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Well why don't we just wait here in that case, then? Until the wind has eroded the hill down to a more manageable grade.
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Would prevent the wagon from racing down the hill out of control since you effectively need to drag it down. With the downside being that with the wheels no longer able to turn they instead become pivot points, so if you had the cargo shift around and too much friction on the wheels you could just flip it over with a poorly timed yank. It would also be nearly impossible to turn if you had to zig zag down.
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May 15, 2019 22:49
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I'm not familiar with this particular hill but if you had nothing to anchor the ropes to then it wouldn't be much help; it may not always be an option. Plus if your group had no idea how to build a pulley, or how they work, it wouldn't be an option. Psychotic Weasel fucked around with this message at 23:05 on May 15, 2019 |
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May 15, 2019 23:02
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chitoryu12 posted:Edit: In case anyone forgets how fast the world modernized, George Coe died at the age of 85...in November 1941. The cowboy who got shot by a mountain man in the Wild West lived to see the beginning of World War II. Had we only waited at that last rock slide for another ~100 years or so our descendants could've taken one of them shiny new freeways the rest of the way to the coast; hell, I-84 takes us straight from Salt Lake to Portland. Think of all the trouble we could've saved.
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May 24, 2019 21:25
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chitoryu12 posted:
Quick - every one get on your hands and knees and start drinking the river coffee, no sense in letting it go to waste. Then when you're all hopped up on several litres of coffee go build some fires so we can cook 20 lbs. of corn bread and dry out all our beans. Then I guess double team it up the hill.
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May 25, 2019 17:37
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Oh, excellent! Southern Pacific has a railway that passes through here, we should just follow that and get out of here as quickly as possible. *whispers from off screen* I'm being told the transcontinental railroad wouldn't be built through here for another ~35 years and lingering around in a desert that long is likely to prove fatal. In that case lets wait until sunset and cross the desert at night. You know, like normal people who don't want to cook to death.
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Jun 1, 2019 02:14
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In today's money our gold strike would've been worth ~$50,000 in total. Congrats goons, we can retire  At least we wised up and got our self onto a board of some sort so we could dip our hands into some of that sweet, sweet frontier graft.
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Jun 5, 2019 04:32
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Yeah, either I was terrible at this game as a child (totally possible) or earlier versions of this game were a lot less forgiving. Did we even have anyone get sick, let alone maimed or killed? All that whiskey and laudanum stockpiled for nothing. For our next trip we should force everyone to do a handstand and walk across the country that way. Or pull the wagons ourselves or something. David Corbett posted:Gold inflation is weird. That makes sense. I realized after posting that the rate if inflation and value of gold likely started to differ at some point but didn't have a chance to dig into it. Still we got barely more than what we started this journey out with. Can only hope those 666 acres we got wasn't worthless scrub land on the side of the Sierra Nevadas.
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Jun 5, 2019 13:35
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chitoryu12 posted:Okay, we'll increase fluid intake and It's very important that you not go to sleep before getting medical attention after hitting your head. Looks like this one won't be falling asleep again until we hit San Fran. In several months.
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Jun 6, 2019 04:55
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Just wait - eventually the waters will receded or freeze over. Mother nature isn't going to win this one!
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Jun 6, 2019 14:13
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Is there a way we can keep everyone as close to the chlorea patient as possible? Only the strongest are going to survive this trip so we may as well weed out the weaklings now before they start wasting food.
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Jun 7, 2019 03:07
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How do you become bedridden from a sprained wrist? Get him back out there exercising that joint. How? I don't care. So long as you remember god is watching.
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Jun 7, 2019 04:35
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That guy can't even coordinate his clothing and accessories and we're supposed to take medical advice from him? I don't think so! Buddy can rest when he's dead - continue as usual. Also, why don't we have any condiments?
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Jun 13, 2019 04:52
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This guy sure does complain a lot. Keeping them cold and wet will help fortify their constitution and the immune system, so let's do that.
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Jun 13, 2019 20:50
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We can't preemptively shoot them? What kind of wild west game is this anyway? Guess let's just see what they do.
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Jun 18, 2019 19:20
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Night10194 posted:Why is that even an option. Real answer - salt has been used for centuries as a primitive antiseptic as it has long been known as a preservative and anti-bacterial agent. Physicians in antiquity would use salt water (from the sea) to help clean and treat open wounds to prevent infection. It is incredibly painful though and even in the 19th century rubbing table salt into your cuts would've been much less effective than antiseptics already available, or even just high proof alcohol. But if you're in a pinch and salt is all you have it's better than gangrene. The study of microbiology would've still been in it's relative infancy at this time though and as a bunch of illiterate farmers and homesteaders we'd have no loving clue what we were doing, so trial and error by randomly applying whatever was around would be out best bet. In reality you'd actually want to do all of what is listed below; treating any open wounds with an antiseptic, or an astringent if you wanted to slow bleeding, before cleaning then dressing the wound. Not sure why they are all separate answers. I guess just clean and dress the wounds seems the most logical here, since the others only imply you cleaning out the wound then leaving it alone so it can get dirty again in a few seconds.
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Jun 26, 2019 04:18
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Is make him comfortable a euphemism for holding a pillow over his face to make this as quick and painless as possible? Because, uh..., if you have internal injuries/bleeding way out here in the wilderness we all know it's only going to end one way.
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Jun 26, 2019 13:03
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Going to go with a. Eat all the dandelions, that seems the most logical thing to do.
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Jun 26, 2019 17:57
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Just continue down the hill. It'd muddy so I'm sure we'll just slide down instead of getting stuck if we lock the wheels.
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Jun 28, 2019 12:29
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Fording a river (or any body of water) just means to walk across it, or drive if applicable. You don't swim or float, you try to maintain contact with the river bed to cross. Generally not an issue in shallow or calm waters but studies have shown water as shallow as two feet can knock an adult off their feet if it is moving fast enough. If the water were to reach the bottom of the wagon (or higher) we also risk flooding it or have it washed away. When you caulk and float across you are turning the wagon body into a makeshift amphibious vehicle, having it act as a boat's hull so you can float across. Less risk of flooding but since it's a wagon and not a boat it is probably nearly impossible to control in fast moving waters so you risk getting washed away, or slammed into nearby rocks, or getting the wheels caught on the river bed and tipping you.
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