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.
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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.
@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
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@babe I read that as “bunny for sale” the first time and thought you’d finally had enough of him
@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
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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.
@babe It never fails to surprise me how large these are when you get them up close.
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@babe It never fails to surprise me how large these are when you get them up close.
@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
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@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!”
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.
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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.
... checks math, bunny spicy hay occurrences ...
Yeah, that 60kV seems about right for bunny potential energy and innate destructive power.
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@isocat An image made by a fellow pylon appreciator, Happy Toast (I believe)
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@hal_pomeranz But what percentage of football pitch is it?
@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!”
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@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!”
@hal_pomeranz I hear bananas are a common scale item for smaller things
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Bunny for scale
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.
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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.
@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
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I've given it a good going over with the pressure washer. The discs are all fully in tact. Now I just need to figure out what to do with it.
I'm thinking of removing the links and turning them into sun catchers in the window
@babe how do they sound? They might be nice wind chimes.
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@babe how do they sound? They might be nice wind chimes.
@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
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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.
@babe they would make an impressive rain chain perhaps?
I've a couple of the small green ones I found in there garden here
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@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
@babe how about putting pieces of wood in between? Problem solved
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