Bored - what shall I make today?
My ammonium nitrate store.
Image taken on 6/4/2004 9:38
Just to clear it up. The bags are 600Kg each hidden inside a barn, the stack is about 20 ft tall and l thought it made a nice picture. Nearly every farm has a similar stack at this time of year.
Image taken on 6/4/2004 9:39
Comments
Do you carry insurance on that stuff? It looks as tho' you are inviting a burglary....
Posted by: ernest young | April 6, 2004 2:31 PM
The man is armed to the teeth and owns his own bunker. He probably has the store booby trapped too.
Posted by: JohnJo | April 6, 2004 3:30 PM
Do you really think so?....sounds more like the sort of bragging that invites trouble.....isn't there enough trouble around without going to look for it?
Do we really need another 'home invasion' martyr?
Posted by: ernest young | April 6, 2004 5:06 PM
Each bag weighs 600kg so not easy to steal, and also the store has been half emptied today.
I think people are getting the wrong idea about me, next week pictures of my flower arranging..
Posted by: Tim | April 6, 2004 5:15 PM
No ernest, I don't really think so.
Posted by: JohnJo | April 6, 2004 6:07 PM
600kgs ? You country boys are sure strong, or do you just smell strong?
Flower arrangement with Venus flycatchers and Amazonian Man-eating Vines....:-)
Posted by: ernest young | April 6, 2004 9:06 PM
Ernest old chap, telehandlers take the sting out of the 600kgs you'll find!
Posted by: Mark | April 7, 2004 12:36 PM
not very bright article.
That stuff was stolen by islamites quite recently.
I hope you have adequate security.
Posted by: Harris | April 7, 2004 12:45 PM
600kgs. - each bag. Mark, old boy! methinks the ale has affected your eyesight...now 60kgs seems more likely.
Posted by: ernest young | April 7, 2004 2:30 PM
Whoops - I meant to extend this entry to show the second photo - it got put up as a new entry, so I corrected that, but lost three comments that had been posted - sorry guys, no censorship meant!
By the way you can just see the back wheel of my tractor on the right to give you an idea of scale.
Posted by: Tim | April 7, 2004 5:26 PM
OK Tim, the dets are ready........beer tomorrow night & I'll give them to you?
Posted by: Mr Free Market | April 7, 2004 11:08 PM
Just for the record - as the earlier one was deleted: My humble apologies for the ragging, - I guess you guys really are strong!
If that is a standard sizes tractor wheel, then those are b-i-g bags.....
Posted by: ernest young | April 7, 2004 11:27 PM
They probably are 600 kgs. Those look like the kind of '1 ton' bags that builders deliver sand in.
The farmer down the lane from me has got about 20 bags on a trailer parked in the side of the lane. But not that insecure due to his homicidal sheepdog who tries to bite my tyres as I drive by. You'd need a forklift and flatbed to pinch more than a few pounds, and unless you looked Native Brit someone would probably notice you.
Posted by: Laban Tall | April 8, 2004 6:51 PM