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Life goes on.

I have removed the stitch. This incident is now closed.

For my next trick: A gun platform is being built.
 
This so that the Mountain Howitzer of Argghhh! won't list quite so drunkenly, nor be in ground contact. This involves the tractor, the Ranger, shovels, cement blocks, saws, drills, ratchets... and splintery wood beams and planks permeated by poisons. Not to mention schlepping the gun around.

Yes, the Emergency Room has been put on notice, and extra suture kits laid out.  Your concern is touching.

Yes, I'm aware of the corrosive properties of ground-contact treated wood.  That is being dealt with.

Update: It ain't done, but it's taking shape, and, as yet, is not blood-stained.  There *is* chicken-poop on it.  But then, at Castle Argghhh!, there's chicken poop on nearly everything at some point.  It's also startin' ta get rather purty round here, too.

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You should video the effort. You might have a chance for $10,000 in America's Funniest Videos.
 
 We have yet to approach closure; the blood is still hot and flows copiously.The cutting will continue. Gunners can't dance ...

Cheers
 
I wonder if the chickens are planning an escape.
 
 They'd be peabrain-fowl if not.

Cheers
 
I see your master plan.

The hay bales are to entice Bambis from the woods so you can conduct your own version of "deer-hunting with a cannon" -- at *close* range...
 
I'm just waiting for once the gun is in place for the chickens to stage their own version of Fort Apache....
 
Gotten purty here too.  Always does and then the sun comes out and burn the lot to death.  So we lap it up while we can.

Close range cannon deer hunting.  Is that how McPatties are made?

BTW is that wood thick enough?  It looks like cardboard.
 
The planks are 2.x10x8 overlaying three 4.x4's.  Plenty strong enough for the anticipated load.
 
I suspect it's the UNANTICIPATED load that he's concerned about.  See recent "It Was a Dark and Stormy Night" for examples...
}:-]
 
You might have a chance for $10,000 in America's Funniest Videos.

Even if the Usual Armorer Carpentry is all that happens, he'd be a cinch...

 
So, when are you gonna shoot the thing? You have bragged about it being a really stout piece.

Just be careful, but you know that. I looked at a muzzle-loading artillery web site and clicked on the accident reports. There were an amazing number of people who had theiir hands blown off, or horribly messed up, while doing things around the muzzle.
 
P.s. Yer prolly safe around things which go boom, even though they be nukes, but I'm not sure about sharp objects.
 
P.p.s. Saint Barbara provides no protection against incisive wounds. That is someone else's job.