Random Thought Thread

[Nathan the Machinist]

He's absolutely right.. I'll concede the people that do know could easily teach them the correct way to do things and avoid dumb mistakes, but I had houses to frame.. I didn't have time to be someone's teacher as well.

They let the last one to get fired before I moved do measurements one day and was off an 1/8th of an inch on every board holding a balcony him and another guy were building.

You can imagine the slant it caused.. iirc the balcony was 15' to 20'. You could see it from the street. I showed him his mess up by setting a baseball one of the kids of another guy working with us left in his trunk on the end and let him watch it roll off the other side

An 1/8 of an inch?!

... as a machinist. This offends me...

 

[Blues]

 

[beeinak]

If you have never seen a giant wood wasp (horntail), it will cause a pucker unless you know they are not harmful to us. Big enough to use a .410 on.

 

[SpyderPhreak]

Just don't let a Tarantula Hawk sting you! That one HURT!!! I picked up what I thought was a dead one. It was. Mostly. Still alive just enough to still sting. Felt like my hand and half my arm had been smashed by Thor's hammer! For HOURS!!!

 

[Hammer67]

Just don't let a Tarantula Hawk sting you! That one HURT!!! I picked up what I thought was a dead one. It was. Mostly. Still alive just enough to still sting. Felt like my hand and half my arm had been smashed by Thor's hammer! For HOURS!!!

I was literally searching for a good pic of a Tarantula Hawk while you posted this.

 

[AriesTheCam]

Dude was a monster.. I like to think of him as the Earnhardt of pitching. His fastball was nuts

I still remember all those baseball cards I had of him as a kid hyperextending his elbow throwing those heaters. I can never pick my favorite pitcher though between him, Clemens, Ryan, Martinez, or Maddux. Good times

 

[AriesTheCam]

An 1/8 of an inch?!

... as a machinist. This offends me...

This made me laugh.. you guys work on such a small scale. What are you even working in? I don't even know.. your work is so precise. My guess is something in the ten thousandths. I wish I knew more about machining.

 

[SpyderPhreak]

I was literally searching for a good pic of a Tarantula Hawk while you posted this.

The ones we had up in Prescott / Prescott Valley weren't quite that big, and looked like a blue oil slick with bright orange wings. Maybe ~2"? Stupid young kid, lmao! (I was ~23...)

 

[AriesTheCam]

The ones we had up in Prescott / Prescott Valley weren't quite that big, and looked like a blue oil slick with bright orange wings. Maybe ~2"? Stupid young kid, lmao! (I was ~23...)

2" Wtf!? Nahhh

 

[SpyderPhreak]

2" Wtf!? Nahhh

Yes. Plus or minus. They looked like this:

Cool coloring, actually. Wanted to see it up closer. MISTAKE!!!

 

[SwarthyGnome]

For AriesTheCam ...

European hornet (left) and common wasp (right). If you are allergic, don't need a lot of hornet stings to say good bye ...

Thank god, we have big knives !

Double it and give it to the next person.

 

[carnifex knifeworks]

Yes. Plus or minus. They looked like this:

Cool coloring, actually. Wanted to see it up closer. MISTAKE!!!

Those are the same ones we have in Utah.

 

[Hammer67]

2" Wtf!? Nahhh

Yeah. They're damn large.

Imagine a 2" wasp that stings a tarantula, permanently paralyzing but not killing it, and then deposits its eggs inside the tarantula, which hatch and eat it from the inside out, while it's still alive.

The insect world is effing brutal.

 

[AriesTheCam]

We have normal wasps in AR

 

[AriesTheCam]

Yeah. They're damn large.

Imagine a 2" wasp that stings a tarantula, permanently paralyzing but not killing it, and then deposits its eggs inside the tarantula, which hatch and eat it from the inside out, while it's still alive.

The insect world is effing brutal.

 

[SpyderPhreak]

Oh sheet! Just looked up the most painful stings in the world, and the Tarantula Hawk is second to only the Bullet Ant!!!

 

[AriesTheCam]

Oh sheet! Just looked up the most painful stings in the world, and the Tarantula Hawk is second to only the Bullet Ant!!!

I watched some idiot on cable let one sting him.. he makes a living letting gnarly stuff bite him though I think.

 

[SpyderPhreak]

I watched some idiot on cable let one stung him.. he makes a living letting gnarly stuff bite him though I think.

That's one I would definitely go out of my way to not let sting me ever again! My buddies were giving me shit about it back then. Nope, not a wuss...

 

[carnifex knifeworks]

Oh sheet! Just looked up the most painful stings in the world, and the Tarantula Hawk is second to only the Bullet Ant!!!

Watch coyote peterson on youtube. He let's all kinds of stuff sting him. Bullet ant, velvet ant, tarantula hawk, executioner wasp. The only thing I've ever seen make him try to have the venom extracted was the giant desert centipede. He said it beats the bullet ant and tarantula hawk by a lot.
Freaking walking nightmares. Bleh

To clarify, a centipede bites to envenomate prey, it doesn't sting.

 

[JJ_Colt45]

Kings of Pain on the History Channel ... the two idiots get stung and bit by some crazy stuff then rate it including the tarantula hawk and bullet ant. They've been bit by anacondas and tarantulas ... stung by lion fish and scorpians. Think there's been a couple seasons of the show.