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Previously:
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...779#post152239
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...715#post151985
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...327#post138851
Dont laugh. In a country we lived in during the early 70's we would find many discarded "tear tab" drink cans with the tab intack and two holes punched either side of it.
That's funny stuff...
It took me 5 minutes to dry my eyes to see well enough to write this. It's just a good thing they put a ramp on the stairs so the guy carrying the wheelbarrow didn't trip. And nearly loosing a finger to open a pull top can from the bottom took my lungs away. I would hate to own the market with that guy running the scales. He would be selling 8 oz trash bags full of product for .05c! But at least the one guy had the courtesy to knock before he tried to enter the elevator.
it's either funny, bloody sad, or a setup job for the vid
I am too scared to laugh. Am I the only one that noticed they were all black? Is this or could this be construde as racist, calling black people stupid? I ask out of innocence as I am just a farm boy. There is no meaningful difference between any people, we just have pigmentation variants. I may not like some people I meet, but it will never be over something as meaningless as pigmentation of the skin... Am I making a mountain out of a molehill or?
Don't take it too seriously. It's just parody and it was most likely made by a black person...
It's only racist if someone points it out. Oh, wait...
I appreciate your honesty, and yes, to be frank, this opinion falls closer to the trailing edge of modern scientific understanding on this topic.Quote:
Originally Posted by JeffEck
There are genetic differences between races, and these differences manifest themselves in different genetic characteristics (for example, differing presence of certain genetic diseases among different races), as well as performance characteristics, both physical (for example, sprinting speed and race), and mental (for example, IQ test scores and race). The belief that these differences are due solely to environmental factors used to be more prevalent and socially acceptable, but has fallen out of favor in the scientific community, and increasingly among laypersons as well. When the same organisms are exposed to different geographies, they evolve differently (not necessarily better or worse), and that difference is not limited solely to skin pigmentation, or height, or any other physically obvious characteristics. We really are diverse, and not just because of skin color.
There is extraordinary tension in society over this concept. For an example in the scientific community, look at the controversy surrounding how Dr. James Watson (a co-discoverer of DNA), sold his Nobel prize in protest over the reaction to comments he made tying race to intelligence. For an example in academia, look at how Dr. Allison Stanger was beaten and brain-damaged by a mob of 67 students for hosting a speaker at Middlebury College who did the same.
Regardless, racism is the belief that people should be accorded different social, political, or economic rights based on their race, and not the notion that races are different beyond just different skin pigmentation.
Fortunately, we are equal opportunity internet citizens, so we're happy to laugh at videos featuring people of all races :)
you cant fix stupid. and stupid have no race....well it does but it lost the race.
Racism is a manufactured concept created by individuals that considered themselves to be superior because of certain physical characteristics they shared and to exclude individuals they considered inferior because of certain other physical characteristics. Color, size, shape, hair, eyes even some genetic differences do not indicate different races, just differences. The idea of there being different races of people is fundamentally incorrect and antiquated at best and now only perpetuated by those that consider there to be benefit from the concept or still feel somehow superior and therefore need the concept to prop their misinformed, baseless ideals. Don't take my word for it. Look it up in Britannica (or your favorite source for actual facts) or here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_race_concepts
Notice the statement in the first paragraph "the concept of distinct human races in a biological sense has become obsolete".
Of course there are still those that reject logic and fact and hold to the idea that Wikipedia and other undeniably accurate sources are liars or put forth by those few dozen that want to deceive the masses to take control and rule the planet. :thumbsup:
There are two types of people, those that divide people into groups and those that don't...
yes the slave masters will do anything to get then stay in control.then they start steeling,scamming and acting as they have all their 47 year useless career of being a public slave master in training.
Possibly staged, but still well done.
This one reminds me of how Mesoamerican cultures lacked the wheel. Artifacts point to their use of wheels in children's toys, and as pottery wheels, but not for transport. One argument says that using wheels for transport also requires draft animals, which they lacked. They had independently developed written languages, and basic metalworking (gold and a little copper). But no wheelbarrows?
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well atleast he's worken...or steeling a wheelbarrow&brick...witch may be why he is carrying them so no tracks are left to fallow. now thats using your brains!!!
you dont need draaft animals. there are plenty of daft people that should be doing the work of those poor defenceless animals that have lost the ability to feed them selvs...hmm I wonder are the animals democrats?:headscratch::smash::soapbox: just kidding there not all like their elected officials.
Well, you have to thank the Chinese for the wheelbarrow:Zhuge Liang (181-234 A.D.) of China is considered to be the inventor of the wheelbarrow. Liang was a general who used the wheelbarrows to transport supplies & injured soldiers.
Just think, maybe the invention of the wheel was an unfortunate fork in the road of human evolution. Had we not invented the wheel we may well have developed the ability to move things mentally...telekinesis, then there would be no wheelbarrow to steal.
I heard a story as a kid that a coworker of my grandfather's was walking out each friday from the Bayway refinery in Linden NJ with a wheel barrow full of broken brick, rocks, short pieces of construction lumber & crap like that. The guard would check it & find nothing of value & wave him through the gate. Then they found out he was stealing wheelbarrowsQuote:
Originally Posted by marksbug
"This one reminds me of how Mesoamerican cultures lacked the wheel. Artifacts point to their use of wheels in childrens' toys, and as pottery wheels, but not for transport. One argument says that using wheels for transport also requires draft animals, which they lacked. They had independently developed written languages, and basic metalworking (gold and a little copper). But no wheelbarrows?"
Everybody knows they just levitated heavy stuff to where they wanted it.
"Everybody knows they just levitated heavy stuff to where they wanted it."
