Dr. Syn
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Anywho, had my grandson out yesterday flying one of my r/c planes. He's getting there but not quite. He lost orientation, and planted it in the trees. Couldn't get to it due to an 8' high fence and a rather nasty rain storm that followed.
So today I gather up some recovery tools and head out. First find that most of the dry land out there is now swamp like. And to get anywhere near where the plane went in, it will be by machete only.
Bout an hour into hacking my way through I come into a bit of a clearing and there sits a shack. First thought I stumbled on somebody's hunting cabin. But then realize there was no way in or out to it. Get closer and see it's not a cabin, it's part of what looks like it was an office and potting shed. And looking around I see all kinds of flower pots and remains of wooden greenhouses.
Been abandoned long enough that trees had come through the roof, and vines out through the open windows. Figure what the heck I'll take a peek inside. Never know. Manage to force the door open, find no ones been there for quite some time, floor is rotted out, and I'm looking for snakes and such just to be safe. Well the place is pretty much cleared out, some pots, and such scattered about, and the bench has all kinds of stuff growing on top of it.
But I spied something under the bench, covered up with a tattered and rotted tarp. Carefully make my way over and see there are three things under the bench. Carefully lift the tarp with my walking stick and holy heck! There sits a 7000 watt generator! And beside it the tarp long ago rotted away sits a 3500 and a 5000 watt generator.
These were not some cheapies either, they looked like they cost some bucks when ever they were new. Really nice units, mounted on wheels. I guess they used em for power around the greenhouses as this is out in the boonies and there's no power lines nearby.
Don't understand why they were left. Did they forget about em, leave in a hurry, or what? From the lay out this was at one time a big operation. And just by looking at the remaining wood it was when a 2x4 was an actual 2x4. Like saw mill cut wood from way back.
And to even think of trying to get those things out of there now would be a bugger. Probably 100 yards of hacking through the brush/vines/trees to clear a path, then over an 8' chain link fence, across a 10' wide ditch, a 4' fence, and then around 500 yards across a field to get to a road.
Shame. They will probably rust away sitting there, forgotten.
Oh well, may try and make a trip back and at least check it out for some dropped coins and such.
So today I gather up some recovery tools and head out. First find that most of the dry land out there is now swamp like. And to get anywhere near where the plane went in, it will be by machete only.
Bout an hour into hacking my way through I come into a bit of a clearing and there sits a shack. First thought I stumbled on somebody's hunting cabin. But then realize there was no way in or out to it. Get closer and see it's not a cabin, it's part of what looks like it was an office and potting shed. And looking around I see all kinds of flower pots and remains of wooden greenhouses.
Been abandoned long enough that trees had come through the roof, and vines out through the open windows. Figure what the heck I'll take a peek inside. Never know. Manage to force the door open, find no ones been there for quite some time, floor is rotted out, and I'm looking for snakes and such just to be safe. Well the place is pretty much cleared out, some pots, and such scattered about, and the bench has all kinds of stuff growing on top of it.
But I spied something under the bench, covered up with a tattered and rotted tarp. Carefully make my way over and see there are three things under the bench. Carefully lift the tarp with my walking stick and holy heck! There sits a 7000 watt generator! And beside it the tarp long ago rotted away sits a 3500 and a 5000 watt generator.
These were not some cheapies either, they looked like they cost some bucks when ever they were new. Really nice units, mounted on wheels. I guess they used em for power around the greenhouses as this is out in the boonies and there's no power lines nearby.
Don't understand why they were left. Did they forget about em, leave in a hurry, or what? From the lay out this was at one time a big operation. And just by looking at the remaining wood it was when a 2x4 was an actual 2x4. Like saw mill cut wood from way back.
And to even think of trying to get those things out of there now would be a bugger. Probably 100 yards of hacking through the brush/vines/trees to clear a path, then over an 8' chain link fence, across a 10' wide ditch, a 4' fence, and then around 500 yards across a field to get to a road.
Shame. They will probably rust away sitting there, forgotten.
Oh well, may try and make a trip back and at least check it out for some dropped coins and such.
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