JHCC Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 Δῶς μοι πᾶ στῶ καὶ τὰν γᾶν κινάσω. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 I don't speak or understand rasputin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 "Give me a place to stand, and I will move the earth." -- Archimedes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 That sounds screwy to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 As in Archimedes screw. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 It's going to be a challenge to pry you off this one isn't it Scott? Giant marionettes were pretty cool, the guys working the legs made up for the creepyness of it all. So it's all good. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lary Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 17 hours ago, Scott NC said: Maybe we could collaberate on a project, Yeah, that does sound like fun. You took apart a seed drill? Thats got me thinking about one I bought for 150 bucks several years ago thats been sitting ever since. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 On 2/5/2024 at 12:43 PM, Scott NC said: some cheesey mechanical moving things, not called kinetic but I cannot remember the name for them Whirligig... pretty much the same thing, I guess. Yes, I mostly cut it apart, Lary it was an old rusty implement that we built a flower garden around... 19 hours ago, Frosty said: It's going to be a challenge to pry you off this one isn't it Scott? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hefty Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 On 2/6/2024 at 4:38 AM, Scott NC said: No, not animatronic. It's on the tip of my tongue but is stuck there. Google don't help if you can't ask it the right question... Automaton? Plural is automata (and the response is "nuttin, automata with you?" ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Special Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 And now we've made the complete circle from giant puppets to "Moose and squirrel" with a quick run by a Greek inventor that made a weapon that sounds like Boris would want to steal it. Every day Diogenes starts to make a little more sense to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 To think it all started many years ago when a cultivator rolled off the factory floor, and possibly long before that. Hopefully it is full circle, ends, and doesn't grind on and on and on (like many things), in some way, shape or form, here or else where. Heraclitus was probably right though. I don't think he slept in a clay jug. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 Slept in a clay jug probably meant he was known for drinking himself to sleep. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Special Posted February 8 Share Posted February 8 I was thinking more about running around with a lantern in the daytime looking for truth and honest men, but I can understand drinking yourself to sleep too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich_c Posted February 8 Share Posted February 8 It followed me home… … after I signed the delivery receipt and walked back into my house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted February 8 Share Posted February 8 Very pretty. Being in Rhode Island for a business trip, I stopped by Exeter Scrap Metal to see what interesting goodies they might have put aside in their interesting goodies section. I got a nice RR spike maul head (which I plan to turn into a stake anvil) and a nice little Columbian No. 143 vise for $10 each. There were also a nice big (~6”) Athol vise for $45 and a Champion No. 400 blower, but both were too heavy for my checked luggage and too big for a carry-on. Ah, well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted February 8 Share Posted February 8 Nice scores John. Shame you couldnt come home with the bigger stuff. Nice looking hammer Rich. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 Update: had a nice hypothetical chat with a TSA agent about what would happen if I showed up with a 40lb. vise in my carry-on backpack. He said that the agent at security would probably refer the question to a supervisor, and that the supervisor would probably disallow the vise as violating the "no tools with an assembled length of more than seven inches" rule. So, now we know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 Unscrew it till the mobile jaw came off? Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 The one that I actually got? Not all the way, but most of it; it’s moving quite freely. I didn’t unscrew the big Athol, but the screw and mobile jaw were not stuck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 I was suggesting a way to get it on the plane. <sheesh> Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 That wouldn’t have worked either: The individual pieces were all bigger than 7”. Also, the rule applies whether or not the pieces are assembled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 Update: Oh, look. What a surprise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olfart Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 I've been on hiatus here for a while, but not altogether inactive with the forge. Some truck leaf springs followed me home from a neighbor's house, so I put them to good use as rake tines for my mini excavator. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluerooster Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 Cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 Pretty nice attachment Olfart. You can comb your wooly mammoth with it too. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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