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Railroad tie flower beds make for good defensive positions.
I have logs I that could be stacked, but not the equipment to move and stack them.
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Railroad tie flower beds make for good defensive positions.
The nice thing about railroad ties are longevity, density and uniform depth/width. I use them for retaining walls, there is very little flat land on my 3/4 acre parcel. I doubt that any (normal) round except maybe a .50 caliber could get through a box made with two layers of ties filled with dirt. It would be fun to try though.I have logs I that could be stacked, but not the equipment to move and stack them.
@sobo Close. View from the polar crane of the Trojan Nuclear Plant reactor core partially unloaded. Indeed it is Cherenkov radiation. Not many can name that tune.@Pete F Been meaning to ask you about your avatar pic... Is that a top view of nuke cylinders in a water bath and Cherenkov radiation?
15 years as a Radiation Protection Specialist/Nuclear Engineer from Bremerton Naval Shipyard to much of the US and finally Trojan as a regular employee after years of contracting - then they shut it down after two years. Boy was I pizzed. Moved on to Environmental Science.Got to see Cherenkov radiation at the Waste Encapsulation and Storage Facility bath at Hanford's B Plant when I worked out there for a few years as a consultant.
The nice thing about railroad ties are longevity, density and uniform depth/width. I use them for retaining walls, there is very little flat land on my 3/4 acre parcel. I doubt that any (normal) round except maybe a .50 caliber could get through a box made with two layers of ties filled with dirt. It would be fun to try though.
I have never tried making flower beds out of Railroad ties, so if flowers suffer you could always line the inside, or fill the inside with gravel and use flower pots.Previous owner used them near the house, about two high. Twenty years old, on a mountain where mold and moss grows on everything, including the paved driveway, and they are rotting - a .223 would go right thru these. Also, they are soaked with creosote so not good for the plants. I want to replace them with boulders, but probably won't get around to it before I sell and move.
I have a question for you Pete. Some of my family are from St. Helens and as a kid, probably around 1982, some cousins and I swam in the cooling ponds near the shut down trojan plant. Was that safe or should I be expecting some horrible form of cancer from it? I've had no problems so far luckily!15 years as a Radiation Protection Specialist/Nuclear Engineer from Bremerton Naval Shipyard to much of the US and finally Trojan as a regular employee after years of contracting - then they shut it down after two years. Boy was I pizzed. Moved on to Environmental Science.
Thanks man! It's just something I have always wondered/worried about since I have zero knowledge about that kind of stuff.It's cooling water. Not in contact with radioactive elements. You'll be fine, trust me. No, really! Trust me...
I have a question for you Pete. Some of my family are from St. Helens and as a kid, probably around 1982, some cousins and I swam in the cooling ponds near the shut down trojan plant. Was that safe or should I be expecting some horrible form of cancer from it? I've had no problems so far luckily!