We have one to cover our goat’s alfalfa bales, and I’ve always thought it was neat. Unless I cut my arm on the roof, then it’s not so neat
There is this nature reserve I like to go to nearby. They have a whole row of these setup explaining stuff about the region, the plants, what they do to preserve it (which is a lot). There’s also some along the walking route with relevant explanations about some of the plants and animals present at that location.
Until one day some fucking asshole during Covid got a lot of shitty anti-vax stickers and plastered them all over the place. All over all of the info signs, the walking route markers, basically anywhere they could. It must have been hundreds of stickers.
Next time I came there I reported it, but they said they were aware. People had tried to remove the stickers, but they were those really shitty paper stickers that just fell apart instead of coming off. They also weren’t water proof, so withing two weeks they weren’t even readable any more.
Some time later the people managing the place attempted to remove the stickers but it didn’t work. In the end they used such a strong chemical it not only removed the sticker but also damaged the plastic underneath. Those things were constructed of a metal plate with the prints on them and sandwiched in between acrylic. The kind of thing that will hold up for years outside and is easy to clean. The acrylic was also treated with an anti-graffiti coating, but that didn’t help against those shitty stickers I guess.
The signs were all but destroyed at that point and a forest manager told me they didn’t have the funds to replace them all. Some of the sings have since been replaced, but there are still a lot left damaged.
It ruined my peaceful place and made me hate anti-vaxxers even more. I used to go there to escape from all the awful stuff in the world during Covid as it was one of the things one could still do to not be locked in place all the time. People suck.
Use goof off or goo gone. Adhesive removers. Gone real quick.
But yeah fuck those idiots.
Or 91%+ iso, or mineral oil.
And scrape with razor blade.
And do small test patch of chems in an inconspicuous area any time you have a new chem/surface combo.
But yeah.
I love bulletin boards! They’re always a good spot to find local events
This thing means - “Beyond this point remains some collection of natural items that rednecks have yet to destroy, or that venture capitalism has failed to monetize, yet.”
Ah yes. The redneck. A worldwide phenomena.
National parks are kind of hard to monetize for VCs if private capital isn’t allowed to own them
(They’re not talking about National Parks… yet.)
It won’t be long till that is the case
Kozolec supremacy.
What is that? A sort of trellis for vines to grow on? Drying rack?
Cow towel rack.
Sounds like something from a Far Side comic.
To put grass there to dry. Very common in Slovenia.
Is the grass for livestock bedding or roof thatching? Wouldn’t think it would be enough for hay/feeding.
It is/was for feeding mostly. Even today there are a lot of these out there some very long, even though they aren’t used extensively anymore. Most were torn down, but in Slovenia you can’t go far without seeing one. Like some countryside ornamens.
Huh. Neat! Seems like a labor intensive way to produce hay, guess modern baleing technology has made them obsolete. (By modern, I think square hay balers happened in 18XX sometime and were horse or mule drawn.) Probably was real expensive until sometime last century.
Got a picture of a millstone I recently found but Lemmy isn’t letting me upload it right now. I love old tech.
Yes pretty neat! All this old “tech” makes me imagine a world when time was moving slower.
I dream of silent days when I’d work with friends to put hay on these things and not questioning my own existence because I made a living designing pointless digital products, now have to beg companies to hire me to design pointless apps for them under the threat of the huge mortgage I had to get to renovate my parents house, because my salary could never be enough to buy something.
Just sun, drying hey, bees, silence…
Yes and no, I think.
Totally get the draw of simpler and slower paced life with fewer distractions, clear responsibilities, greater self reliance, comprehensible social and technological world…
Small pox, tuberculosis, black lung, crazy uncle locked in the woodshed, whipping and beating of children and women, pervasive religion, famines, limited food choices in winter, illiteracy, and wool underwear: not so much.
I guess everything is a trade off; but, humans certainly didn’t evolve to live in a society this complex.
I think we’d be much happier living in small interconnected communes of less than 100. Most agrarian, with some dedicated to manufacturing or medicine or whatever. Stable and smaller population size. Don’t know if we could produce microchips, chemical synthesis, satellites, and high tech modern staples. Maybe we could. Sounds like heaven.
Loooove these stands, whether it’s for a local map or for posters and events.
A “noticeboard with a roof”?
Not sure I like your tone there bud
I feel compelled to read what is on these wherever I see them. I love them.
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I never gave these things a second thought, but yeah, they are pretty awesome actually.
My only problem with these are that the plastic on them is always somehow smudge/frosted enough that you cant read a thing.
Plastic? We have plenty of them here and none is out of plastic.
At least here the actual papers and stuff pinned to them are covered by a locked hinged window made of plastic.
Is their not a plastic sheet covering the posted maps and signs? Like the structure is wood, but most I have seen have a plastc covering over the display.
And ya sometimes the scratches and smearing and graffiti makes it unreadable.
The bougie ones have glass… That might be what they are referring to.
I do a lot of hiking and most often it’s plastic. Weirdly you find the glass covered ones in usually boring trails in small towns that seem very rarely traveled. I have even seem some that are just cork board, with nothing covering it. The pages are either lamented, or less desirably slipped into a 3 ring binder type sleeve and stapled.
I think it’s partly UV and partly being cleaned with paper towel. I think cotton is much softer on a micro level.
Announcement
There will be a meeting
Additionally, Council Member <smudged> has <redacted>
Here is a map of the area not to scale
Reminds me of visiting the Adirondacks as a kid for some reason…
They’re common around designated nature trails in my country too. You’re just remembering simpler, happier times probably.
Nostalgia is both beautiful and incredibly sad at the same time.
Maps with hats.
They can also have pockets, sometimes. It’s peak something or other
And dog poo bags, around here. And hopefully there’s a trash bin near the trailhead.
Gives information and keeps me from getting wet. 10/10 excellent structure
