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Hi Thomas,I am pleased you could find something to occupy your time without undue strain. That's a mighty impressive tower BTW.CheersMike
Cool looking project there, Travis !!
Shaping up well. Your shop elves will be broadcasting pretty soon!
Hopefully they are all steel (not stainless), and you can sweep them up with a magnet?Are you going to be motorizing the erecting winch?Impressive! And all that just to broadcast your advertisement for a project car for sale! Good luck and stay healthy, Thomas
If you lived up north here, you would need adjustable counterweights to handle ice/snow loads on the tower. Down there, guess you just have to make sure no cows climbed up it...
I want to know--If your back was so sore that you couldn't finish the antique automobile clone, what are you doing with a full on fabrication project?
Thomas--I have had trouble with my back for the last five years or so. Really bad pain after standing at the lathe or mill for a day. Have actually worked the last couple of years machining while setting on a stool, but my back still hurt like blazes. I never lived a real strenuous life. Fifty years of work setting at a drafting table or a computer terminal. And for the last ten years, I've known I was just too damned fat!! I got a bad blood test last may, blood sugar too high, crossed over into diabetic land. That decided me it was time to come to grips with my weight and actively do something about it. So--I gave up my two great loves, donuts and chocolate bars, and started my "Fat man walks". These walks almost killed me when I first started them, but I persevered. A mile a day, 1/2 mile uphill and 1/2 mile back down. My goal was to lose 50 pounds by November. The walks have gotten a lot easier, and I've dropped 37 pounds since May.--The upshot of this is that my back doesn't kill me now when I have a day of machining. I'm still finding my way with this, and I don't really know if I'll drop 50 pounds by the end of November, but it a great thing to spend a day machining and not have to spend the evening sucking back Tylenols and leaning on a heating pad.---Brian
Add a big spring and fling pumpkins with it?
Long range radio tower and short range trebuchet! Talk about killing two birds with one stone pumpkin!
Very cool setup!
Great job on the tower and the math behind it!
Looks and works terrific Thomas. Well done! I bet you're getting anxious to start using those new radios.Jim
That is slicker than a greased pig, Thomas! Nice job. Do you have any worries about icing on the tower, or do you have a 2x4 handy to de-ice the framework? Probably never gets that cold down Texas way?