Spotted a video title:
How Not to do Spins Joseph Johnson
I somehow read that as Josephson Junction, and was trying to remember whether spin was somehow involved in how those work (not something I ever grokked to begin with).
Then I thought it must be something to do with ice skating.
Then... oh. Looking at the name of the channel, and the thumbnail image, it's gotta be related to airplanes. Which, yeah, can be spun in various ways, some more recoverable than others.
Maybe I should try to wake up properly before making any important decisions or operating power tools.
... Speaking of operating power tools, Joy has come to the conclusion that the supply of actual skilled tradesmen has evaporated almost entirely the past few years; hire a general contractor, landscaper, or whatnot, and he'll try to round up a team of minimally-trained (and minimally-supervised) Spanish-speaking workers to labor in the hot sun for low pay, because that's how it's done. The guys who had actual skills have mostly retired, died, and/or moved to Fiji or someplace. So, looks like we gotta build the dock / fishing pier ourselves, probably in a rather minimalist sort of way (and without such niceties as the concrete pilings that were part of the original plan; it'll be pressure-treated 4x4s, and they won't last anything like forever).
Tool shopping list expands: gas-powered fencepost auger, M18 circular saw and maybe a couple of other things along that line, and likely some other stuff. With the miraculous new instant fencepost concrete, I don't actually need a baby cement mixer - the stuff just gets dumped in dry, and water added.
Update: Looks like the dock / pier thing should be somewhere between 30 and 40 feet long. Might make it 36 feet. We want to get pretty well out from shore, into water deep enough to launch anything it's reasonable to operate on a ¾-acre pond and tolerably close for dropping a fishing line into the deep end. Gotta work up a materials list, and of course some approximation of a design.
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