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##Y we don’t need no stinkin engineers

MikeSmith | Posted in Construction Techniques on May 2, 2009 05:55am

check   it   out….

 

http://www.chilloutzone.de/files/player.swf?b=10&l=197&u=ILLUMllSOOAvIF//P_LxP92A42lCHCeeWCejXnHAS/c

Mike Hussein Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
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    JeffBuck | May 02, 2009 06:32pm | #1

    cool ...

     

    but the guy on Chitty Chitty Bang Bang made it cook breakfast.

    Jeff

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    Sphere | May 02, 2009 07:05pm | #2

    Hmmmm. Forrest has been kinda scarce of late...coincidence?

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    Huck | May 02, 2009 07:18pm | #3

    a: the house burned down shortly after the video was filmed

    b: Rube Goldberg did it first!

    c: whatup with the chessmen?  and the cellphone?

    d: too many cuts in the filming - the credibility is suspect

    e: good to see those Chrysler / GM guys have found something to occupy themselves!

    f: anticlimactic ending - I want my 3 minutes and 17 seconds back!

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      JeffBuck | May 02, 2009 07:39pm | #4

      I was hoping for a bigger ending myself.

      did note that the wife used to have the same feathers as the dart they shot into the dartboard ... was waiting for a dart shot after they used three darts to weigh down a cup in one part.

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      1. ronbudgell | May 02, 2009 08:13pm | #5

        Kath used to have feathers? What happened? Did she moult?

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          JeffBuck | May 03, 2009 10:47pm | #12

          something like that ...

           

          usually once a month.

          best to stay away.

           

          Jeff    Buck Construction

           Artistry In Carpentry

               Pittsburgh Pa

    2. PedroTheMule | May 02, 2009 08:44pm | #6

      Hi Huck,

      a: the house burned down shortly after the video was filmed

      I think you missed one.....notice the kitchen faucet kept running......continuing to fill and then overflow the bucket that shot the arrow......the overflow of water put out the candle preventing the fire but the weight of the water collasped the floor, filled the basement, washed out the foundation, rotted the walls and molded the drywall. Everything fell in as the stretched wiring gave way causing a spark that ignited the falling roof. After the fire department put out the fire, they found the burned end of the candle and stated that was the cause of the fire which was actually good for the home owner as they had fire insurance but not flood insurance.

      Pedro the Mule - Matter of perspective, mule headed perspective

    3. excaliber32 | May 02, 2009 09:55pm | #7

      Chessmen, I don't know, but the cell-phone called another location which initiated the sequence there...........very freakin' cool!

      1. brucet9 | May 02, 2009 11:21pm | #8

        Chessmen had threads attached to them.
        BruceT

  4. DanH | May 02, 2009 11:51pm | #9

    Pretty cool, and inventive. Though I'm guessing that they never got the thing to run all the way through from one end to the other without a failure somewhere.

    The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. -John Kenneth Galbraith
  5. Robrehm | May 02, 2009 11:54pm | #10

    some one needs a girlfreind

    "this dog may be old but he ain't cold. And he still knows how to bury a bone."

    Lattimore

     

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      Sphere | May 03, 2009 12:09am | #11

      Yeah me, my wife is driving me nutz.Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks

      Repairs, Remodeling, Restorations

      "If Brains was lard, you couldn't grease much of a pan"Jed Clampitt

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