Damn... anyone got an extra 50k laying around?

CapSmashy · Post by **CapSmashy** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 9:28 am

I got a line on a big ass forklift for $20k (Hyster H210XL). I'd need another 25k for the truck to haul it.

I saw the pictures of it and this is what sprang to mind:

Build an elevator box coming off the forks and modify the hydraulics so you dump the load and have it fall fast. Build a shell around the cab and body part to resemble a carnie sideshow booth with a barker box/platform up top to have someone dressed like a ring master up there to lure people into the elevator for a ride.

Call it the thrill box or something similar.

Lots of elwire, 500 watts grinding out tinny sounding sideshow music, pyro effects off the top of the elevator box complete with a warning siren and some spinner lights. Hell, with that type of vehicle as a base, weld up a platform off the back with a stripper pole in a cage and have lots of fun.

Add in some fire performers, jugglers and such to entertain the people waiting in line. Maybe even a cotton candy cart.

Sigh....

pinemom · Post by **pinemom** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 9:30 am

Ah Smashy, I love ya!

Fire_Moose · Post by **Fire_Moose** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 9:33 am

I'm down, ill bring a keg to add to it.

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 9:39 am

I put a 40' crane on one of my deuce-n-a-halfs..........
maybe they could play together?

CapSmashy · Post by **CapSmashy** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 9:44 am

There would have to be way to integrate these.

A random chance that instead of a just a 15 foot up and down ride, the crane slings them up around for a 360 loop for a truly thrilling ride.

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 9:51 am

two cages and it could be like "clackers"........

goathead · Post by **goathead** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 9:53 am

use to use a big hay derrick as a giant swing between hay stacks.
god that was fun.

Sail Man · Post by **Sail Man** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 2:11 pm

ygmir wrote:two cages and it could be like "clackers"........

OMG!!

So the giant slide of abrasive death wasnt enough for y'all this year.

Now ya wanna start mushin the Burners from the inside out, much like Ygmir's deer he whacked

I'm in

CapSmashy · Post by **CapSmashy** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 2:24 pm

All we need are big signs saying:

"This is a back of the ticket experience. You will die if you get in the cage."

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 2:26 pm

ahahah,
perfect slogan, Cap!!!!

"this is a back of the ticket experience"............

precious, really...........

CapSmashy · Post by **CapSmashy** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 2:44 pm

Best part is, they'll be lined up for hours just to find out.

CapSmashy · Post by **CapSmashy** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 2:45 pm

Guess I'll have to register Mystery Meat Camp, a full service, all you can eat meat buffet and have it placed next door to the "device"

Elorrum · Post by **Elorrum** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 4:24 pm

deet deet deetle deetle deet deet deetle I love creepy dangerous carnival stuff.

clack on, clack off, the clacker

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 4:27 pm

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Captain Goddammit · Post by **Captain Goddammit** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 5:44 pm

You wouldn't really need a forklift that big, a standard warehouse-size 5 or 6k Lb. capacity lift truck will hoist a lot of people like it was nothing, and only weighs about 9000 - 10,000 pounds - can be hauled on a stout trailer behind a 3/4 or 1-ton pickup.
Modifying the hydraulics to drop the mast really fast would mean completely replacing and redesigning everything, lines, controls, etc. and would be a really bad idea anyway.
I know we're just "bench racing" but this could actually be done for a lot cheaper than that Hyster and the BIG truck it would take to carry it.

CapSmashy · Post by **CapSmashy** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 8:15 pm

Yeah, but a warehouse forklift is so small. How ya gonna put the stripper platform on it?

penguin · Post by **penguin** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 8:31 pm

Too lazy to draw a shirt...

I Went To
Burning Man
and all I got
was the
CLACK!

Mister Jellyfish Mister · Post by **Mister Jellyfish Mister** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 8:39 pm

Good ideas all! Makes my little Ein Hammer accessory pale by comparison, but I'd be honored to be considered a derivative work:

Post by **Sham** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 7:07 am

Great news Cap. I was just notified in an email from Nigeria that they are transfering $250,000,000 into my checking account today. I gave them all the account, routing and pin numbers they needed, so that should be all it takes. Once the money is transfered, I will give you $50,000. After all, with $250 million, $50K is just pocket change!

littleflower · Post by **littleflower** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 7:43 am

that's so sweet of you, shambala!

you couldn't send a little to me, could you?

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 10:11 am

Just to make you cringe...The cupcakes were mentioned twice in Sally Forth (comic strip) twice last week.

Fire_Moose · Post by **Fire_Moose** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 11:42 am

AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHA

Fishy reads sally forth

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 11:55 am

I do manage to skip over "Classic Peanuts," Tundra and that one on the top left side of the comics spread in the SF Chronicle. It was pretty difficult to learn to not read Tundra. I read so fast, that I"m often to the punch line before I go "wait, I donwanna read this crap."