Whatz it?

CaptPatrick · Post by **CaptPatrick** » Aug 14th, '09, 12:36

Carl,

Can't hazard a guess as to the function of your machine, but you've got my curiosity peaked...

Harry Babb · Post by **Harry Babb** » Aug 14th, '09, 12:41

Carl wrote:you've got my curiosity peaked

Me to......looks like pretty expensive counter weights on the lever.....

Harry

Charlie J · Post by **Charlie J** » Aug 14th, '09, 13:35

iam going to say some kind of measuring device.

pacific marlin · Post by **pacific marlin** » Aug 14th, '09, 14:50

That guy needs to take bath or something,that is one bad swarm of mossys or flys or maybe the transporter's not working too well, where's Scotty?

AndreF · Post by **AndreF** » Aug 14th, '09, 16:37

Is it off the space shuttle?

Rawleigh · Post by **Rawleigh** » Aug 15th, '09, 07:31

Is it to get the last drop out of the ketcup bottle???

Brewster Minton · Post by **Brewster Minton** » Aug 15th, '09, 08:19

It throws pumpkins?

White Bear · Post by **White Bear** » Aug 15th, '09, 08:22

I'll guess it is for some form of astronomical observation device, radio or telescope.

Buju · Post by **Buju** » Aug 15th, '09, 08:40

Perpetual motion machine?

Orbital bombardment equitiorial mount defense system?

Death Ray?

Prototype handheld GPS?

Shock & awe leather belt hole puncher?

Preston Burrows · Post by **Preston Burrows** » Aug 15th, '09, 09:30

Buju:

Your thought process scares me man....................did you see the movie 'District 9' yet ?

IRGuy · Post by **IRGuy** » Aug 15th, '09, 09:44

After studying the pic for about 30 seconds I have concluded...

It is a chain link fence straightener!

scot · Post by **scot** » Aug 15th, '09, 10:32

It's a warp drive inverter.

Buju · Post by **Buju** » Aug 15th, '09, 10:48

cockpit mounted auto-gaff?

Giraffe/Elephant artificial insemeninator?

Worlds most impressive tooth extractor?

Chain link fence destroyer?

Preston, haven't seen it... you recommend it?
Looks like we might have some weather to deal with next week & perhaps the next weekend as well. Tis the season.

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Aug 15th, '09, 11:04

The purpose of this device is obscured by the swarm of white flies. Note where the two parts converge at the front of the operator. Got it now?

CaptPatrick · Post by **CaptPatrick** » Aug 15th, '09, 11:13

One hellofa' big compass for accurately laying out extreme radiuses, segments, and circles...

Capt.Frank · Post by **Capt.Frank** » Aug 15th, '09, 13:51

Is it a HDTV antenna??

Skipper Dick · Post by **Skipper Dick** » Aug 15th, '09, 13:59

It looks like a decraminator to me

pacific marlin · Post by **pacific marlin** » Aug 15th, '09, 14:00

Y'all are talking nonesense, It's a thingamajig.

Capt.Frank · Post by **Capt.Frank** » Aug 15th, '09, 14:09

I know it's a thingamabob you use it with the whatyamacallit.

JeremyD · Post by **JeremyD** » Aug 15th, '09, 14:21

Powerpole

Buju · Post by **Buju** » Aug 15th, '09, 14:24

specially designed motion picture camera mount, for a specific pan/angle/shot?

Modern art to symbolize industry harmonizing with society?

Door knocker?

4000psi articulated gutter cleaner?

Bottle opener?

Ed Curry · Post by **Ed Curry** » Aug 15th, '09, 19:10

I don't know what you would call it but I believe its used to sexually stimulate the woman you wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole.

randall · Post by **randall** » Aug 15th, '09, 19:22

ok...thats funny!!

Harv · Post by **Harv** » Aug 16th, '09, 18:35

Brewster Minton wrote:It throws pumpkins?

I agree.....it's a pumkin chunker.

neil · Post by **neil** » Aug 16th, '09, 18:49

brewster that thing casts sinkers off the beach while surffishing

scenarioL113 · Post by **scenarioL113** » Aug 16th, '09, 18:56

Finally!

Someone has really invented a "better mousetrap".

Hueso · Post by **Hueso** » Aug 17th, '09, 10:48

automatic outrigger?

stir straw to stir "brewster's rendezvous juice"?

Carl · Post by **Carl** » Aug 17th, '09, 11:49

I enjoyed those answers...for a women I wouldn't touch with a 10 foot pole...LOL, funny stuff.

Anyway this thing

is a Real Big Rendition of one of these.

Just a Big Pentograph.

So what was it used for...

A movie prop, the "Killer" used it to distort a regular size painting onto a large canvas. The setup was the "Killer" would dip the brush (attached to the end) into the victims body cavity using the blood for paint.

It took a month to design, build and debug the unit so it would work thru the entire range of motion and swing to and from the canvas under the control of one person. All that for a few second shot in a horrible movie. Still it was a very cool job.

DRIFTER31 · Post by **DRIFTER31** » Aug 17th, '09, 14:06

Absolutly a devise to propell things [pumpkins/x-wives/surf casting]
I would spell it but i dont know how.....Trapoche

MarkS · Post by **MarkS** » Aug 18th, '09, 09:46

This is the tool they used to determine where to put the kiddie pool!

http://www.acetj.com/videos/player.php?mediaID=3045

Stupid people shouldn't breed!

M

Rawleigh · Post by **Rawleigh** » Aug 18th, '09, 12:07

Just goes to show that it is better to be lucky than smart!!! Here is what happens when you get it wrong!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGn82lsvGec

And if you don't kill someone the first time, try again!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McI9LCSwXfI

chris pague · Post by **chris pague** » Aug 18th, '09, 12:36

Only thing bothers me is that a power line in the pic? What does the next series of pics show and are we sure that the white flyes is in fact the guys hair is on fire?
Chris

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Aug 18th, '09, 14:21

Curry gets my vote.
Prop for a few seconds in a flick I would believe as I have seen such tripe. Still like Ed's best.
O.K., let's move on!

Carl · Post by **Carl** » Aug 18th, '09, 15:01

Seriously...it's just a working prop.

Thats not a powerline in the pic, but a phone line and not half as close as it looks to that Pentograph.

Charlie J · Post by **Charlie J** » Aug 19th, '09, 04:33

the wire is tel, or cable

Carl · Post by **Carl** » Aug 19th, '09, 07:07

Telephone & 10' away

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