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i know the color is messed up but still , DAMN !!!!!
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i didn't see that with joshua...
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OK well you've all seen this right? maybe not in person. I think a bunch of the cameras work.
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A French lesson. :eek:
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This is about the only reasonable thing that I can think of to do with old Polaroids and 126 Instamatics....
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This is just plain strange, a flying lawnmower? :eyebrow:
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Whoa. Thanks, 404 -- that is extremely awesome! Had me wondering on how they pulled it off, so I dug up this picture of a similar craft.
http://home.cfl.rr.com/aircraftmodel...awnmower01.jpg |
My friend's dad built his own lawnmower. I don't recall it every flying (intentionally), but it had it's own charm. No photos survive. They may have lost a dog and some squirrels to it also.
We fondly called it the Killer Baby Carriage™. It was built on a piece of plywood that had baby carriage wheels attached to it. The lawnmower blade was mounted below the plywood. The blade was powered by what legend held was a washing machine motor, but we later learned was an 18" attic fan motor. We figured this out when the attic fan did not work and we went checking to see why. The blade was regularly honed to razor sharpness. Power was supplied to the motor by a series of household (not heavy duty) extension cords. They were not plugged into each other. Rather they were spliced together. For the most part. There was one plug connection on it, which we shall address later. A handle from an actual electric lawnmower was bolted to the plywood. There was an on-off switch on the handle. This switch was not connected to anything, but would have been too much trouble to remove, or even wrap some duct tape around to conceal it. If you didn't know that this switch didn't do anything, you shouldn't be operating the Killer Baby Carriage. The single remaining matched plug set on the extension cord was the "emergency stop". Well, not quite. When you unplugged it, it took a while for the blade to spin down. So you better have enough time to deal with the emergency before then. Non-emergency stops were not unusual. As one mowed the lawn it was necessary to be very careful about paying out the electrical cord, which was worn bandolier style over one's shoulder. Running over the cord with the Killer Baby Carriage required that the cord be respliced to restart the mower. This was typically done without disconnecting from the power source. There were no skirts, sides, or other attempts at safety devices to protect the operator or passers-by from things flying out around the sides, front, and back of the blade. A strip of old tire was eventually stapled to the back of the plywood because my friend's dad got tired of having halves of rocks strike his calves and ankles. Yes, the blade was fast enough and sharp enough to cut rocks. The dog would hear it start up and go hide. Several trees around the yard bore the scars of an encounter with the Killer Baby Carriage. Hearing it start up was also an experience. It was very quiet. And lethal. Kind of like a poisonous viper. At full power it merely emitted a soft whirring sound. All you really heard was the *spang* of small to mid-sized rocks and sticks hitting the blade. However, it cut grass like you wouldn't believe. Like a golf green. Even, short, manicured. Amazing. My friend's father loved the Killer Baby Carriage, and forsook all commercial mowing devices, despite his family's best efforts to replace it, and keep dad upon this earth. I once assisted in returning the Killer Baby Carriage to the shed, where I discovered not one, or two, BUT THREE pristine and gleaming commercial lawnmowers that had been given as presents for birthday, Father's Day, and Christmas of various years. The Killer Baby Carriage was unfortunately taken out of service some years ago because the plywood finally rotted through, but it live on in our hearts and stories. None of this tale is exaggerated. Okay, the part about losing a dog to it isn't true. She was smart enough to hide. Independent confirmation of the Tale of the Killer Baby Carriage is available. There are more "My Friend's Dad" stories. He liked to tinker with things. Some that he understood, some that he didn't. |
<b>wolf</b>, that's one of the funniest things I've ever read.
The *spang* of a rock hit is a dead-on perfect description of the sound. |
More! More!!! More psychotic neighbor's tinkering Dad stories!
I have a friend whose dad was like that. He was engineer, and anything you might imagine about an engineer and his home projects is probably not too far off. |
[quote=Kitsune]Whoa. Thanks, 404 -- that is extremely awesome! Had me wondering on how they pulled it off, so I dug up this picture of a similar craft.
