Today I decided to give tower building a try. I had some old 4 by 4's lying around from the tennis court fence and thought a few of them would make a good tower. I screwed some boards around the joint to hold them together and so far I have a pretty long 4 by 4 sitting in the garage. The plan from here is to take a couple shortened 4 by 4's and create a joint for the tower to pivot up and down on. The two shortened ones will be cemented into the ground, and in between will be some sort of rod that the third long one (the one sitting in the garage) will pivot on. It will be something like a trebuchet where in one position it is vertical (after the trebuchet has been released and has gone limp) and the other position the highest point is on the ground (trebuchet loaded 'n' ready). This is hard to describe with words, there is an image of a similar one here, though it is made of metal instead of wood and the pivot is in the middle instead of to one side. Anyways hopefully something will be erected in my backyard in the near future...
In other news, the HAWT windmill that I had made was wedged in an apple tree today and spun so fast that it broke a nearby wind chime. I was amazed, since it couldn't even turn into the wind being wedged in an apple tree and all.
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