Fukkin' engineering
Alternate headline: Scottish funfair is shit.
( , Tue 1 Sep 2015, 11:33, Share, Reply)
Alternate headline: Scottish funfair is shit.
( , Tue 1 Sep 2015, 11:33, Share, Reply)
It is superb also because it uses very little energy to rotate all counterbalanced and clever stuff...
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I went to see this after moving to Scotland a couple of years ago
As great a feat of engineering it is....once you get to the lower part and drive(?) off there's like 20 other fucking locks that you need to navigate. The thing should have been bigger....or something more a kin to the log fume takey-uppy bit.
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As great a feat of engineering it is....once you get to the lower part and drive(?) off there's like 20 other fucking locks that you need to navigate. The thing should have been bigger....or something more a kin to the log fume takey-uppy bit.
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If you're going from right to left
Can you just get some speed up and fire out of the end?
( , Tue 1 Sep 2015, 15:19, Share, Reply)
Can you just get some speed up and fire out of the end?
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I'm a Falkirk Bairn. At football matches we sing " Big wheel. We've got a fucking big wheel. A fucking big wheel. Etc. " fair puzzles some opponents supporters it does.
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You want to get yer manager a Magic Hat. They're brulllyint!
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Tru-Fact
Raising of a boat with this contraption takes less energy than it does to boil a kettle of piss.
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Raising of a boat with this contraption takes less energy than it does to boil a kettle of piss.
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ashley
it's eight kettles of piss.
Which has to be produced by each boat before ascending.
( , Tue 1 Sep 2015, 21:11, Share, Reply)
it's eight kettles of piss.
Which has to be produced by each boat before ascending.
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It is a telling analogy anyway
A kettle is one of the highest energy drain items in your house.
( , Wed 2 Sep 2015, 7:28, Share, Reply)
A kettle is one of the highest energy drain items in your house.
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Nice description of how it works:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k27gOmrDgpo
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=k27gOmrDgpo
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