The awesome picture thread

[Pete1468]

[mike newman]

...another picture of one of many  "sounds " on the South West coast  of the South Island NZ

 

Mike

[mike newman]

...picture from the road, heading in to Milford Sound   South Island  NZ

[TN Hillbilly]

On 6/18/2022 at 5:41 AM, mike newman said:

...picture from the road, heading in to Milford Sound   South Island  NZ

Are you taking these pictures, Mike?  Absolutely stunning!

[mike newman]

On 6/20/2022 at 11:27 AM, TN Hillbilly said:

Are you taking these pictures, Mike?  Absolutely stunning!

Short answer, No !!...my old Canon lense is getting a bit like  me...won't extend anymore..........and it has  done too many mile s bouncing around in excavators /lunch boxs and on the Ute floor...

So, these are taken by a Lady..who loves the outdoors, per se, and I have been down hunting in this area, several  times...including taking an  American hunting in this area...I have lots of great pictures,taken with an early Pentax  Reflex camera....But yet to get those pictures on this format... Smart money is going in the Winter  months, via Fishing boat....because the Tasman Sea is surprisingly quiet in the Winter Months....generally !!

There are many, big sounds like this..although  Milford  Sound has good road access, via a  tunnel   through the mountains...thus it is very popular  with tourists..(or was before the Red Queen shut our show down for two years.....)

Here is another....'ad nauseum '     Top is  Milford Sound   t'other is Doubtfull Sound...remember the average rainfall down there is 400  inches   per annum...so you have to pick your day for photography

Mike

(BTW...There are two States within the US that the old Cook and I really loved...Montana  and Tennessee )

[rrr4quality]

My wife took this one a couple weeks ago. She loves irises.

[hardtail]

I would think the fishing would be good where fresh water flows into the sea

400" is a crazy amount of rainfall, rare day to see the sun

[mike newman]

20 hours ago, hardtail said:

I would think the fishing would be good where fresh water flows into the sea

400" is a crazy amount of rainfall, rare day to see the sun

..one trip   a Kiwi Mate and I did, we never bothered to shoot a deer.....but as the Skipper of the Fishing boat  had given his 8ft clinker built  dingy to use, and as we had made a 'Fiordland  Rain Proof " camp, at the very head of George   Sound, when down at our    (that mentioned ) base camp, it was just a matter of heaving out a few fishing lines , and hauling in 'blue cod'.... (Thus we never needed fresh  'red ' meat...) Cooking them half an hour later..it dosen't get much better than that...as did seeing the sun rise over the Fiordland Mountains one morning, after  camping waaaaay   up on one of the many ''leading ridges''....Great experience, that sort of thing.....something the so called  ''citidiots''   (oft mentioned on this site.....with zero affection..think  "'Art  from Coleman " )....something that not that many folk see....

Different strokes, I guess....................

Mike

[sandhiller]

8 hours ago, mike newman said:

..one trip   a Kiwi Mate and I did, we never bothered to shoot a deer.....but as the Skipper of the Fishing boat  had given his 8ft clinker built  dingy to use, and as we had made a 'Fiordland  Rain Proof " camp, at the very head of George   Sound, when down at our    (that mentioned ) base camp, it was just a matter of heaving out a few fishing lines , and hauling in 'blue cod'.... (Thus we never needed fresh  'red ' meat...) Cooking them half an hour later..it dosen't get much better than that...as did seeing the sun rise over the Fiordland Mountains one morning, after  camping waaaaay   up on one of the many ''leading ridges''....Great experience, that sort of thing.....something the so called  ''citidiots''   (oft mentioned on this site.....with zero affection..think  "'Art  from Coleman " )....something that not that many folk see....

Different strokes, I guess....................

Mike

And that is why any time a "citidiot" askes me how I can live out in the middle of nowhere with no walmart, oxygen bar, and frappy latty googly moogly ice cream coffee shake shack on every corner. 

I tell them it is a hard life and they would not like it, stay where you are at and don't even think about coming out here. 

I will make the sacrifice of keeping this part of the country settled😉     😏     😄

 

[midnightman]

34 minutes ago, sandhiller said:

And that is why any time a "citidiot" askes me how I can live out in the middle of nowhere with no walmart, oxygen bar, and frappy latty googly moogly ice cream coffee shake shack on every corner. 

I tell them it is a hard life and they would not like it, stay where you are at and don't even think about coming out here. 

I will make the sacrifice of keeping this part of the country settled😉     😏     😄

 

That’s what I think. Out of the ones that do dare to try it here, a lot of them find it too hard and end up selling and going back where they came from. Surprisingly a few of them learn enough to do well and fit in after a few years 

[sandhiller]

That is not small rod!

My attention span would not allow me to do that work 🤕

[mike newman]

3 minutes ago, Art From Coleman said:

I do not know how someone in a factory, or on an assembly line can stand there for hours, days, years, doing the same thing.  And those repetitive jobs, and the boredom that has to go along with it, well, just the thought, is mind-numbing.

They do earn their pay.

...the ''chain gang'' Art......mind -numbing is the under statement  of the day......

Mike

[1256pickett]

4 hours ago, Art From Coleman said:

I do not know how someone in a factory, or on an assembly line can stand there for hours, days, years, doing the same thing.  And those repetitive jobs, and the boredom that has to go along with it, well, just the thought, is mind-numbing.

