the military name for an operation in vietnam which sprayed over 19 million gallons of various herbicides in order to deny the enemy crops and cover. Agent Orange, the most notorious of the poisons was agent orange, which causes many different diseases because of its high levels of dioxin.
operation ranch hand used c-123 aircraft to spray gallons of herbicide.
A Shackteau is a humble, weather-beaten, structurally questionable shelter located in a spectacular or highly coveted place—Wales, Jackson Hole, Sun Valley, Crested Butte, coastal Maine, the Alps—where the building itself may be worth almost nothing, but the dirt, view, access, and mythology make it absurdly valuable.
In use:
Shackteâu - We thought it was an abandoned shed until the realtor called it a rare alpine Shackteâu with unobstructed views and listed it for $2million.