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   Luka | Oct 13, 2003 07:57pm | #1

   Post test post.

   Can't we all just get a log ? - Paul Bunyon

   Quittin' Time

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   Tryit | Oct 13, 2003 08:03pm | #2

   Great!  Thanks!

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   Ruby | Oct 13, 2003 08:24pm | #3

   Did we pass?

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   MarkH | Oct 13, 2003 08:32pm | #4

   I tested a post by backing into it at high speed with my truck. Post passed fine, truck... no.

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   SamT | Oct 13, 2003 11:42pm | #5

   I tested a bumper by  trying to jerk a 12" date palm out. Tree passed. Built new bumber out of 2x4x1/4" tubing. New bumper passed. Tree's gone.

   SamT

   "You will do me the justice to remember that I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his opinion, however different that opinion may be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it."   Thomas Paine

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   NickNukeEm | Oct 14, 2003 12:33am | #7

   My wife tested the bumper of our brand new Honda Oddessy by backing into my 14 year old truck.  Truck passed with flying colors, but our insurance skyrocketed after we had the van bumper repaired.  Test was conducted in the driveway, with the truck parked in the same place it has been for over 10 years.

   I never met a tool I didn't like!

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   CloudHidden | Oct 15, 2003 06:18am | #19

   Sam, did I miss the posting of your return? What's the good word?

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   Ruby | Oct 15, 2003 07:49am | #20

   To ease your mind about Sam T, he did stick his nose in, said "HELLO!" and left the details for later, best I know, so I assume that he is ok from the operation and resting before posting again.

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   ANDYSZ2 | Oct 13, 2003 11:44pm | #6

   I tested a cadillac at high speed in reverse    the caddy4500$ worth of damage

                                                                           Dodge truck 0 damage

                     ANDYSZ2I MAY DISAGREE WITH WHAT YOUR SAYING BUT I WILL DEFEND TO THE DEATH YOUR RIGHT TO SAY IT.

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   Ronbaby | Oct 14, 2003 01:20am | #8

   never passed a test in high school.....wonder how I ever got a diploma

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   briankeith | Oct 14, 2003 01:35am | #9

   Just finished walking the property line.

   Posts all tested fine.

   Thanks for the reminder. Same time next year?

   
   

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   Edited 10/13/2003 8:26:28 PM ET by bee

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   BossHog | Oct 14, 2003 01:52pm | #10

   Talking about walking fence makes me think of something that happened when I was a kid.

   My Uncle got this nifty electric fence tester. It had a big nail for a spike, which you stuck in the dirt to serve as a ground. Attached to the spike was a wire which went up to a test module. You hooked the test module over the fence and it had indicator lights to tell you how strong the fence "signal" was.

   He told me how to use it, and told me to try it out. So I walk up t the fence with the big spike in my left hand, and hook the tester module over the electric fence with my right hand...........

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   briankeith | Oct 14, 2003 07:52pm | #11

   Come on, Boss.

   Can't stand the suspense. Did you hang on long enough to see if the light came on????

   That's pretty high tech, all I ever had was a blade of grass to check with.

   Well, except for the summer my cousin from DC came to visit us on the farm. He worked pretty good to test the fence.<BG>View Image

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   Ruby | Oct 14, 2003 08:11pm | #12

   When we don't have a city cousin to test with, we use a screwdriver. It sparks very nicely if hot. Just don't touch it anyway if it doesn't spark, especially in wet ground.

   Guess how I know?;-)

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   GoldenWreckedAngle | Oct 14, 2003 09:28pm | #13

   I once tested an electric fence by pouring water out of a metal bucket into the metal watering trough on the other side. Very exciting.

   My father once tested the same barbed wire electric fence by accidentally snagging the inseam of his jeans on one of the barbs as he was gingerly easing himself over it. He jumped and snagged the other inseam on the opposing side of the barb. He ended up doing a very animated imitation of a championship bronc ride.

   My little sister was born about a year after that incident. She's never been quite right.Kevin Halliburton

   "I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity."  - I.M. Pei -

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   Ruby | Oct 14, 2003 09:41pm | #14

   ---"My little sister was born about a year after that incident. She's never been quite right"---

   "Never been quite right". I thought that being right or not was mostly inherited. What are you measuring her against?;-)

   Once it had rained and we met a neighbor across a hot wire. All of us had rubber overshoes on and he told us that they were good insulators and proceeded to grab the hot wire with his bare hand.

   He then demonstrated that when you grab a hot wire you can do amazing things, as your father did with his bull ride.  

   That chubby, elderly fellow showed great agility, clearing that wire twice, coming and going, before he tore it up and landed in the mud. 

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   GoldenWreckedAngle | Oct 14, 2003 09:47pm | #15

   Thank you Ruby - laughing out loud is good for the soul!Kevin Halliburton

   "I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity."  - I.M. Pei -

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   GregGibson | Oct 14, 2003 09:53pm | #16

   Good for you, Ruby !  Many city folk don't know that when you grab the fence wire with one hand and your cousin with the other, you only get a very mild kick, but your cousin will start screaming !

   Then there's the old " get 'em to pee on the fence wire trick "  Oh, man - we were mean !

   Greg.

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   GoldenWreckedAngle | Oct 14, 2003 10:23pm | #17

   Ouch! Now that'll smoke yer sausage!Kevin Halliburton

   "I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity."  - I.M. Pei -

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   Piffin | Oct 15, 2003 03:52am | #18

   It might be good for the soul but it's hurting my ribs and making the wife wonder....

   Excellence is its own reward!

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   BossHog | Oct 15, 2003 01:49pm | #21

   "Did you hang on long enough to see if the light came on???? "

   I don't recall - I was busy at the time..................(-:The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy. [Helen Hayes (at 73)]