<![CDATA[Last summer and autumn I made some headway in treating the overgrowth of brambles etc outside the back garden in the hope it'd clear a way to some fly tipping the former owner did in the woods so I could start clearing it up.]]>Last summer and autumn I made some headway in treating the overgrowth of brambles etc outside the back garden in the hope it'd clear a way to some fly tipping the former owner did in the woods so I could start clearing it up.

Today I finally went out to assess the situation and have a look around, and anyone who's known me a while will know I am slightly obsessed with pylons.

So imagine my squeal of delight when, in moving some brush aside, I discovered this gem.

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/byteborg/statuses/116538367815908528https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/byteborg/statuses/116538367815908528Fri, 08 May 2026 09:59:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Last summer and autumn I made some headway in treating the overgrowth of brambles etc outside the back garden in the hope it'd clear a way to some fly tipping the former owner did in the woods so I could start clearing it up. on Fri, 08 May 2026 09:48:19 GMT]]>@babe they would make an impressive rain chain perhaps?

I've a couple of the small green ones I found in there garden here 😊

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.me.uk/users/Slash909uk/statuses/116538323717302858https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.me.uk/users/Slash909uk/statuses/116538323717302858Fri, 08 May 2026 09:48:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Last summer and autumn I made some headway in treating the overgrowth of brambles etc outside the back garden in the hope it'd clear a way to some fly tipping the former owner did in the woods so I could start clearing it up. on Fri, 08 May 2026 08:43:46 GMT]]>@byteborg Beautiful when the power washer hit them, but they're tempered by the attached links so you can't really tell. I'd also be a bit worried about any chips

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://glitterkitten.co.uk/users/babe/statuses/116538069939058752https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://glitterkitten.co.uk/users/babe/statuses/116538069939058752Fri, 08 May 2026 08:43:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Last summer and autumn I made some headway in treating the overgrowth of brambles etc outside the back garden in the hope it'd clear a way to some fly tipping the former owner did in the woods so I could start clearing it up. on Fri, 08 May 2026 08:30:38 GMT]]>@babe how do they sound? They might be nice wind chimes.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/byteborg/statuses/116538018247528705https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/byteborg/statuses/116538018247528705Fri, 08 May 2026 08:30:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Last summer and autumn I made some headway in treating the overgrowth of brambles etc outside the back garden in the hope it'd clear a way to some fly tipping the former owner did in the woods so I could start clearing it up. on Thu, 07 May 2026 23:29:13 GMT]]>@cazabon I'm pretty sure there's more of it out there. I saw a glint. It's just currently I can't actually get to it to investigate but I'll keep my fingers crossed for when I can.

I've only ever seen small ones in person, these are quite something by comparison. Digging it up took a bit of work

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://glitterkitten.co.uk/users/babe/statuses/116535889302874168https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://glitterkitten.co.uk/users/babe/statuses/116535889302874168Thu, 07 May 2026 23:29:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Last summer and autumn I made some headway in treating the overgrowth of brambles etc outside the back garden in the hope it'd clear a way to some fly tipping the former owner did in the woods so I could start clearing it up. on Thu, 07 May 2026 23:21:24 GMT]]>@babe

Wow - this is really cool!

We get individual isolators/insulators showing up in antique shops around here, but they're just the little cup-shaped ones, probably from local ~600 V overhead lines. I have a few we use as doorstops. This beauty of yours was clearly of a different league.

It's beautiful.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mindly.social/users/cazabon/statuses/116535858612041758https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mindly.social/users/cazabon/statuses/116535858612041758Thu, 07 May 2026 23:21:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Last summer and autumn I made some headway in treating the overgrowth of brambles etc outside the back garden in the hope it'd clear a way to some fly tipping the former owner did in the woods so I could start clearing it up. on Thu, 07 May 2026 23:07:40 GMT]]>@hal_pomeranz I hear bananas are a common scale item for smaller things

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://glitterkitten.co.uk/users/babe/statuses/116535804572228505https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://glitterkitten.co.uk/users/babe/statuses/116535804572228505Thu, 07 May 2026 23:07:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Last summer and autumn I made some headway in treating the overgrowth of brambles etc outside the back garden in the hope it'd clear a way to some fly tipping the former owner did in the woods so I could start clearing it up. on Thu, 07 May 2026 23:06:49 GMT]]>@babe Another USA oddity is that we call them football fields, not pitches.

