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Re: Saving the Salt
« Reply #1305 on: January 30, 2017, 01:16:09 PM »
ORB said:   "... It's as if We are climbing a Sand Dune... three steps up, slide back down two."

You're thinking of Sisyphus.  Good enough analogy. :-D
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Re: Saving the Salt
« Reply #1306 on: January 30, 2017, 01:34:11 PM »
Come on, Slim.  Bob isn't thinking of some sissy pussy -- he's thinking of sand dune climbing.  I get it.
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Re: Saving the Salt
« Reply #1307 on: January 30, 2017, 08:26:22 PM »
... You're thinking of Sisyphus.  Good enough analogy. :-D

Not familiar with that one Slim... Is that the one where it leaks, scabs over or falls off?  :roll:  :cheers:
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Re: Saving the Salt
« Reply #1308 on: January 30, 2017, 10:00:03 PM »
... You're thinking of Sisyphus.  Good enough analogy. :-D

Not familiar with that one Slim... Is that the one where it leaks, scabs over or falls off?  :roll:  :cheers:

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Re: Saving the Salt
« Reply #1309 on: January 30, 2017, 10:17:48 PM »
Woody, with all due respect -- I just went through the link you supplied and then went back and RE-read the aticle on p.2 of the latest BRN.  And now I ask AGAIN:

Is there any current news about pumping?

Pumping is supposed to start on the 1st of Feb.
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Re: Saving the Salt
« Reply #1310 on: January 31, 2017, 12:46:54 AM »
  Dallas, thanks for the update and all the work Your family has done over the years...
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Re: Saving the Salt
« Reply #1311 on: January 31, 2017, 06:52:42 AM »
Thanks for that, Dallas.  I appreciate it.

Stainless, you must have been Air Force.  I'm told that Navy didn't have troubles with sisyphus 'cause they couldn't spell it right.
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Re: Saving the Salt
« Reply #1312 on: February 01, 2017, 10:32:41 AM »
May this be one of many positive steps for 2017!! :cheers:
It's the old inertia thingy - hard to get going and maybe even harder to get it stopped!  :-o :x
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Re: Saving the Salt
« Reply #1313 on: March 26, 2017, 01:47:38 AM »
Hmmmm here it is Almost April 1st----I would be willing to bet that there has been scant progress --it is more of same O---Same O

nothing done by the powers that be ---we are back to We Want to be Salt Flat racers---the ones who care---the ones who are going to have to mount a well self coordinated PR program to drive awareness of the salt---if we wait on the pols to help us we will be racing air boats on mud flats  it is called A racer level PR program
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Re: Saving the Salt
« Reply #1314 on: March 26, 2017, 07:00:25 AM »
Gee, racers, sorry, but the pumps were broken 'til just now and all we can do is pump Pond 4, which is full of snowmelt and rain and not much dissolved salt, so then we can fill the pond with nice salty water to evaporate.  Where, oh where, shall we send the not-very-salty water?  How 'bout to the flats so the racers think we've pumped lots of salt to the flats?  They'll never notice . . ."
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Re: Saving the Salt
« Reply #1315 on: March 26, 2017, 12:00:20 PM »
I understand there is 2ft-ish of water on the salt from runoff. If this is correct, logic tells me they've blocked the drains & shut off the monster pump at Floating Mountain end to allow more saturation time to move more salt. If I was in the mining business there, that's what I'd be doing.... it ain't rocket science or brain surgery!
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Re: Saving the Salt
« Reply #1316 on: March 26, 2017, 04:41:24 PM »
3 photos from March 23, 2017 from Roger lessman's facebook page
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Re: Saving the Salt
« Reply #1317 on: March 26, 2017, 07:19:17 PM »
"more saturation time to move more salt"

lets see--- gravity is going to try to move the water down through the existing salt---oh it will pick up salt as it passes through-- and leave less on top---yeppers ---that is what water and gravity will do --it will do its thing--melt salt and go down

We must start doing our thing---maybe  we must start to become " leave all the salt on the lake bed ''   salt stewards"  not on the pavement' not on the  buffet floor, not on the hotel floor--- not on the casino floor we politely ask our fellow racers not to track Salt--leave the salt on the track.
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Re: Saving the Salt
« Reply #1318 on: March 26, 2017, 07:41:29 PM »
It's early!

(Although I just laid the keel on my AA/FSkiff).
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Re: Saving the Salt
« Reply #1319 on: March 26, 2017, 08:44:11 PM »
I may make a trip down to S. LA to see about a Teflon bottomed air boat ---some of those guys run shorty Glides on their props  where is the propster when we need him?
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