A short YouTube conversation (Catherine Bell and Steve) about nocturnal salvaging of discarded railroad ties. Steve explains he collects replaced ties near tracks to save money and repurposes them for retention walls, borders, gutters, and simple fencing; they plan and prepare loads at night using equipment (bobcat/grappler) and food/drinks for crews.
$50 per railroad tie
So check out this man beast. Here we are, the middle of the night, pitch black, and here he is, having fun, Having fun. So what are you doing here, babe? Tell our investors.
Saving money. Cibola runs parallel with railroad tracks. And so what I do is when the railroad comes and replaces railroad ties on their tracks and as well other pieces and tracks. Home Depot right now, they don't have any in stock, but they're $50 a railroad. Time I go out there with Filiberto's burritos, case of beer, a couple case of beer, depending on how big the crew is, and I get my bobcat, my grappler. We say we get save ourselves thousands of dollars by getting these railroad ties. So we're getting ready to dump another load of railroad ties and save some. Get Jake's back looking like a western park.
So tell them what you're going to do with the railroad ties. That's the cool part.
Well, we got. We're using them for everything, for retention walls, for borders, for basically gutters to divert the water in the path that we actually wanted to go. So a little bit of railing for like, you know, like three high for fencing on the side of our berms when we're driving up. So we don'. Roll off the berm. Tried that already. Wasn't a big fan. Yeah, they've got multiple uses for everything around here. It's great.
So stay tuned. This is going to be pretty cool.
