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Title: Calling all engineers... And creative people...
Post by: chrisindfw on August 23, 2005, 03:19:08 pm
After looking around here for so long, I have realized one thing. You guys are some creative and crafty mother $%^&$S.

I coach a high school lacrosse team here in Texas. Its damn hot here. I am looking to build a way to deliver water to the players during practice without having to fill up multiple bottles and coolers.

I have seen some things on the net about a cart that is pressurized and has hoses to deliver the water. Some have been battery operated.

My question is what would you come up with? I can make a cart out of whatever, that's not the issue, the issue is how to deliver the water and make it beneficial over taking jugs out to the field.

Gracias...
Title: Re: Calling all engineers... And creative people...
Post by: Stingray on August 23, 2005, 03:21:18 pm
One word: Aquaduct.

(http://aquaduct.hobbysite.info/images/spanjenerja%20aquaduct.jpg)

-S
Title: Re: Calling all engineers... And creative people...
Post by: dogg0 on August 23, 2005, 03:29:26 pm
(http://secure.thrashermagazine.com/images/items/lg367.jpg)

only put water in the helmet...........
Title: Re: Calling all engineers... And creative people...
Post by: Ed_McCarron on August 23, 2005, 03:30:08 pm
At the risk of oversimplifying, why not a cooler like these?

http://www.igloo-store.com/product_list.asp?SKW=fullbeverage

10 gallons, insulated, seen on the back of every work vehicle in the world...
Title: Re: Calling all engineers... And creative people...
Post by: Sephroth57 on August 23, 2005, 03:34:03 pm
yeah i dont see why a giant 10 gallon thing wouldnt work. like how far do you have to walk from where youre parking, im assuming at a highschool thing u can probably pull onto the grass pretty close to the field
Title: Re: Calling all engineers... And creative people...
Post by: fredster on August 23, 2005, 03:36:31 pm
As an engineer, I'd suggest a hose.
Title: Re: Calling all engineers... And creative people...
Post by: whammoed on August 23, 2005, 04:04:07 pm
get one of these:
(somebody had to post it)
Title: Re: Calling all engineers... And creative people...
Post by: PetitMorte on August 23, 2005, 04:17:50 pm
Here is a cart-based solution.

(http://images.hosereelsource.com/images/products/large/RPR002.jpg)

It has a pressurized hose that delivers water...
Title: Re: Calling all engineers... And creative people...
Post by: Stingray on August 23, 2005, 04:32:20 pm
What a pack of smartasses we are.

-S
Title: Re: Calling all engineers... And creative people...
Post by: dogg0 on August 23, 2005, 04:35:00 pm
8 replies in a little over an hour? i bet he didnt think he would get so many speedy responses ;D
Title: Re: Calling all engineers... And creative people...
Post by: ChadTower on August 23, 2005, 04:35:13 pm
All of the responses I would have given have been given.

Except this one:

(http://www.uss-bennington.org/pics/phz-ow-firehose.jpg)

(http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:syUAFcknasQJ:http://www.emints.org/info/area1/images/firehose.gif)

(http://www.epm.ornl.gov/~geist/Icons/needinput.gif)
Title: Re: Calling all engineers... And creative people...
Post by: grueinthebox on August 23, 2005, 04:42:57 pm
Except this one:

"You get to drink from...  the FIRE HOSE!!!"
Title: Re: Calling all engineers... And creative people...
Post by: ChadTower on August 23, 2005, 04:43:50 pm

I spent ten minutes trying to find a good shot of that scene from UHF and never did.
Title: Re: Calling all engineers... And creative people...
Post by: dogg0 on August 23, 2005, 04:47:36 pm
a bukkake joke is definately way out of line here
Title: Re: Calling all engineers... And creative people...
Post by: Sephroth57 on August 23, 2005, 04:47:48 pm
that movie rules

Weird Al FTW
Title: Re: Calling all engineers... And creative people...
Post by: Sephroth57 on August 23, 2005, 04:48:16 pm
a bukkake joke is definately way out of line here

LMAO i was thinking the same thing


this guys gonna come back and read his thread and be like wtf
Title: Re: Calling all engineers... And creative people...
Post by: ChadTower on August 23, 2005, 04:52:01 pm

I did see those jokes and think damn those are awfully close to some hardcore bukakke pics.
Title: Re: Calling all engineers... And creative people...
Post by: PetitMorte on August 23, 2005, 04:52:10 pm
It's just a shame that it's not field-hockey...  Mmmmmm hosing down sweaty 18-yr old coeds wearing white blouses and short little plaid skirts!

As an alternative, you could always get a case of these. (http://38.112.130.166/Videos/Medium_QT/Don't_Shake_The_Bottle.mov)
Title: Re: Calling all engineers... And creative people...
Post by: slayj on August 23, 2005, 04:57:58 pm
Most Fields have a fence.  Take a PVC pipe, long, and punch holes in it all the way down and fix it to the fence.  Attach a garden hose and let it rip.  You will have individual drinking holes for all.  YEAH!!!
Title: Re: Calling all engineers... And creative people...
Post by: JonnyBoy on August 23, 2005, 05:54:35 pm
Sad thing is, my school actually took the above idea to heart.
Title: Re: Calling all engineers... And creative people...
Post by: chrisindfw on August 23, 2005, 08:01:11 pm
Nice ones! Of course I knew what I was doing posting this. I have been around here enough. lol. It takes me a week to get a response to a cabinet building question but this rocks!

Title: Re: Calling all engineers... And creative people...
Post by: Crazy Cooter on August 24, 2005, 01:57:05 am
Get the biggest "portable shower" thing you can find and connect it to a horizontal PVC pipe with twist levers at a dozen spots on it (make sure you use supplies suited for delivering potable water).  Raise the bag a couple inches above the spouts & you're set.
Title: Re: Calling all engineers... And creative people...
Post by: ChadTower on August 24, 2005, 08:54:32 am
Sad thing is, my school actually took the above idea to heart.

That is so unsanitary it makes me want to cry and puke.

At the same time.
Title: Re: Calling all engineers... And creative people...
Post by: slayj on August 24, 2005, 08:57:47 am
Sad thing is, my school actually took the above idea to heart.
Where do you think I got the idea......its what we used when I played football!  :laugh:
Title: Re: Calling all engineers... And creative people...
Post by: Ed_McCarron on August 25, 2005, 09:48:37 am
Sad thing is, my school actually took the above idea to heart.

That is so unsanitary it makes me want to cry and puke.

At the same time.

Beats little league baseball, oh, back in '79 or so... 

"Here kids, heres a galvanized metal bucket that has never been washed full of water with a big metal ladle in it... Drink your fill." :)

Its a wonder we all survived.