Donald Trump tests eight 30ft high walls for border with Mexico

Sky News ^ | Wednesday 27 December 2017 | By Greg Milam, US Correspondent

[jdsteel]

They stand like surreal monuments in the California scrubland: prototypes of Donald Trump's proposed "big, beautiful" border wall between the US and Mexico.

The eight 30ft high slabs are the first tangible part of the controversial project that the US President says will help solve America's immigration problems.

[CottonBall]

LOL i stand corrected!

this is great, thank you for the information. i thought if anything was going forward, the MSM would be having fits.

any issues/holdups with environmental impact studies?

[dragnet2]

During the Clinton/Bush/Obama era.

[vmpolesov]

Hardened steel. Okay this can work, but I wonder about the cost and servicability. Once you harden steel it’s not so workable and weldable as before amirite?

[Paul R.]

I think I read somewhere that most direct falls from 30 ft. or more onto a hard surface are fatal, perhaps not immediately (which might be worse...)

[TribalPrincess2U]

The hidden electric wires sure are hidden on all of them.

[TribalPrincess2U]

Hope they took into account those ‘suction cup’ attachments! Making the walls slimy would help. I bet helicopters/drones will be available for pleasure lifts soon.

[TribalPrincess2U]

Also, they need the LOUDEST BRAIN PIERCING HORNS as a reminder.

[BwanaNdege]

Any design of an unguarded wall will be scalable. The NVA/VC used to get through triple and quintuple layers of ‘German Tape’ (razor wire concertina).

“Where there’s a will, there’s a way.”

Monitors & highly mobile guards with realistic Rules of Engagement are essential.

[noiseman]

”Ocotillo”

That’s certainly one that could be used, but the one I was referring to was much smaller than that. I don’t recall the name, but it was small enough that it could easily be stepped on or brushed against by accident, and it was very difficult to remove the spines. It looked perfect for the job.

[Elsie]

Donald Trump tests eight 30ft high walls for border with Mexico

Unless I see the video; I won't believe Donald could NOT scale them!

[Elsie]

Mexicans invent 31 foot ladder.
Film at 11

[Fireone]

Not getting your question...my house isn’t the border wall.

[wastedyears]

I hope that Trump goes down there, looks at those footpaths and says “What the hell is going on here?”

Too risky.

[Unrepentant VN Vet]

I think that you may be referring to Prickly Pear Cactus.

One plant by itself is a pain if you even brush it and they grow so fast I recall the King Ranch down in South Texas would let them form 10-15 foot wide zones to replace fencing for their big ol’ cattle.

...had a kind of funny fringe benefit, too. When the “Fence” started to get too wide, they’d send out a tractor with a Bush Hog to chop up the excess, and those great big ol’ cows would follow that tractor so they could eat up the inside of the leaves after they got busted up.

(Okay, so now Jose’s going to bust through the Wall with the Bush Hog on his John Deere. /sarc)

[sergeantdave]

It’s a simile.

[Fireone]

No, it’s a country rambler, lol!

[HandyDandy]

Haven’t read the article or the comments,......... however, when I think of the Wall, I think graphene!

[Elsie]

And this would be a problem how?

[dragnet2]

31' foot ladder? You ever been 31' feet off the ground on a freaking ladder? ☺

Tell me, if there are 28 of them, do they all sit on top of the wall until the 28th one gets on top and then pull the ladder up to use for the other side?

[Elsie]

How does one write Mine Field in Spanish?