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nigelswift Aug 30, 2003 15:51:50
Replying to Steve Gray

"we design the tower to collapse or withdraw before the point of slip occurs so that the stone then rotates and drops in free fall. Wow!"

WOW indeed! A complete jumble of logs and stones... forward steps Gordon, dressed as Gandalf... waves his wand and Pow! When the dust clears there's just a heap of rubbish, with a 40 ton upright stone in the middle!

If you can design it, great. I'd certainly been thinking I wouldn't like the job of going underneath the stone to disassemble most of the tower.

S Steve Gray
Steve Gray Aug 30, 2003 16:05:33
Replying to nigelswift

ROTFLOL - I just loved your Gandalf imagery.

I think I'll see how the model behaves if we consider the tower to be free to move, i.e. it will not resist any side load. If it works, we just don't worry about bracing the tower, we let the logs slide over the ones below and the tower will end up looking something like Gordon's stack of pallets. Not quite the pile of rubbish you envisioned, I'm afraid.

For those unfamiliar with newsgroup/chat room shorthand ROTFLOL is "rolling on the floor laughing out loud".