wind power

I delevered 21 pallets of large bolts and nuts to a job site today in Cheyenne, Wy.
It went to a wind farm. They are putting up more windmills. There is a lot of them there now and a large project going on to install more. The bolts are used to put it together with. I asked the project manager how much it cost to put one windmill up. I had read some where that it was a million dollars per unit. He said that was about right. I counted over 50 of them do the math. A lot of money but the wind blows a lot in Wy. so maybe they will pay for them soon.

smoke generator

That was what I was told to go pick up the other day. When I got there this what it turned out to be. It does not run they had to load it with a crane and also to unload it the same way. When I was in the Army we had smoke grenades to throw to cover up our movement. Today I guess they have this. When I got to Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Md. I was told they would use this in a training class... I found out that it not only puts out smoke but also chemicals [ did not know we did that but maybe it is to teach our troops for other countries that use it]. It was something else that I found interesting out on the road.

Stuck on the Interstate

The other day when I was delivering the two trucks to Ca. I came upon a sign on Interstate 40 in Arizona that said road closed between mile post 233 and 253 for high winds and low visibility. When I got there traffic was stopped. We all shut down our trucks and got out and talked . After a while I got out a western book and started reading. We sat there about 4 hours. While I was reading another driver came up and asked if I had some jumper cables that his truck would not crank. I told him that I had some but I could not get close enough to his batteries to jump him. We talked a car in front of him to turn around and face him and let him use the car battery. It worked and we got him started. When the wind finally died down some they opened the road and let up proceed. What caused the problem was that the state was working on a side road and had a lot of loose dirt piled up and the wind was blowing around 60 or 70 mph and blew the dirt over the highway and caused the poor visibility. There were about 5 trucks that wrecked at that spot. No problems after that.