Author Topic: erections are cool (Read 5859 times)

Volvo farmer · « **on:** August 31, 2009, 04:30:27 AM »

No better feeling than a 44' erection

This is only a story about my own erection and all questions and comments might be ignored. :-)

hiker · « **Reply #1 on:** August 30, 2009, 11:53:12 PM »

no dout the oldlady gave you a helping hand on that one................ :}

tecker · « **Reply #2 on:** August 31, 2009, 12:09:57 AM »

Your well above the the tops of that wooded area .What are you using for a wench ?

DamonHD · « **Reply #3 on:** August 31, 2009, 02:42:59 AM »

Positively priapic; I hope you can keep it up indefinitely, even if it gets blowy up there... %-P

Rgds

Damon

ruddycrazy · « **Reply #4 on:** August 31, 2009, 03:19:36 AM »

Looks good but how much better will it be with a dose of Viagra....

tanner0441 · « **Reply #5 on:** August 31, 2009, 05:22:45 AM »

shouldn't it have something on the end???

Brian

TomW · « **Reply #6 on:** August 31, 2009, 06:31:00 AM »

Buuncha preverts.

TomW · « **Reply #7 on:** August 31, 2009, 07:18:54 AM »

VF;

Nice unit! No pun intended.

I resisted the intense urge to change 44 feet to 4.4 inches because you are a long term contributor.

Volvo farmer · « **Reply #8 on:** August 31, 2009, 11:16:30 AM »

Fixed

TomW · « **Reply #9 on:** August 31, 2009, 12:13:13 PM »

VF;

Hey, you gotta do a dry lift first to be sure its dialed in to go up right before you risk your hard work!

Nicely Done.

Tom

richhagen · « **Reply #10 on:** August 31, 2009, 03:16:49 PM »

Volvo, that looks good. Looks like you'll soon be able to add a few more appliances to that homestead of yours. Nice work! Rich

bj · « **Reply #11 on:** August 31, 2009, 03:24:58 PM »

Would have been a heck of a chuckle Tom.

bj

FishbonzWV · « **Reply #12 on:** August 31, 2009, 05:14:47 PM »

That one sure put a grin on my face there VF.

Heck of a lot of work to go through to win your own $100 bet! :-O

Wait a minute...I think some one was going to match it, right, so you'll be good to go.

Nice job!

Bonz

SparWeb · « **Reply #13 on:** August 31, 2009, 07:23:34 PM »

VF,

I'm trying to find a delicate way to tell you this...

But in light of the previous comments, I have to be blunt.

Your erection doesn't look very straight.

Oh, don't worry! Maybe your camera was just crooked!

When I post pictures of mine, I'm VERY careful to make sure it looks straight.

Y'know....

:->

SparWeb · « **Reply #14 on:** August 31, 2009, 07:25:42 PM »

Okay, more seriously. I see lots of Crosby hardware. Great stuff!

Did you give the gin pole an angle? I looks 90 degrees there.

If you think it looks cool now, it will look cooler when you paint it!

Volvo farmer · « **Reply #15 on:** August 31, 2009, 07:47:48 PM »

I did put the gin pole at a little less than 90 degrees. Once I unhoooked the guy wires though it flopped down a bit.

It is actually quite crooked in that picture. I had to fiddle with some wire lengths to get it straight, ran out of turnbuckle.

One thing I will never do again is use that stiff seven-strand wire, no matter how cheap it is. What a complete pain to work with. I could have bought brand new 1/4" wire for about .25/foot and it would have been worth every penny, especially when it came time to adjust wire lengths.

I'm thinking pink would be a nice color ;-)

RP · « **Reply #16 on:** September 03, 2009, 06:08:45 PM »

Yeah, with a big erection it's good to have a breeze on it.

ghurd · « **Reply #17 on:** September 03, 2009, 06:44:12 PM »

After seeing quite a few tower failure stories, all I can say is

Getting it up with nothing riding on top is easy. Keeping it up seems to be the problem.

Volvo farmer · « **Reply #18 on:** September 04, 2009, 04:15:56 AM »

Thanks for the vote of confidence ;-)

Seriously though, I have been reading pretty consistently here for 4 or 5 years, and can recall very few tower failure stories. I just read 5 pages of Google search on this board for "tower failure" and saw lots of wind turbine failure stories, and no tower failure stories.

This thing puts a good bit of fear into me when I'm raising or lowering it. I really like to learn from others mistakes. If you can recall a few of these tower failure stories and give me some search terms, I would like to read about them before erecting the real turbine.

ghurd · « **Reply #19 on:** September 04, 2009, 09:02:52 AM »

It was a bit of play on words, if you know what I mean.

It would read more as intended without the top line.

I am sure it is well thought out and won't have any problems.

Seriously, the only tower failures I recall were either obvious (to the tower guys) design flaws, or flukes.

I am pretty happy our permanent tower is coming along, which is only a long 4x4.

G-

Volvo farmer · « **Reply #20 on:** September 04, 2009, 12:47:49 PM »

Oh... Duh...

That one went 43' over my head

:-)

SparWeb · « **Reply #21 on:** September 04, 2009, 06:49:27 PM »

...And if you are looking for stories of towers that dropped, you don't have far to go...

ghurd · « **Reply #22 on:** September 04, 2009, 07:20:07 PM »

That would fall into my files under "fluke".

As would tower problems caused by horses, which Einstein never published equations for.

G-

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