The Jabs......

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TFIF!!....

 

What or whom, shall we kill today?

 

 

 

 

 

Those Crazy Kids On Twitter Can Make Me Chuckle...

 

 As I'm scrolling through  my twitter time line, this one caught my eye.

 Some lunatic stole a bus and proceeded to cause a lot of damage and injury in NYC.

I don't find this situation laugh worthy at all. What I do find smile inducing is the comments section.

 

 

Society is getting more mentally ill. pic.twitter.com/40MZFS2CMX

— Big Fish (@BigFish3000) December 3, 2021

  

Here are some of the comments:

"Cat's can't be dogs" replied with this GIF: which makes light of the situation.....

"Brave Cock Dog" replied with this GIF

Where Were You On August 1, 1981??

 

Long before Snooki and pregnant teens and social activism there was MTV.

 

Here are the first two hours when MTV aired.....

 

 

 

Morning Quiz....

 

Which states are totally "blue"?

 

What color represents the most "fraud"?

 

 

 

A Couple Weeks Ago I Found A Very Interesting Tweet on Twitter....

 

 It starts off with this:

  " So you know the whole story about how the Pilgrims were starving a few years until the Native Americans taught them how to farm, then they had true abundance & thus, Thanksgiving was born?"

 

 Yeah, that’s all BS.     <<< LINK

Here's  a snapshot of the beginning of the thread:

Click on the link above to go read the thread. It's an interesting synopsis from a history book written

back in 1876.  Back when history wasn't rewritten.  The author was Born in 1794 and died in

1878.   BRYANT<<<

 

Anyway,  Just the thought of reading about the history of the US back 150 years ago I went shopping.

 

 

These just arrived.  Now I have some winter reading to do.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Way Back Wednesday

 Jan Smithers barely beat out Hedy Lamar. Timeless Bergman held her own. Let us see how this plays out this week.

1. Jan Smithers

2. Grace Kelly

3.Maureen Ohara

Going Back In Time A Few .. Year... Decades .. To The Days Of My College Life..

 

Disclaimer... There may be some errors in my ways and I took a simplified route to get here.

So be nice if you catch a fuck up. I'll make it up in detention.

 

 

 I was thinking about what actual loads were on the wall and ramp and chainfall for the tractor

lift/storage I posted about.   According to the specs the mower weights 490lbs and is 68in overall.

Obviously this is simplified as the full load is spread out over the span of 4 tires and not a single 

point load.

 

The unistrut pivot is 55 inches or so above the floor and the ramps are 90 inches long.

Their capacity is 1500 lbs.

 

With some good ol' trigogenometry on the calculator I come up with the cable seeing 301lbs

static load and the wall seeing 237 lbs horizontal load spread out over 4 2X6 studs.

 Also, another thing to take into consideration is the mount I made for the snatch block in the center stud.

That cable is loading the stud toward the mower and the ramp is pushing the stud away from the mower. Close to net zero load.

The hand winch is rated for 1600lb

I'll get better pictures of the set up later this week.

 

 

Now the simplified horizontal load. Again, taking some liberties because it's already been 

2-3 hours of fartin around here. I came up with this.

Using a calculator for two static loads on a beam the results showed 277lbs on the unistrut 

bolted to the wall and the CHAINFALL is only seeing 212lbs.  Well under the 2000lb rating.

I weight just under 250lbs and I would stand on that unistrut beam all day long drinking beer.

The beam the chainfall is mounted to was recovered from an old mill building and we got it

at a salvage yard for old lumber.

6" x 10" and and the chainfall is bolted 28 inches from the vertical wall. 212lbs is like extra dust 

to that ol' girl.