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    Nerd Alert

    I just watched some live NASA feed from the Artemis 2 launch and they had a camera at the rear of the craft looking back at earth. No blue marble as its cloudy weather. The earth was a crescent and you could slowly see the rotation into sun rise. The sun was just coming up outside my window...
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    2026 European Tree of the Year

    The one contoured shade tree reminds me of the one that survived the lava fire in Hawaii. I feel like printing off the article and dropping it off at a former friend's place. He got a new gal and she affected his thinking. When I refused to lion tall his maple over his deck, and I mean...
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    Dragon Flies & Bats !

    In the late summer years ago when we used to play net-less fun badminton quite large black dragonflies used to show up in the evening and chase the birdie on our comically high shots. They came from a creek about half a km away.
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    Nerd Alert

    Yeah, it really puts things in perspective. The old saying, one wrong punctuation mark can take down 10,000 lines of code. Now it's one system access priviledge can negatively impact millions of people's lives.
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    The "Promising" Rope by Sterling... Triad

    I remember something in a test vid where IIRC bonding the cover increased the rope's resistance to abrading and breaking over a sharp edge (?). edit - prevented large exposed core section cutting on an edge after de-sheathing, I think some fresh adjacent sheath absorbed additional abrasion to...
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    Short vs. Long Bridge?

    I can see a similarity or connection between trying to up-angle (vs pole lineman pose on spar/spurs) support yourself with your lanyard on your side D's which rides your saddle up into your ribs. If the saddle can be adjusted so the bridge force tightens into the leg loops sooner ie shorter...
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    Nerd Alert

    Computer story I remember back in school when Luxo the lamp was an amazing new animation and some crazy guy named Linus Torvalds was attempting to port Unix to PCs, motion pictures experts group was new - a different time. How things have changed.
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    What’s Your SMALLER Equipment Setup?

    I remember that thread with electric wheelbarrows etc. In this case with "tongue weight" providing traction I see risk of 1) slope reducing tongue weight to the point of inadequate traction to retain control 2) slope having the capability to make propulsion force (primarily fore/aft, but it...
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    Short vs. Long Bridge?

    Same guy who told me of grandpa ladder complained about certain double D Weaver(?) leather saddles just squeezing his butt badly - 25 years ago time frame. I can see on modern saddles the attachment being centered about dead center in front of your hip joint, but there's also the...
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    What’s Your SMALLER Equipment Setup?

    Or hot rod it into a power Arbor trolley. Couldn't find info on what speed it goes, fwd and reverse?, fixed or variable speed and optically it seems to have a differential. Parking brake y/n? Ghostice maybe you could pop down to your local store and investigate ?
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    Short vs. Long Bridge?

    My recollection of the why for long bridges was when DRT got the auto tending pulley feature (yeah that's a while ago) it was desired to be able to simply pull hand over hand on the tail to hoist yourself back in from a limbwalk etc and the efficiency of doing so greatly increased if there was...
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    Fruit tree holding on by a thread, client wants to get another year out of it. Thoughts?

    A phrase I got from a friend of mine, "grandpa ladder", lets you ascend into the branch structure of a smaller tree and then climb after that. My go to for canopy top verticals if they aren't out of control (too big) is to double lanyard (triangulate) in and then go to town with the Fiskars...
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    Fruit tree holding on by a thread, client wants to get another year out of it. Thoughts?

    Both trees in the pic directly under After seem to have retained their "twig" density relatively top center, but I know a camera looking upwards can make a canopy edge appear to be vertical. I understand leaving it for a later pruning session. Fruit tree prunes can have inordinate brush piles ;)
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    Fruit tree holding on by a thread, client wants to get another year out of it. Thoughts?

    What's the reasoning on leaving the highest tuft on at the top of the tree? Or is that an optical illusion and it's actually a horizontal tuft? I find I've got to prune from 360 deg around the tree to catch everything.
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    Fruit tree holding on by a thread, client wants to get another year out of it. Thoughts?

    I've seen a couple of times with Greek and Italian older generation where they build multiple simple sticks in the ground but connect them together with cross pieces at the top to make a framework, even for the entire crown of the tree, to hold up overweight fruit loads. One time I had to...
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    Stolen Stumper and Trailer in MI

    Brazen is the MO for some thieves! Hope you got your SN, model etc info in to the police asap. Maybe they would be able to track the guy via traffic cameras, security cams etc. Suspect they're not going to fence it locally but you could get stolen notifications into the dealer/servicing...
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    Nerd Alert

    1933 or 35 electrical engineering to bend your brain. They built and calibrated a photographic oscilloscope to measure spark voltage and current! 8 years of tech advancement. https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/jres/19/jresv19n4p401_A1b.pdf edit - further to the UV light ionization enhancement...
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    Nerd Alert

    I finally found the Briggs and Stratton 3rd electrode in their spark gap tester Mystery. The teaser electrode doing some pre-ionization for spark consistency. Dimensions etc to make it. NACA report 202 from 1925!!! about 4 pages from the end. Briggs goes way back. I found a couple...
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    Nerd Alert

    The stir welding is really neat. Odd to think of metal in a plastic state and then weld bonding at a relatively low temperature. I believe it's related somewhat to the fluid(?) behaviour of metal in high energy ballistics or maybe that's altogether different again. I wonder if the lower heat...
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    Nerd Alert

    Not Laser Welding, but Friction Welding! Small world story. When I was a kid I toured the nuclear research plant where my uncle worked, turns out, for his whole career. Radiation tags and the whole bit. Seeing this vid tweaked a memory of him pointing at a setup in a machine shop and saying...

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