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bao-zhang-posts-blog · 6 years ago

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Galvanized Horse Fence Efficiently Protect Horse

Galvanized horse fence is made with round, square, and oval pipe Our horse fence panel, made of high quality galvanized square, round and oval pipe is ideal for protecting horse. It has 3-7 rails to support the fence and each rails has different spacing to prevent horse hooves and feet from catching in the fence. It can be used at ranch, farm in shape of round pen and fence box based on the horses' height and number. Our fence panel is produced under professional cut short machine, welded team and packing technology. It is widely used in New Zealand, Australia, America, Western countries and so on.

https://www.horsefencing.org/horsefence/galvanized-horse-fence.html

Fence panel specification:

Pipe style Round pipe Oval pipe Square pipe Material Hot dipped galvanized steel pipe Finishing (zinc coating) More than 15 microns Height × Length 1.6m × 2.1/2.2/2.5m, 1.8m × 2.1/2.2/2.5m, 1.7m × 2.1/2.2/2.3m 1.8m × 2.4m, 1.8m × 3.37m Vertical pipe 32O.D × 1.6mm 42O.D × 1.6mm 50 × 50 RHS × 1.6mm 40 × 40 RHS × 1.6mm 50 × 50 RHS × 1.6mm 40 × 40 RHS × 1.6mm Horizontal pipe 30 × 60mm × 1.6mm 40 × 80mm × 1.6mm 40 × 120mm × 1.6mm Horizontal rails 3-7 Welding Bars and post brackets are fully welded, each weld point is protected with epoxy paint Packing In steel pallet or in bulk

Accessories specification:

Pins and lugs: lugs includes double lug and single lug. Double lug size: 40mm wide × 120mm high with two 16 × 25mm holes. Single lugs size: 40mm wide and 60mm high. with two 16 × 25mm holes. Pins size: 14mm diameter and 170mm long. Panel type A: round pipe

1.8m high 6 rails round pipe drawing Galvanized 6 rails round pipe horse fence panel drawing

6 rails and 6 round pipe fence panels make a fence box Galvanized round pipe horse fence panel

Panel type B: oval pipe

1.8m high 6 rails oval pipe horse fence pane drawing Galvanized 6 rails oval pipe horse fence panel drawing

1.8m high 5 rails oval pipe horse fence pane drawing Galvanized 5 rails oval pipe horse fence panel drawing

5 rails galvanized horse fence panel in stock 5 rails galvanized oval pipe horse fence panel

Panel type C: square pipe

1.8m high 6 rails square pipe horse fence pane drawing Galvanized 6 rails square pipe horse fence panel drawing

1.6m high 5 rails square pipe horse fence pane drawing Galvanized 5 rails square pipe horse fence panel drawing

6 rails galvanized horse fence panel in stock 6 rails galvanized square pipe horse fence panel

Drawing example:

A 1.8m square pipe panel with 6 rails drawing Feature

Portable: simple and fast to install make the panel quite flexible. Strong: High quality steel pipe and 360 degree fully welded make the fence very strong. High zinc or PVC coated makes the fence durable. Chain lock can make the fence panel together stable. Highly stand the crash of horse. Protection: Connected with welded bracket lugs and join pins. No need to dig holes and lay foundations, protect the grassland. No sharp spearhead, smoothly welded. Different spacing of each horizontal rail avoids the horse fence head and feet damaged. Anti-rust: hot galvanized pipe makes the fence difficult to rust and the vertical rails are welded with metal cap to prevent rust inside. Maintenance: our hot dipped galvanized horse fence panel can apply for 10-15 years. During the application, if the fence panel paint is removed carelessly you can recover it simply and quickly. Besides the fence panel is not easy to be damaged by horse. The fence panel should keep away the chemistry and alkaline materials and the acid rain. Image details:

Two fence panel are locked by chain lock and details Galvanized horse fence chain lock details

Horizontal and vertical rail show the zinc coating smooth surface Galvanized horse fence zinc coating detail

Metal rain cap show the fully welded Galvanized horse fence metal cap is fully welded

Two fence panel is connected by pins and detail Fence panel is connected by pin

Application:

The fence panel is widely used in the pasture, especially for the horse, cattle and other large animals. It can be used to separate the animals and make square and round pen.

6 rails oval pipe fence panel used as a pen for horse Galvanized 6 rails oval pipe fence panel encircles the horse

7 rails round pipe fence panel makes a box for horse 7 rails round pipe panel encircles a box for horse

4 rails galvanized square pipe panel used as a temporary pen for horse 4 rails square pipe panel encircles temporary pen

13 galvanized fence panels and gate makes round pen at pasture Fence used as round pen

Packing and loading Fence panel:

It has the soft sponge at the bottom of pallet to prevent the fence panel be damaged. It has plastic film and 6 carton papers to prevent the plastic bandage damage the panel. It has 4 plastic bandages to make the fence panel more strong. The fence panel can also be packed with steel plate or in bulk. Accessories:

Pins and lugs are packed in plastic bags then packed in carton boxes.

Two pallets galvanized fence panel packed with steel plate Fence packed with steel plate

fence panel in bulk to dry the paint Fence air dry the paint

a pallet galvanized fence panel packed with steel plate on container Fence panels contained

Many galvanized round pipe gates in bulk in container Gate contained in bulk

One galvanized double lugs Galvanized double lugs

One galvanized single lug galvanized single lugs

One galvanized fence panel pin Galvanized pin

One galvanized double lug and one single lugs connected by pin Lugs are connected by pin

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hebei-oulite · 2 years ago

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downtowns-universe · 6 years ago

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52 stories #42

A story about a road trip

Characters: Ari, Seb

Words: 1673

They’d seen nothing but corn fields for the last two hours. Endless stretches of farm land, sometimes intersected by wire, a ditch or a patch of grass land, for as far as the eye could see. There was the occasional farm house sat amidst the fields, a dirt road snaking up towards it, but overall the scenery was very monotonous. They barely ran into other people using the road, just some local farmers and their machines. It reminded Ari of being out on the seas somewhat: the same view all the way up to the horizon; the stalks swaying in subtle waves, moved by the wind; the sense of being completely and utterly alone…

Only on the sea she wouldn’t have been lost.

Technically there was only one road here they could follow, so she didn’t imagine they were that lost, but she still had no clue where she was driving. They’d passed no towns for a while, and there weren’t any road signs out here. Seb, next to her in the passenger seat, had been studying a map but had put it away for now. First they needed some kind of point of reference.

The idea of a road trip had been very exciting at first. Seb had been helping her with a shipment, which had to be delivered to Miami, conveniently the place where Ari’s car had been parked – for months now, she never used the thing. With it, they’d been planning to visit Luke, driving from there to his farm. After some initial start-up problems (who knew batteries didn’t like not being used for a long time) they’d started their journey in the early morning. Now the day was coming to a close, they’d passed through multiple states but they weren’t anywhere near their destination yet. They were getting close to the state – she hoped – but it was still a couple of hours to go from there. They had to decide soon whether they wanted to keep driving or find a place to stay for the night. If they ever got out of this corn field, that was.

"Have you done this before?" Seb asked, looking out of the window.

"Nope," Ari shrugged. "I mean, of course I've driven around the country, but never to Luke. Usually I just take a portal, or ask Tharryn if he's around. Much faster. I barely have time to see him anyway, so why take the effort?"

"We could have done that now as well, you know?"

