Duck Pond Redneckery
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TheJrodTest
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I don't care if this is an old post - THAT is the best thing I have seen all week!
TheJrodTest
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I don't know how I missed this thread (probably because I keep getting distracted by the politics thread) but Duck, your smasher thing...I do want. How you get anything done ever, when you have all those "what does 40k lbs do to _____?" experiments that NEED to be documented...I just don't know!
Duck
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That's a cheapo deluxe model from Harbor Freight, like $200.
They also have a 12 ton model that's cheaper.
Duck
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That thing on top of the Styrofoam is solid steel 2"x 2" x 10".
It's the scrap leftover from a 20 foot long piece we cut for freight elevator counterweights. There was a formula I forgot years ago, how many pounds per inch. We'd finish & paint the gates, balance it on a scale with the brass track guides & other hardware set on the scale too, then cut 2 weights that equal half the gate and hardware weight each.
Typically a counterweight was 2 feet tall, so that ten inch piece was too small to use. It makes a good arbor plate though cuz 40,000 lbs isn't going to bend it.
On really big gates, the solid steel bars we used were 2" X 4". We had to use a forklift to set it in the saw.
Kiwi303
Not a fruit
That weighs close to railway track does it? That's something like 1.5" x 2.5" with a T stuck on below. Got some lengths of that sitting down the track by the container and that shits heavy. 3" length of rail track makes a good small anvil for blacksmithing redneckery.
Couple pages back I saw your exinguisher bracket, oddly enough I've been pottering round the shed doing fire-proofing too. Got a couple of old LPG (Propane to you yanks) cylinders and ground the tops off at the shoulder, welded a couple of brackets on and just need to bend up some reinforcing rod (rebar) as handles. Make nice fire proof ash buckets that last a hell of a lot longer than the cheap tin crap in the stores.
Couple pages back I saw your exinguisher bracket, oddly enough I've been pottering round the shed doing fire-proofing too. Got a couple of old LPG (Propane to you yanks) cylinders and ground the tops off at the shoulder, welded a couple of brackets on and just need to bend up some reinforcing rod (rebar) as handles. Make nice fire proof ash buckets that last a hell of a lot longer than the cheap tin crap in the stores.
Duck
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Our railroad tracks are a bit bigger than the dimensions you describe.
I'm guessing 4" wide, 7" tall with a cross section that looks kind of like the Omega symbol.
I've never actually measured one.
Duck
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Evidence of beavers??
What other kind of animals native to the midwest eat wood?
I just took a piss when I got out of the truck too. I'm going to have to remember to pee on these logs before I leave tomorrow. The scent usually scares animals away.
It's how I got rid of the skunk that was living in this burrow under the east barn.
What other kind of animals native to the midwest eat wood?
I just took a piss when I got out of the truck too. I'm going to have to remember to pee on these logs before I leave tomorrow. The scent usually scares animals away.
It's how I got rid of the skunk that was living in this burrow under the east barn.
Kiwi303
Not a fruit
4" wide seems a bit overkill, I would think your US gauge is wider than NZ gauge, we use narrow gauge.
Ours looks like the left, except the bottom flange isn't quite so wide or the stem so tall in relation to the head.
Might take my cam down to the pile and take a snap tomorrow if I remember.
Ours looks like the left, except the bottom flange isn't quite so wide or the stem so tall in relation to the head.
Might take my cam down to the pile and take a snap tomorrow if I remember.
Blood
Driveler Emeritus
Keendriver
Hates all of you
I'm trucking dammit...
Don't bug me!
If you had any brains, you'd be in the Trans Am.......
Peckerhead
Blood
Driveler Emeritus
I was going to bitch out @Keendriver until I realized I could just google the specs...
after taking a tape measure out back.
Now I'm sad
ironpony
Professional Pot-Stirrer
Don't think it'll pass DOT... might be a outlaw night fer someone!Ok I'm about 450 miles from the duck pond but here's some genuine redneckery....
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Yes that's 4 plastic butter knives from Wendy's, zip ties & duct tape holding a snapped trailer leveler valve linkage rod together.
Only gotta get it another 40 miles.
Keendriver
Hates all of you
Get you one of those "volcano burritos".Well it made it here.
Me gobble Arby's now... or... Taco Bell...
Later this evening you'll know how they came up with that particular moniker.
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