up inside the whale, and kaboom..
It’s just a matter of how much it will cost, and how long the area will have to be closed. It is very remote and inaccessible, but it is a ‘valuable” recreational trail.
Bottom line is, the cheapest and quickest way to open the trail is to turn the cows into very small bits, and let nature remove them. A few guys, a few hundred pounds of dynamite, and a few days, done, efficiently.
BTW, the whale dispersal was botched.
That whale being blown up was the first thing that came to mind when I read this headline.
I would think an industrial size wood chipper, 4 men and a couple of chain saws would be cheaper.
Two chopper trips and you’re done and you don’t have to worry about blowing yourself up.
they just piled up a bunch of dynamite on one side without considering the blast wave effects.
I they had dug around a little on the one side in a pattern to shape the blast a little more they could have neatly deposited most of the whale into the water
I wonder how they use mercury to do tanning (and making hats)?
I have seen mercury and held samples, and it is literally liquid metal at room temperature
Fun stuff.
I believe that the mercury was simply rubbed in to the skin. It would make the skin shiny and protect the skin from bacterial attack.
At the very least; frozen cows don’t live in Colorado.
I have hiked into that area. There are paths and old roads in, on which a bulldozer could be driven.
However, a chainsaw would do the job nicely. Just remember lots of fuel, steak sauce, and fresh corn, still in the husk.
Don’t forget the butter.
As for letting the wolves eat it, want a huge pack chasing people down the streets of Aspen?
OK, OK - might be a fitting an just situation after all.
“Alternatively; if a 18 year Iowa farm kid was put in charge; you would 3 guys go up with a winch and rope and have it done in 2 hours.
Wow!
Let’s hire those three farm boys to run NASA. We will be on Mars by June.”
Won’t work. Farm boys are not spacy enough to take on a job beyond their ability - gotta have gooberment goober fur thet!
I think a burial of a large number of cows would take decades to be turned into only skeletons...
But it would be a great place to plant a garden or tree's...
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