And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
"I don't know WTF I'm doing with fencing or gate hardware, but I can camouflage it well with my woodworking skills."
Someone actually competent would have simply made a protruding hardwood stop (possible even full-length), eliminating that ghastly black iron piece, and made an all-wooden slide lock, requiring zero galvanized plumbing pieces.
This is horrible and ugly, but it works. For some value of that word, providing aesthetics is judged by Stevie Wonder. It should in the Dictionary Of Bad Home Improvement. It makes you look twice because your mind is gobsmacked that someone did that. But I'm sure the builder is proud of it.
Likely the wife is just happy it keeps the dogs in the yard.
Well except for the galvanized cap. I'm sure there's a way to make one out of wood, I guess, I don't work with wood.
ReplyDeleteyeh,,, i guess that's one way to do it?
ReplyDeletebeautiful, though poor functional design.
ReplyDeleteY’all missed it
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Clue: it’s black
The black horizontal coat hook acts as a stop and the iron cap should be painted dark brown. Still a good conversation piece.
ReplyDeleteThis BubbaTech, illustrated.
ReplyDelete"I don't know WTF I'm doing with fencing or gate hardware, but I can camouflage it well with my woodworking skills."
Someone actually competent would have simply made a protruding hardwood stop (possible even full-length), eliminating that ghastly black iron piece, and made an all-wooden slide lock, requiring zero galvanized plumbing pieces.
This is horrible and ugly, but it works. For some value of that word, providing aesthetics is judged by Stevie Wonder.
It should in the Dictionary Of Bad Home Improvement.
It makes you look twice because your mind is gobsmacked that someone did that.
But I'm sure the builder is proud of it.
Likely the wife is just happy it keeps the dogs in the yard.