"I know," Ari smiled. "But I like hanging out with you."

"Even though we're completely lost?"

"Especially then."

"What about when I almost made us crash?"

"That was... less fun."

Seb had taken over the wheel for a while, a couple of hours ago. But Seb being... well, Seb, he'd gotten distracted by something alongside the road, and they would've crashed into an oncoming truck if Ari hadn't grabbed the wheel on time. She'd gone back to driving shortly after that.

"Told you: you shouldn't have let me drive," Seb shrugged.

He took a swig from a bottle next to him. She was definitely not letting him drive now.

"Luke should just move to the coast, then we wouldn't have this problem," he suggested.

"I know, right?"

“You’d probably see him more often, too.”

“Being at sea means you don’t get to see each other often. You know that,” Ari pointed out.

“I know. I just meant you’d get to see him more if he was… easier to reach.”

“True. It’s not gonna happen, though. He’d never leave the farm.”

She chuckled.

“And I’ll never leave the sea. It’s always going to be complicated. But that’s alright. We have phones and stuff now. And I’ve never been one for relationships anyway.”

“Oh, I know,” Seb grinned, probably remembering some event from the past. There were plenty to choose from, in all the years they’d spent together.

It wasn’t that she hadn’t tried, or wasn’t interested. She loved flirting. She’d been with a lot of people: men, women – it didn’t matter. These encounters just rarely felt any different from the way she felt about her friends – the obvious difference being sharing a bed with them. She cared about them, enjoyed spending time with them, but had no interest in doing romantic, couple-related activities, or to stick together as if inseparable the way she’d seen some couples behave. She preferred to have some space, that’s why she, unlike Seb, made sure never to get involved with anyone on the ship – which wouldn’t be a great idea anyway considering she was their captain.

“Is that a road sign?” Seb asked, pointing at something in the distance and leaning in to get a better look.

“It might be. Might also be just another sign advertising corn.”

“At this point I might just buy the corn, too. Why didn’t we bring more snacks?”

“Because we’re terrible road-trippers?”

“We are.”

“Just out of curiosity: what are you planning on doing with raw corn?”

“I don’t know!”

As the sign got closer, they could see that it was indeed a road sign. Seb studied his map, looking if any of the towns mentioned seemed familiar.

“Alright, I got it!” he said after a while.

They’d passed the sign by now. Ari had chosen to keep following the road they were on, as the others seemed to be smaller dirt roads, and that was not what they were looking for right now. Not yet.

“We’re still on track,” Seb explained, pointing at a spot on the map. “We just have to keep following this road until it splits and then go left. Then we’ll get to a town pretty soon.”

“Hopefully they’ll have food there. And gas.”

“And a place to stay the night, maybe?” Seb suggested. “Unless you want to keep driving all night.”

“No, it’d be best to take a break,” she agreed. “Luke can wait a little longer. And besides: I really want a drink.”

“That can be arranged,” Seb said as he offered her the bottle.

“In a bit,” she smiled.

The intersection was already coming up, sooner than she’d expected. Only seeing corn fields for hours and hours really messed up your sense of time or direction.

“Almost there,” she grinned as she turned left.

As the road was going slightly downhill, they could already see the tiny lights from the town in the distance, an island in a sea of corn. There were some grasslands surrounding the town as well, probably for cattle, appearing to belong to small farms. Nothing like the scale on which Luke’s farm was set up. It was a fairly small town, and Ari hoped there’d even be a place around where they could crash. Otherwise they’d have to sleep in the car.

Luckily she wasn’t disappointed, as she noticed a sign advertising rooms while entering town. Following it, they ended up at a small house, a colourful garden in front of it. The streets were abandoned and no one seemed to be outside, but there was a light burning in some of the rooms so they decided to make their way inside. An older lady, who’d been quietly knitting, a TV playing in the background, welcomed them and after checking a ledger told them she still had a room available. Ari got the impression they were the only ones staying here at the moment, but she didn’t mention it. The lady sorted everything out, then pointed them to a place where they’d be able to get some food.

It wasn’t a very great diner: the place was dark and the tables were sticky, but compared to some of the shady taverns they’d frequented in the past it wasn’t that bad. There were a few locals sitting here and there in the booths, looking curiously at the newcomers.

“Ah, yes. That lovely small town vibe,” Ari commented when they sat down.

“The true road trip experience,” Seb added.

“This place better have something good to drink. I could really use some by now.”

“I’m sure they’ll have something.”

The waitress took their orders, looking a little bit bored, and they quietly viewed the route they’d have to follow the next day while waiting for their food to arrive. When it arrived it wasn’t bad, but not great either. They ordered a few rounds of drinks, then went back to the place they’d be staying the night.

“I don’t know about you, but I’m going straight to bed,” Ari said while dropping herself onto the mattress.

“Same. Good night,” Seb answered.

The next day they were up early and after having some breakfast, prepared by the sweet old lady, they continued on their way. After about another hour of corn, the landscape around them changed. They passed through some more towns, surrounded by grassland, interchanged with forests. Seb talked a lot, telling stories and reminiscing about things they’d been through together. Ari mostly listened, and only added on to them sporadically. She felt tired, even though she’d slept really well. She supposed driving all day just wasn’t her thing. But it wouldn’t be long now until she’d see Luke again and until she could relax.

Around noon, the landscape started to look more familiar to her. They were still surrounded by fields, marked off with wire fences between which cattle roamed. But there was something about it that caused a spark of recognition. Then they passed through the town she’d visited before with Luke, for grocery shopping or other business, and it felt good to have something she recognised after having been on the road for so long. It wasn’t long until she recognised the fields they drove by as Luke’s, and a familiar roof became visible in the distance. Upon coming closer, she could make out a figure standing outside, in the process of unloading a pickup truck. He waved as soon as he’d noticed them. She passed by him on the driveway, parked the car next to the house, and smiled. She was home.

#story #52stories2018 #ari #seb

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jrcozens011 · 3 years ago

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Comprehensive Paddock AndLawn Maintenance With State Of The Art Equipment

Gardening and maintenance of a lawn is time-consuming and for a large area, it requires professional help. There are a number of things that needs to be taken care of for a healthy and blooming garden. But, when it comes to a paddock, it requires extra care and attention.

The professional Paddock maintenance services helps in maintaining the condition of the paddock and ensure the horses are healthy. The fenced area is mostly used for keeping horses and hence its regular maintenance improves the health condition of the horses. It even creates a healthy and nutrient rich sward without unnecessary weeds for the horses.

Ø Comprehensive Maintenance of Commercial and Residential Lawns

If you have a house with a lawn, the regular mowing of grass and clearing of weed is essential to maintain the lawn. The professional gardener Norwich have expertise in using the equipment for mowing the lawn and ensure elimination of unwanted, invasive weeds to make way for growing plants or flowers.

Weeds are quite invasive in nature and tend to grow in excess when the weather is warm. The weeds tend to make the lawn uneven with its non-uniform growth. The gardeners or paddock service provide use equipment to evenly remove the weeds without damaging the grass and help with comprehensive maintenance.

The commercial lawns are sprayed with weed control to prevent its overgrowth. This is one of the best ways to maintain the grassland even for properties that are unoccupied. The combination of spraying and machine helps in controlling growth of weeds on pathways, carparks, and lawns.

