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[–] TheBuddha 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

The person in the cab should be pretty safe. Even if the chain breaks, it's not going to be long enough to come back as far as the cab. Other than that, all the force is directed away from the central axis point. So, a few cameras on tripods and something should get good footage. I'll probably stack hay bales and try to hit them.

I have been dreaming about this day for a long, long time! Once I saw how fast it can rotate, I started thinking about things I can throw with it. I don't have an Omni, but I can find something like that for a couple hundred bucks. I'm pretty sure this is the best idea in the entire history of best ideas.

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[–] totes_magotes [S] 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

It IS!

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[–] TheBuddha 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I was able to confirm the money has been transferred to the account as of this morning.

Papers get signed on Monday!

The short version is I'm pretty remote - but I have a neighboring farm that's about 1/2 mile away. I've been here for a decade. I've grown pretty close to them.

They wanted to hand the farm down to their kids. Their kids don't want it. So, they'd like to hand money down to their kids. The kids want that.

They were going to put the farm on the market. Anyone could buy it. I could have ended up with shitty neighbors - and I get a goodly amount of my food from that farm and they hay my fields. (In theory, we barter but we haven't actually ever written anything down.) I also get to use any of their equipment.

I can go over there and slaughter a chicken and the only thing they'd ask is if I need help.

I can go hop on a horse and they won't even care. I could probably slaughter a cow, without even asking, but it's a bit big for one person and I'm not sure which ones they'd prefer I processed. They might ask questions with that one - but they wouldn't be mad, I don't think?

So, seeing as this is the short version, I told them that if they sold I'd give them fair market value and we'd make plans to let them remain right there until they passed away. This would save them the time and effort of putting it on the market.

(It turns out, farms are really difficult to inventory. But that's a long story.)

Well, they finally said they wanted to sell and I went through getting the complete inventory, the land surveyed, and the books cleared as accurate representations. (Farm accounting is also difficult, but that too is a long story.)

And now I'm buying the farm. It's huge and awesome. They even have baby bacons already! I might go poke the bacons later. They're kinda cute. I also need to tell them that everything is good for Monday.