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RE: Living Luxury Off The Grid - Dump and Dash!
Ohhhhhh. If only that caterpillar were a little more there you could get it hauled off pretty easy. That logo (an actual caterpillar) went away in the 1920s, and company colors were grey and black. Restored, they are worth just stupid money.
That newer gadget on the truck looks like it might be a portable mining dredge possibly. Lots of people have taken their shot at riches with them.
It's a great post that just intrigues me. Thank you.
A lot of people around here have gone looking. We have an old silver mine and several old copper mines in the area and people occasionally find garnets around here. I haven't seen anyone who found the ores but the largest garnet I've seen was about the size of a pea. The lady who found it has lived here all her life. A lot of the locals do that kind of looking just for fun. They seem to know places that are better than others to look. We also have a lot of fool's gold.
I like the old tractors. The caterpillar has been kept covered by a tarp which is so old it's beginning to rot. I really need to clean off the garden tractor and put a tarp over it too. I like it a lot better even though it doesn't have a brand name that I can find. I believe it is about the same vintage. I expect that the caterpillar was brought here with the miners or loggers. From how it looks now I can't even imagine someone being able to restore it. It's so rusted that you'd have to cut the parts to free them from each other! It would be really fun to see the thing put back together though. You can feel the history there.
Oxy-Acetolene causes rust to powder with enough heat. You might be able to break it down that way. It would be beyond fantastic to drag it out, and make it go again! :)
I also carry the title engineer, but they won't let me drive the train, ROFLOL! Working on Solar and wind, not enough waterflow for a turbine. Garnets are my Wife's favorite gemstone.