Aluminum Recovery Technicians Chat Thread

What? you never taught your dogs to share? Good to here from you again, Cache! I've been out in it a little...picking up coin where the fireworks tents were, school where they tore down a shed...trying to find parts to the old dog runs...nothing to speak of except an old ceramic marble. I had a fella tell me how he used to climb the tree in my back yard when he was little. He was over 80 at the time and that was 15 years ago. Lots of kids, lots of marbles.

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Looks like its been living on scenery ya'll

Posted on: July 12, 2012, 12:31:56 PM

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it has been so hot here i saw a bird  catch a worm  with a pot holder .the ground is hard as concrete the power company had to replace a pole in our yard it was dry 5 ft down  ponds lakes and wells are drying up my neighbors well is low he said in the 60 years he has lived there it has never been this low  most of the  corn is burnt up waist high and tassled out already and   soybeans are prematurely  falling of the plants . usually farmers can grind corn into silage (for cattle feed ) but it dried up before it reached the proper stage wich can make it deadly as feed   i saw some farmers bush hogging it down they said they were gonna try to plant milo to at least get a crop of somthing its bad ya'll its gonna effect beef markets,groceries  and other stuff  worst i have ever seen it back in the 30's we had a summer pretty close to this and it was followed by a harsh winter  we didn't really have much of a winter last year  so we could be in for a bad one.need less to say i havent been diggin but researchin spots to go when i can .  on the plus side havent had to mow grass/weeds for a month and a half now .

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i saw some of the fires on tv out there hate it for folks who lost their lives and homes  terrable  to see  the forrest will bounce back  fire is necesary for it to remain healthy but that was like hell on earth burning homes and stuff colorado was hit hard too  we have had small scale fires or just brush fires practically every county here had burn bans and firework bans and such up north has got most of the rain  north of us anyway but southern indiana is dry some of the leaves on some trees are turning and falling across from my house  the temps have been the same here  it was a dry heat for a few days but the humidity came back  though it cooled down a little the index is still up there . the a.c. repair men have had their work cut out this summer take care hope you can go on your ride  josey

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	Good to here from you again, Cache!

Thanks Poptop. Homie I don'tt know if it was sick or not. I toke the garden hose out and sprayed it to chase it out from under the deck and have'nt seen it sence. My dogs show no wounds so I guess all is ok. Now I found what has been eating my rip tomato's... a little lizard I saw eating on um. How do you get rid of lizards?

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Lizards? Coyotes eat em... oh wait.

box turtles like tomatoes too.
 
Homie! glad you made it through O.K.

about those forests...

    Mountain pine beetles (MPB) are the most important insect pest of Colorado's pine forests. MPB often kill large numbers of trees annually during outbreaks.
    Trees that are not growing vigorously due to old age, crowding, poor growing conditions, drought, fire or mechanical damage, root disease and other causes are most likely to be attacked.
    For a long-term remedy, thin susceptible stands. Leave well-spaced, healthy trees.
    For short-term controls, spray, cover, burn or peel attacked trees to kill the beetles. Preventive sprays can protect green, unattacked trees.

Mountain pine beetle (MPB), Dendroctonus ponderosae, is native to the forests of western North America. Periodic outbreaks of the insect, previously called the Black Hills beetle or Rocky Mountain pine beetle, can result in losses of millions of trees. Outbreaks develop irrespective of property lines, being equally evident in wilderness areas, mountain subdivisions and back yards. Even windbreak or landscape pines many miles from the mountains can succumb to beetles imported in infested firewood.

Mountain pine beetles develop in pines, particularly ponderosa, lodgepole, Scotch and limber pine. Bristlecone and pinyon pine are less commonly attacked. During early stages of an outbreak, attacks are limited largely to trees under stress from injury, poor site conditions, fire damage, overcrowding, root disease or old age. However, as beetle populations increase, MPB attacks may involve most large trees in the outbreak area.  

Add to this drought, an inane practice of no thinning of live growth, no removal of stressed trees and yes, mild winters (1997-2001) and not clearing the dead wood and you have people sitting in figurative pools of gasoline, waiting for a match.

I am very saddened by the fires. Anyone traveling through the mountain states could see the hundreds of thousands of acres of dead stands and know it was just a matter of when.

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