LAKOTA169 Posted July 17, 2012 Report Posted July 17, 2012 My son and his family took a trip to Wyoming last week. Here are some of the sights he saw. Quote
falconvan Posted July 17, 2012 Report Posted July 17, 2012 May we have a moment of silence............. Quote
Plymouthy Adams Posted July 17, 2012 Report Posted July 17, 2012 that one definitely describes the "100 car pile-up"..!!! Quote
pflaming Posted July 17, 2012 Report Posted July 17, 2012 Those cars were put into what is called a 'blow out', a ever enlarging hole where the wind in a circular motion plays havoc on good pasture land. Ranchers put all kinds of 'objects' in those holes to stop the erosion. A lot of car, truck and tractor tires were used as well. Ranchers worked hard to save the environment LONG before the current generation of nimbos. Interesting pictures of interesting times. I grew up in 'them thar hills'! Took many a ride on the therobred to the back pasture to get a bull, a six mile round trip. Today they go back with a truck and horse trailer. Then teenage boys had to be kept busy! Quote
40plyrod Posted July 17, 2012 Report Posted July 17, 2012 In Alberta there is a place called "head smashed in buffalo jump". It was a place where the natives would stampeed a herd of buffalo off a cliff. This may be a more modern version. Quote
Dan Hiebert Posted July 17, 2012 Report Posted July 17, 2012 ....I see parts.....! In west Texas they used old cars to plug places in the arroyos where flash-floods would make unwanted ravines. Kind of odd to me that they would all be torched apart just in front of the firewall, then pulled off the frames and dumped. I found the Fulton sunvisor and quite a few extra trim parts for the D24 on those old cars. Especially the short cowl trim pieces - gold to me at the time because I couldn't find them otherwise. Most had been partly buried by weather, but perseverence with an entrenching tool paid off. Quote
james curl Posted July 17, 2012 Report Posted July 17, 2012 A friend and I dug a 27 Model T roadster body out of the sand in the bottom of a gulley. All you could see from the bridge was about 6" of the windshield posts. We had to get our buddy's to help us get it up about 40' if steep slope to the highway to load it. He used it on a Model A frame with a flat head Ford V-8 to build a Hot Rod, it was in 1953. Quote
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