The Official Random Video Thread!

[frans]

Fun!

 

[Fiddler]

Looks pretty normal for city traffic...bicycles & pedestrians all over the road, lanes & traffic direction nearly nonexistent, and not a turn signal in sight...

 

[Nutball]

 

[Dave Shepard]

This guy is really interesting.

 

[cory]

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Yeah, that was some brutal shit. Rabies treat ments for certain. Hear they are no fun.

 

[stig]

She did well.
Some good kicks there.

 

[cory]

Video of Two Men Stabbing a Shark on a Florida Beach Shows Exactly Why Land-Based Shark Fishermen Are Getting a Bad Rap

A video that was recorded in Florida last Friday shows two young men dragging a blacktip shark across a public beach and stabbing it.

www.outdoorlife.com

 

[cory]

Fascinating!

 

[Nutball]

They look easy enough to catch with a net.

 

[cory]

I was wondering that!

 

[gf beranek]

Great vid!

 

[Nutball]

 

[gf beranek]

Great!

 

[cory]

My boy could sell ice to eskimos

 

[gf beranek]

Heck, that was the "standard basic training pep talk" in the early 1960s, as I recall. Ft. Lewis Washington.

Give me 50. Nope. you're too slow. give me 100!

 

[gf beranek]

Good stuff here.

 

[stig]

Made me think of this, Jerry.
I saw a demo years ago, really impressive.
Our local steam enthusiast organisation had managed to raise enough money to bring Fowler engines over from England.

 

[Marc-Antoine]

Amazing machines. Not quite good on the power/weight ratio, but really impressive non the less.
What tricks me is the way that the rope wire spools so neatly on the drum. All the few modern small winchs I saw are just able to make a rat nest after the first pull.

 

[Tree09]

Fleet angle and proper spooling practices.

 

[gf beranek]

That 150 Case was a complete new manufacture from original plans. It was not a restore from an old machine.

Kind of reminding of the Phoenix.

Try watching yarder drums spool wire rope. 99% of the time it winds level across the drum every time. Seldom crosses or piles. It is amazing.

 

[Bart]

Whenever I run into someone who's feeling a little too superior I lay down a challenge. Offer: lock you in your garage until you come out with your Model T, a very lowly technical hurdle which even an accomplished person would be flummoxed by. Humbles them down

I really like the art of the engineering in the old equipment. A lot of intuition and gut feel when pushing new for the time boundaries. You can look at just one component and ask yourself "why?" and do it over and over again on a machine. As a kid I visited a one-lunger farm exhibition and our biggest challenge was running out of pennies to turn into crinkles. Kids! No respect.

 

[gf beranek]

"crinkles" ?

 

[Nutball]

Probably running a penny through big old machine gears

 

[Steve Mack]