Ø Manicuring the Lawns and Paddock with Advance Techniques

The Paddock maintenance services provide effective weed control and ensure it maintains the health of the paddock. It reduces the growth of the competitive weeds and small plants and hence ensure the grassland is kept well. This prevents growth of poisonous weeds which might be toxic to the horses.

· Time to time elimination of plants like buttercup, dock or thistles helps in creating a safe atmosphere for the grass. This reduces the transmission of infection and maintain a good diet for horses.

· The weeds are removed by systematic spraying on non-toxic herbicide. A uniform paddock is ensured with scheduled maintenance using harrowing to mow the excessive grass.

· Harrowing is done with equipment to remove dead grass, thatch, and hence prevents the excess growth and clogging of the grassland. This improves the soil quality and ensure ample sunlight reaches the plant guarantying healthy grassland.

· The barren patches are brough to life with help of drilling and reseeding technique. This helps in growth of new grass which provides fodder for the horses. The technique is done through well-calibrated machines.

Ø Ensuring Professional Maintenance of Gardens and Lawns

With the help of Gardener Norwich it becomes easy to maintain and keep up a blooming garden. There are many services offered including clearance of unwanted vegetation, maintenance of hedge, and lawn resurfacing with help of specialized equipment. The professionals helps with maintenance of small lawns to large company and estate lawns.

#paddock maintenance services gardenernorwich

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oakviewartificialgrass · 4 years ago

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Artificial Grass Society’s Take On Staying Close To Nature

Introduction

With the advancement of technology, the entire world is spinning around machines and computers. People forgot to take some time out and stay in the lap of Mother Nature. Everything came to become a part of a never-ending rat race where all the people are indulged in making money and a healthy lifestyle while they forget about the simple joys of life. Trees are being chopped down mercilessly, and parks after parks are being turned into parking spots or even buildings or shopping malls. And it has been very difficult to find a grassland or natural grass anywhere; thus, people did narrow it down to having synthetic grass instead of real grass.

Steps of Installing Artificial Grass

Even though installing artificial grass might seem difficult, there are many artificial grass companies that help in the installation of grass and help get all the things set up. In the following even you can install artificial grass by yourself: -

1.Removing pre-existing grass or weeds: Use your gardening tools like shovels and cutters to get rid of the pre-existing grass and weed that are already there. If you are setting it up on your balcony, then you might skip this step.

2.Excavating at least two inches or more: To allow proper drainage and water passage, it is really important to have a proper drainage system to have a sanitary situation in the lawn. The water should be allowed to flow properly, and the water should not be stagnated to avoid water-borne insects and other insects.

3. Installing fences or boards to border the installation's perimeter- These things are important as the fences do act as a protector, and the entire thing encloses the grass, and the grass stays protected from animals like cats, dogs, and children, and the grass remains safe.

4. Arranging an irrigation head: Arranging an irritational head and reconfiguring them to spray the lawn helps keep everything clean. Synthetic grass tends to get dirty most of the time; therefore, cleaning it up with sprays now and then is really good for the grass to keep it clean and fresh. Sometimes, if you have a pet, then it is really important to spray and wash the lawn once a day to keep the environment sanitary. Thus, keeping a proper irrigation system is essential.

5. Add gravel- After making sure all the weeds are ripped off and the irrigation is proper, you need to add gravel and add composite and other organic fertilizers so that there are a well and clean soil for the synthetic grass to thrive upon.

6. Letting the gravel set: After the entire gravel is compactly set up, it is important to let it sit and wet it so that it can act as a good base for the artificial grass. Also, when stiff, the mud holds onto the grass really well, for which it is really important to get it wet and let it sit.

7. Finally, installing the artificial grass- Firstly, they need to set up the weed mat and get the base ready for the synthetic turf, and after that being done, the synthetic turf has to be set, and the final cuts should be made to make it look prim and proper.

Conclusion

With the emergence of the need for artificial grass, artificial grass companies also started popping up. The companies provide you with all the information regarding the artificial grass and help you keep it proper. And also, the maintenance cost is really low when compared to natural grass. Thus, it is more considerable in public places.

#Installing Artificial Grass #Artificial Grass Companies

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gamehayapkmod · 5 years ago

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Offroad Jeep mountain climb 3d

Game Offroad Jeep mountain climb 3d là dòng game Racing

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🚙 2016 year of offroad hill climbing Meet mark stim, the young offroad aspiring asphalt racer. He is about to embark on a most wanted racing journey where no limits exist to stop his hill climb racing 3d. Face the supercharged hill racing environments with all of 8 hill racing vehicles. Show your hill climb powers and hills racing stunts to get a free hill climb race license. Earn more cash in this 2016 driving mission to upgrade your vehicle and become best 4wd hilltop driver. To make your racing dreams true eight different racer vehicles are added. So would you like to pick a cargo truck or six wheeler hills monster. Also you can try hilly 4*4 S.U.V or army 6*6. For hilltop driver 4*4 jeep is also here. Moreover, may be you are going to choose army truck as your ultimate clutch driving machine! Or I think you want to go with one of the marvellous raid truck or an impressive offroad jeep. ✔ Tips: How to win Game winning hierarchy has no rocket science but is simple in functionality. Drive offroad jeep or other hill climb racing vehicles in mountain and hills. Accelerate and go now, offroad jeep mountain racing world is yours. ➫ More Offroad Jeep Features ⇒ 10 Numerous stages with levels to reach in each more challenging stage. ⇒ Cool graphics and smooth physics simulation ⇒ Free open world 4x4 offroad hill climbing. ⇒ Real time reflections and outstanding 4x4 offroad vehicles. ⇒ Bright 3D panoramic racing view. ⇒ Various game modes to enjoy the crazy joy! ⇒ Realistic and stunning drums, cylinders, fences, traffic cones and other barriers. ⇒ Breathtaking visuals of mountains, hill, trees and complete grassland. ⇒ A 3d arrow to guide offroad racer to complete his track. ⇒ Realistic car controls of race, brake, dashboard and meter. ⇒ Use any movement controller option from tilt, steering and and arrows. ⇒ 5 different camera angles to give you more control in hill climbing duty. ⇒ Realistic front, neutral and back gears to move all around the mountain. ⇒ Compatible to all Mobiles and Tabs. ☑ What’s inside in game Offroad jeep mountain climb 3d has great physics based motion principles. A big daring ride for racers to drive at track covered by mountains, slopes, rocks, sharp angles and turns. Reach to different targets. Many of the new advanced 3d models of barriers, drums, cylinders and traffic cones have been added to make you best motor rider of 2016. No need to go driving school for driving test.Avoid collision with fences, wooden racks, boxes and other obstacles and make your race challenge for your friends. Use powerful front and back gears to climb over mountain.Use either tilt ,steering or arrow navigation control at the frightened twists,turns and rounds during the whole jeep mountain climb.In offroad jeep mountain climb 3d, five different camera angles exist to gain more jeep racing control and enjoy complete 3d detailed environment with trees, grassland, hills and mountains. Did you ever dream about drifting spectacular racing vehicles to the limit line on a drag strip? Offroad jeep mountain climb 3d includes many of awesome mountain jeep and vehicles for your traffic drive. Unlock your car to achieve next missions ✌ Racer! All the best GameObject Studio optimized offroad jeep mountain climb 3d for all smartphone users and designed for 4x4, jeep and offroad simulator and hill climbers. Wish you gaming year 2016. - GamePlay Improvements - Rewarded Videos

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nasra36 · 10 days ago

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Secure Fencing

Secure Fencing is professional manufacturer & supplier of Hi-Speed Fencing Machines in India with a unique product portfolio covering the entire range of Automatic Chain Link Fencing Machine, Barbed Wire making machine, Gabion Box Making machine, Welded Wire Mesh Machine & Wire Mesh Products. Presenting one of the most disruptive grassland field fence machine products in the fencing industry which manufactures more durable types of fencing for the industry. Secure Fencing is a Leading Semi Automatic Chain Link Fencing Machine manufacturing company in India. Secure Fencing is a Leading Knot Fence Machine manufacturing company in India. We offering Knot Fencing Machine at Best Price in India.

