Hobo Jungle

[jperrine6]

By the way to all you DAD'S OUT THERE...HAPPY FODDERS DAY

JIM

[hev52]

Yea Wayne the Tehachapi Depot is gone. Another SP loss...............................
I always seen this depot when I was Truckin' out there.


BTW Wayne,.........................are ya sneakin' across the border to git gas. I know I would be................................@ 2.47 a gal.
















































































































hev

[GP]

Yea Wayne the Tehachapi Depot is gone. Another SP loss...............................

That's too bad about the old depot.
Hate to see a piece of history like that lost.
GP

[GP]

Wayne, as I've heard it, it was brought by Mamie Eisenhower as a way to beautify roadsides. If I ever find her grave, I'm going to piss on it!

They've been a terrible scourge to me. They are beautiful and fragrant when in flower, but they have tremendously tenacious and woody stems that form a 360-degree periphery around the central growth that can be 12 feet in diameter and is totally impenetrable. To remove them, I have had to use a weed-whacker with a metal toothed blade, and cut 'wedges' out of the canopy of peripheral stems that extend from the ground to the peak, so that I can use a pitchfork to spread the stems to approach the central part of the plant to cut it loose from the ground. Even then, because the stem tips root into the ground, it takes considerable effort to separate them from the ground. The thorns, as I've said before, would have made the thorns of Calvary jealous. I've drawn plenty of blood fighting them out. And driving the tractor over them has flattened a front tire at least 4 times.
I've got a new trick now. The guy that owns the original B&S train station in the town of Forks by me, and who has his excavation business in the original Harrison's General Store, has a piece of equipment with caterpillar tracks (no flat tires) that that has a blade on one end, and a bucket on the other that has a hydraulic jaw that closes on it. He pulls right up to a bush, grabs it entire in the jaws, pulls it out by the roots, and then uses the blade to smooth it out. I need him again this summer, but what a difference he's made!
Otherwise, mowing once a year suffices to keep it down. As I understand it, to mow it 4 or 5 times a season will eventually kill it.

Pete,

When I had my farm in the North Carolina mountains I was constantly fighting the wild roses in my pastures.

I bought many gallons of Roundup Spray to kill the roses. The state of NC had a spraying program that reimbursed you for the cost of Roundup Spray.

Just about every time I got my pastures free of rose bushes, the birds would drop more seeds in my pastures from other farms and the battle would start all over. Seemed like a losing battle at times.

GP

[webenda]

They've been a terrible scourge to me.

Here in Arizona it is tumleweeds. When farmland in Arizona is allowed to rest, Russian thistle ( tumbleweed ) usually is the first to establish itself and dominate the land excluding other plant species. Tumbleweeds then spread to neighboring cultivated fields. Owners of unused farmland need to spend significant amounts of effort to control and cut weeds to avoid possible litigation.

They are so bad that tumbleweeds are the only weed that we are allowed to burn. The western romance of tumbleweeds blowing down the street is a thing of the past in my neighborhood. My neighbors and I managed to eradicate them.

Now if I can just find a way to get rid of the blackbirds that moved into the neighborhood last year. They are noisy, harass other birds and animals and poop on everything. I tried shooting one with the Daisy Air Rifle that my grandfather bought me 54 years ago. I saw the BB hit the bird, dead center, and bounce off. The bird did not even fly away.

I wonder if I could modify a microwave oven to cook them in mid-flight? (D and Tramp, it doesn't harm them, just makes them uncomfortable so that they want to leave the neighborhood.) Should work on groung hogs also.

Reference: http://www.defensetech.org/archives/001652.html
http://dragonflyeye.net/blog/2007/09/20 ... n-ray-gun/

[webenda]

Yea Wayne the Tehachapi Depot is gone. Another SP loss...............................
I always seen this depot when I was Truckin' out there.

Hev,

Thank you for the photos. Those may be the last photos of the depot taken.

Erected in 1904, the depot is one of more than 60 built between 1896 and 1916 using a standard Southern Pacific Railroad design known as Plan No. 23. Only six are left, according to firefighters.

BTW Wayne,.........................are ya sneakin' across the border to git gas. I know I would be................................@ 2.47 a gal.

No, not yet. I had a problem with the Ford PU using Mexican Gas. The fuel injectors clogged up. After paying $47 to have them cleaned a couple of times, I discovered that if I used gas with Techron, they never clogged up. I tried putting a bottle of Techron additive in the tank, but it did not work. Gas with Techron from the pump did.

It takes $100 to fill up with Techron. Mexican gas would take $61.75 to fill up. Savings... $38.25. Not worth it yet.

[webenda]

[color=blue]Well said Roger!!![/color]

Nice looking Russian Rail Andre.

[AG]

Wayne :
Do you know a tree, that smell only at night?
I can remember the name.....

Hev thank for the picture.....are terrible...
does somebody know if it was intensional or not?

A.

[Tramp]

Jon, I liked your post about pouring gin on rocks and storms. What happened to it? If I hadn't liked what you wrote I certainly wouldn't have teased you about it.

[2railjon]

Tramp, It vaporized like gin!!! I hope this K4 operation is a success!
I hate starting off my morning by having to threaten to kick someones *** in the canned vegetables isle at Walmarts. Why me?

[webenda]

Wayne :
Do you know a tree, that smell only at night?
I can remember the name.....
A.

Native trees with blooms that are fragrant in the evenings are basswood (Tilia americana) & Pygmy fringe tree (Chionanthus pygmaea).

[Tramp]

Anyone else have the coals on?

[2railjon]

Marinated chicken breasts on the grill down here. Serving with Sam Adams, cole slaw, baked beans, and garlic bread.

[AG]

Wayne :
Do you know a tree, that smell only at night?
I can remember the name.....
A.

Native trees with blooms that are fragrant in the evenings are basswood (Tilia americana) & Pygmy fringe tree (Chionanthus pygmaea).

Thanks WAYNE.
I found the name talking with the nursery.
Cestrum Nocturnum....is a kind of tree only bring smell at night.
Andre.

[2railjon]

The Battle Of Fathers Day has been set! The evil Dragon Lord atop his three headed beast is about to engage the fierce knights of Canterbury!