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Monday, July 23, 2012

Fatty and Skinny

This is a Fatso stove. Cast iron. Solid. Heavy. I have one.


This is a skinny man, over 50 years of age and perhaps a little over-confident about his physical abilities.


Question: Should 'Skinny' lift 'Fatty' and carry him 50 metres to get him out of the rain. Unaided?
The question is a retrospective one, in that the Fatso stove is safely under cover now.
In future, I'll ask myself the question before heaving the whopper off the ground and staggering along the path to the shed. 

9 comments:

DarkHorse said...

I'd put the money on the well built one - hoped you survived ok

Anonymous said...

The answer to your question is the wheel. A barrow allows old farts like us to do wonders in the physical world. The Chinese are making good barrows so cheap now there is no excuse for not having one.

robertguyton said...

I did, darkhorse, miraculously. But I'm chastened and liable to take the advice of Anonymous next time something massive has to be shifted.

Anon - your wheelbarrow allows you to do wonders in the physical world?
Oarsome!
Sounds a better investment even, than steroids!
But yes, wheels. Levers too, and pulleys. First though, engage brain.

Anonymous said...

Shift it where you will by all means.
But for heavens, (or the planet's), sake, don't light a fire in it, lest a green-minded zealot from the council, bearing a clip-board and a fire hose appear at your door.

robertguyton said...

They'd look silly standing there holding a fire-hose, Anonymous.
At any rate, 'green-minded' zealots would be 'holding a clip board'. They balk at such displays of fascism.
You oppose the burning of woodlot-grown wood? Why is that? Surely it's the best of renewable fuels.

DarkHorse said...

ah but it must comply with the NES Robert renewable fuel or not

robertguyton said...

In Riverton, the cleanest airshed in the country?

Jain said...

In Riverton, the cleanest airshed in the country?

robertguyton said...

Yep