#Secure Fencing #semi automatic chain link #knote fence machine

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lurkingcrow · 7 years ago

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important question for you: is the Emu War something that really happened?

Yes, but it didn’t exactly happen the way you think...

I mean honestly, we love to tell the story because we Aussies can’t resist a tale about out wildlife, but it was a lot less grand than we make out.

So it’s 1932 and the Great Recession hit Australia hard. In particular, farmers in Campion district in Western Australia were hit hard by falling wheat prices despite having a crop ready for harvest. Government stuff ups were involved, things were getting heated, and then the Emus arrived. 20 000 of them.

See, emus are migratory. And a lot of the farmland was newly developed where previously there had been bush. Which meant the birds wandered in and discovered OPEN GRASSLAND! With available WATER! And CONVENIENT SNACKING! It was murderbird paradise!

Also they apparently had a grudge against fences. If you’ve seen an emu’s legs you understand exactly how much damage that was adding up to...

So as it happens a LOT of these farmers were WWI vets who were sent out to develop the area after the war. They’d seen what modern weaponry could do to enemy armies, and they sure as hell saw the emus as being similar. So they petitioned the Govt. to send them some machine guns to take out the menaces...

Given how pissed off they’d been the Defence Minister jumped at the chance and sent two machine guns to the district along with trained operators to undertake an emu cull.

It failed.

Spectacularly.

Because strangely enough, when you shoot at them Emus will run. And dodge. And machine guns are stationary. They just couldn’t get into range. They tried herding them, the birds would split into small groups. The guns would jam. They barely made a dint in the numbers. It was a failure.

And of course the reason we all know about it today is that the Minister’s political rivals had a GREAT time in Parliament with the whole affair. He was dubbed “The Minister of the Emu War” and from there on it was history!

So yeah, small time pest extermination mission gone hilariously but not horrifically bad. Given our history with pest control efforts, you can understand why we take it with good humour!

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ysyvyly · 7 years ago

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oneirologue eighteen

November 2017. Walking along some elaborate, diverse, seemingly boundless terrain in strong daylight, I encountered beside some beach near some forest the first evident synthetic objects in the area. One of these was some sort of boxlike structure, composed at least partially of chainlink fence, apparently for spectators, with a stage or arena before the area where potential spectators (of whom there were none present when I saw this) were to stand or sit; there may have been chairs or a bench in this area. I passed by this structure though i did not enter it. The other was some immense conveyor machine. I then passed through a mountainous (desert?) region. While i can’t recall the entirety of the long voyage that it must have been, at some point time was passing rather swiftly from some fixed perspective, and though i didn’t seem to be physically present i watched the Sun rise and set in this mountainous region. I was then walking along some dry grassland, perhaps part of a group of tourists, eventually encountering signs indicating that I was/we were in Peru (about which i know little) and some more structures, such as a covered bridge that I/we may have passed through at some point. After this, I/we reached an area with much shallow and still water, which may have had a large structure (a castle?) at the point at which we then turned around. On the way back, we crossed over some of this water by some ragged cliff several meters tall, which may have had a cavern. In this water there were various shining masks, which I/we retrieved from the water and examined, perhaps even trying one on, before placing them back in the water. The area with the structure for spectators and the conveyor machine was passed by again, perhaps at least slightly different somehow this time, and perhaps in third-person perspective at this point.

#oneirologue #conveyor #masks in the water #dream

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nightmare-afton-cosplay · 8 years ago

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Houses For Sale in Bronson, KS

670 Soldier Rd, Bronson, KS

Price: $1930700

1 1/2 story home o 878 ac m/l, 3 bedroom 2 bath Brick home, CH/A, full basement, large covered porch, Detached garage. machine shed, grain bins,& barn, cattle barn,machine shed & horse barn, pipe corral & cattle facilitates 92.2ac m/l in CRP until 2018 49.40 per acre a year, 126 acres m/l row crop, 660 acres prairie pasture & cool season grass pasture, 2 lakes, 3 ponds numerous springs 1 well.

Soldier Rd, Bronson, KS

Price: $1931600

Eastern Kansas Cattle Ranch. 878ac m/l Cattle Ranch, 218ac m/l tillable, 160 ac m/l of Native pasture & improved pasture, 92.2ac m/l CRP at $49.40 per acre comes out in 2018. Pasture is fenced & crossed fenced, 2 lakes, 3 ponds, numerous springs, 1 well, RW. 1 1/2 story Ranch home w/full Basement. machine shed,garden shed, barn, cattle & horse barn, pipe corral & working facilities, 5 grain bins. (also posted in Residential MLS# 1982400)

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A nice secluded farm with great habitat, terrain changes, thick cover, fencing, a small pond, a running creek, and lots of deer sign.

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omgmuchang123universe-blog · 6 years ago

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Welded Wire Security Fence for Farm, House, Road, Plant Fencing

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We vacation in the outdoors to get away from it all, but Mother Nature can be cruelly indifferent. These people didn’t beat nature at its own game, but they didn’t let it beat them, either. They just did what humans do best — think their way out of their problems.

#1 Steven Callahan In 1981, amateur sailor and naval inventor Steven Callahan departed Newport, Rhode Island by himself on a 21-foot sailboat and sailed it all the way south to Bermuda, then northeast across the entire Atlantic Ocean to England. He intended to sail in the transatlantic “Mini Transat 6.50” Sail Race, in which single-manned sailboats travel from Penzance, England to Antigua in the West Indies. The weather turned foul en route and Callahan dropped out of the race, electing instead to sightsee down Spain, Portugal and then the Canary Islands, from which he departed on January 29, 1982 for Antigua. One week later, in the middle of the Atlantic, his sailboat was swamped in a severe storm and he fled into a six-foot-wide life raft with an emergency kit containing a speargun, a flaregun, a little tinned food, star charts and two solar stills, which desalinate ocean water. The food lasted him about a week, after which he took to fishing with the speargun. He was also able to eat barnacles that fixed themselves to the raft and birds he caught by hiding in a sleeping bag with fish left on the raft’s edge. Callahan drifted for 76 days, during which he saw nine ships on the horizon but none close enough to see his flares. He did sit-ups and algebra problems to maintain his sanity, until he finally spied the lights of Marie-Galante Island off the coast of Guadeloupe. He had lost 60 pounds and developed severe saltwater sores, but the doctors in Gaudeloupe’s hospital were astounded by how healthy he still was. When asked what he wanted to eat, he said, “Land food.” He left the hospital after only seven hours, and less than four weeks later he started hitchhiking his way back to America on merchant ships.

