A Scary Prospect -- What to do?

("Bob Chilcoat" wrote)
Blasing piles of fertilizer can be dangerous! Look up the explosion in
Oppau, Germany in 1921.

"About 7:30 a.m. on September 21, 1921, two powerful explosions occurred
at
the
BASF plant in Oppau, Germany. The explosions destroyed the plant and
approximately 700 nearby houses, and killed 430 persons.


This fertilizer plant was in North Minneapolis. There was a 1940's
neighborhood around the plant. If she went up, I suspect it might have made
the news.

I left mostly because of the chemicals and dust in the air. I did miss the
farm deliveries though.


Montblack

The mine was (IIRC) in or near the ghost town of Hancock. (N38 38.389',
W106 21.408') West of Buena Vista.

--
Bob (Chief Pilot, White Knuckle Airways)


"T o d d P a t t i s t" wrote in message
...

I'd like to know where this mine site was in Colorado - mine
was in SW Colorado and I was age 14 IIRC.

"Corky Scott"


Don't think the placement of the engine had anything to do with it,
it's more the type of brakes (drum or disc) and the amount of bias
they are given by the brake system.

True, bias counts, but the 'vair was very light in the front.


Normally the designers of the braking systems want the fronts to
lockup before the rears, because that is a more stable situation than
having the rears lockup first.

Man, I would rather have the front still steering. Just me.
--
Jim in NC