The effect of gravity
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Nice day yesterday morning and I decided to pressure wash to side of the house that never sees the sun and gets moldy. So with my 2 year old $1000 Simpson washer that sprays up 40 ft I can do it I use that monster all over and it is great. So I load it with gas and get it running, put it into the front bucket of the Cat 755. That way I do not have to climb ladders. Then it is up the steep hill for a mornings work. Drinking coffee and feeling good but forget about a small boulder and the side of the Cat goes up and with the bucket 10 in the air out comes the pressure washer.
Its value is 9.8 m/s2 on Earth. I timed it. I lost the coffee as well
The washer is terminal.
Its value is 9.8 m/s2 on Earth. I timed it. I lost the coffee as well
The washer is terminal.
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Thank you very much.
It always has to be the most reliable piece of equipment on the entire ranch too.
It always has to be the most reliable piece of equipment on the entire ranch too.
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Again, OUCH!!!
I hate expensive mornings.
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I hate expensive mornings.
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You didn't observe the OSHA safety rules of having the bucket only high enough to maneuver and control your speed, adding a $500 fine for distracted driving, (coffee) and it should total about $15,000. Just send it in, don't make the black suvs and helicopters come in.
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We're from the government and we're here to help....cost you lots of money for a dumb mistake.KLook wrote: ↑Fri. Sep. 27, 2019 8:50 pmYou didn't observe the OSHA safety rules of having the bucket only high enough to maneuver and control your speed, adding a $500 fine for distracted driving, (coffee) and it should total about $15,000. Just send it in, don't make the black suvs and helicopters come in.
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Instead of coffee if he had been drinking beer, after consuming enough of them he would have decided that the house didn't need pressure washing after all and would have been spared all this grief.
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Substitute Vodka for beer and you have the Russian solution...
You will be cold in the winter because you did not put up enough coal in time...
Must run the Cat on ice and snow...
So can only make one bucket run...
Again due to Vodka intake...
But you will have friends...
and be happy...
While the Vodka lasts...
LOL...
You will be cold in the winter because you did not put up enough coal in time...
Must run the Cat on ice and snow...
So can only make one bucket run...
Again due to Vodka intake...
But you will have friends...
and be happy...
While the Vodka lasts...
LOL...
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Ya couda taken the baby Deere up the hill...
Towing the pressure washer behind...
Towing the pressure washer behind...
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Overkill is good but more overkill is better say CN once.CapeCoaler wrote: ↑Sat. Sep. 28, 2019 4:56 pmYa couda taken the baby Deere up the hill...
Towing the pressure washer behind...
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Gravity is interesting.. Because of gravity, things at higher elevation have potential energy. When it falls, the potential energy is then converted to kinetic energy. Upon impact the kenetic energy is transferred to the ground. Since the Earth obviously has more mass than said falling object it suffers a huge g-force of shock. Quite often the object is not capable of bearing this instantaneous transfer of kenetic energy and it collapses...