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[Toolmaker51]

With enthusiasm, for the dozens of viewers. There's work, and then....

[Frank S]

With enthusiasm, for the dozens of viewers. There's work, and then....

Great find and so true

[Frank S]

I haven't seen the episode in question but as far as walkers for horses I was building horse walkers out of old truck or car rear ends over 50 years ago no cad needed just weld a support frame together to hold the rear end vertical pull the back cover off and weld the spider gears for a positive drive add an old 4 speed manual transmission put a 14" diameter pulley on the input shaft to a 2" pulley on a jack shaft with a 12" pulley on the other end drive that with a 1/3 to 1/2 Hp electric motor with a 2" pulley. Mount 4 to 6 20 ft long pipes on a wheel mounted on the top axle tie the reigns of a hackamore halter to the ends of the pipe to lead the horses. Put the transmission in low gear and switch on the motor. it would walk the horse at a nice leisurely pace to speed them up a little just change the gears High gear would be a fast trot but too fast for the 40 ft diameter of the merry go round.
A variation of this was to not weld the spider gears but to hook up a brake line to the brakes on the bottom axle bury the line and run it several feet outside the walking path then with a master cylinder you could control the amount of friction holding the drum disk brakes hadn't come out then the harder the brake peddle was mashed the faster the walker made the horses walk you didn't need the transmission but you did need another jack shaft to get the reduction gearing and the brakes would wear out about every 2 or 3 months of constant use One advantage of using the brakes was if you let all of the pressure off the horses could stop the walker while the motor was still running. you could add a 2nd master cylinder to operate the brakes in the top axle for emergency stop.
If they want to do a how it's made segment come talk to me I can build and show them how things could be and were made long before we had computers.

[PJs]

Man that was Great TM51...Laughed, winced, ducked and tasted something bad and had one abnormally aspirated espresso. A well lived 5 minutes...Excellent!

[Toolmaker51]

So with approval of at least two constituents, I offer in direct connection to that previous with Mr. Rowe.
Epic, I guarantee you'll applaud.
Mike Rowe on value of work

yeah Trump might be a businessman, maybe have a clue. What do you think our man Mike Rowe could do?

[Frank S]

So with approval of at least two constituents, I offer in direct connection to that previous with Mr. Rowe.
Epic, I guarantee you'll applaud.
Mike Rowe on value of work

yeah Trump might be a businessman, maybe have a clue. What do you think our man Mike Rowe could do?

Mike Rowe a Baltimore Opera singer turned realist. I watched every episode of his series dirty jobs often thinking to myself no way a professional singer and actor is actually digging in and doing theses things. Then after a few seasons I noticed the realism of the work he was filming It was kind of a you just can't make this stuff up because I had done some of the things he was doing in the segments.
When in high school every year kids would try their best to win a coveted spot at the Ft. Worth fat Stock show sponsored by the FFA one year I raised a bull calf prospects were really looking good that my calf might get to go to the stock show I had shown it at the county fair and won a blue ribbon but my calf didn't make the cut, no big surprise there was a lot of competition and the calf and I didn't make it that's life he grew into a fine bull anyway and we managed to get a lot of calves from our heifers he serviced.
One of my female friends and her yew and newborn lambs did make it. and she castrated the lambs while at the stock show the same way Mike Rowe had to do. After wards at school someone started calling her bite em off Susie He was a townie and didn't understand and wouldn't have understood no matter what. One day Susan got tired of his stupidity and told him that she was more than willing to demonstrate the process in front of the class and explain the reason this was necessary that the lamb felt very little pain and, if he would be so kind as to volunteer she would prove it to him.
Tommy turned as pale as 2% milk then said no thanks

[PJs]

I knew he was philosophical but didn't know how articulate he was. Old Ted and must have missed it along the line or had a CRS moment. Seen a fair amount of his stuff, but this was excellent. Thanks TM51, this was really well said on so many levels.

[Toolmaker51]

re Frank S & PJs, including other attendees of this particular thread. I too, appreciate his presentations and KNEW Mr. Rowe's comments fit here, hand-lapped at finest measurable clearances.
I'm pleased, with all sincerity; to contribute, and respond, participating in an exchange representing untold thousands of hours (years?)worth of experience. It's remarkable totally different backgrounds can align into similar perspectives. The value stretches from backgrounds to viewpoints like a spider's web, suspended from otherwise unconnected Cartesian positions.
When first initiating Shop Truths, Phrases, Tales; and Outright Lies, I knew it'd be no stretch to create, recall, or stumble across suitable reinforcement illustrating the facet, what I'm certain ties us together. Yet the variety surprises me, never had guessed so many find this kind of collection appeal is rather universal.
Dead serious or funny, which only appear divergent on the surface, aren't. No question one exists, bolstered by the other. Opposites attract.

[Frank S]

That video clip was from the movie worlds' fastest Indian Staring Anthony Hopkins as Burt Munro. But the movie surprisingly follows his life long dream pretty well even down to the Officials nearly banning him from making a run our of safety and technical concerns.
Indian Motorcycles even commissioned to have a one off replica of the famous Indian Scout the builder a guy in Florida fabed the bike for the company.
Burt cast his own pistons and made all of the other parts to create his dream by hand using scrap materials from other things.
Hats off to Mr. Munro a true legend in the DIY world.

[Frank S]

The perfect world.
At 20 you know everything and really do.
At 30 you have everything and really do
At 40 you've done everything and actually have.
At 50 you've finally figured out you really didn't know everything at 20
At 60 you've paid off everything you had at 30
At 70 you wonder why you did everything in the first place
At 80 you reminisce at all you knew all the things you had and everything you have done
At 90 you wonder if you ever knew anything had anything or did anything
At 100 none of it matters anymore you can't remember anything you don't have anything and you can't do anything someone does all of that for you and you wonder what 110 will be like