Rob's Project 365 for 2013
- Thread starter Kias
- Start date
Kias
Senior Member
Day 117 (Scooter Ride Day!)
Lockport Bridge, Williams County, Ohio. This is a Modern Howe Truss Bridge with laminated timber. No steel beams were used. Built in 1999 which replaced a boring bridge. It was originally a Howe Truss Bridge, but that was removed in 1919 when the boring bridge was installed. It's gone full circle!
It has an attached pedestrian walkway on one side. This bridge crosses the Tiffin River.
See those specks on the walkway? Ok, now go to the next photo.
Today, the bridge had a ton of Boxelder Bugs! They were everywhere.
Onto Goll Woods we went.
The area we live in used to be the Great Black Swamp. Its coverage was estimated at 1500 Sqare miles, stretching from Fort Wayne, IN to Sandusky, OH. It wasn't one continuous swamp, but mostly wetlands, forests, and marshes. It was caused by the last glacier that was hanging out in these areas. The swamp was impassible, as a result, the Michigan and Ohio militias never battled during the Toledo War in 1835 and 1836.
The states began a concentrated effort to drain the swamp for agricultural and travel use in 1850. James B. Hill of Bowling Green, OH invented the Buckeye Traction Ditcher. This machine laid down drainage tiles at a record speed. In approximately 40 years, the Great Black Swamp was no more and the area was mostly settled and deforested during the next three decades.
In 1837 Peter Goll and his family purchased acreage from the government and set aside 100 acres of this land. They sold it to the State of Ohio in 1966 as a nature preserve. Today, the preserve is 321 acres and is the only remaining virgin forest in Northwest Ohio. Some of the trees are over 400 years old.
One of the gazillion ditches around here that keeps this area from turning back into the Great Black Swamp. Brush Creek starts at my house with field drainage and goes for quite a ways! I do believe it eventually dumps into the Tiffin River.
Lockport Bridge, Williams County, Ohio. This is a Modern Howe Truss Bridge with laminated timber. No steel beams were used. Built in 1999 which replaced a boring bridge. It was originally a Howe Truss Bridge, but that was removed in 1919 when the boring bridge was installed. It's gone full circle!
It has an attached pedestrian walkway on one side. This bridge crosses the Tiffin River.
See those specks on the walkway? Ok, now go to the next photo.
Today, the bridge had a ton of Boxelder Bugs! They were everywhere.
Onto Goll Woods we went.
The area we live in used to be the Great Black Swamp. Its coverage was estimated at 1500 Sqare miles, stretching from Fort Wayne, IN to Sandusky, OH. It wasn't one continuous swamp, but mostly wetlands, forests, and marshes. It was caused by the last glacier that was hanging out in these areas. The swamp was impassible, as a result, the Michigan and Ohio militias never battled during the Toledo War in 1835 and 1836.
The states began a concentrated effort to drain the swamp for agricultural and travel use in 1850. James B. Hill of Bowling Green, OH invented the Buckeye Traction Ditcher. This machine laid down drainage tiles at a record speed. In approximately 40 years, the Great Black Swamp was no more and the area was mostly settled and deforested during the next three decades.
In 1837 Peter Goll and his family purchased acreage from the government and set aside 100 acres of this land. They sold it to the State of Ohio in 1966 as a nature preserve. Today, the preserve is 321 acres and is the only remaining virgin forest in Northwest Ohio. Some of the trees are over 400 years old.
One of the gazillion ditches around here that keeps this area from turning back into the Great Black Swamp. Brush Creek starts at my house with field drainage and goes for quite a ways! I do believe it eventually dumps into the Tiffin River.
Last edited:
Michael J.
Senior Member
Michael J.
Senior Member
Th eEgg Factory... I love it
Kias
Senior Member
Day 123 (Bottling day! Again.)
Ok, it's amazing that I make hundreds of bottles of wine, but rarely drink any.
Today, I bottled 2 bottles, and had 1/2 a bottle left over which I drank. All at once. Without stopping. I'm quite plastered right now, thank you. My wife calls me a cheap date.
It's called 5 Buck Rob, and it's merely all the leftover wine from this years batches that I dumped into one jug. It's actually pretty good.
The label is awesome too!
Ok, it's amazing that I make hundreds of bottles of wine, but rarely drink any.
Today, I bottled 2 bottles, and had 1/2 a bottle left over which I drank. All at once. Without stopping. I'm quite plastered right now, thank you. My wife calls me a cheap date.
It's called 5 Buck Rob, and it's merely all the leftover wine from this years batches that I dumped into one jug. It's actually pretty good.
The label is awesome too!
Michael J.
Senior Member
Like the bis traktor
That second bridge shot gets five stars from me, GREAT SHOT!!!!!
stamatisg2002
Senior Member
Future visitors of the Oven Kingdom....
Kias
Senior Member
They're much too old to eat. They'd be all tough and nasty...
Kias
Senior Member
Day 127
This is the aftermath of a runaway diesel engine. (Kohler if you're wondering)
It's a brand new genset, that we use to power a ten ton air conditioner on wheels. It's for cooling planes while on the ground. I started it, ran all the voltage and amp checks, made sure the air conditioner worked properly, and I was about to shut off the engine because I was done with all of the tests... I decided to just let it run for a few more minutes. I walked in that room you see there, and the engine went to full throttle, so I ran out and turned the key off... I was standing there with the key in my hand and the engine was still running full bore! Smoke was POURING out of the exhaust. We have an exhaust system that sucks out the fumes that we hook up to the exhaust pipe... But it couldn't keep up with the amount of smoke pouring out. I finally had to shut the fuel off, and it eventually stopped.
I then made the call to evacuate half of the 150,000 sq ft factory, as you literally could not see your hand held out at length.
This is ten minutes after we rounded up every fan in the factory! So... 'bout 20 minutes after the engine stopped.
It was an awesome day at work!
This is the aftermath of a runaway diesel engine. (Kohler if you're wondering)
It's a brand new genset, that we use to power a ten ton air conditioner on wheels. It's for cooling planes while on the ground. I started it, ran all the voltage and amp checks, made sure the air conditioner worked properly, and I was about to shut off the engine because I was done with all of the tests... I decided to just let it run for a few more minutes. I walked in that room you see there, and the engine went to full throttle, so I ran out and turned the key off... I was standing there with the key in my hand and the engine was still running full bore! Smoke was POURING out of the exhaust. We have an exhaust system that sucks out the fumes that we hook up to the exhaust pipe... But it couldn't keep up with the amount of smoke pouring out. I finally had to shut the fuel off, and it eventually stopped.
I then made the call to evacuate half of the 150,000 sq ft factory, as you literally could not see your hand held out at length.
This is ten minutes after we rounded up every fan in the factory! So... 'bout 20 minutes after the engine stopped.
It was an awesome day at work!