![]() ![]() Overweight cats, spooky kid superimposed over blazing fire or celebrity heads on the bodies of dead gorillas. Finally, here is a short YouTube clip of the Whirling Hose Pump.If you and your friends have two hosepipes and buckets, you can have a Whirling Dervish Hosepipe Race: who can drain their bucket first?.Can you pass the hose to a friend while still whirling and jetting water out?.How long can you keep that hosepipe whirling? Can your friends get a ‘bucket relay’ going, continuously refilling the bucket as you whirl?.What about using a rigid tube going up from the bucket, with hosepipe at the top? That way you can stand up and get a good whirling action going without an assistant.What about trying with a rotating joint on the hose? Some hose reels have them.Put a nozzle on the whirling end and then try different settings on the nozzle: can you get a spray or jet?.Image credit: Neil Downie Some Lockdown Challenges A hundred kiloPascals, 15psi in old money, is possible in theory. The water pressure you get goes up as the square of the speed of the end of the hose, so using a longer hose and whirling faster should get a good pressure going. With a longer hose - standing up to get a good whirling action - and no valve, the water will go slooshing out! Your friend keeps their end of the hose in the bucket and then takes their thumb off underwater once you have got going. Your friend must hold their thumb over the end in the bucket to keep the water in once you have filled the hose. What about a human thumb valve? Persuade one of your compadrés to join you. Can you do it without the valve? The valve is helpful, because it keeps the hose full while you get going, stopping the water going back into the bucket, but it does slow the flow. Once you have mastered getting the Whirling Dervish flowing, try out other things with it. You’ll be surprised how quickly the water gurgles out of the bucket. With a bit of luck, your audience will get a nice cooling spray as the whirling hosepipe end passes them. Maybe a little Vaseline or hand-cream will help the hose squirm around in your hands nicely. Let the hose rotate in your hands so that it doesn’t end up twisted. Now let your thumb off and swing the hose around, keeping the valve end in the bucket and swinging the hose as fast as you can. Put your thumb over the end to keep the water in. Or if the hose and water are clean, suck on the end and then hold it low to siphon water in, trying not to swallow any spiders than come out with the water. You can hold up the end of the hose and use a funnel and jug to fill it. Now put a large bucket of water in the middle of the garden, put the valve end in the water and get that hose filled up. These usually go on the tap, to stop water from the hose going back up into the house water. Put a one-way ‘check valve’ on one end – not essential, but it does help quite a bit. Take a piece of garden hose - a heavy grade is best - 2.5m to 4m long. ![]() ![]() Can you make it to the island before the boat fills up and you sink beneath the waves? Or is it a one-way ticket to Davy Jones’ Locker for you and Robbie? Nil desperandum, as Boris might say, do not despair: the Whirling Dervish Hosepipe Pump can ride to the rescue and pump out your boat. That's pretty freakin' cool, if you ask me.You’ve just spotted an island on the horizon, but you and your friend Robinson Crusoe’s boat has pranged a rock and water is gushing up through a crack. ![]() (A sacred space for tributes and memorials.) This was my offering of Gord there of a picture I took at the first Edmonton show on the final tour." "Hey everyone," wrote Derring, "the Man burns on Saturday night of Burning Man, and tonight the Temple will burn. The freaky thing is, as Derring points out in a comment on the post, before the burn she stapled a photo of Downie to the temple. Indeed, when you do look at Derring's photo, it isn't hard to spot a ghostly image of Gord Downie, in full final-tour regalia, cruising across the centre of the "stage" amid the smoke and flames. she posted this today.I can’t even believe this image from the man burn last night, just look at all the spirits in the flames! Do you see him? Clear as day? I zoomed in on the picture and instant goosebumps.and as someone just pointed out it's reminiscent of WATS cover. "So a friend of mine is at Burning Man," wrote Lutes, ". It was a posting by group member Jill Lutes that included a photo taken at Burning Man the night before by her friend Paula Kim Derring. Yesterday I was checking out the posts on the Facebook group, The Tragically Hip Fan Forum, and I came across something that really blew me away. ![]()
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