I Love (Most) of My Neighbors

[roo_ster]

Especially the couple who bought the house across the street a couple years back.  They have gone gangbusters fixing it up.  Looks great and even better, it has been done right.

The husband is an electrician every bit the over-engineer I am.  (Because if you overbuild it, it just might last as long as you want it to.)

Right now (and for the evenings the last couple weeks) he has been installing gutters. 

But, "installing gutters" doesn't really capture the process.  He has some heavier-than usual 3-4" diam pipe with a corrosion-resistant finish.  And another kind just a little larger diameter.  The former he uses for the meat of the downspouts, the latter as the couplers.  He is cutting & bending and custom-fitting each piece.  He dry-fits the downspout assy to the larger-than usual gutters of similar material (heavier-guage metal with finish).  When he gets it right, he lights up his brazing torch and brazes the inside of the pipe joints.  Not sure if it is just spots, or the entire inside diameter.  I would bet the latter.

When finished, a 200' tall cow could let loose a stream of urine on the house and nary a drop would overflow those gutters and the downspouts would take it all safely away.

Very impressive.

[just Warren]

If there are 200' cows about I think you have bigger problems than roof drainage.

[never_retreat]

I worked for a brit after high school in a fabrication shop. In the shop there was a huge stack of copper sheet.
I asked him what it was for, his answer the rest of my roof. The man made his own standing seem copper roof out of 16ga sheet.
I did gt a chance to see the parts of the roof that were done, it was quite impressive.

[roo_ster]

If there are 200' cows about I think you have bigger problems than roof drainage.

I wonder what would be a good name for a 200' monster cow?  A buddy came up with the perfect name for a similarly-sized chicken monster: Poultros.

Bovinator?

Bovocalypse?

Ungulatilla?

Beefthulu?

[just Warren]

Bossy

[Tallpine]

I wonder what would be a good name for a 200' monster cow? 

"Dinner"   

[French G.]

"Dinner"   

I was thinking "I'm going to need a bigger grill."

[just Warren]

"You're gonna need a bigger boattail."

[Jamisjockey]

If there are 200' cows about I think you have bigger problems than roof drainage.

If an average cow is 5' at the shoulder and weighs 1500 pounds, then your 200' cow would weigh 60,000 pounds and produce 400 tons of manure a year.  Google isn't helping me figure the size of the average patty though.

[K Frame]

Proper name for a 200 foot cow?

Moozilla, of course.


Or maybe Apocalypse Cow.

[Jamisjockey]

Proper name for a 200 foot cow?

Moozilla, of course.


Or maybe Apocalypse Cow.

Moopocolypse. 

[Perd Hapley]

Holy Cow!

Cowabuncha

[just Warren]

UdderDestruction

[Perd Hapley]

Moopocolypse. 

The Four Stomachs of the Moopocalypse.

[lupinus]

Tiny

[TommyGunn]

If an average cow is 5' at the shoulder and weighs 1500 pounds, then your 200' cow would weigh 60,000 pounds and produce 400 tons of manure a year.  Google isn't helping me figure the size of the average patty though.

I question your math.

A 200' tall cow would be bigger than a 5' cow by a factor of 40.
Now, if you make a object larger you increase its mass by a cube of the difference factor, which would be:
40 x 40 x 40 = 64,000.
Now, assuming your 5' cow weighed 1500 pounds as you suggest.
64,000 x 1500 = 96,000,000 lbs.
Now that works out to 48,000 tons.

I ain't touchin' the part on manure!

TommyGunn.
Who learned all he needed to know about this from LAND OF THE GIANTS.

[Tallpine]

Proper name for a 200 foot cow?

"Babe"   

If an average cow is 5' at the shoulder and weighs 1500 pounds

Average cow ain't 1500 pounds.  A bull could weigh that, or even a lot more.

A cow, more like 4' at the shoulder and ~1000 pounds.

A feedlot steer might weigh more than that   

[just Warren]

From gutters to the proper size of a giant cow in 13 posts. Gotta love APS.

[230RN]

Thanks, TommyGunn.  I was about to remark on that cubic relationship.  You saved me the effort of calc'latin' it out.

Gigacow.

But would the gutters handle the resultant cowpies?  They'd be cubed, too.

And the methane.  Gawd, the methane!  Think of the children!

Terry, 230RN

[just Warren]

Maybe in Minecraft, but on Earth?

[AJ Dual]

Especially the couple who bought the house across the street a couple years back.  They have gone gangbusters fixing it up.  Looks great and even better, it has been done right.

The husband is an electrician every bit the over-engineer I am.  (Because if you overbuild it, it just might last as long as you want it to.)

Right now (and for the evenings the last couple weeks) he has been installing gutters. 

But, "installing gutters" doesn't really capture the process.  He has some heavier-than usual 3-4" diam pipe with a corrosion-resistant finish.  And another kind just a little larger diameter.  The former he uses for the meat of the downspouts, the latter as the couplers.  He is cutting & bending and custom-fitting each piece.  He dry-fits the downspout assy to the larger-than usual gutters of similar material (heavier-guage metal with finish).  When he gets it right, he lights up his brazing torch and brazes the inside of the pipe joints.  Not sure if it is just spots, or the entire inside diameter.  I would bet the latter.

When finished, a 200' tall cow could let loose a stream of urine on the house and nary a drop would overflow those gutters and the downspouts would take it all safely away.

Very impressive.

Kind of a fantasy of mine to build a home out of the most durable longest lasting low-maintenance materials possible. 

[just Warren]

Might I suggest Twinkies?

[Jamisjockey]

I question your math.

A 200' tall cow would be bigger than a 5' cow by a factor of 40.
Now, if you make a object larger you increase its mass by a cube of the difference factor, which would be:
40 x 40 x 40 = 64,000.
Now, assuming your 5' cow weighed 1500 pounds as you suggest.
64,000 x 1500 = 96,000,000 lbs.
Now that works out to 48,000 tons.

I ain't touchin' the part on manure!

TommyGunn.
Who learned all he needed to know about this from LAND OF THE GIANTS.

Math certainly isn't my strong suit.  I took the number and just multiplied it by the 40.

[Tallpine]

Kind of a fantasy of mine to build a home out of the most durable longest lasting low-maintenance materials possible. 

I'm wanting to start with those huge lego-like concrete blocks that they use to corral sand and gravel. 

[Doggy Daddy]

I Love (Most) of My Neighbors

This is no fun.  I want to hear more about the (mis)adventures of the neighbors you do NOT love.