Duck Pond Redneckery

[Duck]

I was all set to use flexible conduit with the proper fittings & leftover 12 gauge solid wire, until I pulled the cover off the switch on the compressor & it uses spade terminals.



I ain't gonna crimp solid wire into a spade terminal so instead I cut a piece off an extension cord that the lawnmower chopped up.

Ever see a 120 volt extension cord hardwired into a circuit panel?



Yeah that's 14 gauge stranded wire hooked directly to a breaker.

Sharing the same breaker as my generator feed. (for now)

And yes that's a white wire being used as a hot.



After all that hillbillery I walked past my old Coleman air compressor & noticed it's big fat 120 volt power cord would've been perfect (except for one wire being white).

Oh well.

When I get an extra tandem breaker for the compressor I'll use the fatter cord. It's probably 12 gauge wire too.

 

[Duck]

It didn't come with a regulator so I plumbed up this mess.



That's the regulator from my old compressor so I can have 120 psi. The other one is straight 155 psi & the third port is plugged for now.

My workshop is coming together. Soon I'll be able to start building my zombie destroyer.

 

[Tazz]

I just bought me a new one. Not that big though.

 

[Rigjockey]

Whatcha gone do? Blow up balloons near the garage?

 

[Sinister]

I told him to start making rafts and selling them all over the midwest but he won't listen.

They're small enough to be hauled in a pickup and can be set up by 2 guys...even if they've already started drinking...don't have to be registered (probably in most places)...

but he won't.

That thing will just sit there most of the time, never realizing it's full potential.

Like many of us.

Just sitting there.

Disappointing it's guidance counselors...

 

[Rigjockey]

I told him to start making rafts and selling them all over the midwest but he won't listen.

They're small enough to be hauled in a pickup and can be set up by 2 guys...even if they've already started drinking...don't have to be registered (probably in most places)...

but he won't.

That thing will just sit there most of the time, never realizing it's full potential.

Like many of us.

Just sitting there.

Disappointing it's guidance counselors...

Rafts of DEATH!

 

[Duck]

I WOULD make & sell rafts, except for the fact there are way too many lawyers in this country.

Put an outboard motor on one of these things and you'll probably die.

And of course,... drunk people fall off of them.

For the record, the only sober person who has ever fallen off one of my rafts did so only because I slammed the trolling motor into full speed reverse while he was standing up taking a leak off the front end.

 

[Sinister]

Like I said...just sitting there...making excuses...

Being a Bernie supporter...

 

[ironpony]

If it ain't involved with beer its feckin' useless.

 

[Duck]

Like I said...just sitting there...making excuses...

Being a Bernie supporter...

Um, no.. It's called obeying the law.

You see,... the first time some dumbass tries to sue me, I will hunt him down and I will kill him.

That's my plan, because this fucked up country we live in makes it perfectly legal to steal from people for any reason if you can afford a better lawyer than they can.

The ability to permanently incapacitate a plaintiff levels the playing field but unfortunately, there are some seriously unjust laws that prevent it's use in such circumstances.

So the smartest thing to do in my case is simply not manufacture things that the average American dumbass will do something stupid on & end up drowned.

Watercraft manufacturers conform to government safety standards and carry liability insurance.

To make my rafts conform to such standards would render them useless for their original intended purpose, which is to keep them cheap, while floating huge payloads in shallow water.

Just the USCG requirement for freeboard would make it extremely difficult to load & unload big heavy things like my generator and my tow behind bush hog that weighs 450 lbs and only has 5 inches of ground clearance. (yes I brought that damn thing to an island in the Des Plaines river and pulled it around with a trailer dolly once). This is possible because the rafts, two in tandem can carry roughly a ton, drafting 6" & only have 3-1/2" of freeboard when loaded to max. (9-1/2" when empty.) I think USCG requires 16".

 

[Rigjockey]

Um, no.. It's called obeying the law.

You see,... the first time some dumbass tries to sue me, I will hunt him down and I will kill him.

That's my plan, because this ****ed up country we live in makes it perfectly legal to steal from people for any reason if you can afford a better lawyer than they can.

The ability to permanently incapacitate a plaintiff levels the playing field but unfortunately, there are some seriously unjust laws that prevent it's use in such circumstances.

So the smartest thing to do in my case is simply not manufacture things that the average American dumbass will do something stupid on & end up drowned.

Watercraft manufacturers conform to government safety standards and carry liability insurance.

To make my rafts conform to such standards would render them useless for their original intended purpose, which is to keep them cheap, while floating huge payloads in shallow water.

Just the USCG requirement for freeboard would make it extremely difficult to load & unload big heavy things like my generator and my tow behind bush hog that weighs 450 lbs and only has 5 inches of ground clearance. (yes I brought that damn thing to an island in the Des Plaines river and pulled it around with a trailer dolly once). This is possible because the rafts, two in tandem can carry roughly a ton, drafting 6" & only have 3-1/2" of freeboard when loaded to max. (9-1/2" when empty.) I think USCG requires 16".

I just skim read that, No, Honestly never read much. Here is what you do Francis, You build the rafts. Take Liberal buyers out for a grand tour. Then you shove them into the river.

 

[Southern Fried]

I just skim read that, No, Honestly never read much. Here is what you do Francis, You build the rafts. Take Liberal buyers out for a grand tour. Then you shove them into the river.

Hell No...... they'd getcha for polluting a waterway and make you pay to clean the whole dang river.

 

[Duck]

This is what becomes of a beer can when you put 40,000 lbs on it.

 

[Duck]

About a one inch length of 3/4" electrical conduit crushed lengthwise

 

[Duck]

This is completely filled with water. After crushing one end I put water in it & crushed the other end shut in the vise til it was watertight, then finished crushing it with the press.

I'm going to put it in the freezer and see what happens when the ice expands. Probably nothing exciting at all but maybe later I'll make another one & put it on a camping stove outside and see what the steam pressure does to it. A violent explosion or just a slow leak.. I dunno.

 

[ironpony]

Things kinda slow @Duck Pond?

 

[Duck]

Things kinda slow @Duck Pond?

Yeah they were for a while.

Until I noticed this a few minutes ago:

 

[ironpony]

Whoops!

 

[Duck]

Whoops!

Yeah we get really high winds here.

A few hours ago a brief but intense storm blew the framework out of the screen door on the house.

 

[Rodger]

Yeah we get really high winds here.

A few hours ago a brief but intense storm blew the framework out of the screen door on the house.

So is it duct tape or spray foam to the rescue?