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These ladles were carried by overhead gantry cranes which tipped them to pour the metal inside. A deer had managed to bound off the edge of the pit and right into one; it was mummified at the bottom.
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oh dear ;-)
emma b from oz
Fri 11-05-2010
That must have been freaky to see... as we say in SNJ the only good deer is a dead deer
Pepper Q
Fri 11-05-2010
Could I have a clue as to how deep and how wide these were? Lookin pretty huge! Poor deer :(
LucieLou
Fri 11-05-2010
Bambi's not coming home any time soon.
A D Nilsen
Sat 11-06-2010
Lucie, if I remember correctly they hold several hundred tons of steel at a time...so yeah, they are pretty darn big. Poor deer didn't have a chance...
Tina
Sun 11-07-2010
ooohh so where's the picture of the deer?
Graceful J
Mon 11-08-2010
Unfortunately it was too dark to expose the bottom of the ladle with the wide lens I had on at the time, and there wasn't any time to swap it out... didn't want to stay in this building very long either.
Motts
Mon 11-08-2010
Now pots for venison stew.
autoguy
Wed 11-17-2010
alot of orbs surround this ladle, this must have something to do with the deer that remains...
Oobie
Sun 11-21-2010
Be glad it was mummified and not rotting. That stank would have been real bad.
Larry D
Sun 12-19-2010
...poor deer.....
gypsy
Mon 04-11-2011

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