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[gfish]

I just moved 1300 pounds of printing press into the storage container sitting in front of the house. Alone. Over bog-like grass and gravel, with the floor of the container 3 inches above what the palette could be lifted to. This process involved mallets, inclined planes, non-inclined planes, levers, fulcra and counterweights. It was old school, and epic, a feat not to be matched in our lifetime. A triumphal arch should be built to commemorate what happened today. It should be retold on the big screen in full Technicolor glory staring Charlton Heston, complete with an overture and intermission, so that our children's children's children can be awed by my struggle against the elements.

(It was also cold, wet, filthy and exhausting, but I think that is a subset of old school.)

Comments

[sickyprincess.livejournal.com]

It is a subset, but I've always thought it should be a separate category requiring more qualificiation. Just how wet? and how cold, etc.

But definitely, old school, and epic. My proverbial hat off to you.

[airlinepilot.livejournal.com]

Pix? :)

[ionan.livejournal.com]

You are awesome.

[adularia.livejournal.com]

Oh wow. Did you want help? Sounds like you didn't, exactly...

And I can tell that having used stadia twice yesterday, you were just itching to drop fulcra.

[maribou]

Shiny.

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

I wish I could find it, but I've seen a spectacular video of this crazy English guy who moves 20 ton stone monoliths across the ground by hand. He's building a 1:1 reconstruction of Stonehenge entirely with hand-power. It's very like what you're talking about and it's a wonder to see.

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

Hah. Found it (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRRDzFROMx0)!

[gfish.livejournal.com]

Sweet!

OMG

[barefootorbust.livejournal.com]

That is SO frickin awsome!! Thanks for sharing that!

Re: OMG

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

Kinda makes you want to go out and start your own in the back yard, doesn't it?
Now I want to find the companion video of a guy chipping GINORMOUS chunks of rock out of the LIVING EARTH so as to get raw materials for a DIY stonehenge. I very nearly have enough back yard to do one.

[ashley-y.livejournal.com]

Hey. does that thing print now? I forgot.

[gfish.livejournal.com]

I never finished restoring it. =\ It does work now, though since I never got to cleaning some of the bearings I wouldn't want to run it very much. It's missing a lot of incidental gear, like ink rollers and the foot treadle. And now it gets to sit in storage, as I'm highly unlikely to have a place to work on it during grad school.

[chatworthy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but then you'd have to move and store the triumphal arch. It's always something...

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

wheels (http://rollerskids.com/pc/home/multiroll.html) or air casters (http://www.emagindia.com/air.htm) -- best added early in the design.

[chatworthy.livejournal.com]

I wanna be there when he takes it into Canada!

[vixyish.livejournal.com]

The way into Canada from here already HAS an arch (http://www.peacearchpark.org/). :)

[chatworthy.livejournal.com]

Umm... yeah. So it does.
I've never actualy gone that way.

[woggie.livejournal.com]

All hail the mighty mover! All bow before his pristine majesty! :)