Comments on: Novel Machines Fight Grasshopper Scourge http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/02/09/novel-machines-fight-grasshopper-scourge/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:15:36 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Rick Auricchio http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/02/09/novel-machines-fight-grasshopper-scourge/comment-page-1/#comment-1046371 Rick Auricchio Sat, 09 Feb 2008 18:54:01 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/02/09/novel-machines-fight-grasshopper-scourge/#comment-1046371 Would that relatively small backstop make much of a dent in a flying horde of millions of grasshoppers? Sure, you could fill the hopper in perhaps a half hour of driving like a madman, but what about the other zillions of bugs you miss? I guess it gave the farmer something to do... Would that relatively small backstop make much of a dent in a flying horde of millions of grasshoppers?

Sure, you could fill the hopper in perhaps a half hour of driving like a madman, but what about the other zillions of bugs you miss?

I guess it gave the farmer something to do…

]]> By: Adrian http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/02/09/novel-machines-fight-grasshopper-scourge/comment-page-1/#comment-1046356 Adrian Sat, 09 Feb 2008 13:05:55 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/02/09/novel-machines-fight-grasshopper-scourge/#comment-1046356 Surely charging across crop fields in the family saloon would cause as much damage as the grasshoppers? Surely charging across crop fields in the family saloon would cause as much damage as the grasshoppers?

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