School ProjectsMostlySunny wibbles, "When I was 11 I got an A for my study of shark nets - mostly because I handed it in cut out in the shape of a shark."
Do people do projects that don't involve google-cut-paste any more? What fine tat have you glued together for teacher?
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chthonic, Thu 13 Aug 2009, 13:36)
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It would workif the load was placed over the wheel. Surely that would mean that effectively there wouldn't be any weight to lift, it would just need balancing. His principle, therefore, is clearly sound as a pound
(, Sat 15 Aug 2009, 0:32, 2 replies)
Surelyyou'd have problems with the center of gravity? You'd spend more time trying to balance it rather than getting it from A to B via a plank suspended between two blocks of flats.
I'd don't know why I'm calling you Surely.
(, Mon 17 Aug 2009, 11:55, closed)
Yes but......imagine you had your perfectly balanced load of, say, soil, and you had to wheel it down a slope, and the load shifted forwards...
Wheeeeeee! Wheelbarrow turns into seige-engine, flinging poor labourer head-over-heels down the slope.
(, Mon 17 Aug 2009, 13:50, closed)
Who would have thought?Building sites are just one step away from a chaotic mass of seige warfare?
Could be a scene from 'The Plank'.
(, Mon 17 Aug 2009, 16:02, closed)
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