#2 Beck Weathers Weathers is a doctor of pathology and amateur mountaineer who became stranded in a blizzard on Mount Everest on May 10, 1996, about 800 yards below the summit. At this altitude a blizzard turns the ground, sky, and everything else white, and climbers run a risk of simply falling off the mountain by walking toward what they think is a wall. Finding one’s way is almost impossible because there’s no way to gain one’s bearings. Weathers had also just undergone eye surgery, and so the altitude and snow rendered him blind. Weathers tried to walk back down the way he had come, but he could no longer make out his footprints and quickly veered far off course. He had no tent and couldn’t find his way back to camp, so he was forced to spend the first half of the night sitting out in the open, alone and exposed to 60-mph winds at 40 degrees below zero. Although he wore professional climbing gear, Weathers’ hands, arms, nose and ears were exposed and froze almost completely solid, to the point that he was unable to bend his fingers or elbows. He called incessantly for help for three hours, but didn’t have the breath to be overheard above the wind. So he decided to take his chances at finding the camp, and found it by groping into a tent he couldn’t see. Professional mountaineer Anatoli Boukreev found him and dragged him inside, then left to search for other climbers in distress. When he returned he found Weathers alone in the tent, moaning and shivering under two sleeping bags. He told Weathers that if he could survive the night, he would have to walk down the next morning. When morning came, Boukreev helped Weathers to his feet and told him that if he couldn’t walk down to a lower camp on his own he would die, so Weathers walked on feet that had frozen beyond feeling. He claimed that he couldn’t tell when his feet had hit the snow until he felt his knees bending. He was airlifted from camp and survived severe hypothermia. His hands were both amputated, as were his nose and parts of his feet. Mountaineering expert Jim Wickwire has stated that his survival is “beyond belief.”

#3 Shin Dong-hyuk Shin is the only person known to have been born in a North Korean prison camp who successfully escaped. He lived for 22 years in Camp 14 in Kaechon, North Korea, where prisoners are tortured, executed, and worked to death by the thousands. Shin saw over 30 people executed, and when he accidentally broke a sewing machine he was punished by a guard who chopped off the first joint of his right middle finger. He was starved to the point that he hated his own mother and brother because they competed with him for food. His meals were always cabbage soup with corn, which he supplemented with raw rats and insects. When he overheard his mother and brother planning to escape, he informed on them as instructed. He expected a reward of food, but the guards tortured him for four days to extract more information. Then they executed his mother and brother in front of him, and spat in his face. He claims that he didn’t understand how to love his family, nor did he even really know what a family was. He had no knowledge of the outside world until 2005, when a prisoner told Shin that the outside he could eat as much as he wanted. That’s how Shin defines freedom today. The two hatched an escape plan that entailed waiting for work duty on top of a mountain ridge where fewer guards patrolled. Once the guards were out of sight, the other prisoner tried to pass over the bottom wire of the electrified fence but was electrocuted. Shin crawled over his grounded body and escaped, although his feet caught the wire and were badly burned. He broke into a farm and stole a 10 pound bag of rice which he traded for cigarettes, then travelled 80 miles to the Chinese border where the guards accepted his bribe of cigarettes to let him into China. There he worked various menial jobs until a South Korean journalist learned of his plight and brought him to South Korea. Shin says that he now understands the value of family and regrets how he treated his mother and brother. He currently works as an anti-North Korean activist.

#4 Joseph Simpson In 1985, Simpson and his friend Simon Yates attempted to be the first to climb the West Face of Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes. They made the ascent successfully but descended via the perilous North Ridge. Simpson lost his footing on an ice cliff and slid off onto a ledge of bare rock. This caused his right shin bone to split his kneecap. They still needed to descend another 3,000 feet before camping, because they had no more fuel for their stove and would freeze otherwise. Yates tied two ropes together to reach Simpson so he could pull himself back up the cliff, but Simpson’s hands were so frostbitten that he couldn’t hold onto the ropes. The ice under Yates was melting, and rather than both men being dragged to their death Yates cut the rope to save himself. Simpson plummeted into a crevasse. Yates descended the mountain the next day assuming Simpson was dead, but he wasn’t — although he couldn’t climb out of the crevasse with a broken leg and no rope. So he decided to jump deeper into the crevasse and pray for an exit. He found a small hole in the glacier, and he then crawled down the glacier for three days with no food and only chunks of ice for water. He had to navigate around other crevasses and fields of ice blocks the size of houses before reaching dirt. From there he hopped five miles back to base camp where Yates was almost ready to leave. Simpson made a full recovery.

#5 John Colter Colter was possibly the very first mountain man, an explorer of the pioneer days of the American West during a time when Natives were still abundant and often hostile to white settlers. Colter, an excellent hunter, scout and trader, was an indispensable member of Lewis and Clark’s Expedition to the Pacific. In March of 1809 Colter went off to explore the Yellowstone area. He was accompanied by members of the Crow Nation when they were attacked by some 400 men of the Blackfoot tribe, which shot at them with flintlocks while Colter and company were navigating the Jefferson tributary of the Missouri. Colter’s canoe was filled with so many holes that it sank. Colter rolled out of the boat and swam to shore, throwing down his arms and making a show of giving up. Since he han’t shown any aggression, the Blackfoot didn’t kill him. Instead they stripped him naked and told him to run away. So he ran, and when he looked back he saw a dozen men chasing him with bows and spears. Colter turned out to be swift-footed and in fine shape, outpacing them for four miles over uneven grassland. When he looked back a second time only one Blackfoot was still close, so Colter decided to face the man and spun around to fight. This surprised the Native, who was too exhausted to stop and take careful aim with his spear. He tried to throw it, but stuck the spear in the ground and fell over it, snapping the shaft. Colter snatched up the spearhead, stabbed the man, yanked a blanket out of his satchel and resumed running before the rest of the party could catch up. One mile later he reached the Madison River, ran in and ducked underwater into a beaver lodge. The Blackfoot passed him by. He then walked 11 days in temperatures below -20 Fahrenheit until he found the Little Big Horn River and a trading post. He had drunk from rivers and eaten nothing in that time.

#6 Hiroo Onoda Onoda was a Japanese Army Intelligence officer who refused to believe that Japan had surrendered at the end of World War II. He had been assigned to Lubang Island, Philippines as a saboteur to blow up airstrips, sink ships and hamper the enemy however possible. Per his orders, he refused to commit suicide or to surrender except to his immediate commander. News of the war’s end was distributed to the jungle in which he hid via air-dropped leaflets with General Yamashita’s signature. Onoda believed they were forgeries. He was accompanied by three other soldiers who continued for years to believe the war was on, and waged it via the sporadic killing of livestock, shootouts with Filipino police, and arson against rice farms. Onoda was eventually left alone as his band of men were killed or deserted and gave themselves up. An explorer named Norio Suzuki discovered Onoda on February 20, 1974 after four days wandering through the jungle. They became friends, but Onoda refused to surrender to anyone but his commanding officer, Major Yoshimi Taniguchi. Taniguchi was notified, and he flew to Lubang, found Onoda, told him that the war had ended and asked him to surrender. Onoda did so, surrendering his rifle, ammunition and seven hand grenades. Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos pardoned him, and Onoda turned to raising livestock. He also became an international celebrity, before passing away in January, 2014.

