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In reply to the discussion: what is your daily average posting for the past 90 days? [View all]Kali
(56,856 posts)reminds me of a boring story. the ranch has participated with the Natural Resource Conservation Service (formerly the Soil Conservation Service) on some projects in the past, They help farmers and ranchers design, implement, and finance projects that help with land/resource management.
The guy that used to work with us had a good engineering background/education. You could tell because he would write up speck to several decimal points and have lots of instructions about materials and how to properly dig a post hole, that sort of thing. The problem was he was doing this for people that were used to doing everything by the seat of their pants and with a total lack of the kind of education that informs one that "you can't do that like that" - you know, like getting rid of tree stumps with old dynamite, or pulling up a windmill tower with a pick-up and baling wire. Poor Don, we never followed his suggestions.