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I've been meaning to post a few more normal perspective shots of the the mystery table and while tending to that effort, I decided to flip the table up on its head and take a closer look at that all wood table extension rail a bit closer and also tighten up all the original slotted higher grade steel screws that I figured a good number of them could stand a tightening up and I was hopeful that in doing so, I could reduce some of that shaky, creaky behavior and I was very relieved to find that not a single screw had been stripped, and not any of the wood cavities that the screws went into showed any sign of damage. So I was able to very carefully and slowly get all of them to tighten with a most secure seating, So the good news is that the table now sits very solidly and soundly on the floor and feels strong enough to now employ it as the new home base of my giant sized mitre box that I started working on back when there was still snow on the ground here. I never got around to completely finishing it off by adding a bit more trim, but that was just to make it a bit more pretty. But I'll have some pics up of that as well when I can squeeze that task in here.
So back to the table and the title of the picture above. I did find an extremely faded inked stamp on the side of one of the rail sections. It was difficult to capture because of the ink's fading and in a tight spot to fit my camera into to take the pic. So the cruddy looking text in the middle of the tables legs, represents my best effort at the moment to try to boost the readability of it but its still pretty difficult.
So the company is out of Wisconsin in the town of...Watertown. They invented and smartly patented the mechanism back in the 1880s and it turned into a roaring business success and ended up being one of the top two table slides in sales volume and it was apparently the local and regional furniture makers from all over the States and Canada who all fell in love with the product's beauty and durability and purchased them to be used on their own expanding table designs. Almost unbelievably, they've managed to keep their business doors open to this day and only stopped making their all wood product line in the mid 1980s and now they feature exclusively, aluminum table rail systems.
So now we know who made the rails.
But who made the rest of it???
The best visual clues I can muster of the table's maker is some recurring numbers that were written with a grease pencil. The predominant number being 78/12. So that is likely their catalog number on the design. And that design seems to have some elements of the world famous British furniture designer and builder from the 1700s, Mr. Chippendale. He published a catalog of his designs and left open a business license to copy his designs so long as you've paid him his fee for the printed catalog. And there-after, you too could become the next Chippendale local craftsmen...or crafts-women. But I don't own the catalogs currently beyond the one or two that have been digitized and made available for free download. But I haven't found this table's design in any of those page scans so far. Maybe that number I mentioned is a Chippendale model number? The world may never know! :)
Cheers!
My favorite normal human beings and me will be showing at FutureShock on Jan 3rd. Though its not listed on the flyer, we're absolutely delighted that Skinny Miracles will be playin a vinyl set this night!
Come, Join, Enjoy
The normal form of Ventum (Mittens) self moc before he was cursed.
Note: I do not own this idea. I simply asked if I could build it for him.
Any ideas on how to improve him are welcome.
I spent the winter months in a deep creative funk. It was time to bust out the 5D and enjoy a beautiful spring day in the place where Donna and I first met.
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Normal for me that is.
Being back from vacation I can really feel all those creative urges again.
Today I cleaned up my apartment - got a phonecall, and had to go to work.
But hey, I'm loving it again. Just look at me go.
Illustration of normal joint cartilage and osteoarthritis with bone spurs and erosions.
New study finds link between metabolic syndrome & arthritis .
Carcasses (most of them are elands). Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park/ Kalahari Desert. South Africa. Nov/2019
Apparently Elands migrate from Botswana to South Africa side every 4 - 5 years and depending the number, it could damage the waterholes from the SA side. Under normal circumstances, when there are only a small number of Eland on the South African side of the KTP, the solar pumps in the Park are capable of supplying in the demand of the game by filling the reservoirs, tanks and water troughs. The only need for a solar pump to deliver water is sunlight. Since the arrival of the Eland the solar pumps and more specifically the Watermax pumps (which are in the majority) in the Park, could simply not stay ahead. Waterholes equipped with Grundfos pumps and windmills seem to be the only ones capable to cope with the large demand from the animals. Over time many windmills in the Park have been replaced with solar pumps.
Eland behave like cattle in many ways. New problems arose due to the Eland Herds moving into the South African side, which were unexpected. All of a sudden some of the water troughs were found trampled to dust (Eland bulls are much heavier than the normal Gemsbuck and Blue Wildebeest that visit water troughs). Broken troughs caused water to overflow into the sand and reservoirs and tanks ran dry.
These animals come from a dry environment and their bodies are adapted to deal with small amounts of water, when they come across the "plentiful" water at the man made waterholes they behave like pigs and drink like fish. The water makes the food in their stomachs ferment and this causes their demise. All the carcass were at the vicinity of waterholes with almost none in between. Of course, a few of them could have been killed by lions. The same happens to gemsbok after the first rains when large amounts are found dead next to the water without any physical cause or disease.
Source: 4x4 Community forum and SanParks websites
Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park is a large wildlife preserve and conservation area in southern Africa. The park straddles the border between South Africa and Botswana and comprises two adjoining national parks:
•Kalahari Gemsbok National Park in South Africa
•Gemsbok National Park in Botswana
The total area of the park is 38,000 square kilometres (15,000 sq mi). Approximately three-quarters of the park lies in Botswana and one-quarter in South Africa. Kgalagadi means "place of thirst." [1] In September 2014, more than half of the Botswana portion of the park was sold for gas-fracking
The park is located largely within the southern Kalahari Desert. The terrain consists of red sand dunes, sparse vegetation, occasional trees, and the dry riverbeds of the Nossob and Auob Rivers. The rivers are said to flow only about once per century. However, water flows underground and provides life for grass and camelthorn trees growing in the river beds. The rivers may flow briefly after large thunderstorms
Source: Wikpedia
Kalahari Desert
The Kalahari Desert is a large semi-arid sandy savanna in Southern Africa extending for 900,000 square kilometres (350,000 sq mi), covering much of Botswana, parts of Namibia and regions of South Africa.
