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Favorite Comment: Fixer Dogmeat says, “Their rooftop planter box trebuchet definitely needs some more work.”
Interesting aside: My spell check has no idea what a trebuchet is. See? It just gave me squiggly red lines of doom for typing it again. Trebuchet, treubchet, trebuchet! HA! – Ms. Fix-It
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Uncle Herb’s new job.
He lost his job last year as a physics professor.
Particle physics, right? Then he must’ve worked with Adam.
It’s a far more horrifying hoist davit counterweight. You want several hundred pounds of ballast sitting on that side of the teeter-totter, or you’ll drop the cargo into the courtyard.
And if that cargo involves a worker going up the rope as the barrel of bricks is going down, that’s 500 pounds plus on that arm. We don’t want to modify the “Bucket Joke” because the whole thing breaks and drops the worker from roof height.
Bruce, my favorite line from the bucket joke is: “At that point I must have lost my presence of mind, because I let go of the rope.”
When there is a pool party in progress and you can’t wait for cold beer to be delivered by hand to the 15th floor you need to take action.
Not only are the plants for blance purposes, but they’re also being used get a tax break for “Green” construction practices!
“OK Mac, hoist up the next packet of lettuce seeds.”
We joke about how meager this man’s garden is, but he is just getting started. Just imagine how beautiful things will look if you give him some thyme.
I apologize if anyone found my last comment distasteful. I consulted with my friend Rosemary before submitting it, and she assured me it was sage advice.
Your puns are barley tolerated. Perhaps you should come back tomato and try again.
Water we all talking about again?
Lettuce leaf these corny puns alone or they will sprout a backlash of comments with spicy language!
*throws rock at Alleycat*
I parsley getz it — ?
It’ll become more and more reasonable as the plants grow and increase the mass of the counterweight. This doesn’t mean they weren’t idiots for not using a larger plant in the first place. Or using a plant at all.
Day 160: I’ve finally found food at an abandoned rooftop garden. I’ve constructed a new zombie trap – a deceptively reliable looking pulley. I’m using a paint bucket as a rooftop cistern. I can survive these siege conditions for two weeks – maybe longer if I find croutons.
Day 167: I’ve managed to engineer a super-dense plant. It feeds me, and I use it as a counterweight for the trap pulley. Oh, Zombieland, at least you taught me something about best zombie kills of the week. Now I just need to find a Piano.
Since there is no evidence to give us a clue as to the weight or size of what is being hauled up, it’s virtually impossible to draw an educated conclusion as to the safety or integrity of this kludge.
^ Yeah, what he said.
Exactly. He could have cheerfully rigged this to educate the children and deliver his letters to his rooftop paradise, for which it would work admirably.
Let me introduce you to the concept of exponential hauling. Once you have a planter up there, you can use it as a counterweight to lift one more planter. But then you have two planters that you can use to lift two more. Then four and so on. Come sunset, there are not enough planters in the whole universe for the next load.
It’s a kludge; that right there makes it unsafe and lacking in integrity. Just like the rest of us.
Please. This is just a proof-of-concept. Next he’ll cover the entire roof in a vegetable garden, then when he notices his roof sagging (Because he lives on the top floor!) we’ll get to see Moronic supports.
Joe! Just one more planter box, and we can load up the Garden Chopper and fly outta this temperate zone for the winter!
Their rooftop planter box trebuchet definitely needs some more work.
sure does need alot of work; it has none of the design elements of a trebuchet. http://www.stormthecastle.com/trebuchet/how-to-build-a-trebuchet.htm
The Job super was replaced with a potted plant this morning and we are still waiting for someone to notice.
Gawd, ain’t that the truth.
You only need so much parsley!
Sorry, but for some reason, ‘The Sprouting Gardens of Babylon’ just doesn’t grab me. Let’s talk again in a few more years.
I think we can safely assume this went terribly wrong. How could someone know to use the pulley but not know they’re going to need more weight than that to counterbalance just about anything that actually needs to be taken up that way? So much stupid. :/
No, that’s the guy from the song who crippled himself with a barrel of bricks.
To prove how distracting this mess is, it took me until today (several days after it’s been posted and I’ve viewed it 3 or 4 times) to realize there’s a MAN in that photo. Hello!
Is that a rubber roof? They nailed right through the membrane on the parapet wall to attach their wonderful machine.
having lived in a few developing countries i wish they would post were these pictures are taken more often… really fun to try n guess where i thnk that might be… could be any number of middle eastern countries possibly…