<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">That’s worth a follow up story in TLS...<br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 4, 2015, at 4:43 PM, Bob Theis <<a href="mailto:bob@bobtheis.net" class="">bob@bobtheis.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; " class="">John is pushing your leg, Chris. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">He's the one that <b class="">invented</b> the loading scheme that Janet sent the photo of. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So perhaps " pretty crazy " is a self reflection. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The best part of the story, however, is that after numerous jokes about the multilevel bathing facility we'd built, Janet bought shower caps and we were sitting in the empty tubs with our shirts off posing for that picture, when the Building Inspector showed up 1/2 hour early. He stayed completely deadpan, though, we put our shirts back on, filled up the tanks and the wall passed its compression test with flying colors. Or flying stock tanks. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Bob</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> 4, 2015, at 2:24 PM, John Swearingen wrote:<div class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">I dunno, sounds pretty crazy to me. -john<img src="http://t.signauxsix.com/e1t/o/5/f18dQhb0S7ks8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9gXrN7sKj6v5dbn6W4WYnFv7fRRHgW3LQ7bK2zlZNzV7pt5s1k1H6H0?si=5091282391662592&pi=f9963add-1d7c-42d2-9b0c-a0694d22a259" style="display:none!important" height="1" width="1" class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 7:47 AM, Chris Magwood <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:chris@endeavourcentre.org" target="_blank" class="">chris@endeavourcentre.org</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi all,<br class="">
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I seem to recall photos of someone in the late 90s who strapped two cattle water tanks over the top of a bale wall so they were hanging at the same height on either side of the wall, quite low to the ground. The tanks were then filled with water at the same rate, providing a relatively safe test scenario and reproducing the continuous weighting conditions that would make the test relevant.<br class="">
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Maybe I'm making this up, or maybe it really did happen. Or maybe it was talked about enough that it seemed like it happened... Either way, I think it would be an effective test.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888" class=""><br class="">
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Chris<br class="">
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Chris Magwood<br class="">
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