My cheap and easy stand
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My cheap and easy stand
Following Robby's lead on a cheap and easy target stand, I gathered up some scrap material around the barn. Parts include 2 electric fence stakes, a few pieces of pvc, 3 strands of heavy duty weed eater string, electric tape, and zip ties. It's cheap, easy, portable, and only took 5 minutes to build.
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Wuhuu! Great job, Roy! That's really cool! And 5 minutes, you say? Even more great! It's never how sophisticated or expensive something is... The idea behind is what counts. And if it does the job - what it does! - even more a perfect tool for practicing.
You gave me an idea for a two pole stand. Usually I use the arms at the sides to practice wraps. But that marker in the middle of these two poles gave me an idea. I have to go down; take a look into the barn for more old stuff
Robert - please - what is a strimmer? I've been looking for a veeeery long time to replace the spaghetti, but I never found something that really does the job. Could you tell me, please?
Thanks Robert, and thanks Roy!
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You gave me an idea for a two pole stand. Usually I use the arms at the sides to practice wraps. But that marker in the middle of these two poles gave me an idea. I have to go down; take a look into the barn for more old stuff
Robert - please - what is a strimmer? I've been looking for a veeeery long time to replace the spaghetti, but I never found something that really does the job. Could you tell me, please?
Thanks Robert, and thanks Roy!
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I don't know what a strimmer is, but a weed eater is a tool we use to cut down the weeds and grass in areas a mower can't reach. It's got a round motorized section at the bottom that spins at seriously high levels of RPMs with a plastic 'string' that comes out. The plastic string cuts the weeds as it comes into contact. The round spinner part is attached to a long stick like device. I hope I explained that to some degree that makes...tell ya what!...Picture, 1000 words and all that...
THAT should explain it somewhat...
~T.
THAT should explain it somewhat...
~T.
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Terry's photo is the very thing! Bobbi, it's interesting to know that 'strimmer' is what you call it there. I have no idea what the string or cord is made of - some sort of plastic. Most models here are petrol-driven. They make a horrible noise! Robby, can you please tells us what it's called in German?
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Very nice Roy, I have to agree with Robby on the two post design, the center bar does look nice for practice wraps. So do you use the string just to confirm a hit?
Like so many things in the United States, we call it a weed eater after the original invention which was sold as such. In other words, a string trimmer it is.
Like so many things in the United States, we call it a weed eater after the original invention which was sold as such. In other words, a string trimmer it is.
Devin,
You are so correct! 'Weed Eater' was a brand name of a trimmer and it stuck. We do indeed tend to do that with many things. Facial tissues regardless of brand we tend to call 'Kleen-ex'. Plastic flying disc toys got the generic name of 'Frisbee' because the original tin pie pans that were used to toss back and forth were manufactured and stamped by the 'Frisbee' pie company. So many examples through history where we Americans at least are very lazy and just slap a generic brand name on an item and run with it.
~T.
You are so correct! 'Weed Eater' was a brand name of a trimmer and it stuck. We do indeed tend to do that with many things. Facial tissues regardless of brand we tend to call 'Kleen-ex'. Plastic flying disc toys got the generic name of 'Frisbee' because the original tin pie pans that were used to toss back and forth were manufactured and stamped by the 'Frisbee' pie company. So many examples through history where we Americans at least are very lazy and just slap a generic brand name on an item and run with it.
~T.
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The Germans are exactly the same, Terry. No difference at all. Okay... Here it's name is "Kleenex" in one word. But aside of that it's exactly the same situation. There's a brand, called "Tempo". These are blow rags . So everybody says "Tempo", no matter what brand it is. A glue called "Pattex", a skin cream called "Nivea" and so on. Every glue is Pattex, every skin cream is Nivea and - same here - those round plastic things to throw around are frisbees At least, people doesn't seem to be that different.
Robby
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