#7 Alexander Selkirk Selkirk was a Scottish sailor and small-time brigand who, in 1703, served as sailing master under Captain Thomas Stradling of the Cinque Ports. Their orders were to hunt down and sink Spanish merchant ships during the War of the Spanish Succession. They carried the war around Cape Horn and north along Chile, to an island called Mas a Tierra (“More Ground”). Selkirk was terrified that the Cinque Ports would sink. He deemed it woefully unseaworthy and requested to be let off on the uninhabited island rather than risk going down with the ship. Stradling complied, and Selkirk spent the next four years by himself waiting for another ship. His provisions were a musket with gunpowder and balls, one knife, extra clothes, carpentry tools and a Bible. He lived along the beach for a few weeks, but was aggravated by the noise of mating sea lions and so moved in the interior. He found wild goats, cabbage, turnips and coconuts more than sufficient for a balanced diet. However, his solitude nearly drove him to suicide, and he maintained his sanity by reading the Bible and singing Psalms. His knife broke, so he made another out of some old iron. He thatched two huts out of pimento trees and chased down goats after he ran out of gunpowder. His father had been a tanner, and Selkirk had the know-how to make new clothing out of goatskin. Two ships landed on the island, but both were Spanish and they would probably have killed him, so he hid. In 1709 Captain William Dampier of the Duke landed, and Selkirk was beside himself with glee to see the flags of England and Scotland. Campier’s men were so ridden with scurvy that they could pull their teeth out, but Selkirk saved them with his coconut stash. His story became instantly popular throughout Europe and inspired Daniel Defoe to write Robinson Crusoe. Selkirk’s island is today called Robinson Crusoe Island. The Cinque Ports did indeed sink, with the survivors being taken prisoner by the Spanish.

#8 Sir Douglas Mawson Mawson was an Australian expedition leader who led a team of scientists to explore King George V Land, a slender section of the continent few people had seen. The party landed at Cape Denison, Antarctica on January 8, 1912. Roald Amundsen had been the first person to reach the South Pole only a month earlier. While the scientists did experiments at the main base, Mawson led two men, Xavier Mertz and Belgrave Ninnis, on a dogsled expedition to map the coast and collect soil and rock samples. After five weeks they crossed a glacier some 290 miles from the main base, when Ninnis, jogging next to Mawson’s sledge, plunged through the ice into a crevasse. Mawson and Mertz never saw him again, and Ninnis took an entire team of six dogs down with him, along with a first aid kit, most of the food and the only tent. The two men set out on the return trip with only a week’s worth of food, and drove the dogs non-stop for 27 hours to reach a makeshift tent. They had to slaughter some of their dogs for food for themselves and the remaining dogs. The best runners were spared, but the meat was almost completely devoid of desperately needed fat. They resorted to eating the dogs’ livers which, like polar bear liver, is so high in Vitamin A it will kill you if you eat too much of it. Mertz couldn’t stomach the gristly meat, ate too much of the liver and suffered a marked psychological change. One day, after a few hours of sleep, Mertz simply refused to get up and said, “Let me die. I don’t care.” Mawson forced him to get up and continue. Mertz started suffering from severe diarrhea and subsequent dehydration, and attempted to prove that he did not have frostbite by biting off the first joint of his left middle finger — he didn’t feel it and didn’t bleed. He then started flailing and Mawson had to sit on him to protect the tent. Mertz slipped into a coma and died. Mawson was experiencing severe dizziness, abdominal cramps and an onset of jaundice. He briefly considered whether his chances would be better if he ate Mertz, but vowed to live off the dogs or die a civilized man. Mawson set out on the last 100 miles with only three dogs to pull his sled, finally killing and eating all of them. He later fell into a crevasse himself, and would have plummeted to his death if his sled hadn’t cut into the ice above him. He spent four and a half hours climbing out via his lead rope, then abandoned his sled and walked all the way back to the main base. The ship that would have taken him back to Tasmania had left four hours earlier. He and six men who remained to look for his team were forced to wait a full year for another ship to return. Mawson lost 50 pounds, but no appendages.

#9 The Crew of the Commerce The Commerce was an American merchant ship that wrecked off the coast of Western Sahara in August 1815. When Captain James Riley and his 11 men ventured inland, a Sahrawi tribe killed one of them. The rest fled to their dinghy and attempted to row to the Cape Verde Islands, but had to return to the African coast due to a lack of supplies. They resolved that rather than die of dehydration they would offer themselves as slaves to the first tribe they encountered. That tribe was the Oulad Bou Sbaa, or “Children of the Father of the Lions.” The nomads took the men they wanted then went their separate ways, breaking the party up. Riley wrote in his memoirs that the tribesmen beat him and his men daily, starved them and forced them to drink urine. Riley managed to learn their language well enough to request more water in return for better work, a request they granted. A year and a half into their travails the tribe was approached by Egyptian Arabs, one of whom was named Seti Hamet. He spoke French, and Riley told him that if he would buy Riley and his three companions Riley knew a good friend in Essaouira, Morocco who would pay Hamet’s price and give him an American revolver. Hamet agreed, stating that if Riley was lying, which he was, Hamet would cut his throat. Riley wrote a letter explaining his situation and begging the reader to pay the money. On the trip north the Arabs treated the men much better, and together they fought off marauding bands of hostile tribes. The Arabs didn’t know the area well either, and the whole party nearly died of thirst before reaching Essaouira. Hamet took the note into town and an American consul named William Willshire read it and agreed to pay, riding out to meet Hamet and pretending to be Riley’s long-lost friend. Hamet promised to go in search of Riley’s other men, but was never heard from again. Riley returned to Connecticut and his wife and five children.

#10 Hugh Glass Glass was one of the first American mountain men, a frontiersman who explored the Midwest via the Missouri River at the turn of the 1800s. He’s something of a Paul Bunyan figure, and many of the stories told of him are tall tales. But one event really happened, although you’ll find it difficult to believe. In 1822, an American Army General hired him and 100 other men to accompany him up the Missouri to gather furs. Glass was already a renowned scout and trapper, and during this expedition he and 13 others diverted to Fort Henry to bring food and supplies to fur traders there. The party traveled up the Grand River Valley into Yellowstone Valley, and there Glass stumbled on a mother grizzly bear with two cubs. He had a rifle but couldn’t raise it before the bear was upon him. She bit his left thigh and threw him 20 feet, snapping his femur. He got to his feet and fought back with his knife, but she threw him down again and clawed the front and back of his torso so severely that his ribs were exposed. Two trapping partners, Jim Bridger and John Fitzgerald, arrived and shot the bear dead. Glass fell unconscious and wasn’t expected to survive. Fitzgerald and Bridger, who would both become famous mountain men in their own rights, elected to stay with him until he died. They eventually left with his gun and equipment, thinking him dead. He was not dead. He woke up and found himself alone in the middle of nowhere, well inside hostile Native country, terribly wounded, and without any supplies. The nearest white settlement was Fort Kiowa, 200 miles southeast across the center of South Dakota. Glass set his own thigh bone, splinted it, pulled his bear hide burial shroud around him and started crawling through the wilderness. He rolled over the first rotten log he came to, found maggots, and lay on them so they’d eat his dead flesh and clean his wounds. He ate berries and plant roots, drank rainwater from leaves and animal tracks and crawled for six weeks through the prairie, navigating by memory until he reached the Cheyenne River. On the way he threw rocks and branches at two wolves to scare them from a bison kill and ate the rest of the bison raw. At the banks of the Cheyenne he lashed two logs together with vines and floated downstream another eight weeks to reach Fort Kiowa. Along the way he received food and a spear from some friendly Lakota Sioux, who sewed a bear skin over his back. He recovered for eight months in Fort Kiowa, then tracked down Bridger and Fitzgerald to get his rifle back. He died in 1833 in Yellowstone Valley in an Arikara Indian raid.

