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I’m not sure why violence on Wild Discovery type programs is so much more acceptable than what you find in slash-and-kill movies. I guess because it’s natural. I watch these nature programs all the time but I can’t stand to see the hyena killing the little warthog piglets (I change the channel for a few minutes; better to learn how to burn fat while I sleep).
I saw some footage once of a snake sneaking up on a bird nest and eating the eggs (didn’t bother me) and that’s when I got the design for a piece of armored cable I’d been saving, but cheeping, pitiful baby birds offer a lot more drama than a bunch of eggs.
The tree is just a great big length of steel pipe mounted on a pressure plate housing from the steering clutch of a small bulldozer. The tree needed bark and I thought it would be a simple matter to run a few lengths of interconnected beads of weld up and down the pipe. It was simple alright, but it turned out to be about 120 linear feet of weld. I was getting wheezy by the time that was finished. The nest was a little delicate to make with a stick welder (instead of a stitcher). I made a frame/basket of loose light wire and stuck a few nails into and through the bottom. Then I used the lowest amperage that would maintain an arc and lifted and dipped the electrode in a random circular motion inside the basket. I wasn’t really welding things together as much as dribbling melted electrode onto the wire and nails, to avoid cutting everything to pieces. Then I shoved in more nails, struck the arc and dribbled, and pretty soon started to develop the form and body of a nest. Some of the nails were cut and fell away but eventually I had a decent looking nest with most of the wire frame burned away.
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