Month: March 2012

The local construction equipment supplier deploys otherwise-idle yellow iron in all the parking lots in preparation for snow season. They haven’t gotten much use this year, which is OK by me.

A Komatsu excavator behind a bank sports some puzzling warning placards:

This one seems to mean you should stay out from underneath the bucket, which makes sense:

But what’s this one mean? You may be crushed, so keep your distance from doors?

Maybe read the manual before / while being backed over?

Even though this stuff has become entirely too abstract for me, it’s just another day in the life for Stickman!

A combination of neglect and last year’s storms demolished much of the Red Oaks Mill dam:

The linear “rocks” just downstream of the dam are sections of the concrete cap:

With the cap gone, the concrete-and-rock fill should disintegrate in short order:

Upstream of the rubble, the Wappingers Creek dropped about three feet, exposing bedrock and undercutting the old shoreline:

Downstream, not much changed. This wasn’t a catastrophic dam break that wiped entire towns off the map.

In February 2005, the fishing must have been pretty good:

It’s endured quite a few floods like this one in February 2008:

But in June 2008, after the waters receded, you could tell things weren’t right:

Looks like a shovel-ready project to me…