Nobody Special wrote:
MB wrote:
You can create a sort of mini vacuum by warming the wood and
placing it into the dye. Lower pressure of the heated and
expanded
air will draw as it cools.


Reminds me of a industrial potato peeler at a french fry factory I
once visited for work. They load up a 1000lbs of potatoes in a
pressure vessel. Pressure it up to maybe 100 psi or so (can't
remember the exact amount), hold it for 5-10 minutes, then release
the pressure all at once. Blows the skin right off the potato.

Mitch


A coworker's wife used to work at the Lays plant
in Casa Grande, AZ. He repeated the stories
about watching for rabbits in the trainloads of incoming
potatoes.

Evidently rabbits look like potatoes to the picking machines.


"Picking machines"? Potatoes grow underground, they're dug, not
picked. Heres one kind of potato digger, complete with videos
http://www.potatoharvesterusa.com/.

Rabbits don't much like potatoes anyway, there are unlikely to be
rabbits in a potato field unless they're crossing it to get to
somewhere else.

Even if there is a rabbit in the field, I can't see it sticking around
when one of those things is coming down the row.

Not saying that no rabbit ever got caught in the potato harvest, but
it would be pretty rare.


I suspect he was spinning you a yarn.

But they make an awful mess when they hit the slicer.

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