#international crane foundation

[unbfacts]

Ornithologist George Archibald spent years acting as a mate to a female whooping crane named Tex, engaging in behaviors like dancing and nest-building, leading to the successful hatching of a chick and advancing conservation efforts.

[fatdaypants]

International Crane Foundation, Wisconsin Dells, September 2024

That trail walk behind the exhibit was a tough one

[jmal0]

𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 & 𝐰𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐃𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐬 𝐲𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲.

𝑩𝒊𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒌 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒐𝒕𝒉 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒔..😊🤙🏼

[lonestarbattleship]

January 14, 2024 Update from the Battleship Texas Foundation

"DRY DOCK TOURS

Tours are now full through the entire month of January. We look forward to welcoming five hundred of you into the shipyard to see the amazing progress made to Battleship Texas!

A Dry Dock Tour participant approaches the bow of Battleship Texas.

A dry Dock Tour wanders underneath Battleship Texas.

STEEL REPAIR - Steel repairs have been completed on the hull of Battleship Texas. The entire hull has been coated.

This area housed one of the 5”/51 cal. Guns. The deck has been blasted, coated, and awaits a layer of wood. The surrounding area and overhead has been blasted and painted white/navy blue 5-N. The guns are currently being restored and will be placed aboard next month.

Openings where the ships 5”/51 cal. Guns were. They are being restored and will be placed back next month.

HULL - The ship’s hull has been coated in PPG SIGMASHIELD 880 GF to protect the steel from potential corrosion. While the hull is supposed to be red below the black band at the waterline, the Battleship Texas Foundation has chosen to not spend the extra funds on a cosmetic choice that will not be seen once the ship is back in the water. The coatings that have been applied are plentiful and should protect the ship for many years to come.

Looking under Battleship Texas.

Steel repairs in this area are complete. The hull is now fully coated!

Underneath Battleship Texas.

NAVY BLUE 5-N - Above the boot top (above the black band) the ship has been painted Navy Blue 5-N. This color was matched from existing examples found aboard (both internally and externally) the vessel. The ship was painted in this camouflage scheme (Measure 21) prior to deploying to the Pacific Theater in World War II. At this time Battleship Texas is the ONLY museum ship painted in this scheme and only one of two Battleships in their wartime measure.

Torpedo Blisters: Complete Hull: Coated Navy Blue 5-N: Applied

Starboard side of Battleship Texas.

A crane sits beside Battleship Texas.

The bow of Battleship Texas.

HULL NUMBERS - The new hull numbers have been extensively researched so each number is not only the correct font, but applied in the appropriate position it was in 1945. The numbers have been applied to both bow and stern.

The ship’s name and hull number look great!

Steel repairs in this area are complete. The hull is now fully coated!

Sitting underneath the rudder and looking forward.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:

KEEL BLOCKS - Yes, the keel blocks supporting Battleship Texas can be moved. Each block is moved so the area atop of them can be blasted, repaired (if need be), and coated.

SPLASH! - The ship will be put back into the water in February 2024, but is dependent on the weather.

WHAT’S NEXT? - Battleship Texas will remain at Gulf Copper Shipyard for the time being. Additional steel work, removal and replacement of the ship’s deck, and superstructure/aft fire control restoration will continue.

Dock hands venture into the ship’s crew wash room.

The ship’s cafeteria!

Take a look into Steering Gear!

Take a look into Steering Gear!

Take a look into Steering Gear!

Take a look into Steering Gear!

That’s not straight!

Live, Laugh, And Flood your Torpedo Blisters.

To donate to the preservation and operation of Battleship Texas, please visit: https://battleshiptexas.org/

Support Battleship Texas by making a purchase through the ship's store: https://store.battleshiptexas.org"

Posted on the Battleship Texas Foundation Facebook Group Page: link, link

[crane-detector]

I think you're one of my favorite Tumblr accounts even if it's a detector gimmick...

Have you visited the International Crane Foundation? And what's your favorite crane species?

wait I’m someone favorite?? AHHH TYSM!!!!

also I have not visited ICF, but it is on my bucket list!

My favorite crane species would probably be Demoiselle crane, not many people know about them but they’re gorgeous!

