"Jim Elbrecht" wrote in message
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"Steve B" wrote:

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My royalty department attorneys will be in touch.

I'll give 'em 1/2 of my net worth. . . $0/2.g


I never thought about a stop chain, just letting it go full vertical, but
if
you don't have some sort of a stop, it won't reset back to horizontal. I
have been working on my book solid for the last two days, and it has been
hot as blazes here. Too hot to go outside. 110 forecast.

I'm not fond of heat myself. I played with this right in front of
the squirrel cage [the irony escaped me until just now] fan I salvaged
from my old furnace. That moves some air!

I went out to
the shop a while ago and turned on the cooler and opened the door. Am
going
to go out there tonight and work on it a bit. I don't want those
squirrels
to get ahead of me on the apple trees like they did on the almond trees.
Great to hear that the principle works. I guess they don't hesitate to go
into the tunnel. And once it tips, it doesn't matter how much the pipe
weighs.

If some physics geek is reading this I hope he/she chimes in- I'm sure
it makes some difference-- just don't know if it makes enough for us
to think about.

Jim

I had grandiose ideas of a Rube Goldberg contraption with all sorts of
gates, switches, latches, and such. What I ended up with was a sheet metal
tube (I couldn't find any poly tube), a 1x3, a hinge, and a couple of other
simple things. Total cost at retail, less than one dollar. I put it out
this evening with some apples in the water, and some peanut butter in the
barrel. I was going to add some yeast, but my wife could not find it, so
that might be tomorrow. Instead, I cut some fresh apple slivers and threw
them down the canyon side where I know the little darlings live. I will
take some photos after it sits for a couple of days.

MAJOR CAVEAT for newbies - check it daily, or the smell will knock you down.
Ever dispose of a squirrel the size of a regulation NBA basketball? Don't
ask.

Steve

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