Anyone have some?

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/album.php?page=1&aid=2018068&id=1515960086

Anyone have more recent shots?

If SB were savvy they'd have a blog on their site with daily updates.

http://www.mediafire.com/i/?zmilmnunlam

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Thank you! Looks gorgeous.

Will the second tier of logs extend all the way to the Windle sticks?

they're on third tier and haven't covered the Windles yet.

http://img136.imageshack.us/g/dsc0463q.jpg/




[This message has been edited by Fitch 10 (edited 11/13/2009 3:26a).]

I've said this before, and I'll say it again...

The windles ought to be angled in a bit...

they'd somewhat set the slope of stack, and be easier to hide.

This years Windles look like they are a bit further out, but it may just be that they are leaning outward slightly, so the tops are farther from stack than in years past.

the windles will be trimmed, but that only works when a stack covers the support collars... That stack will have to be pretty fat to accomplish that.

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I've said this before, and I'll say it again...

The windles ought to be angled in a bit...

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You've done the engineering calculations, I assume?

rough...

but (God forbid) should stack start to sway... if the Windles were angled in, this would also put a compression force on the Windles instead of just a moment.

To be completely honest, I got the idea repairing fence... The fence was leaning toward the inside of a curve ...the way to fix that is to brace the post(s) with another post at an angle. The tension in the wire, instead of being supported by the resistance to bending of the vertical post, is supported by the resistance to compression by the brace post.

the BEST solution would be to get rid of the steel windle supports and angle all four of the poles to the centerpole. This would create triangles instead of quadrilaterals. Triangles are ALWAYS better in a static object than quadrilaterals.



drilling the holes to get the Windles to meet centerpole would be a bit of a stretch, and I don't think Batten boasts experience in directional drilling... so the next best move is to drill vertical, but lean the "sticks" toward Centerpole.

if 0° windle sticks help support stack, and Windles that meet Centerpole are ideal, anything in between will work, too.

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Setting aside the engineering calculations, drilling and setting four inward leaning poles into the ground and then placing a vertical pole between them is not trivial.

Regardless, do what the PE says, not what "looks nice".

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Here's a few videos of center pole. It's mainly me and my buds being bored, but take a look.

[link]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVBohC_8V8s&feature=related[/link]

Woops link fail. Sorry. Here they are.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVBohC_8V8s&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfaNp06yfA8&feature=channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BSa9PM38M4&feature=channel

huh?

Stack is look great, y'all are doing good for the 100th anniversary.

http://jimandlauren.net/?p=Photos&album=5404741802687026161

These are the pics I have so far. I plan to update as I get more.

Nice pics, Jim. You have access to a helo, I take it?

I should have put a qualifier on those pictures.

I have a friend with a plane. His son is out this year so he takes pics and sends them to me.

I doubt he will be able to get any burn night shots because he isnt certified to fly at night yet. (too bad)

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he isnt certified to fly at night yet.

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He better hurry up then. He's got 1 week!

hey slim-jim is your friends son in OC Hogs? I know a fish whos dad flys and has taken some pretty great day shots of stack !

Yes indeed he is.

Seeing these pictures makes me wish we'd have taken more in '98 and '99. Well done!

Great picks Jim. Hope to see you out there Tuesday.

Oh, I'll be there. Don't you worry.

http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs003.snc3/11039_1134942383531_1526460019_30344182_1796627_n.jpg

I can't get the link to work but it works if you copy and paste it to your browser.

[This message has been edited by 20redass12 (edited 11/19/2009 6:39p).]

Fixed your link.


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anybody up for collecting kindling this weekend?

I do not give a **** who you are...that 19NOV pic is one of the most outstanding pictures I have ever seen.

Thank you SJ for posting.

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I do not give a **** who you are...that 19NOV pic is one of the most outstanding pictures I have ever seen.

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+1

Fantastic pic.

my favorite question ever:

"are those the same flags they used to put on the poles?"

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my favorite question ever:

"are those the same flags they used to put on the poles?"

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The Windle sticks? Yeah, that is a good question!

it came from an '010er in '06...

a dangerous question to get with chainsaw in hand...

The one question I've been repeatedly asked this year is "Are you really Lechner XII?" (as written on my pot), or equivalently, "Are you really '04?" Do I look really young or something?

The Nerds did, however, know their history well enough to ask me about Bonfire my junior year instead of my freshman year.

[This message has been edited by commando2004 (edited 11/21/2009 1:20a).]