[skittyagain]

you heard it directly from the international crane foundation. the most ichabod can weigh is 22 pounds

[mellotronmkll]

Went to the international crane foundation today (actually a really cool and amazing place and well worth a visit if you're ever in that part of wisconsin) and you would Not believe how many ways you can sing this song to make the lyrics about actual cranes while walking around looking at various species of cranes. Filled up the better part of an hour

[ratsonas]

hmmm...international crane foundation......

[tubetrading]

Exploring Large Diameter Pipes – Construction Challenges and Solutions

Understanding Large Diameter Pipes

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Large diameter pipes are typically defined as pipes with a diameter of 24 inches (600 mm) or more.  They are made from various materials, including steel, ductile iron, concrete, and plastic, each offering specific advantages depending on the application.  These pipes are used in a variety of sectors, such as:

Water and Wastewater:  For transporting potable water and sewage.

Oil and Gas:  For transporting crude oil, natural gas, and refined products.

Industrial Applications:  For transporting chemicals, slurry, and other industrial fluids.

Construction:  As structural elements in large infrastructure projects.

Construction Challenges of Large Diameter Pipes

The installation and maintenance of large diameter pipes pose several challenges, which include:

1.   Transportation and Handling

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4.   Comprehensive Solutions

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Conclusion

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[killerchickadee]

So whooping cranes are super endangered, like I think there's like 600 of them in the wild. Wisconsin has a small population of them, but birders are very protective of them. Like you either have to pick up clues on people's posts or know someone who knows someone to find out where they are, mostly.

But one got lost in the suburbs of Chicago and was caught and re-released here in Wisconsin. So while most birders are like SHH DON'T SHARE THEIR LOCATION, the International Crane Foundation which is one of the main places that captive breeds them was like, "Yeah so we caught this one and now it's at *x location I'm not gonna mention*" but like. They actually say where it is. On multiple posts lol.

I just think it's funny that the breech of birding etiquette came from the official bird people

[clownxgirl]

The Rules of Decomposing

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Airy brown particles sweep my face as I lay here paralyzed, inside my body but not in control. My chest hurts as each clump of dirt is thrown onto my body, the cold muck blanketing me inside of this hole. I watched my family cry over the top of me through the service, my lip twitched and my nose flared as I tried to get their attention, but to no avail. My heart raced as I knew my real end was coming, suffocation from the Earth’s dust that I’ll bite once more. I can almost feel the saliva in my throat burble up into a bubble shriek as it pops on the brink of my lips. I can already feel a worm graze my wrist with an unbound collection of what my body and mind are up to, alive and still warm. But not in reality, no, but in my soul that is still trapped here. Is this what hell feels like? Watching your body still move on with this Earth without you speaking, breathing, moving? I suddenly feel pain in my chest as the dirt compresses onto me, the weight of the world and dying all over again conflicts my thoughts.

To my surprise, I still laid here somewhat alive even after the dirt was stacked six feet above me, a wall to the outside or the wall to me is what I sit here debating. I reflect on my life as I lay here, my daughter’s laughter over the years fades into her tears dripping on me at the casket I was open to. I felt beautiful with the layers of foundation they filled my pores with, the eyeshadow my husband never let me wear, and the lipstick that made the dirt stick to me now. I wonder why they put me directly in dirt rather than my comfortable coffin, was it to defile me? To restrict me and continue my vulnerability to the elements as I did before in my life? Sitting here conflicting my thoughts over horrible theories after the last revolve around my husband, his desire to defile me even in death comes to mind. But my daughter would never allow me to be this way, to be put into the ground to meld with the elements. I felt this pressure in my stomach continuously through this, but to my surprise I remember not feeling it in the warm casket. It melded with me when I gained consciousness again to be hoisted by the cloth crane into my grave. I felt curious about this feeling, it felt like a foreign object and my curiosity killed me until I felt movement inside, a small wave so singular and small. I felt a wave of nausea as I felt more of those singular and small movements become a hive mind, wiggling and squirming along the inner part of my stomach with that pit, that seed, that.. And it hit me. My daughter came to me when she was sixteen, showing me a post online about having trees planted with your body so it can thrive off of the nutrients your body gives and it’ll blossom into a cherry tree. Her eyes were bright blue as she said this, feeling relieved from beauty beyond death that she can leave behind made my heart at the time feel content. But now, it was my biggest nightmare. The anxious pit in my stomach was not a pit at all, but a sapling of a tree sewed into my body and whatever remains it had of its prior existence outside of it. Worms, leaves, anything surrounding that plant was dug into my body like vines leeching off of a brick house. I’d grow roots through my throat, animals will take refuge in my womb as I continue to feed this tree into a child more life-sucking than a human baby. The mania racing around in my mind faster than the wiggling in my stomach can writh and strike with their movements. I’m not going to live through this, I won’t see my daughter again. The dirt continued to settle until it clogged my ears, sealed my eyes and my nose shut. The only sense I can comprehend is touch and internal hearing, my heartbeat and occasionally the settlement of the dirt rings through my head the loudest. I want to hear anything of music, anything of laughter, but the worms are somehow loud here but are silent above.