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The Everglades was an experience I’d really like to do again. We left the comfort of the heart of Miami to head a little way out to the Everglades to do a tour and try and see some alligators and crocodiles! It was a one of a kind experience and like I said I would totally go back and do it all over again. Firstly because the fan boats were so incredibly loud but SO much fun, they went a whole lot faster than I thought they would! And secondly, because we actually only saw one baby Alligator and that was about it!

I want to go again so that I have a little more of a chance to see some more of those water creatures I am so wonderfully afraid of! Although I say this now, chances are when it finally comes to going back It’ll be one of those things where I won’t see anything again. But the experience would be totally worth it.

We had a guide on the back of our fan boat, the boat sat about 15-25 people and we ended up at the back which meant we got given ear plugs because of how loud the fan was. Our guide was great, she was really talkative and open to all question and she actually got into the water at one stage of our tour where the water was only knee deep and all I could do was watch and listen and just PRAY that there was no creature with sharp teeth circling around her shins. It was pretty cool though when she just got back into the boat as if it was totally normal. But then I guess for her It was!

I could only imagine some of the beasts she’s been lucky enough to see on the huge area of water and grassland that is the Everglades! When we arrived back at the boat area we all piled out of the boat and headed towards a show area! Here we all sat around this large fenced area in the middle where another guide demonstrated how to tackle and catch an alligator or crocodile! I wasn’t the biggest fan of it, but it was so interesting to watch. And If I ever get into a spot of bother with an alligator or crocodile then I know how to handle it, because you know, its something I deal with on a regular basis in the UK… sure.

He also showed us other animals and reptiles and Its a safe to say GJ and I thoroughly enjoyed it when he decided to place a scorpion in his hands, pretty damn close to my entire body. The photographs sums up our exact emotions. BUT I did get to hold a baby alligator, and if thats not cool and totally doesn’t makes up for the fact he terrified me with a scorpion then I don’t know what will!

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When In Miami it would be almost rude not to do the boat tour of Star Island and all the other celeb inhibited areas! Although probably incredibly intrusive to those celebs that live on star island, some of the houses were absolutely out of this world. We went on the trip with Island Queen tours and it was honestly such a fun experience for our little trip.

The tour started in the harbour of Miami where theres also a huge market place! I bought a hoodie that said Miami on it and it lasted a grand total of one wash. I pulled it out of the washing machine and I hadn’t gone to Miami, I’d just gone to M-am- Instead, the letters had peeled of nicely!

We hopped onto this boat which had two tiers, it also had a bar with refreshments and an intercom across the entire boat so our guide could tell us who’s house/flat we were passing as well as all the other wonderful sights we did see. It wasn’t incredibly bumpy either on the boat so the journey was smooth. The water is such a clear blue when you hung your head out of the windows you could see all the jellyfish bobbing about in the water.

Not only did we get to see star island but you also get this totally different view of the Miami Skyline, all the cruise ships in the harbour were also massively impressive. It took us about an hour and a half to get around. We saw the houses that have been rented out by the likes of Kayne, P Diddy and houses that belong too Philip Frost, Shaquille O’Neall, Will Smith, Gloria Estefan and A few residents are women from the real housewives of Miami.

We also saw Fisher Island and Millionaire Row. Fisher Island is only accessible by helicopter or ferry and get people like Demi Moore and Bruce Willis renting the flats there. Plenty more famous faces still visit there too. It even has a golf course and a supermarket, I’d just never leave.

Nearing the end of the tour they take you under one of Miami’s main roads into the Port where the cruise ships sit and there were 5 HUGE big ships all docked. I’d never been so close to a cruise ship as nothing terrifies me more than cruise ships. But they looked wonderfully impressive from the outside, at a distance, in another boat that wasn’t a cruise ship. Much where I’d rather be!

We chose the best day for it too as there was no cloud in the sky! Overall I would totally go again, for the experience and because I enjoyed the boat trip that much!

Miami – Being terrified of scorpions, alligators & crocodiles. Star Island, Home of the famous and some HUGE houses. The Everglades was an experience I'd really like to do again. We left the comfort of the heart of Miami to head a little way out to the Everglades to do a tour and try and see some alligators and crocodiles!

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Roaming with Buffalo in a 2017 Audi A4 Allroad

It’s a good day to get lost out here,” Steve Dobrett says, his voice calm and comforting as it crackles over the radio. During his 24 years as the manager of New Mexico’s Ladder Ranch, he’s explored every inch of this 156,000-plus acre property. As he guides us to one of his favorite spots at the ranch’s north end, his white Chevrolet Silverado bounces over rocks that we edge around in our Gotland Green 2017 Audi A4 Allroad. The wagon’s ground clearance is good, but it’s no truck. Gray rain clouds hang low, and thick fog obscures the rutted two-track, so we take it slow as we scan the horizon for bison.

“Do you hear the music playing?” Dobrett jokes as we climb up and over a ridge and see some 200 bison huddled together, their damp, dark-brown fur matted and dripping. Dobrett comes to a stop but waves us on, telling us we can drive into the heart of the herd if we go slowly and keep quiet. The Allroad’s 252-horsepower, turbocharged inline-four faintly hums as the stout Michelin Defender LTX light-truck tires we strapped on for this trip delicately crush bushes and brush. When grunting bison fill each of the Allroad’s windows and mirrors, we turn off the engine, get out of the Audi, and lean against the driver’s door, listening to the deep, powerful breaths of the broadchested bovines.

Media mogul Ted Turner had the right idea buying this property in the early ’90s, wanting somewhere to kick back, hunt quail, and concentrate on his ongoing conservation efforts. Ladder Ranch sits just outside the small town of Truth or Consequences, which changed its name from Hot Springs in 1950 when the NBC Radio quiz show “Truth or Consequences” offered an annual party to any town that renamed itself after the program. The ranch rests in the foothills of the mountainous Black Range, with elevation spanning from 4,500 to 10,000 feet, and it shelters four tributaries of the Rio Grande river — the Animas, Seco, Palomas, and Cuchillo — which help support breathtaking biodiversity.

The Allroad feels surefooted on this red gravel trail. Its body stays composed as its suspension soaks up the washboard earth.

Turner’s then-wife Jane Fonda decorated the property’s adorable, two-story ranch house (Turner still visits often, and the house can be rented as part of a Ted Turner Expeditions experience), while he focused on creating a privately owned preservation for New Mexico’s flora and fauna. Throughout Ladder Ranch’s 245 square miles, you can see elk, deer, antelope, mountain lions, bears, buffalo, turkeys, and wolves wandering through cottonwoods and pines and across desert grasslands. There are even petroglyphs carved into rocks by ancient indigenous peoples. The rich habitat around Ladder Ranch allows at-risk species, such as leopard frogs and cutthroat trout, to survive and also helps healthy species thrive.

Turner brought in Dobrett — a respected biologist researching quail — from the outset to build up the property’s quail population as well as nurture habitats for other sensitive species. Dobrett started by removing 250 miles of perimeter fence so Turner could bring buffalo onto the property. Now, a quarter century later, Dobrett oversees a team of employees and a herd of more than 1,000 bison. “I never had any experience with bison when I came here,” he says. “Twenty-four years of handling buffalo has taught me a lot about that species. It’s been an all-around education to the facets of ranching and managing wildlife on the property.”

