u will not believe this is true. . . .

[edmoorester at gmail.com]

i am researching problems with gate openers (cuz having one at home) and  
this was a first hit. . .

rucksichstlos (tolietship). . .comes to mind. . ..

an interesting hydrodymanics problem but he wasted his time except for a  
jeff foxworthy story. .




> dear god this is like pynchonian jeff foxworthy. . .



http://weldingweb.com/showthread.php?p=411141




Reading this thread reminded me of my first gate opener.

I wanted to put a automatic gate opener on our front gate. Wife thought I  
was lazy and they were too expensive.

So I did what any self-respecting Redneck would do, I built one.

I had a swinging metal gate. I mounted a whole toilet with a bucket under  
the toilet connected via a cable over a pulley to the gate. I had water at  
the gate for the flower beds.

So all I had to do was flush the toilet and the weight of the water would  
cause the bucket to drop and therefor swing the gate open. I put a small  
hole in the bucket to allow the water to drain out and then a spring would  
pull the gate shut. This only worked from the one side. I still had to get  
out to open the gate from inside the property. But it was a work in  
progress.

> All you had to do was drive up to the gate, roll your window down, reach  
> out and flush the toilet and presto, gate would open! I did all this  
> while the wife was away for two days. When she came home and drove up to  
> the gate and read my little sign that instructed you to flush the toilet  
> to open the gate she was not happy. She thought a commercial gate opener  
> was not so expensive after all. But in the time it took me to get my  
> store bought gate opener and take down my Redneck gate opener the local  
> newspaper got wind of my gate opener and came out and took pictures and  
> put it in the paper. Needless to say my wife was not happy! She wanted me  
> to put the toilet in a box or something so people driving by wouldn't see  
> the toilet mounted at the gate. Her biggest concern was what if someone  
> actually would use the toilet! We did live in a Redneck area so it would  
> not be out of the question.


> ed
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