It’s been a few days now, I imagine. Not by my anticipation for the end, but by the resolution of how I can now smell my body through the dirt caked under my nose. My body is now stiff and getting colder and colder, the blankets of dirt now feel like the walk-in freezer at my first job, they insulate me with more muck than I can conjure in my head. My eyelids are now completely shut against the dirt and I’s will, but the rigor mortis I learned about in high school. I loved high school, but despised biology class. I remember dissecting the formaldehyde soaked frogs, feeling pity for them as I stuck my tweezers into their open chest. I wonder if that would hurt less to be alive for that instead of this slow aching demise.

The dirt has so much pressure on my body as I continue to expand. The pressure holds against my body ever so still which makes it that more painful. I could feel myself getting close to popping, to hitting that climax that I prayed for even when I was alive, fingering myself in the bathroom after my husband finishes. I can only think about the anger boiling and bloating in my heart and the rest of my body, simmering like an airtight mozzarella chunk in the Arizona sun. I can feel the air inside of me begin to release itself through every orifice. My ears constantly pop, I flatulate and excrete foam from my mouth with every involuntary sigh from my chest. Something is bubbling inside me far worse than the sapling, I can feel the warmth and movement grow faster and hungrier than my pregnancy with Rose.

I was completely wrong about being buried six feet, or being alone. I saw sunlight for the first time as I laid in the dirt. The white pumping friends I’ve obtained this past month can enjoy the sunlight with me as I’m met with the face of my savior. A patchy dog with vacant eyes unearths my leg first, nibbling on it for a few hours hacking at my flavor but not denying its virtues of protein. My whole body twists and turns internally as he feasts, but I relish in the pressure relief of my lower torso. As the day goes on, I’m accompanied by his friends again and again the more potent and light absorbed I get with each passing day. I’m of use again, giving back to nature even through my sorrow and my inevitable unwillingness to do so still enlightens me to keep looking forward to my future experiences. It’s easier for my skin to slough off the longer I’m in the sun. I find myself imagining a sunburn at a beautiful beach with each blister that boils like a cooking egg on a stove on my skin. It pops and gives me relief once more, like a cesspool orgasm producing liquids beyond my comprehension.

I’ve been unearthed for awhile, but the friends stopped coming after my discoloration came. I noticed my texture isn’t as delicious as before, my patchy friend attempted the other night to lick my calf clean of its contents but was met with a waxy texture that didn’t pick up any taste. My useful ability has halted for the ones I didn’t mind, and has now released back into the writhing white maggots that befriended me first. I’m becoming what my baby used to call dry skin ‘rasiny’. Her memory continues to ring in my head as I suddenly feel sleepy, as if I can rest for the first time in a little while. I feel the sensation of my eyes being closed as I lay there in the rain which moisturizes my body back to comfortability. The tightness of my skin dies down into a warm slushy, the dirt uncakes from my nose and I take my final physical breath into plunging into a deep sleep that takes me from my body.

[sailaweigh]

The Crane Wife by CJ Hauser

[fatdaypants]

Trail walk, International Crane Foundation, WI Dells, September 2024

[davidsparcks]

The Kent Companies and Turner Construction Company cranes hard at work long before the sun is up, laying the foundation for Gerald R. Ford International Airport's $156M consolidated rent-a-car facility, a.k.a. CONRAC, the first of its kind in Michigan!

[rfallfish]

Every day I go to work and work for corporate America.

The International Crane Foundation is only 40 minutes from my place of work. I could be saving the cranes right now, if only I had a degree in zoology or ecology.

But I decided to get a degree in mathematics because I thought it was fun. Like that matters much now.

[shreejisteelprivatelimited]

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