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Thank you all for your accolades! I will indeed pursue more of My Friend's Father stories! |
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Another one of those trash strewn vans like Bruce posted. Just one question: why?
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Ah, I stand corrected. It's an ART strewn van. ;)
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Bruse , is that an actual tree or did they construct it ????
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is it somewhere in Wonderland?
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not nessarly Buster , i can show you a few places that use building as nutral .
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"Doh!!! Kerry lost, now WTF do I do?"
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The Bush stickers were advertised on the campaign website as "easy to remove." I don't know if the Kerry crowd thought to use a light adhesive.
Sandblasting might be an option, after the guy's tired of being pointed at by people shouting, "Hey, it's that guy from the internet photo." This could be his 15 minutes. He might even get to be one of those warm and/or wacky stories that run after the sports and before the credits. |
Eh, I bet he'll just cover it up with something else wacky. Art cars are like tattoos--once you do one, you inevitably want more.
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A friend of a friend had a Gold Duster that he used to paint with tempera paints.
He redid it after every rainstorm. And yes, this is a friend of my friend whose father made the Killer Baby Carriage. |
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I lost the humour in that...wait....it's not funny...
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I got an email from meetup.com
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Its hard to get psychics together when their spirit guides all work for different unions ... |
I think that's from that movie where someone cheats death, and it keeps trying to even the score.
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"Final Destination" I do believe... i think that log truck is from the second one though.
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Jet-powered Port-o-Potty
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Damn , i knew i shouldn't have tried that habenyero hot sauce on that taco last nite !!!!
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Shit fire and save the matches!
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Final Destination 2 log...good movie
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awe inspiring stupidity
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So Jag how long befor yoy could sit down again ??
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Chalk up another one for Jackass - The Movie.
I don't really think I could *get* that drunk. |
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that is just plain wrong!
ok, back to studying multi-engine aerodynamics. erf. |
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Instead of starting a new thread, will pitch this in here.
Game camera. Mike who does the anvil shooting, buys all the latest junk. Then expects me to teach him how to use it.:smack: |
You have been unusually successful in playing with that one. What gives, did you let everybody in the neighborhood know there's a party going on? What a Disney moment!! 3 'coon, 2 deer, a fox, and something that's too shy to photograph well, but he's looking right at the camera ...
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That's a fox? Looks like a treestump to me. But what do I know?
Zip. Great pic, though! |
It was reddish. I thought it was a fox. Looking back over it's shoulder.
Please, someone else agree with me. Maybe it was the chianti ... |
It does kinda look like it could be a fox...or a stump, I don't know. :o
I would of thought a fox would be too wary of being so close to the other animals. Are red fox common in your area, Buster? |
I think it's a stump. Maybe the set of eyes are another coon. We have red fox here. The coons will eat the corn, but not sure it's on a fox menue?
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After looking at original photo, there is something else in back ground & I don't think the eyes belong to the body. I still think the eyes are a coon.
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Definitely a coon with glowing eyes on the tree to the left. Or an alien.
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The coons will eat the corn, but not sure it's on a fox menue?
Yeah, it is. Foxes eat most anything. |
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It's possible it's an opossum, but the broad face and pointy nose looks like a racoon, and possums have beady eyes. It's not a fox, though. Foxes don't climb trees like that. :alien: |
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You almost have to look at this thread when you see this on the home page. :eek:
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The cougar looks good and dead to me from just the first picture. Its side appears to have a considerable hole from decomposition and the cat's head and limbs are quite limp and freemoving for a cougar being held by the base of the tail by what it would consider a 4-course meal.
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I've heard stories of equines going after snakes, but never a cougar. I'd have to agree on the "already dead" part.
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I actually considered several increasingly horrible puns to introduce this, but I couldn't handle using any of them.
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