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#2988571 27-Oct-2022 09:28

Getting this picture from a mate in Aussie:

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#2989278 28-Oct-2022 16:15

Spotted at Kaitoke Regional Park, exit from camping area into water catchment. Each is padlocked to the other, or intersecting two links in the chain - seven padlocks in total. As one of them was labelled "Wellington Electricity", I'm assuming each of these belongs to a separate authority who needs access into the catchment area. Quite why a single padlock won't suffice for everyone I'm not sure...

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#2989279 28-Oct-2022 16:19

There will be a standard key that opens every e.g. Wellington Electricity lock. If there was only one lock here then either all seven authorities would need to use the same standard key, or employees would need a specific key for that site.

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#2989280 28-Oct-2022 16:20

allan:
Spotted at Kaitoke Regional Park, exit from camping area into water catchment. Each is padlocked to the other, or intersecting two links in the chain - seven padlocks in total. As one of them was labelled "Wellington Electricity", I'm assuming each of these belongs to a separate authority who needs access into the catchment area. Quite why a single padlock won't suffice for everyone I'm not sure...

That's exactly why it's done that way, it's a logical OR implemented via padlocks, everyone who needs access can get it without needing to share, and keep track of, keys for a single padlock.

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#2989306 28-Oct-2022 16:56

Behodar:

There will be a standard key that opens every e.g. Wellington Electricity lock. If there was only one lock here then either all seven authorities would need to use the same standard key, or employees would need a specific key for that site.

Yes that makes perfect sense now you've put it like that.

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#2989314 28-Oct-2022 17:11

neb:
allan:

Spotted at Kaitoke Regional Park, exit from camping area into water catchment. Each is padlocked to the other, or intersecting two links in the chain - seven padlocks in total. As one of them was labelled "Wellington Electricity", I'm assuming each of these belongs to a separate authority who needs access into the catchment area. Quite why a single padlock won't suffice for everyone I'm not sure...

That's exactly why it's done that way, it's a logical OR implemented via padlocks, everyone who needs access can get it without needing to share, and keep track of, keys for a single padlock.

So they're not declaring their undying love for each other?

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#2989347 28-Oct-2022 19:07

neb:
allan:

Spotted at Kaitoke Regional Park, exit from camping area into water catchment. Each is padlocked to the other, or intersecting two links in the chain - seven padlocks in total. As one of them was labelled "Wellington Electricity", I'm assuming each of these belongs to a separate authority who needs access into the catchment area. Quite why a single padlock won't suffice for everyone I'm not sure...

That's exactly why it's done that way, it's a logical OR implemented via padlocks, everyone who needs access can get it without needing to share, and keep track of, keys for a single padlock.

And it works really well, until someone has a brain fart and turns two or more of the locks into an AND.

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#2989369 28-Oct-2022 20:35

allan:

Spotted at Kaitoke Regional Park, exit from camping area into water catchment. Each is padlocked to the other, or intersecting two links in the chain - seven padlocks in total.

Oh no! Does this foreshadow Seven Waters?

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#2989517 29-Oct-2022 14:42

Another mixed smile + annoy: Smile because two of the three giant (around 10m height) ailing tea trees on the council reserve next to our property came down early this morning and only took out a few relatively unimportant trees, they somehow brushed the plum trees without causing any damage, took a few limbs off the titoki but it's still there, bent a few limbs on the pittosporums, took out about half the houpara but those are pretty resilient, and only really demolished two ponga ferns and some mahoe which aren't a big deal. It's almost a miracle how little damage was caused and that there was no-one down there at the time because the time between the 'crack' and 'thud' was close to zero, there's no way anyone could have got clear in time.

The annoy thing: That it's gone this far, those totally unsafe trees should have been removed years ago. We had some contractors look at them but they didn't want to touch them because of their location, and the council is ignoring them.

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#2989524 29-Oct-2022 15:27

Sure they are tea trees? I always thought they'd only get to about 3m tops.

Either way, now they are down, time to fire up the chainsaw and "help council with the cleanup"!

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#2989529 29-Oct-2022 15:41

Ge0rge: Sure they are tea trees? I always thought they'd only get to about 3m tops.

Either way, now they are down, time to fire up the chainsaw and "help council with the cleanup"!

It's one of the leptospermums, the height estimate is based on the lowest limb I'd like to remove being about 6m up and beyond the reach of any DIY solution... they're on steep sloping ground so the slope may be exaggerating the measurement a bit, but they're only slightly shorter than the pine growing behind them.

Problem isn't cutting them up, it's that the most dangerous one is still standing...

Edited to add: Just checked, while they usually grow to 2-3m, of which I cut down about a million of them on the farm as a kid, they can reach 15m in height as full-sized trees. These ones are definitely tree-sized, and capable of causing serious damage when they come down.

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#2989827 31-Oct-2022 01:59

Some of the ridiculous advertising on Aliexpress, for examples this international collaboration between Dutch Van der Waals forces and ancient Greek something-or-other. Note that it never claims to actually be anything tangible, whenever it comes close to a real claim it's "X-grade" rather than "X":

Pretty sure it's a 6.023e23 lumen light too. Some of these are apparently nuclear-powered, possibly via focused Van der Waals forces using ancient Greek technology.

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#2989872 31-Oct-2022 10:26

When you need a replacement part for something, and you can't find an exact replacement. I ended up ordering a "compatible" part. What actually turned up? The exact thing I was looking for in the first place.