It is not to be confused with the Angolan, Namibian and South African Namib coastal desert, whose name is of Khoekhoegowab origin and means "vast place"
Kalahari is derived from the Tswana word Kgala, meaning "the great thirst", or Kgalagadi, meaning "a waterless place"; the Kalahari has vast areas covered by red sand without any permanent surface water
Source: Wikpedia
Carcaças (maioria de elandes)
Aparentemente, os Elandes migram do Botsuana para o lado da África do Sul a cada 4 a 5 anos e, dependendo do número, pode danificar os poços de água do lado da África do Sul. Em circunstâncias normais, quando há apenas um pequeno número de Elandes no lado sul-africano do KTP, as bombas solares no parque são capazes de suprir a demanda, enchendo os reservatórios, tanques e valas de água. A única necessidade de uma bomba solar para fornecer água é a luz solar. Desde a chegada do Elandes, as bombas solares e, mais especificamente, as bombas Watermax (que são a maioria) no Parque, simplesmente não conseguem atender a demanda. Os poços de água equipados com bombas e moinhos de vento Grundfos parecem ser os únicos capazes de lidar com a grande demanda dos animais. Com o tempo, muitos moinhos de vento no parque foram substituídos por bombas solares. Elandes se comportam como gado de várias maneiras. Novos problemas surgiram devido à mudança dos rebanhos Elandes para o lado sul-africano, que foram inesperados. De repente, algumas das calhas da água foram encontradas pisoteadas (os touros Elandes são muito mais pesados que o Gemsbuck normal e o gnu azul que visitam as calhas da água). As calhas quebradas fizeram com que a água transbordasse para a areia e os reservatórios e tanques secaram. Esses animais vêm de um ambiente seco e seus corpos são adaptados para lidar com pequenas quantidades de água, quando se deparam com a água "abundante" do poços de água feitos pelo homen, eles se comportam como porcos e bebem água como peixes. A água faz com que os alimentos em seus estômagos fermentem e isso causa sua morte. Geralmente as carcaças estão nas proximidades de poços de água, com quase nenhuma no meio do caminho. Evidentemente, que alguns poucos elandes foram possivelmente mortos por leões. O mesmo acontece com o gemsbok após as primeiras chuvas, quando grandes quantidades destes animais são encontradas mortos perto da água, sem qualquer causa ou doença física.
Fonte: 4x4 Community forum and SanParks websites (tradução livre)
Parque Transfronteiriço do Kgalagadi
O Parque Transfronteiriço de Kgalagadi é uma grande área de preservação e conservação da vida selvagem no sul da África. O parque fica na fronteira entre a África do Sul e o Botsuana e compreende dois parques nacionais adjacentes:
• Parque Nacional Kalahari Gemsbok na África do Sul
• Parque Nacional Gemsbok no Botsuana
A área total do parque é de 38.000 quilômetros quadrados (15.000 milhas quadradas). Aproximadamente três quartos do parque ficam no Botsuana e um quarto na África do Sul. Kgalagadi significa "lugar de sede". Em setembro de 2014, mais da metade da parte do parque em Botsuana foi vendida por fracking a gás
O parque está localizado em grande parte no sul do deserto de Kalahari. O terreno consiste em dunas de areia vermelha, vegetação escassa, árvores ocasionais e leitos secos dos rios Nossob e Auob. Diz-se que os rios fluem apenas uma vez por século. No entanto, a água flui no subsolo e fornece vida para as árvores que crescem nos leitos dos rios. Os rios podem fluir brevemente após grandes tempestades
Fonte: Wikipedia (tradução livre)
Deserto do Kalahari
O Kalahari, Calaari ou Calaári é um deserto localizado na África Austral, com cerca de 900.000 km² abrangendo partes de Angola, do Botswana, Namíbia e África do Sul.
O nome é derivado de uma palavra em tsuana[2] e significa "a grande sede"
Derivada da palavra Kgalagadi, significa o lugar da a grande sede (kgala - sede; gadi - lugar). A formação do deserto é devida, principalmente, a corrente marítima fria de Benguela, que atua na costa sudoeste da África, condensando o vapor de água que vai em direção ao continente, fazendo com que as massas de ar cheguem mais secas ao mesmo. O Kalahari possui vasta área coberta por areia avermelhada sem afloramento de água em caráter permanente. Porém Kalahari não é um deserto verdadeiro. Partes dele recebem mais de 250 mm de chuva mal distribuída anualmente e possuem bastante vegetação. É realmente árido somente no sudoeste (menos de 175 mm de chuva ao ano), fazendo do Kalahari um deserto de fósseis. As temperaturas no verão do Kalahari vão de 20 a 40°C. No inverno, o Kalahari tem um clima seco e frio com geada à noite. As baixas temperaturas do inverno podem ficar abaixo de 0°C. O clima no verão em algumas regiões do Kalahari pode alcançar 50°C (por isso algumas tribos bosquimanas se recolhem nos momentos mais quentes do dia).
Fonte: Wikipedia