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KarlJ

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Joined: 19/05/2008
Location: Australia
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Posted: 12:18pm 09 Nov 2009

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I found this a good laugh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm8yRIWonJI&feature=PlayList& p=5EC545A8EDEB77F3&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=1

this is a guy trying to cut off limbs using a windmill, held up with his hand!

Luck favours the well prepared

MacGyver

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Joined: 12/05/2009
Location: United States
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Posted: 05:18am 06 Jan 2010

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I wonder how many of us would own up to having done exactly the same as this oaf?

I know I have.

One day I "tested" a solid-aluminum, two-bladed prop mounted on a front bicycle hub (free-wheeling) by merely holding it into the wind. That wind, by the way was running about 25 knots.

All went well until I decided to try to turn it out of the wind. Two-blded props don't like to turn when the prop is horizontal (angular momentum and all that). Almost killed myself when a wing tip bit the grass. It cart-wheeled out of my grip and sprung and bounced down the street about a hundred feet!

MacGyver walks away as if nothing has happened; trying ever-so-much to hide his wetted pants!

Nothing difficult is ever easy!
Perhaps better stated in the words of Morgan Freeman,
"Where there is no struggle, there is no progress!"
Copeville, Texas

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