Sunday, 11.06.05, some construction site on the northwest side of Tucson AZ.

 

View my inital designs, aka Elaborate Failures

 

Play opening video montage

Brett - His entry was very military looking. Custom machined pieces, ten foot pump welded steel levers, ballasted by the weight of a Ford F-250(great use for it) and a high speed pressure pump into an air ram cylinder spelled trouble for us. Well let’s see, recap. The machine was a clear winner but it refused to fire a second time. Two hours later, Brett got it to fire one more time but that ceased to beat Nick's best shot.

Ultimately the machines first fire was all it took to seal the win for the longest ball award.

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Jason - The "Ryan in the box" was the only machine that was designed to swing an actual golf club head... By far the most robustly (well not including Brett’s industrial thing) designed and built - the "Ryan in the box" just needed one more spring to possibly edge itself in to the record books!


The main cog is used for locking the
device by wedging a tempered
steel bar between the teeth and the
wood frame, allowing for many
"notches" of power control.


Multiple springs tension the steel
cable and wound around a bicycle
cog. Actually small bolts protruding
from the cog supported the wound
wire to drive the solid tempered
go-cart axle. Pipe fittings and a
steel extension bar were attached to
hold a welded on a golf 4 iron head.

 

 

Jonathan


No photos available yet - none were
ever take during the event!

 

 

Nick
Praseeta

Violation!
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Competition Finals

Longest Shot


Brett - Shot a blistering 357.3 yards with his "BMF Thumper" military quality air gun - nearly double the group’s average.

Accuracy


Jonathan - The last shot of the day - the "Crossbow v. 2" dropped the ball 29 inches from the cactus located 227 feet away before collapsing off its support frame.

Longest shot, Second place
Nick - The "Typhoon's" powerful slingshot design gave Brett's a machine a run for the money. The machine’s simple slingshot action and full use of the 4'x4'x4' cube allowed it to get up to speed quickly... but limited to the strength of the operator to pull it back into its loaded position.

Longest shot, Third place
Jason - (dist)

The Late Burst, effort award-
Praseeta's "Little box" successfully fired after being assembled on site for the first time!

 

 

 

 


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Praseeta Fires
Brett Fires
Jason Fires
Nick Fires
Jonathan Fires

Nick Loading Exercise
Jonathans Water Bottle Delivery
Brett Pumps
Jonathan is not safe
Ryan drops the club
Nick Chops Head

Full Golf Contest Montage

 

 


The group arrives

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Well eventually all good times must come to an end and the unfortunates must pony up to whatever fate had been agreed upon. For all the guys that didn’t take first place in either of the contests(distance or accuracy), they must bleach their hair as light as possible. Since we all have dark brown hair, bleach/dye/peroxide or whatever will render unpredictable & most likely undesirable results. Brandon has yet to fire so he still has a chance to not be the "Lame Horse" unless he beats Brett's monster 360yrd long shot. Oh - here is Nick with his post event, golden coif. Well done, you may keep your honor. Now Jason had a slight bleaching mishap where the beach job was barely noticeable. We are all SURE he is giving it that full college try on the second attempt..


 

 

Now for some reason, Praseeta refused to accept the group punishment as not to frighten his newborn baby girl. Instead he agreed to the loser sign (see note for punishment #1 above) being plastered on two side of his car for one month. Sooooo.. Between Nov 8th 2005 and Dec 7th 2005, if you see this guy on a street in the Tucson area without the "I'm a Loser" sign on his call & alert us!