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Skriven 2007-03-21 09:34:24 av Glen Jamieson
     Kommentar till en text av Jim Weller
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 -=> Quoting Jim Weller to Glen Jamieson <=-

 JW> When I was on pipeline working as a surveyor I hit a stretch of miles
 JW> and miles of small popular trees which slowed us down as we had to cut

I imagine those trees would have been "poplar", rather than "popular";
In fact, quite the opposite.  (Forgive me, I can't help myself!)

 JW> lines before we could do any work. I had four guys with chainsaws and
 JW> axes helping but we were progressing too slowly. One day in
 JW> frustration I drove through a stand of trees with the truck. It had an
 JW> heavy extended bumper which could clip off trees up to three inches
 JW> thick at 30 miles per hour and a steel skid pan so the stumps didn't
 JW> damage the underside. I cleared over 18 miles in one day that way.

Excellent!  Did you find out that capacity of the truck to wipe out
trees "by accident"?

 JW> The truck which was on a six month rental and had to be restored
 JW> before it got turned in got scratched, lost its radio antenna and had a
 JW> cracked windshield. The repair bill was about $1800. Naturally an
 JW> auditor bitched about the excessive wear and tear. But when I explained
 JW> to my supervisor, an engineer, that I had cleared 18 miles of line in
 JW> one day, saved $18,000 in direct costs and a potential $180,000 shut
 JW> down if construction had to stop, everything was all right. (I like
 JW> engineers!) 

Thanks (condescendingly). (g)  I would have enjoyed driving the truck.

During WW2, Lae had been the venue for some rather intense fighting,
so many of the trees contained machine gun bullets.  While I was
there, occasionally trees would fall on the roads and have to be cut
up and removed.  A nickel-jacketted bullet makes quite a mess of a
chainsaw!  Unexploded shells and bombs were frequently unearthed when
digging ditches for pipes and cables, so they would be piled into a
front-end loader bucket and taken to a quarry for the Australian army
to detonate.  To my surprise no one had been killed doing that.

 JW> Title: Stir Fried Zucchini And Tofu

Yeah, right!

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.05
 
      Title: Broccoli Stuffed Shells
 Categories: Low fat, Pasta
      Yield: 4 Servings
 
    1/4 c  Vegetable broth
      1 c  Chopped mushrooms
    1/2 c  Chopped onions
      2    Cloves garlic, minced
      1 T  Minced fresh oregano
      1 T  Minced fresh basil
      2 c  Nonfat ricotta cheese
  2 1/4 c  Chopped broccoli, steamed
      3    Egg whites, lightly beaten
     18    Jumbo shell macaroni, cooked
           Al dente and drained
      2 c  Tomato sauce
           Fresh ground black pepper to
           Taste
 
  Place broth in skillet over medium heat.  Add mushrooms, onions, and
  garlic.  Cook, stirring, for 5 minutes or until lightly browned.
  
  Remove from heat and stir in oregano, basil, ricotta, broccoli, and
  egg whites.
  
  Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
  
  Stuff drained shells with ricotta-broccoli mixture.
  
  Spread 1/2 cup tomato sauce on bottom of 9 by 13 inch nonstick baking
  pan. Arrange shells over sauce.  Top with remaining sauce.
  
  Bake for 30 minutes or until shells are hot.  Top with black pepper to
  taste. Date: Tue, 24 Jan 95 12:01:17 PST From: artemis@netcom.com
  (Michelle Dick) from: Schlesinger's _500 Fat-Free Recipes_:
  
  Converted to MM format by Dale & Gail Shipp, Columbia Md.
 
MMMMM
 

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