But things that small don’t get measured in football fields. Maybe golf clubs for something that size? “Bigger than a putter, but shorter than my big driver!”

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/hal_pomeranz/statuses/116535801280612561https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/hal_pomeranz/statuses/116535801280612561Thu, 07 May 2026 23:06:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Last summer and autumn I made some headway in treating the overgrowth of brambles etc outside the back garden in the hope it'd clear a way to some fly tipping the former owner did in the woods so I could start clearing it up. on Thu, 07 May 2026 21:59:54 GMT]]>@isocat An image made by a fellow pylon appreciator, Happy Toast (I believe)

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... checks math, bunny spicy hay occurrences ...

Yeah, that 60kV seems about right for bunny potential energy and innate destructive power.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.art/users/TheJohnWeber/statuses/116535360050863777https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.art/users/TheJohnWeber/statuses/116535360050863777Thu, 07 May 2026 21:14:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Last summer and autumn I made some headway in treating the overgrowth of brambles etc outside the back garden in the hope it'd clear a way to some fly tipping the former owner did in the woods so I could start clearing it up. on Thu, 07 May 2026 20:33:53 GMT]]>@hal_pomeranz

My first thought was "that thing is 60 kV long!" (you usually use one glass disc insulator per ~15 kV on the wire), so if we’re measuring in bunnies anyway we can set one bunlength equal to 24 kV.

@babe

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://masto.nu/users/merula/statuses/116535199870537420https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://masto.nu/users/merula/statuses/116535199870537420Thu, 07 May 2026 20:33:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Last summer and autumn I made some headway in treating the overgrowth of brambles etc outside the back garden in the hope it'd clear a way to some fly tipping the former owner did in the woods so I could start clearing it up. on Thu, 07 May 2026 20:04:36 GMT]]>@gilester45 I actually found myself thinking the opposite, I expected them to be bigger.

I think the pylons that have most captured my interest have been some of the biggest in the country which might have skewed my impression a bit

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://glitterkitten.co.uk/users/babe/statuses/116535084743733872https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://glitterkitten.co.uk/users/babe/statuses/116535084743733872Thu, 07 May 2026 20:04:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Last summer and autumn I made some headway in treating the overgrowth of brambles etc outside the back garden in the hope it'd clear a way to some fly tipping the former owner did in the woods so I could start clearing it up. on Thu, 07 May 2026 20:03:32 GMT]]>@babe It never fails to surprise me how large these are when you get them up close.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://twit.social/users/gilester45/statuses/116535080539534539https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://twit.social/users/gilester45/statuses/116535080539534539Thu, 07 May 2026 20:03:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Last summer and autumn I made some headway in treating the overgrowth of brambles etc outside the back garden in the hope it'd clear a way to some fly tipping the former owner did in the woods so I could start clearing it up. on Thu, 07 May 2026 18:52:02 GMT]]>@WiteWulf Oh I reached that point 2 whole bunnies ago and yet here I am, still chugging along with the little fucker

He's got it made and he knows it

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://glitterkitten.co.uk/users/babe/statuses/116534799423925470https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://glitterkitten.co.uk/users/babe/statuses/116534799423925470Thu, 07 May 2026 18:52:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Last summer and autumn I made some headway in treating the overgrowth of brambles etc outside the back garden in the hope it'd clear a way to some fly tipping the former owner did in the woods so I could start clearing it up. on Thu, 07 May 2026 18:51:49 GMT]]>@babe My pylon obsession is not as strong as when I was a small child (turns out they are not as structurally sound in Plasticine as they are in steel, btw), but I am nevertheless still kinda jealous over here

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/raynerlucas/statuses/116534798561680659https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/raynerlucas/statuses/116534798561680659Thu, 07 May 2026 18:51:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Last summer and autumn I made some headway in treating the overgrowth of brambles etc outside the back garden in the hope it'd clear a way to some fly tipping the former owner did in the woods so I could start clearing it up. on Thu, 07 May 2026 18:50:06 GMT]]>@babe I read that as “bunny for sale” the first time and thought you’d finally had enough of him 😂

