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fuzzygalore said:
What's everyone doing for new years eve?
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Well, it's tradition to go to Cozmic Joe's annual destruction party.
Usually about 50 of us, we save TV's, computer monitors, microwaves, porcelain toilets, panes of glass, printers, vacuums, dryers, or anything else breakable and John and I swing 10 lb sledge hammers for about 4 hours breaking it all. Others get into the destruction, we had local police show up 2 years ago. The look of disbelief the officers had when they saw what we were doing was priceless. I have pictures of those same officers 30 minutes later throwing a bowling ball into the lineup of monitors.
Stuff usually gets lit on fire, there's always a racetrack around the industrial building on CRF50's and atc 70's, go karts, and the grand finale usually involves a large object and "the wrecking ball"(10" steel ball filled with lead, covered with metal spikes swinging from a chain welded to the bucket of a Bobcat driven by John)
Eye protection is a MUST, gloves and other protection help. Last year they doused a vacuum cleaner with gas and plugged it in, (it ran for a few minutes) with the flames shooting up from where the bag was supposed to be.
The catapult will be there again, mounted to a freightliner. 4 garage door springs are the power, a large shovel head is the launch pad. (best if the item is lit on fire before launching-- although we did launch a WORKING TV once. That took the cake, I think it was showing Geraldo Rivera when it went skyward.)
So what is everyone else doing for New Years? :laugh: