Sunday 10 February 2013

Best Low-Buck Winter Project EVER! Today.

      ".. running up that hill...."
                      -Kate Bush


    I hate winter.

    The water is too hard to float a boat, it is too cold for epoxy to cure, the snow is too deep (lately) for cargo shorts to be comfortable, and returning to the stately Jones manor everyday underscores how much half-assed, half-finished maintenance is still half- finished.
   And still half-assed.

     *Sigh*

   Jack has got it figured out.

    (Shameless plug here.  Jack is thinning  his fleet .  If you need a Bluenose, now's the time.)

  He doesn't fight the season.

   He embraces it.

     Check it out:

      One  rear motorcycle wheel...


  Bolted to an electric motor, shrouded in a plastic bucket, all hanging on  a fence post...



   ... The front  motorcycle wheel is here, on a fence rail tripod....


... at the end of hundreds of feet of rope...


   At the bottom of the hill, er slope.

   Dude has built himself a rope tow in his backyard!!!

  I'm not sure which is more impressive, the rope tow or the fact that a guy who qualifies for seniors' discounts is snowboarding.

    Keep on keeping on, Jack!


    "Talk the Dock!"

5 comments:

  1. Awesome!Where is this?

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  2. So is that a couple of grand worth of Spectra?

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  3. Spectra? Involved in a Dock-related project? Knowing Jack, it's 18-20 old mainsail halyards from boats that have been keel and gear donors knotted together.

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  4. Winter sucks down here.
    Maybe I'll move to Oymyakon valley.
    Minus 67 Celcius should keep the snow nice and crisp.

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