Some mesopotamian inscriptions seem to indicate that that was the case
As nearly as I can remember and quote
"...and he struck the stone with his wand and if flew the length of an arrow's flight"
Who can tell what the "wand" was.
A three wood?
air float tables make it awefull eazy to move stuff, Im kinda supprized there are a lot of hoover crafts on the highways,byways&work sites& in general usage.oops hover crafts, the hoovers suck...must use a hoover for parking breaks.:rofl:
Wooden objects don't survive well in the moist climate of Central America. Egypt had a good climate for wood survival but utilitarian objects like tools are seldom found as grave goods. The Egyptians wrote and drew on almost every available vertical surface yet they seldom portrayed construction work; most of the graffiti is religious magic stuff. (You would think that a major construction project, like a pyramid, would merit a few pictures of how it was done but, so far, none have been found.) The Maya, Aztecs and Incans built on a scale comparable to the Egyptians yet their inscriptions also avoid how-to texts in favor of more religious malarkey.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jon
[Actually, it's the axle, not the wheel that is the big invention. The ancients were using wheel-like rollers to move heavy loads long before somebody hit on the idea of attaching roller slabs to a stick and placing a load on it.]
And of course the consideration has been made that the "ancients" didn't actually build all these monolithic edifices. We come back to the Ananaki having built them, insofar as they were considered to be gods, that may have given rise to the "religious malarkey". Thou shalt not speak of how this was done.
Hasn't the Tartarian school of thought, superseded that theory nowadays?
This is a great point about the axle.Quote:
Originally Posted by mklotz
I think there had to be isolated instances of Mesoamerican use of carts or barrows of some sort, even if their use wasn't commonplace, or they weren't formally "invented". It just doesn't seem enough of a cognitive leap from a roller to a wheel that nobody would figure it out.
In the California mining ghost towns, there are examples of old wheelbarrows. I'm sure it depended on what was being moved, but some had no sides, just front and floor. Too late to capitalize staking a plot to mine gold, a fellow [Wheelbarrow Johnny] did next best thing, and he built LOTS of them.
So many in fact.......... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Studebaker
Historically, the wheelbarrow seems a likely early material hauler. The problem might have been load size; small enough to lift in, an unstable one wheel cart. That may have turned out result of the American Indians' type travois. Both use same mechanical advantage of leverage.
Thinking details like rollers evolved into wheels, the hangup would be axles, without means to get some degree of round holes first. I'd bet rollers evolved with a reduced diameter forming an axle first. The earliest probable 'bearings' were notches or saddles, then figured out grease. But it would require fairly smooth surfaces to roll [what does a little pebble do to your floor jack?]. Narrowing it, might have been next. That may have progressed into wheels, after learning to keep them in position.
To me, the real brilliant step? Realization that increased wheel diameter was most effective way to traverse rough paths.
Yes, indeed. Wheels and pulleys seem so intuitive once one sees rollers and ropes. Construction tools didn't achieve then the cultural significance that tools receive today so they weren't preserved as icons or grave goods. Even when the occasional tool was interred, the fact that it was made of a perishable material meant we'd never see it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jon
Archaeologists conjecture that the Egyptians erected obelisks by having pullers on the ground pull on ropes strung over A-frames to get the necessary angle to pull the obelisk vertical. If one pictures that, it's not much of a leap to visualize a crude crane.
Also, the Egyptians had beautifully engineered war chariots. They understood how to construct strong, light-weight spoked wheels and suspensions suited to using the chariot floor as a platform for archers firing on the run. If they could demonstrate this level of sophistication for war/sport building wheel barrows or other wheeled devices would have been a doodle. It's true that barrows wouldn't have been useful in the sandy desert but, if you can build the removable scaffolding to build a pyramid, temporary clay or even stone roads would be easy if you were going to spend thirty years at the construction site.
The take away here is: our estimates of the technological sophistication of early peoples are very low because of the durability of their tools and cultures that did not ascribe high value to the efforts of their workers.
unsung heroes of the past... they knew how to use the tools, that was pased down family to family by working to survive.no need to make a silent picture of them. but things like fictional stories....those had to be drawn out...and embellished upon untill it was no longer what it was.and thats what we have today.lots of fiction with very little reality&truth. the inscribed story was also up to interpretation, but the teller,the listener and the inscriber and finaly by all the people looking at it trying to figuire out what was said or trying to be said.. as they were also handed down generations with lots of embellishment. kinda like this one found on the wall of a car's dashbordAttachment 39627 remember what you see may not be what somebody else sees.and what you hear may not be what is said.
I remember this light coming on in my VW diesel, and telling my wife it was low on Curly Fries.....
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oh **** I almost had a heart attack reading that!!!:rofl:
So, the lasso is heating up?
The elastic needs winding?
My sister, when she was young, was convinced our brother's Beetle had a windup key. That would have been the 1960s when all the dash labels were in German.
VW's attracted lots of aftermarket stuff; only some were serious. One novelty I recall was a big ol' stick on wind-up key. The performance parts [ie EMPI :bow:] were far more effective. Amazing what a little Yankee re-engineering could wring from motors less than 2000cc's.
Seeing later posts, mainly recalling dual carb 1875's, holey moley. Tractable and those really ran.
less than 2000 cc?? I wont build one that small....waste of time and $$
You would never make it in class 11 off-road racing. 1600cc, 24mm carb...
your right! Im more of the unlimited class guy..
I'd hire the guy carrying the wheelbarrow in two heartbeats. He may be dumb as a box of rocks (or he may just have a flat tire, IDK) but it's pretty obvious he'll work his ass off to get the job done. It'd be easier to teach him brain surgery than it would to teach a lazy man to work that hard.
