Can the TriView® post withstand 80,000 lbs?
I haad been yearning to make a new impact demo video for our TriView marker post.
We’ve done cars on a frozen lake, tractors and ATV impacts, and even 30 at a time! I wasn’t sure where to go next so we decided to put a poll on our website asking customers what they wanted to see.
And the people spoke: “Let’s see it take on a semi.”
Challenge accepted.
While I was recently back home helping out on my family farm for harvest in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, I saw an opportunity to take not only to make it happen, but even take it to new level.
Harvest may be wrapping up, but the best parts of fall are just getting started. The following is some food for thought for the coming weeks.
🍂 5 Fall Things You Should Know This Week
1. Pumpkin Safety 🎃
Before you pick up that carving knife—remember that pumpkin carving is the #1 cause of Halloween-related injuries in the U.S. each year.
Experts recommend using a pumpkin saw instead of a kitchen knife and carving with the pumpkin in your lap for more control.
Or perhaps just let the kids paint them? Could be messier, but will involve fewer stitches.
2. Who I’m Rooting For! 🏈 🏟️ ⚾️
Fall is the best kind of sports chaos. College football Saturdays, NFL Sundays, and the MLB playoffs all happening at once.
Much aligned with harvest, my alma mater University of Minnesota Golden Gophers host the Nebraska Cornhuskers this Friday night. A big game with big ramifications for the Big 10.
My prediction: Gophers 28, Nebraska
And when it comes to playoff baseball? I know who Trident is rooting for:
3. Soup Season! 🥣 🥫
This is my first time declaring this publicly, so here it goes: I love soup.
If fall had an official food, it’s soup. My wife and I will specifically have “soup dates” where we go to a restaurant to get a bowl of their heartiest soup du jour!
While a nice grilled cheese sandwich and tomato soup always satisfy, my favorite soup of fall is chicken wild rice. Here is a quick and easy recipe to make it yourself.
Ingredients:
- 2 tbsp butter
- 1 cup chopped carrots
- 1 cup celery
- 1 small onion
- 1 lb shredded cooked chicken
- 4 cups chicken broth
- 1 cup cooked wild rice
- 1 cup cream, salt, pepper, thyme.
Directions: Sauté veggies in butter until soft. Add chicken and broth; simmer 10 minutes. Stir in wild rice and cream; season to taste. Serve with a good Halloween movie or football game on in the background.
4. Halloween Costume Ideas for Damage Prevention Pros 🦺 👻
- The Wizard of Locate – magic wand (locator), safety vest, and reflective tape cape. (Be sure to have gloves, hard hat, and safety glasses in case you bump into an OSHA rep).
- The 811 Man/Woman – put on your best 811 shirt, add a cape, an eye mask and voilà! — you’re America’s #1 damage prevention hero! A great accessory would be a landline telephone to help people call before they dig.
- The Barricade Tape Mummy – wrap yourself in orange or yellow marking tape (bonus points if BABAA compliant). Or maybe it would be more on brand to use some of our buried warning tape?
5. Seven Lesser-Known Halloween Flicks 🍿 💀
While go-to’s like Hocus Pocus, Casper, and the Halloween movies are streamed in living rooms across the country, here are seven underrated Halloween flicks you can consider for your next movie night.
- The Midnight Hour (1985) – A small-town Halloween fest takes a dark turn when dead townsfolk rise. A cult classic with ’80s charm.
- WNUF Halloween Special (2013) – A faux local TV broadcast from 1987 that spirals into odd territory. Creepy, clever, and very different.
- The Curse of Bridge Hollow (2022) – More of a family / comedic horror take, with fun Halloween mayhem.
- The Faculty (1998) – High school + body snatchers + sci-fi horror vibes. A fun cult classic.
- Hack-O-Lantern – Campy, over-the-top, devilish fun. Not for serious horror fans, but a guilty pleasure.
- The Clovehitch Killer (2018) – More psychological than jump-scare horror. A quiet, unsettling thriller.
- Student Bodies (1981) – A spoof / parody slasher movie. It pokes fun at the genre while delivering holiday-season weirdness.