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The steel locking pin went 2 ft into the end of the cross arm and the pin was made of 4140 steel which is pretty tough.  The weak link I designed into the gate was the padlock which could have been torched off, but easily replaced.  It was never messed with.

Those pups are approved as cute and tons of energy.

While living out in the sticks for over 20 years we had our wooden gates destroyed by chainsaw, truck or whatever method a deviant could conceive.  So after much though I build a gate that was almost indestructible.

The concrete columns are 20" in diameter poured at the same time as the the 6ftx6ftx18" thick footings that were then surrounded with mortared in place rock.  If a truck tried to push the columns over their front tires would be on the footing they were trying to remove; a non-starter...

The 8" diameter cross arm was steel tube filled with concrete and 3 2oft lengths of 1/2" rebar and the counter weight end was all poured at the same time, as was the adjustable counter balance.

There was a hardened steel rod (5yd truck axle) embedded in the turntable end that stuck up into the pivot point maybe 8".  The pivot was 2 steel plates that had a machined race for tank turret ball bearings to make it move smoothly.

Once it was all built we lifted the cross arm and placed it with a D-5 sized bulldozer since the cross arm weighed a bit more than 5,000 LB.  It moved much like a very heavy vault door, if you have ever had the chance to play with one of those.  It would be similar to moving a larger KK.

No gate problems after that install

Peels off

Dennis makes some beautiful cabinets

That is sooo incredibly sad,,,   Our hearts and prayers go out to you and the rest of the family.

Senseless act hardly covers it.

3 hours ago, Syzygies said:

Here's my 2000 VW GTI VR6, back when it was new (and I was newer). Still driving it...

How many miles do you have on that little stealth rocket?

8 hours ago, DennisLinkletter said:

My Triumph 955 has upgraded pistons and cams and is injected with triple 44mm throttle bodies!  Intake sound is louder than the exhaust..

Dyno-ed  146hp   Stupid fast I don't ride it much any more.. It's a garage queen.

You need a track on which to ride that thing!  What does it weigh with that 146hp?

20 hours ago, robertz said:

That's one sweet Mach 1. Saw one on my buddy's uncle when we service his truck for new shocks and nerf bars installation. Makes me miss my 2000 GT convertible. Been kicking myself selling it.

How does the new one compare to the old one?

Really?

I have dome peeling, cap peeling, firebox(grilling area) peeling.  I have to make sure the the particles are off the grill before food gets there.

I had a steep grade, a flight of stairs, used heavy equipment and got creative on the stairs with plywood sheathing on the treads and rolled it down the slope with a chainfall arresting the fall of the KK 32.  It too myself and one other person.

Enjoy your new 32, it's one heck of a cooker!

They are amazing little birds and their aerial antics are second to none!  A modern jet fighter could not do those maneuvers.

I'll try taking square photos with the iPhone and see if that meets the criteria.

I wondered if that was what is required.  Thank you CK

We are really sorry for your loss Dennis.  It will leave a hole in your heart that can never be fully healed.  Prayers to your family....

21 hours ago, DennisLinkletter said:

Please remember to post large images and some square ones I can hijack for Instagram!

Thanks for all your help.. Instagram now sends more traffic than Facebook.

Can you, or me, make photos square?

As a kid we did our part when camping by removing oak bark from fallen trees to be used for the BBQ/kamado my dad brought back from Japan; that was 1959....

On 8/15/2017 at 1:46 PM, MacKenzie said:

Sure sounds it or.......  

She was an accountant, so she is the calculating type, but fearless, even after a few crashes while jumping trying to save people whose chute did not deploy correctly.  She has been a good friend for 55 years, she still jumps occasionally but judges in the National Championships.

She was doing mixed gas dives into Truk Lagoon to dive on the sunken Japanese fleet out of curiosity when she remembered something I told her before she left on the trip, "you will be diving in a graveyard".  That sunk in somewhere at depth....

Here is a cook I did last winter.

Seared on the low grate, finished on the high grate at the same time cooking something else.

The pumpkin pie was pretty good, as was the roast

She showed me a video of doing HALO Jumps and going sucbe into the blue holes in the Caribbean, I tell you she is fearless

1 hour ago, MacKenzie said:

Holy smokes, Foton, what a ride.

 

For a while she worked for an Unlimited Class Offshore Ocean Racing Team and she showed me a video for one of their boats going 100mph in open ocean.  Pretty interesting and then it dawned on me, how did you get the video, and her reply, "I took it myself from the other boat"...  She has been friends with a particular group of Vietnam Veterans, Marines, and they unanimously agree that she has the largest set of huevos of all of them!

4 hours ago, MacKenzie said:

That would have been some flight to have taken, quite the thrill.  

She is a real type T person (T for thrill).  Her brother would never jump out of an airplane so she took him on a last ride with scattering his ashes off Angel Falls in Venezuela, and that was not her first leap off that cliff!

Now that is an OMG moment!  That little spec of white in the jungle floor is the landing zone.  And no, I would not jump either

I think I tried to eat the screen!!!  Mac, that looks beyond good

If the ground is level and you lay thick plywood on the ground using two pieces to leap frog them then two people rolling it will work.  If you have any slope get the neighborhood involved   It is a heavy beast but rolls on smooth surfaces easily.