The UFO crash site has been cleaned up; with the exception of a few divots in the lawn it is as if the thing never existed at all. No, I’m not talking about a military cover up. I am referring to Morgan's once and former trampoline.
I mentioned in a previous blog that it looked like a UFO crash site, which I'm
still convinced of. Here’s a picture of it, judge for yourself. This was taken after the mess had been moved back to our yard and piled up. It had actually landed across the alley and almost against the neighbor’s house you see in the background, with a 30-40 foot long debris field.
Before our bike ride last night I started pulling apart all of the pieces and getting the area cleaned up. I finished after we got back home. I had totally forgotten how many springs there were to this thing.
I’ve been told that steel is running around 25 bucks a ton, so I ought to get a solid buck-fifty, maybe even two whole dollars out of this crap, I mean scrap. Yippee skippy.
I mentioned in that same blog from yesterday that one of the steel tubes had been ripped in two. I was wrong about that; there were more than one of these that got abused that way. Here is a close up of how the tube should have looked. This is one of the pieces from the circular part; note the slight curvature of the horizontally oriented part. The little notch is where the spring attached; the vertically oriented part is where one of the leg pieces attached.
Real nice. Now this is what that same type of piece looks like after being ripped apart. This particular on was still attached to itself, barely, but some of the others were not so fortunate. I tried to orient the damaged piece the same as the other for the sake of comparison.
This poor thing took a horrible beating!
Here’s a detailed shot of the damaged area. You can see how uneven the edges are from the violent tearing apart the steel received. I’m frankly very glad that my family and I were inside the house when this was going on. I think that a person standing out there would probably have gotten a flying lesson that day as well.
I mentioned in a previous blog that it looked like a UFO crash site, which I'm
still convinced of. Here’s a picture of it, judge for yourself. This was taken after the mess had been moved back to our yard and piled up. It had actually landed across the alley and almost against the neighbor’s house you see in the background, with a 30-40 foot long debris field.Before our bike ride last night I started pulling apart all of the pieces and getting the area cleaned up. I finished after we got back home. I had totally forgotten how many springs there were to this thing.
I’ve been told that steel is running around 25 bucks a ton, so I ought to get a solid buck-fifty, maybe even two whole dollars out of this crap, I mean scrap. Yippee skippy.
I mentioned in that same blog from yesterday that one of the steel tubes had been ripped in two. I was wrong about that; there were more than one of these that got abused that way. Here is a close up of how the tube should have looked. This is one of the pieces from the circular part; note the slight curvature of the horizontally oriented part. The little notch is where the spring attached; the vertically oriented part is where one of the leg pieces attached.
Real nice. Now this is what that same type of piece looks like after being ripped apart. This particular on was still attached to itself, barely, but some of the others were not so fortunate. I tried to orient the damaged piece the same as the other for the sake of comparison.
This poor thing took a horrible beating!
Here’s a detailed shot of the damaged area. You can see how uneven the edges are from the violent tearing apart the steel received. I’m frankly very glad that my family and I were inside the house when this was going on. I think that a person standing out there would probably have gotten a flying lesson that day as well.
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