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cyberplace.social/users/WiteWulf/statuses/116534791790435464https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cyberplace.social/users/WiteWulf/statuses/116534791790435464Thu, 07 May 2026 18:50:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Last summer and autumn I made some headway in treating the overgrowth of brambles etc outside the back garden in the hope it'd clear a way to some fly tipping the former owner did in the woods so I could start clearing it up. on Thu, 07 May 2026 18:45:28 GMT]]>@hal_pomeranz But what percentage of football pitch is it?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://glitterkitten.co.uk/users/babe/statuses/116534773553216186https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://glitterkitten.co.uk/users/babe/statuses/116534773553216186Thu, 07 May 2026 18:45:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Last summer and autumn I made some headway in treating the overgrowth of brambles etc outside the back garden in the hope it'd clear a way to some fly tipping the former owner did in the woods so I could start clearing it up. on Thu, 07 May 2026 18:43:45 GMT]]>@babe Good! Finally a furry tail that can knock someone out 😛 I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to find someone that wants to get tail beat unconscious.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://girlcock.club/users/old_angry_queer/statuses/116534766825894779https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://girlcock.club/users/old_angry_queer/statuses/116534766825894779Thu, 07 May 2026 18:43:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Last summer and autumn I made some headway in treating the overgrowth of brambles etc outside the back garden in the hope it'd clear a way to some fly tipping the former owner did in the woods so I could start clearing it up. on Thu, 07 May 2026 18:40:23 GMT]]>@old_angry_queer Moves in much the same way I imagine one would, just very weightily.

There's a surprising amount of movement for something so heavy

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://glitterkitten.co.uk/users/babe/statuses/116534753561367229https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://glitterkitten.co.uk/users/babe/statuses/116534753561367229Thu, 07 May 2026 18:40:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Last summer and autumn I made some headway in treating the overgrowth of brambles etc outside the back garden in the hope it'd clear a way to some fly tipping the former owner did in the woods so I could start clearing it up. on Thu, 07 May 2026 18:39:21 GMT]]>@babe That looks a lot like the core of a furry tail tbh. just needs a furry slip cover and a harness worn backwards to attach it so it can swing back and forth.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://girlcock.club/users/old_angry_queer/statuses/116534749543423657https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://girlcock.club/users/old_angry_queer/statuses/116534749543423657Thu, 07 May 2026 18:39:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Last summer and autumn I made some headway in treating the overgrowth of brambles etc outside the back garden in the hope it'd clear a way to some fly tipping the former owner did in the woods so I could start clearing it up. on Thu, 07 May 2026 18:39:15 GMT]]>@babe You've got nice insulators 😉

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://boitam.eu/users/VoronoV/statuses/116534749134438428https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://boitam.eu/users/VoronoV/statuses/116534749134438428Thu, 07 May 2026 18:39:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Last summer and autumn I made some headway in treating the overgrowth of brambles etc outside the back garden in the hope it'd clear a way to some fly tipping the former owner did in the woods so I could start clearing it up. on Thu, 07 May 2026 17:57:44 GMT]]>@babe And they say us folks in the USA have strange measurement scales. “Well now, that looks like it’s maybe 2.5 bunnies long!”

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/hal_pomeranz/statuses/116534585859731123https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/hal_pomeranz/statuses/116534585859731123Thu, 07 May 2026 17:57:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Last summer and autumn I made some headway in treating the overgrowth of brambles etc outside the back garden in the hope it'd clear a way to some fly tipping the former owner did in the woods so I could start clearing it up. on Thu, 07 May 2026 17:54:13 GMT]]>@babe did it pass inspection?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tenforward.social/users/sidd_harth0_5h4h/statuses/116534572061829119https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tenforward.social/users/sidd_harth0_5h4h/statuses/116534572061829119Thu, 07 May 2026 17:54:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Last summer and autumn I made some headway in treating the overgrowth of brambles etc outside the back garden in the hope it'd clear a way to some fly tipping the former owner did in the woods so I could start clearing it up. on Thu, 07 May 2026 17:51:19 GMT]]>Bunny for scale

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