bales of sand by jocko500
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I forgot to post theis one yesterday so I post it today.
Anyway this is all I call it as i never saw anything like them. it plastic bags filled with sand. they put them here as they wish to stop any oil from comeing over to that area and going across the road as a big storm could eary bring the water. I stop on the side off the road to take the shots but a cop came and warm me to not to park on the side of the road as it a big fine. I told him "thank" and moved on. He just had given me a warning that all. he say nothing of takeing photos which shocked me.
I heard the sand was from the beach there so they did not bring in sand just the big bags. guess they sand bags but the only sand bags I ever saw was the ones you pick up by hand. these you can see can not be pick up.
Comments (46)
goodoleboy
You're under arrest for stopping to take this cool photo, Jock....hahaha! I bet the police officer gave you a baleful look. Great clarity and perspective in this shot.
vaggabondd
I never seen or heard of something like this before, nice capture
moochagoo
I agree with Faemike55 too :))
Hendesse
Fantastic and interesting shot and informations. Take care!
jmb007
beau travail!!
auntietk
I used to work for a foundry supply company as the purchasing manager, and I bought a LOT of sand. It wasn't just ordinary beach sand. Some I bought from Illinois, some from Australia, some from South Africa, some from Florida, some from a mine right here in Washington. It all has to be a certain size grain, and it has to be clean, since it's coming in contact with molten metal. Anything wet, any little piece of garbage, and you get an explosion which ruins your casting and you have to start all over. You can get a railcar full of sand ... it comes in one of those hopper cars ... but then you have to bag it when it gets to the plant, or you have to have an underground hopper of your own in which to store the sand. You can get sand in 100 pound paper bags ... but that's not very efficient because when you want to use it, you have to cut open all those little bags, and they're really heavy! (Of course if you make your own sandbags they're about 30 to 50 pounds in a burlap bag, but it takes a long time and a lot of work to fill all those little bags.) Sand usually comes in these bins (like in your picture) when you buy a lot of it ... wire mesh bins with plastic liners tied off at the top to keep the sand dry (or cloth, in this case, since you WANT the water to come in contact with the sand), and they put the sand inside the bag. Ta-da! You can pick the bins up with a forklift, they fit perfectly in a container or on a truck. Each bin of dry sand weighs somewhere around 3,000 pounds (one and a half tons). It's a great system. If you put the sand in a plastic bag it would break the bag. If you just put it in a wire bin ... well ... you would have a wire bin buried in sand because the sand wouldn't stay in there! LOL! But the wire mesh holds the bag in place so it doesn't stretch out of shape, and the sand stays in there just fine! It makes sense to me that they would just haul these empty bins to the beach, put the bags in there, and fill them with the sand that's already there. Perfect solution to the problem. Thanks for the photo, and I hope I didn't bore you too much with all that information, but I know you like to know things, and you just happened to come across something I know a lot about! :)
drifterlee
Interesting shot, Jocko! HOpe they can keep the oil out!!
DennisReed
Great capture, it must have took a lot of work to get them there!
Richardphotos
strange but if it does the trick.
unstart
Very interesting!!
coolcatcom
Desolate looking place !
mgtcs
Another fabulous capture, very well done!
kenmo
Interesting find....!!!
danapommet
Interesting shot Jocko and I do understand why they are there. I posted an old headstone for you - in my gallery. Dana
evielouise
hey mister what u doing here taking this picture well sorry officer I love sand ,well young man move your a$$ out of here now JOck0----yes sireeeeee I'm gone lol Awesome photo!
three_grrr
Wow, never saw anything like this! Wonder why it's illegal to park on the side of the road? Are they afraid they will damage the grasses? Thanks for this image and the explanations .. never saw anything like this on the news or in the newspapers!