Posted on 08/18/2022 1:23:53 PM PDT by conservative98
Bury the bottom row at least half way, fill the containers with gravel, weld everything, add concrete anchors cabled to the wall, grease all surfaces, and add cameras. Then you're just about to start having a wall.
Or fill them... with...
That arrangement of containers presents a great deal of surface area to wind. They would have to supported by deeply set supports; and, those supports would need to be beefy. The designer of Trump’s fence knew that, so it was slatted to permit wind to go though.
Anyone who has build with Legos knows better to make a wall like that.
That is a terrific question!! They seem to have a good supply of those.
“reports indicated that the containers, which measure 60 feet high and 22 feet long, fell over due to high winds.”
Is that right? Sounds like they should be the opposite, longer than the height for more stability.
Yep. I was about 13 and my dad told me to build a retaining wall with the big railway timbers (10”x10”x10ft). I spent a half day on it stacking them up even and driving big spikes into them to hold it together.
When he came back at lunch to see how I was doing, he told me it was all wrong - you need to stagger the timbers. I was pissed because he never told me how to do it and now I had to tear it all down and start over again.
“Well, then let this be a good reminder for you in the future. If you’re not sure how to do something - ask for instructions. Don’t just assume you know how to do everything.”
Looking back he probably did it that way (knowing that I would screw up) to teach me a good life lesson. I’m guessing at the age of 13 “I knew everything” - at least more than my “dumb old dad” anyway.
It’s a two high stack of conex boxes.
No way the wind knocked over one section and tossed it 20 feet, someone had a backhoe or something similar and knocked it over.
Yep, that was my thought, to fill at least the bottom one with sand.
It always gonna be a little cat and mouse game, as long as we have the will to keep ahead.
The “Maginot” defenses of Metz held up the Third Army for two weeks. And that is in spite of them facing the wrong way and lacking their full armament by 1944.
Also, the two layers should be staggered like bricks. From the picture it looks like they are just adjacent stacks that are two-high.
Prease crap
Obstacles which are not under observation and covered by direct fire serve only to annoy an opponent.
Correct, because it was never completed to the ocean. The Germans went around it, through neighboring countries. Incomplete walls don’t work very well.
“someone had a backhoe or something similar and knocked it over.”
Someone ‘borrowed’ a rig that was on site…
“Probably by the “Homeland Security”.”
Good thinking.
Border Patrol more likely.
Riiiiight.
Fill them full of a nerve gas...
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