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1. When I’m in rut, I prefer it to be a standard rut. Easier to get out of, or just follow where it goes.

   1. Unless the ‘rut’ involves a bull moose then watch out

2. Okay.
   I wonder what this person would have to say about the Oregon Trail wagon ruts?
   This paper is a fine example pf, “Publish or Perish”.
   I did not, shall not and can in no way be enticed into reading this drivel.

   Merry Christmas Kate

3. why assume cart over sled?

4. Sounds like I just discovered the subject of my PhD thesis. I could pack up field research in a week with a tape measure and then bullshit with no end. Those tracks have to be cut.

   1. Chemistry, maybe. Use of acid on the limestone would do it. Can you imagine guys sitting there cutting those with stone tools just for a cart track? Humans made them though, that’s for sure. The track junction shows it.

      Also, are there tool marks on the stone? They’d still be there even now, if the tracks were cut.

      Could such tracks be cut now? Maybe with a stone saw and etc. they could. Economical? It would depend on the wheels, one would think. How long does a wooden wheel last running in those tracks? Why do they need a track in the first place?

      1. Why do they need a track in the first place?
         That was my first thought. Has the island been extensively quarried for stone. The stone must show up in a structure or a ruined structure somewhere.

5. The Maltese cart ruts form an important part of the the Netflix documentary series, Ancient Apocalypse.

   https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22807484/

6. The interstate highway system is made of concrete,therefore does’nt get ruts from traffic but asphalt covered highways do and the older the more pronounced. My Tahoe is not influenced by these ruts but our Equinox can go for miles without moving the steering wheel as it will centre on the ruts and stay there. I also remember riding a bike on prairie trails made by wagons that i could’nt get out of and were as smooth as silk. The Maltese ruts would be the same and would be smooth riding in horse drawn vehicles.

   1. Thinking the Equinox has a hydraulic power assist steering pump while the Taho’s is electric. Means Equinox is 2009 or older.
      EPAS (Taho equipment) is crappy, has no road feel, causes driver fatigue, and is very dangerous when paired with a fatigued driver.
      I’d opt for HPAS every day but the greenies seem to love killing us.

7. It takes a horse’s ass to fail to understand the inevitable effect of two horses asses repeatedly pulling carts over the same road.

   It’s proof that one horses ass is more stupid than two horses asses.

8. Primitive GPS nav/self-driving carts, like a giant slot car, or those Autopia cars at Disneyland..
   https://disneyland.disney.go.com/en-ca/attractions/disneyland/autopia/

9. The ruts..??

   Rain Gutters….?

10. Stone wheels would easily do that in short order. Limestone is relatively soft and would get ground away as a stone wheel passes over it. The wind and rain wash away the debris, and the next stone wheels grind it some more.