The first photo is an old sheep camp, although it looks like it is now used for cattle. The second has something to do with mining, but I am not sure what. The third is an old trestle taken from the new trestle.
#2 might have to do with mine-head initial comminution of the ore, done wet, with washing to first-order gangue separation.
Mac
Loc: Pittsburgh, Philadelphia now Hernando Co. Fl.
Very nice. I really like #2.
Good stuff, Rat.
S'pose I'm partial to the sheep camp shot, though, having stayed in one for a week while on a work detail in (the Horseshoe Canyon section of) the Maze. Still see these things here and there around here.
Thanks Jim. I haven't stayed in one since I was in my teens. (Had to watch out for the dinosaurs).
Riverrat2 wrote:
Thanks Jim. I haven't stayed in one since I was in my teens. (Had to watch out for the dinosaurs).
Yeah. They are --generally-- 'bitey' sorts of critters. (The dinosaurs, I mean, not the sheep camps.)
I think I would about as soon dealwith the dinos as with the sheep I was tending.
Uh, not to get all ribald or anything, but somehow I don't think theropod feets would fit very comfortably into calf-high shepherd's boots. Sheepses is (reportedly) less tricky. That's what I've been told, that is. Its not as if I personally know.
Ran into a Basque shepherd at a sheep camp (who lived that winter in a rig exactly like the one you posted) at the base of the Books some years back, at a point I didn't know to ask. If I'd have asked at all. Subsequently, the concept of 'inflatable sheep' has come up once or twice in conversation. But never with a Basque shepherd; only with an East Coast tinhorn. But I digress....
The quality of your B&Ws is pretty nifty.
Thank you Earnest and scooter.
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