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lucerne
Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 192 Lucerne Maine Pics |
2004-07-07 90301
Most of our tractors couldn't lift a cube 14.2 inches square if it was made of gold. It would weigh 2000 lbs.
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beagle
Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 1333 Michigan Pics |
2004-07-07 90305
If I had a 14.2" square hunk of gold, I can assure I'd own something that could pick it up. ....
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lucerne
Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 192 Lucerne Maine Pics |
2004-07-07 90306
$12,851,200.00 at todays 7/7/04 price, I bet you would. Isn't that wild, a block that small, so heavy and worth so much. ....
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BillMullens
Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 649 Central West Virginia Pics |
2004-07-08 90338
Yes, I think of this every time I see a movie where somebody is carrying around gold "bricks" like they weigh 2 pounds.
Hollywood fiction.
Bill ....
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DRankin
Join Date: Jan 2000 Posts: 5116 Northern Nevada Pics |
2004-07-08 90339
I stopped a guy one time with a gold nugget in his pocket the size of a russet potato. He definitely had a starboard list. ....
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Wildman1
Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 196 Chugiak, Alaska Pics |
2004-07-09 90390
I used to fly gold out of the Cambior mine on the Denali Highway 40 miles east of McKinley Park. They packed .50 cal. ammo cans with the stuff and it was HEAVY! I figure about 60lbs/can. The small jewelery quality stuff was separated from the coarse grade and fetched double the going rate. ....
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