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Thread: Please take care when planking
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24th May 2011, 09:00 AM #1
Please take care when planking
Just urging fellow wooden boat builders to take extra care in the workshop.
I've heard that there's been some people tragically killed recently while planking. Bill P
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24th May 2011, 10:41 AM #2
Only by their "other half" for the time neglect they've forced them to endure . . .
Most folks are killed by mistakes, not a building process, though once, I was launched from a floating wharf, about 30' out, into the water, while bending a plank repair into place on a 65' ketch. It was 2" thick planking and I was using a winch to "suck it in" when the line parted. The plank, which was nearly in position, smacked me in the ribs and tossed me like a rag doll, into the air. I still have the displaced fly rib, which is visible when I take off my shirt. I never did have it set properly and only discovered it had been broken when I got an ex-ray for something else. Yes, it hurt like hell, but it wasn't the planking's fault, it was mine.
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24th May 2011, 11:18 AM #3
Hi Paul,
You will be forgiven for being mislead by this thread. I think Bill is referring to a recent craze here called planking which involves an individual seeking entry in the Darwin awards by making like a plank that is lying face down in a dangerous situation while being photographed by a mate.
Sadly we have had a couple of deaths as a result and authorities are trying to stamp the practice out. Search planking in Youtube.
BTW I have wondered how often a plank does spring on boat builders, thanks.
MikeMike
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24th May 2011, 07:25 PM #4Member
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A fine example of strip planking
Sorry to stick my oar in the water on this one, but wooden boat builders are probably the only group that would appreciate this...
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24th May 2011, 07:45 PM #5Senior Member
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25th May 2011, 03:13 PM #6
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25th May 2011, 06:26 PM #7
It was more like flop shot Darce . . .
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27th May 2011, 08:15 PM #8Senior Member
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more like a faux- PAR
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28th May 2011, 02:35 AM #9
Your parents spared the rod with you two, didn't they . . .
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6th June 2011, 09:43 PM #10Intermediate Member
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Try plonking: glass of wine, jason recliner, telly for the night.
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7th June 2011, 09:35 PM #11
Had a similar experience with a keel that was steamed and being hauled down onto the molds at the transom end. I also used rope to pull it down - the rope snapped, the keel timber snapped up catching my thumb and breaking it then followed through and whacked me under the chin.....
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14th June 2011, 12:42 AM #12
The whole planking thing is quite funny......I doubt that half the partisipants would appreciate the sofisticated humour and irony involved in the whole phenomina.
The fact that it has taken off as a craze is an enoumous joke in its self.
That said......those of is with some woodworking knoweledge could bring a a whole new level of sofistication to the craze.
Consider a bunch of shiprights, replicating various joinery in human planking forms.
awaits smart @&$e comments
cheersAny thing with sharp teeth eats meat.
Most powertools have sharp teeth.
People are made of meat.
Abrasives can be just as dangerous as a blade.....and 10 times more painfull.
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14th June 2011, 03:49 AM #13
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14th June 2011, 06:17 AM #14carmen
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new craze "plonking"
A friend has invented a new craze – it’s called “plonking”. You plonk yourself down in a chair with
a glass of plonk and get someone to take your photograph.
Apparently it’s a real hit with the over 60’s. (I’m very advanced, I’ve been practicing for years!)
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14th June 2011, 02:37 PM #15
The addition to the tag line follows a protracted discussion or two on the safety section of the forum concerning grinders.
Lots of people think because they don't have teeth, grinders don't eat meat.
Telll that to a bloke I know who cut his foot nearly off with a 9 inch grinder.
( not nearly cut his foot off....cut his foot nearly off).
With the over reaction to planking from the government.... people partisipating in multiple planking could be considered conspiritors.
I wonder how planking conspiritors would show the difference between shiplap and lapstrake
cheersAny thing with sharp teeth eats meat.
Most powertools have sharp teeth.
People are made of meat.
Abrasives can be just as dangerous as a blade.....and 10 times more painfull.
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