OT: Freak Storm in Conroe, TX

[M.B. Naegle]

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And getting between the machines is what i would do during that bad of a storm. Shipping containers are too light, you see videos of semis being thrown around.

Heaviest machines we have on the floor are around 8000lb. (VMC's and a couple hydraulic press's) I know at least 3 of our shipping containers have to be in the 20,000+ range (we have 12, all full of machines and parts). One being double stacked with baskets of raw iron castings, another stacked floor to ceiling with pallets of iron and steel fixtures (2x6 and 2x12 wood rings separating each pallet). I blew out a 20 ton bottle jack lifting a corner on that one.

I don't know much about the aerodynamics in the equation, and the heavy containers don't have hardly any room to climb up along the ceiling... but if I see a tornado coming at me, I'm gonna squeeze in there somehow. I think if I feel one of those moving, I'm just going to say a prayer and enjoy the flight, cause it's time.

 

[DDoug]

The Judge may better handle the recoil, and that may change as the shells are fired and the gun gets lighter. The other explanation is I am a wimp.

I remember it being a big lump of steel in my hand.

 

[Gearclash]

Heaviest machines we have on the floor are around 8000lb.

That isn’t a lot of comfort as I have seen too many pictures of 15,000lb + farm tractors from the KS/OK part of the world that were tumbled like empty trash cans and utterly destroyed.

 

[FredC]

When I was a kid, I used to go pest hunting with a fella that bought an old .22 revolver, and used bird shot.
That was the cats meow for hunting rats!
That was WAY better than trying to git a pellet gun (rifle) in tight spots quickly!

However, I don't think that it would be enough to even piss the bore off to begin with. LOL!

350# bore sounds big, but when market hogs are going in at 285# these days....
Kind'a puts a new spin on the bore...

There are fellas from up here that will go south (anywhere south as I understand it) to hunt piggies for the weekend.
They set up live feed game cams and go to the fire pit until something pings them.
Seems more like a harvest than hunt, but with the volumes that y'all have down there, I guess that's OK eh?

Doo you like the meat?


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Think Snow Eh!
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[FredC]

45 shot shells will kill armadillos and coons at 6 feet. With an angry boar, he would have a harder time finding you if he was blind and could only smell his own blood. Probably better than a stick. When we were growing peanuts I spent many hours hunting pigs in moonlight and with a spot light. Later with night vision then I went to thermal scopes. Boars over 100 bls are edible but the meat smells like the odorant used in propane. I could smell it just walking up to the house when my wife was cooking. Life is too short to for that. If I killed a sow at a reasonable hour and had time to process it, I would do it again.