You old dog you!
:-)

I had begun to think you'd gone to that great battery shack in the sky! Great to see your posting. How ya doin' these days?

Interesting work with the track-up-the-tower system. I would really love to see a posting focused on this alone. Consider this a beggars request. Show me how that works, please. I have several real tall and real strong cedar trees to which I might mount a system such as this.

Oh how I would love to have a couple of those poles but alas I'm too far away. It seems all these great things are out there to be had, like that little engine you bought, but I'm always either too far away or don't have the means to haul it off. That radius to go get stuff is also shrinking with the price of fuel. I drive a short box '92 Ranger 4X4 with a 2.3. Not much of a puller, if you know what I mean. It does get about 28MPG if I drive with an egg on the accelerator, empty. No body panel is dent free. Too old and ugly to steal and runs too good (now: search diary) to park.

Have you considered attempting a set of blades like others here have done with PVC pipe? Maybe these would be lighter and one could bondo/foam-in some places for a better profile. Just a thought.

So, good to read your posting, take some pictures of that crank-up system and don't be such a strange err! ;-)

Oh, that Sony you gave me took a picture that I sent in to a kinda local TV station and they put it on the air!

It was a visitor during the weekend of the fourth. A thunderstorm had just passed, and I think it had been flushed out from under a rock or something.