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Animal pens.
by mozumder 9y ago
Animal pens.
- Someone 9y ago”The longest gate he had identified was more than 1,600 feet long, though most were between 160 and 500 feet long. Sometimes the posts were as thick as 30 feet” 1,600 feet is a _big_ pen, and 30 feet thick seems overkill for a holding pen.
- killerpopiller 9y agometer please
- doktrin 9y agodivide by 3, or google it
- dotancohen 9y agofoo_meters = foo.replace("(\d+)", "$1/3")
- DanBC 9y ago1600 feet is roughly 490 meters. 30 feet is roughly 9 meters. (I understand the "just google it" response, but just giving the numbers saves a few moments of work for many people.)
- lazyjones 9y ago> 1,600 feet is a _big_ pen, and 30 feet thick seems overkill for a holding pen. Imagine driving a panicking large herd of animals into these pens - where would you see a need for reinforcing the structure to withstand the force of a whole herd pressing against it?
- EliRivers 9y agoPresumably I want the animals to live; if the herd is generating so much force at the edges - force transmitted through the animal touching that edge - that I need 30 feet thick walls to prevent the walls being pushed through, the animals at those edges will now be turned into a paste.
- mozumder 9y agoThey're not solid walls. It looks like the walls are loose rocks.
- booleandilemma 9y agoJust what kind of animals did they have in there anyway?
- sorokod 9y agoPeople?
- Gibbon1 9y agoMaybe... These remind my of walled off fields in Bolivia. https://goo.gl/maps/xpnX311AH592 https://goo.gl/maps/xpnX311AH592 These seemed to be used both at fields for growing crops if the soil was still good. Or as pens/grazing areas for lama's if not. Bolivia's attempt at land reform was kinda disastrous with resulting over farming, over grazing and subsequent soil loss. Over just 50 years. If someone claimed that there used to be thin volcanic soil that later blew away, would not be surprised.