Looks like a straight boom 60 footer with a jib. I'd like to borrow it for some tree trimming when you get finished, haha.

probably figured somebody licked the top

I find it amusing that people who are quick to put their mouths on the mouths and genitalia of others are suddenly bothered when it involves frozen desserts.

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I've occasionally caught shit for leaving a hair in the linguine, which is of course cautiously extracted with disgust.

Look, ask the people who know me. I have what Bob Belcher would describe as a "swarthy, Mediterranean complexion," which means I'm about two steps removed from Sasquatch. My arm hair is longer (and curlier) than an Asian's pubic hair. My chest hair is on par with Chuck Norris' pubes. It's sometimes a bit embarrassing, but not a lot I can do about it.

So, going back to the linguine- on the few times that this has happened, my though process has immediately gone to "WTF? This morning you had my dick in your mouth, and I'm still picking your short-n-curlies out of my teeth from last night, and we both had no problem at all with it then, but add Pesto and suddenly it's the grossest thing imaginable?"

Obviously it's a different dynamic if this occurs at a restaurant, I'm speaking wholly of home-cooked dishes.
Fortunately, I am usually able to get ahead of such thoughts before they find their way to the mouth.

Rental companies absolutely rape me on stuff like this. So expensive. One day rental for sure.


Double wide pontoon with crows nest, unrelated.

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...0acd6a5415.jpg

The fella who built, owns, and drives this thing around is always absolutely shithoused. It's a good thing it's so slow, otherwise i don't know how he could control it.

Great minds do produce similar thoughts!

Partner vs random, street trash.

I feel like that's an important distinction that is being ignored.

That finally puts into words a concept which I've been unable adequately to express.

It's like the Chevy Catfish of the mid to late 90s. One gets the impression that some exasperated junior designer threw it onto paper in disgust after the seventy-third committee meeting concerning the shape of the front turn signal, never expecting that it would be taken seriously and put into production.



On an unrelated note, I happened across an old gem this evening; a musical eulogy to Robert C. Baker, inventor, pomologist, and senior professor at Cornell University's Institute of Food Science and Marketing. I first heard it performed live by Paul & Storm at W00tstock about ten years ago:

That would be lightning McQueen!!!
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Came for the rotary, stayed for the scooters

A semi truck ran over our mail box the other day. Actually taco'd 1/4" wall 2"x2" 316ss tube, we use what we got. Finally got around to reinstalling a new one today.

Found a wire. Looks to be green, so it must be earth. Also found some seal tight conduit. Didn't get any pop, but one of these days will be my last for sure.

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Found the 10mm.

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...a2fedfdb4.jpeg

^ Yowsa.


This is one of the more... interesting camera mounts that I've built:

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Am I the only one who finds that Unistrut is basically just erector set for grown-ups?

I'm not sure I completely agree with your solution for a hold down / counter balance.

And yes, unistrut is far superior to everything. Especially if it's 316ss.

Unrelated two speed disconnect I'm trying to have replaced.
https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...5088440421.jpg

Nope on the stainless. Just painted steel.

And it's temporary. We're having a festival on our property next Friday morning. It's an annual back-to-school thing, with about a hundred tents where kids can get free school supplies, physicals, books, treats, etc (etc.) I figured it'd be cool to put one of our weatherproof outdoor cameras on the roof, so they can do wide-shots of the whole thing.

Didn't want to drill holes in the roof for something that's gonna come off in a week, hence the sandbag. It's actually pretty damn stable. You gotta shove it pretty hard to get it to slide, and it's definitely not gonna tip over.

Unistrut is for hacks. 80/20 is the stuff professionals use.

I have designed dozens of carts, tables, workstations and rack mounts using the stuff. It is the tinker toy of the engineering world.