They do earn their pay.

I work in a dog food factory. Darn good pay to run the machines. The monotonous jobs there are filled by contract labor(temp workers). They get treated like second class and paid half as much as us. They usually don’t last too long. 

[lorenzo]

7 minutes ago, 1256pickett said:

I work in a dog food factory. Darn good pay to run the machines. The monotonous jobs there are filled by contract labor(temp workers). They get treated like second class and paid half as much as us. They usually don’t last too long. 

Alpo, that later became Friskies, and has changed names again has a plant in Crete Nebraska. It was one of my commercial refrigeration accounts. 
 

I remember climbing up wire pallet baskets full of cow udders and standing on frozen cow udders to get access to the evaporators which were about 30 feet in the air. No joke, nipples sticking out everywhere. That place was pretty interesting . Forklift drivers were always tossing something into their mouths , i thought it was something like sun flower seeds or peanuts. Found out they were eating one of the dog food ingredients also known as  TVP, textured vegetable protein. Little pellets.  Not bad really.

[just Dave]

5 hours ago, Art From Coleman said:

I do not know how someone in a factory, or on an assembly line can stand there for hours, days, years, doing the same thing.  And those repetitive jobs, and the boredom that has to go along with it, well, just the thought, is mind-numbing.

They do earn their pay.

They can do it because IT HAS TO BE DONE.  Row by row or link by link all the same..... We do what has to be done, or at least some of us do.

Someone is counting on that chain for things crucial to their job and the person making it can take pride in that.

Pride gets us up and going

 

[hardtail]

Used to be USA manufacturing when you built the best domestically and the economy showed it, technology has greatly reduced this, one lapse and an appendage is gone, India really seems to be supplying a lots of this now

[sandhiller]

6 hours ago, Art From Coleman said:

I do not know how someone in a factory, or on an assembly line can stand there for hours, days, years, doing the same thing.  And those repetitive jobs, and the boredom that has to go along with it, well, just the thought, is mind-numbing.

They do earn their pay.

 

1 hour ago, just Dave said:

They can do it because IT HAS TO BE DONE.  Row by row or link by link all the same..... We do what has to be done, or at least some of us do.

Someone is counting on that chain for things crucial to their job and the person making it can take pride in that.

Pride gets us up and going

 

A person for every job and a job for every person.

My hat is off to ya!

 

I have too many squirrels in my attic that need chasin'

 

 

[1256pickett]

1 hour ago, lorenzo said:

Alpo, that later became Friskies, and has changed names again has a plant in Crete Nebraska. It was one of my commercial refrigeration accounts. 
 

I remember climbing up wire pallet baskets full of cow udders and standing on frozen cow udders to get access to the evaporators which were about 30 feet in the air. No joke, nipples sticking out everywhere. That place was pretty interesting . Forklift drivers were always tossing something into their mouths , i thought it was something like sun flower seeds or peanuts. Found out they were eating one of the dog food ingredients also known as  TVP, textured vegetable protein. Little pellets.  Not bad really.

Nestle bought out Alpo and friskies then bought out Purina and made them product lines within the Nestle Purina brand. At the moment I can’t remember for sure but I think we have another plant somewhere in Nebraska.
There’s a few screwballs that will eat the product or ingredients here but not too many. Nothing will kill you, we’re regulated equally to a human food factory, but I have yet to try anything worth a second taste. They say the reason the FDA puts us in same category as human food is in case junior or little sally decides to eat fidos dinner while mom and dad aren’t watching. 

[1256pickett]

2 minutes ago, sandhiller said:

 

A person for every job and a job for every person.

My hat is off to ya!

 

I have too many squirrels in my attic that need chasin'

 

 

You would not believe how many of my coworkers have picked up the nickname “squirrel “!

[MinnesotaFarmall]

Terrance looking a little mean. I like these old dent sides. 

[sandhiller]

[lorenzo]

 

At a friends place yesterday.

[gearheadmb]

[Lazy WP]

On 6/28/2022 at 12:02 PM, 1256pickett said:

Nestle bought out Alpo and friskies then bought out Purina and made them product lines within the Nestle Purina brand. At the moment I can’t remember for sure but I think we have another plant somewhere in Nebraska.
There’s a few screwballs that will eat the product or ingredients here but not too many. Nothing will kill you, we’re regulated equally to a human food factory, but I have yet to try anything worth a second taste. They say the reason the FDA puts us in same category as human food is in case junior or little sally decides to eat fidos dinner while mom and dad aren’t watching. 

I have hauled into a few pet food places as well as Kellogs for human consumption. It’s way easier to deliver to the human side than the pet food side. 
Pet food places always have to hold you up for a series of tests. Never had any tests done on the human side. Probably already done before we load. 

[1256pickett]

10 minutes ago, Lazy WP said:

I have hauled into a few pet food places as well as Kellogs for human consumption. It’s way easier to deliver to the human side than the pet food side. 
Pet food places always have to hold you up for a series of tests. Never had any tests done on the human side. Probably already done before we load. 

My father had sold corn to them for a few years before I started working there. I think it was the year before I started had a bunch get rejected and my brother sold it to Pepsi for corn syrup. Not good enough for the dogs but good enough for us!