heavy duty windchimes

[SPIKER]

lol @ junkman still messing with that 1000 gal tank huh! guess you didn't look inside using that MATCH idea I came up with /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

my old boss has a few SINGLE gongers made with OLD tanks CO/OX welding supply types. he cut them down in our saw. welded up tripod, and has a big wood gong handle/hammer. like in the old KUNG FU movies pretty good deep sound. a bit too loud if you are CLOSE though...

Personally ANY wind chimes BUG me at night I hear them and want to start LISTENING to them which makes my insomnia even WORSE as the brain sometimes just won't let the rest of me rest... no wonder som many inventors keep notebooks by the bed side. and song wrighters keep recorders at the ready too... I come up with soem good ones at night, just never remember to right em down and forget HOW i figured out the problem at 3 am 1/2 asleep...

Mark M /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

OH Nice MAIL BOX: but don't forget if someone HITS it and are hurt you can be held liable for damage to THEM and to their car. I belive if you look there are rulles and regulations regarding ANYTHING placed along side the road and MAILBOXs have their OWN section. not sure if this is ONLY in OHIO or every where? we got a nasty letter from the mail man back when we used a 10" hunk of sch 40 pipe and welded it all up & painted looked REAL nice untill the note arrived. it had attached the nice photo copy of the section of law/oradance. seems to me it shouldn't be but it was pretty clear. neibor down street placed his similar plastic box over a 6" steel concrete filled pipe which he placed in a 12" dia concrete filled 4' deep hole. (there was some vandals destroying boxes.) he said at about 3 am he heard a terriable crash, looked out to see a Jeep on its side, with a front mounted snow blade destroyed. and down the road was about 10+ run over boxes. seems they declined to file charges aginst HIM for the post because after the accident they said he was off the road by just enough to be safe by the law, the KIDs one of which was hurt attempted to sue but was tossed out. this was back in the 70's in todays court I'm sure HE would have been in jail and loosing his property from legal fees... while the kids would have been let go. he still lives there and still has his box back off the road (set about 6' back so mail man is off road when stopped.) but it nolonger is INDESTRUCTABLE as that one was...

anyhow just wanted to SAY that, not sure if you're area has similar laws or it is national thing>???

Mark M /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[Junkman]

Up till last week, I have a 1970 Ford F600 Crane truck. Tried to give it away for more than 2 years, but no takers. After it was loaded on the trailer and on the way to the scrap yard, LarryRB showed up with a friend who would have taken it. They passed it on the road to my home. 2 years and 2 minutes too late. I figure that if I don't start getting rid of all the iron and junk, that my wife will have to deal with it when I kick off. Problem with that is that she will give everything away for free, the good stuff will go, and all the worthless stuff will still be here and she will have to pay to get rid of it then. If I get rid of it all now, I get the money and she has a clean cellar and garage. We both win then.... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[bobodu]

I have heard a few similar comments about the fact that a person is limited to certain criteria when trying to protect ones investment from the distructive behavior of adolesent idiots with baseball bats.I think it's terrible that the law would side with a beer soaked teenager.I seem to remembering prefering chasing real girls to choking up my bat....ahem.Now,I do understand the auto accident part of the arguement,save for the fact that there is a thirty foot tall telephone pole less than four feet away from my mailbox! I didn't plant THAT sucker!! Nonetheless,I guess it would be prudent for me to convert that mailbox to a breakaway,spring loaded design so I don't lose the farm in court.

 

[markct]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I have a 1000 gallon propane tank that you can have for free if you are up to experimenting.

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are you serious about that offer junkman? i am not sure exactly how big a 1000 gallon propane tank is but i had a few ideas in mind for big tanks, not windchimes, i dont think my neighbors would like the sound of windchimes that big!!!

 

[MicroPilot]

Here is a pic of my mailbox post, and my neighbors box flattened. Apparently they used my mail box (a big package sized one) to pound my neighbors box flat!!!

 

[SPIKER]

Micro: yep I seen a FEW that looked just as bad, when I was about 14: my mom had a rural paper rought that we delivered papers to every day. LOTS of vandalized boxes many with fireworks toss in a M80 back then and blow heck out of them, some would use bunch of fire crackers which would start and burn the plastic paper boxs up. I think I probably installed 500+ boxes in about 2 years from vandals and or NEW subscribers. it was FUn I did a lot of driving of car while mom stuffed and I swapped back & forth. probably BOTH go to jail for that now as I was 14 unliceneced age. worked from 330 am till 630 am and then got on the bus for school. home at 430 and worked feeding cows and or bailing hay, summer was lots of fun, 330 for paper 630 dropped off at farm to milk & feed cows, home by 930 for Lunch/more breakfast, back to farm for bailing cutting then in for afternoon feding/milking and home by 930 pm.

try and get a kid to even get up by 930 am now! lol


anyhow just got back form digging a few holes with the back hoe, but I think I either loosened up a wheel or broke a bearing in the rear end /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif making some awfull racket on a 1/2 turn of the tire other half sounds fine, when rolling. got to check all the bolts thrusday and see if I BROKE or loosenes up something... did get one BIG rouck dug up, 3' cubed easy. was only about 4~6" sticking up on top. it was fine for couple Hrs after than, but stressed it a bit FEL loading dirt and running up on wood pile to burry old rotten wood so it rots and can be jumped for nefue & brothers dirt bike track.

Mark M /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

 

[Junkman]

Mark..... the tank is here and is free for the taking. Just bring a big enough truck, chains to hold it down and some way to get it on the truck. The Kubota BX isn't large enough to lift it. It probably could be winched up with some doubled 2x6 planks and the Kubota pushing... Now, are there any takers for the snow plows or the cement mixer????? Junkman..

 

[johnk]

Here's a pretty cool link of a guy who's hobby was molding metal into pretty neat sculptures. It's over in my neck of the woods and a tourist attraction.....


http://rin.buffalo.edu/c_catt/comm/park-rec/park/ashfT_grif.html

 

[KiotiJohn]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Here's a pretty cool link of a guy who's hobby was molding metal into pretty neat sculptures. )</font>
Apparently they put many artist's work there. I really like the Spiral castle, that's cool. John

 

[BeeFarmer]

You might be a redneck if you........ /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif