The good morning thread

Harry

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Morning all, accomplished the refitting of both slides yesterday which was no mean feat at all!

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Bonded the new legs in with filled fibreglass resin, worked very well indeed. They should be good for another 30-years now.

Totally exhausted last night and have allowed myself a lay in. Back up to London in a bit, Highgate, Bushy and then north Kent for some inspections.

Have fun all…
Remember the good old fashioned slides that you could break limbs or your neck on? Particularly when about 6 children would launch themselves from the top at the same time.
 

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DLax69

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Morning, all...had a bit of a lie-in, myself. Am only answering phone calls and/or emails from 6 people today. One of whom won't be Courtney, as I plan to be within ready reach of her. Monday is also a holiday, so other than a meeting on Sunday at noon, I will have a 4-day weekend. Unfortunately, the weather is dreadful right now. It was 74 F yesterday...cold front with wind gusts and rain means the temp is falling throughout the day, and tonight's low is 28 F. It will clear and gradually warm, and be back at 70 on Monday, at least. Or so they say. Not sure how we will get decent weather forecasts without the Chinese balloons...

Newton, that is some incredible work; thanks for posting those pics. Phil, safe travels...I need a nice seven-hour drive in my life. Soon. All else, be well and hope Friday is treating you right thus far...
 

CatmanV2

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I think the witches hat at out local park was pretty lethal -
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Point of order: That appears to be simply some kind of swing (demonstrated by the guy on the right being alive)
*This* is a witch's hat

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As you can see the bloke on the right is taking considerable risk standing so close to the blood circle.....

C
 

DLax69

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Point of order: That appears to be simply some kind of swing (demonstrated by the guy on the right being alive)
*This* is a witch's hat

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As you can see the bloke on the right is taking considerable risk standing so close to the blood circle.....

C
I feel like the first one is a hat, Chris, and your pic is a teat...
 

Scaf

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Point of order: That appears to be simply some kind of swing (demonstrated by the guy on the right being alive)
*This* is a witch's hat

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As you can see the bloke on the right is taking considerable risk standing so close to the blood circle.....

C
You are correct of course………..
 

2b1ask1

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I think the witches hat at out local park was pretty lethal -
View attachment 111672
Point of order: That appears to be simply some kind of swing (demonstrated by the guy on the right being alive)
*This* is a witch's hat

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As you can see the bloke on the right is taking considerable risk standing so close to the blood circle.....

C
Morning all,, the first is a swing boat and came in various sizes of brutality, the second is indeed the witches hat and was simply hung on a large iron ball on top of the post, just gravity keeping it in place. The hat weighed about 1,5 tons and with no limiters could be built in momentum such that the outer ring could be driven into the post. The ‘game’ was to play spuds and the looser got placed in the middle and had to keep running around to avoid getting their legs broken! On occasions the hat would jump off the ball and crash entirely to the ground. This would break any legs of those sitting on the bottom ring. Also if they were not installed correctly they would go lower than 230mm to the ground during the swing and could then crush an entire body or skull! Incredibly there are still a couple of them surviving un the UK. Another not yet featured was the battering ram! This was basically two 10’ swing frames 25’ appart each with a pair of arms suspending an end of an upside down 12” wide U-section of iron with a single slab of 3” thick 10” wide Piece of mahogany or teak! Again the weight of the moving part was well over 1-ton and with no restrictifs a group working it could easily get the beam to raise high enough to smash int othe cross beams. Woe betide any innocent child that sat in the crush zones or walked past.

Anyway, today I am having my lower half pit in an MRI scanner to assess my vascular failings and later I’m playing in my kayak in a pool.

Have fun all…