May 14th, 2019: Expensive Frost

xoxoxoBruce · 05-14-2019, 12:24 PM

I was shocked, the small round ones are $61, but the 5 footstand up jobs like in the orchards are $836 EACH on Amazon. That adds up when multiple rows stretch to the horizon.

glatt · 05-14-2019, 02:48 PM

Reminds me of those little black balls with the flame that the road crews would put out for construction.

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Jesus, I'm old. Then we'd go home and not use the dial telephone because it was too damn expensive.

blueboy56 · 05-14-2019, 03:44 PM

Back in Idaho, long ago, (when I worked for the highway crew), our balls were red and filled with 1/2 gas and half diesel fuel. Hm, maybe thats why they were swollen and on fire.

xoxoxoBruce · 05-14-2019, 10:12 PM

Glatt, that's the size that is $61 now.

BigV · 05-22-2019, 10:59 AM

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Originally Posted by glatt

Reminds me of those little black balls with the flame that the road crews would put out for construction.

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Jesus, I'm old. Then we'd go home and not use the dial telephone because it was too damn expensive.

Just threw away one of those.

Griff · 05-27-2019, 07:49 AM

They used to be all the rage before tiki torches, maybe less politically toxic if not environmentally.

05-14-2019, 12:24 PM	#1
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	I was shocked, the small round ones are $61, but the 5 footstand up jobs like in the orchards are $836 EACH on Amazon. That adds up when multiple rows stretch to the horizon. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

05-14-2019, 02:48 PM	#2
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Reminds me of those little black balls with the flame that the road crews would put out for construction. Jesus, I'm old. Then we'd go home and not use the dial telephone because it was too damn expensive.

05-14-2019, 10:12 PM	#4
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Glatt, that's the size that is $61 now. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

05-27-2019, 07:49 AM	#6
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	They used to be all the rage before tiki torches, maybe less politically toxic if not environmentally. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

05-14-2019, 03:44 PM	#3
blueboy56 Master Locutor Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 151	Back in Idaho, long ago, (when I worked for the highway crew), our balls were red and filled with 1/2 gas and half diesel fuel. Hm, maybe thats why they were swollen and on fire.

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