It’s hard to believe places like this exist. Staring out on the open expanses of land at Ladder Ranch is overwhelming, almost as overwhelming as standing in a herd of a couple hundred bison

Through the bison’s measured inhalations, we hear one sharp, snappy snort and turn to see a giant female with her tail pointed straight up. Dobrett says she probably thinks the Audi is a “critter” because of its peering, eye-like LED headlights and tells us to move slowly as we get back into the Allroad. We shift the wagon’s seven-speed automatic transmission into drive and begin to herd the bison, but it’s not long before they buck and run toward the hills where we can’t follow.

Ladder Ranch is lovely but also daunting, with the majority of its rugged terrain pretty much inaccessible to anything without hooves or paws. “There are about 500 miles of ‘road’ on the ranch,” Dobrett says. “We try to get out and clean them once a year if we can. Some of the roads, we don’t, and they’re not very passable.” It’s a 20-mile straight shot to Turner’s ranch house where we’re shacking up, but we’ll need most of the day to get there, winding our way up and down tight mountain passes, tiptoeing through deep creeks, and doing our best not to beach the Audi on a boulder. The Allroad’s plastic-covered belly can handle scratches from small stones and tall grass, but it’s best to avoid the big stuff.

The rain slows to a stop, and we set off south with Dobrett leading the way. The car’s adaptive dampers are set in off-road mode, and the Allroad feels surefooted on this red gravel trail. Its body stays composed as its suspension soaks up the washboard earth, and its rear end breaks loose and slides as we power out of slippery corners. Dobrett heads up a particularly steep stretch of road, and after the crest his taillights disappear in the fog. We charge after him but stomp on the brakes near the top, stopping to turn on hill-descent control, which holds the Allroad at a set speed. The ABS gnaws at the brake rotors as the car saunters down the slope at a steady 6 mph. We land in a stark, narrow offshoot of Cuchillo Creek, where the dried-up bed is a craggy mess of sharp stones and bulging landmasses laced in loose gravel. Worse yet, heavy mist has once again settled on top of us, so visibility is nil. We switch on the Allroad’s front and rear fog lights before crawling forward, getting out every few hundred feet to lift and heave particularly gnarly stones; the heated steering wheel, part of the $500 cold-weather package, is now much appreciated.

The Allroad shimmies as the tires claw at the glassy, muddy route, which thankfully turns to gravel when we eventually reach the top.

Slivers of sunlight leak through the overcast sky as we slowly make progress. We’re happy to have satellite radio playing through the wagon’s Bang & Olufsen audio system, the music helping to keep the mood light as we navigate the ranch’s remote and wild terrain. As the creek jogs left, the bed turns to soft, smooth sand that the Allroad plows across. “That should be the worst of it,” an apologetic Dobrett says. We begin to climb again, and as we snake up narrow passes, horses and stallions start to appear in the mist, steam shooting from their splayed nostrils. The clouds clear, and we see snowcapped mountains jutting up from the skyline, and in the foreground a huge herd of giant elk prances up the face of a verdant slope.

We stop on the spine of a tall hill, pull up Google Maps on the Allroad’s navigation system and confirm what we already know: We’re in the middle of nowhere. We stare out across the boundless landscape, appreciating the opposing color palette that seems like it shouldn’t blend together as well as it does. As we walk, we scoop up black, pearly white, and pink dirt sandwiched together like Neapolitan ice cream — an amazing soil variety the likes of which we’ve never seen before. We get back in and press on, but it’s not long before we stop again near the edge of Animas Creek, where Dobrett points toward a humongous tree with a thick trunk. “I like that tree,” he says looking up at its lanky branches, spinning and twisting out in every direction like long, white ribbons. “It’s mystical. It’s a mystery how these trees got here. It’s the only canyon in this drainage that has these Arizona sycamores. They’re more common west of Continental Divide, but for some reason we have them here. And they’re ancient trees.”

Back in the Audi we cross the first of about two dozen creeks that grow wider and deeper as we get closer to the ranch house. We enter each creek slowly, making sure the Audi won’t bottom out, then go flat out toward the far bank. The rushing water overwhelms the Allroad’s flared wheel wells, flies up, and lands on the windshield, causing the rain-sensing wipers to turn on. Fortunately the wagon has no issues fording the little rivers. “I know you’ve heard me say it before, but that should be the worst of it,” Dobrett says just as we come to an appropriately named pass called Greasy Hill. Not a minute after Dobrett jinxed us, we hit a slick patch of road that sends the Allroad into a four-wheel slide, and the passenger-side tires land in a deep rut on the edge of the trail. The wagon is fine, but we have to back down the hill to level ground and take another shot at the ascent. The Allroad shimmies as the tires claw at the glassy, muddy route, which thankfully turns to gravel when we eventually reach the top. Just below us is the white ranch house.

The Audi Allroad isn’t a rugged, do-it-all, off-road machine, but it doesn’t mind having some fun with a little light rock crawling. Who cares about a few scrapes on the underbelly of an all-wheel-drive wagon?

“I was concerned that we were going to tear up the car or get stuck where we’d blow a tire or bust something, but as it turns out, it performed just fine, especially in the rocks and mud,” Dobrett says as we drink coffee next to a hissing fireplace. “It just doesn’t have enough clearance.” Maybe not to make it across Ladder Ranch completely unscathed, sure, but the Allroad has plenty of clearance and absolutely enough talent to be considered a light off-road vehicle. Ladder Ranch turned out to be more treacherous than originally expected, but the Allroad handled it just fine, and its underbody has a few scars to prove it. The ranch’s chef, Tatsu Miyazaki, cooks us an unexpectedly luxurious meal that starts with salad and soup made from locally sourced, seasonable vegetables, moves to a perfectly cooked, prime cut of bison that comes from the same place that processes Turner’s herd, and ends with a delicious mousse sitting atop a frothing mixture of water and dry ice.

When we ask Dobrett what he’s going to do now after such a long tenure at Ladder Ranch, he says, “I’ll stay connected to this ranch as long as Ted wants me. I think it’s an example to others how a ranch can be managed, balancing commerce and conservation.” After a handshake, he tips his cowboy hat as a goodbye. We can barely keep our eyes open as we slink back toward the fire and collapse onto one of the house’s bison-fur rugs, rubbing our bare feet along the soft center. We smile as we drift to sleep, recalling the hauntingly beautiful sound of 200 bison taking deep, heavy breaths.

About Ladder Ranch Ladder Ranch is part of the larger Ted Turner Expeditions luxury travel experiences, featuring eco-conscious adventures individually tailored to guests interested in anything from mountain biking to bison photography to simply exploring the ranch’s 156,000 acres of unspoiled wilderness. A three-night expedition for two people with accommodations at Ted’s house starts at $9,000. Visit theladderranch.com.

2017 Audi A4 Allroad Specifications

ON SALE Now PRICE $44,950/$52,625 (base/as tested) ENGINE 2.0L turbo DOHC 16-valve I-4/252 hp @ 5,000-6,000 rpm, 273 lb-ft @1,600-4,500 rpm TRANSMISSION 7-speed automatic LAYOUT 4-door, 5-passenger, front-engine, AWD wagon EPA MILEAGE 23/28 mpg (city/hwy) L x W x H 187.0 x 72.5 x 58.8 in WHEELBASE 110.9 in WEIGHT 3,825 lb 0-60 MPH 5.9 sec (est) TOP SPEED 130 mph

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