Daryk Campbell Sr Posted June 1, 2021 Posted June 1, 2021 1 hour ago, ness said: I've heard about this for years, and we were in the neighborhood over the weekend so we stopped by. Pretty darned impressive piece of machinery. 'Big Brutus', who created some fine strip pits in SE Kansas from 1963 to 1974: Note lady between trucks for scale. Fun facts: Electric drive, producing 7,500 + HP Boom is 160 feet Scoop held 90 cubic feet, 150 tons of Kansas Speed 0.22 MPH Weight ~ 11 million pounds Build on site; parts brought in on 150 railcars ... Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man. And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County Down by the Green River where Paradise lay Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away "Pardise" by John Prine Bushbeater, Greasy B and BilletHead 3 Money is just ink and paper, worthless until it switches hands, and worthless again until the next transaction. (me) I am the master of my unspoken words, and the slave to those that should have remained unsaid. (unknown)
Members Otay Michael Posted June 4, 2021 Members Posted June 4, 2021 One of my images from my fourth trip to China. Majong players. Yunnan Provence. I shoot a lot of time exposures, first by accident back in the early 70's, now on purpose. Had to stand and watch for a few minutes, so they'd get comfortable with a stranger standing at their table, then gently put the camera and tripod down, with wide angel, and got the one second exposure just right to capture the movement. BilletHead 1
BilletHead Posted June 4, 2021 Posted June 4, 2021 53 minutes ago, Otay Michael said: One of my images from my fourth trip to China. Majong players. Yunnan Provence. I shoot a lot of time exposures, first by accident back in the early 70's, now on purpose. Had to stand and watch for a few minutes, so they'd get comfortable with a stranger standing at their table, then gently put the camera and tripod down, with wide angel, and got the one second exposure just right to capture the movement. Welcome to the Forum Michael, Spent the first 16 .5 years of my life in El Cajon until my parents got smart and moved to South West Missouri. Nice pic you posted! "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead
Members Otay Michael Posted June 4, 2021 Members Posted June 4, 2021 8 minutes ago, BilletHead said: Welcome to the Forum Michael, Spent the first 16 .5 years of my life in El Cajon until my parents got smart and moved to South West Missouri. Nice pic you posted! Thanks That's just down the hill from Barrett Lake. Get to fish it? Just got my PB on numbers there, topwater, just last week. 230 on the Sammy, averaging 2 # each. EPIC. Five others on JB, so 235 bass total, unreal. Fished from 7:30 am to 7:30 pm, beating my PB record of 40 in a half day's work, which was there four years ago. Here's a pic of it last fall, of course you know about the fires there. BilletHead 1
Members Otay Michael Posted June 4, 2021 Members Posted June 4, 2021 Not all the topwater at Barrett were 2’s. here’s a nice one, double hook up with a gentleman in the background on a kayak that I’ve been teaching how to fish. FishnDave, Daryk Campbell Sr, BilletHead and 1 other 4
BilletHead Posted June 4, 2021 Posted June 4, 2021 17 minutes ago, Otay Michael said: Thanks That's just down the hill from Barrett Lake. Get to fish it? Just got my PB on numbers there, topwater, just last week. 230 on the Sammy, averaging 2 # each. EPIC. Five others on JB, so 235 bass total, unreal. Fished from 7:30 am to 7:30 pm, beating my PB record of 40 in a half day's work, which was there four years ago. Here's a pic of it last fall, of course you know about the fires there. I was just a snot nosed kid back then. Closest fishing was Santee lakes and my folks would drop me off for the day or I relied on older friends with a drivers license. Camped some with parents and fished Henshaw. The fires heck yes. I remember from our yard since EL Cajon means box canyon watching the hill sides on fire dang near every year. We would get falling ash and leaves that had turned to ash drifting down. "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead
BilletHead Posted June 4, 2021 Posted June 4, 2021 3 minutes ago, Otay Michael said: Not all the topwater at Barrett were 2’s. here’s a nice one, double hook up with a gentleman in the background on a kayak that I’ve been teaching how to fish. No doubt one of the greatest fisheries in the nation out there for big bass. But oh the amount of people. Not for this guy anymore. Good fish man! "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead
Flysmallie Posted June 6, 2021 Posted June 6, 2021 Just down the road a ways from Big Brutus. BilletHead, MOstreamer and snagged in outlet 3 3
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