Is there a rigging system available to lift 55 gallon drums?
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Any industrial supply company would sell drum lifts and drum dollys, there are clamps that go on the forks of a forktruck to lift single drums, 4 drums can be placed on a pallet and tied down and moved with pallet jacks or a forklift.
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Home made, a 24 volt car battery and jumpercables, a piece of iron rob work well. If my use a cattle prod.That is what I use grabblin for catfish.
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You can try building a sound isolating drum riser. There are commercial product s available:\nhttp://www.auralex.com/sound_isolation_platfoam/sound_isolation_platfoam.asp\nOr you can try styrofoam or similar (and cheaper) alternatives.
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call or visit your local music store (make sure they at least sell drums) ask them for help, or some literature. They should be happy to help! Best of Luck! Happy Drumming!!!!
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There are various things you can use. Try CDs, toy wheels, cotton reels...\n\nLook for objects with low 'rolling resistance' and a large diameter. This will help it go further. Good luck!
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1. Obtain four clean 55-gallon barrels, 20 feet of rope, several boards, 40 pounds of beef jerky\n\n2. Fill barrels 1/3d full with fresh water.\n\n3. Lash boards to barrels to make raft, saving one wide board\n\n4. Take assembly to ocean\n\n5. Place raft in water\n\n6. Use wide board as paddle and go out a few miles\n\n7. Wait for current to carry you to America
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Try http://www.tripod.com
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All in one lump?\n\nGoogle "100 ton crane"\n\nThere are many shipyard cranes that can do this.\n\nGoogle "rolling platforms"\n\nIf it is divided up a train can move it.\n\nYou may want to check out "Euclid Trucks"  or "Ore trucks"\n-- I don't know what the max there is.\n\nMight be some "Mining shovels" too.\n\nFor airplanes, the Russians make a very big one called an Antonov something.  Google "Antonov Heavy Airlift"\n\nProbably needs new tires often, and very strong runways.\n\nThat's all I can think of, ships are too obvious. Keep it under 13 feet height to use highways.  Maybe some special routes for 13.5 and higher, you need the Master Truck Router, for that.  Why not Google it to see what comes up?
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Contact the local schools, music programs and cultural groups that use Steel Drums and approach them.  If they aren't, they may be able to suggest someone who can.  Good Luck.
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Try this component shop:\n\nhttp://proswing.com/
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Galon jugs of water make good hand weights.  And tying them onto a broomstick makes a decent barbell.\n\nTables and chairs can be used in various combinations/inclines for variants on pushups and situps.
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If you get two cotton reels and string one to a weight and ine to, say, the top of the desk, then you can put diferent amounts of loops of string round each on and make a simple pulley.\n\nTo do levers all you need is a screvdriver and a pot of paint thatv you can't open. Ask your teacher to try and open the paint. when he cant, take the screwdriver and put it under the lid and prize it off. this is a lever because it makes the work required smaller but the distance greater.
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Use your telephone directory (yellow pages/business directory etc) and look up the numbers of Plant Hire companies.\nRing them and ask them to supply you with a catalouge of their crane/overhead gantry equipment.\nKeep trying until you get a positive answer.\nMost companies that specialise in this kind of equipment keep a photgraphic record of, and in particular, their biggest contracts.\nKeep plugging away at them and you will get one.
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try a flotation tank experience. it is incredible...but you got to want to and you should not be claustrophobic or it'd be hell re-invented
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Follow this link - \n\nhttp://www.d-lusion.com/News.html\n\nDrumstation is free, loads of kits as well if I can remember. If this does not fit the bill then I have no idea what you are talking about.
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I'm not sure hinged vanes would work well because rigid vanes would catch all available wind from any direction.  My recollection was that the 55 gallon drum was set upright and split vertically into two equal halves that were joined nearly edge-to-edge to a central rotating shaft (like cups of an anemometer that measures wind velocity).  I was driving by and have no idea how much power it delivered; but on very windy days it was a blur (there may have been more than two vanes).  From a distance it looked like it drove a car-type generator at the bottom of the stand.  Good luck.