It was a good gravel road past our place. The county must have used the
roads as a disposal pit. They used brine and sometimes a mix. We were
only about 5 to 6 miles from the edge of a shallow oil field to the N
and about 10 miles to the E of a refinery. By the end of summer that
road was like concrete with potholes. It took some heavy equipment to
recondition those roads We'd get snowstorm that would leave enough that
it'd take two plows to open the road. They'd use two "V" plows with one
pushing the other. "Usually" the back plow could pull the front one
out. It might take 5 or 6 tries to get past our place.
More than once the school bus was caught in a surprise snow storm. The
senior boys would pile out and between digging and pushing would free
the bus. We were farm kids and that was nothing out of the ordinary.
They'd crucify today's buss drivers who did that.
BTW, I'm not receiving any posts from contesting dot com since I changed
my address to k8ri dot net because of the colorful spam. The addresses
work, they just don't receive any news groups.
The site says my address changed for all the sites, but I'm still not
receiving anything and I can't find a way to contact them. Moderators
haven't been able to do anything.
73, Roger (K8RI)
On 11/4/2017 Saturday 12:49 PM, donroden@hiwaay.net wrote:
Lots of country dirt roads were "oiled" with anything the county could
find... burnt motor oil,,, industrial oil... whatever they could find.
Don W4DNR
Quoting JTB 😻 <jerryjtb@comcast.net>:
In the 70s most were GE Pyranol oil. I not being aware I used the oil
for dust remediation on a country lane.
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73, Roger (K8RI)
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