Remote-Controlled Snowplow


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Rob Klinkey built this remote-controlled snowplow. Roboplow has a 50 inch blade, six powered wheels, and 660 amps of power. The blade can be pneumatically controlled in four directions. Lights and a mounted camera allow the Roboplow to be driven while out of sight and at night.

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The times they really are achanging- Back in the days the youngsters could make some bucks by clearing snow for the neighbors. Nowadays some dude buys a few hundreds of dollars worth of electronic components and a coffin and six wheels and a blade and hey presto now it's unemployment for the kids in the hood... I tell ya this thing will be responsible for the rising of youth-criminality!
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@nutbastard and @Colin.

I doubt it. This was built in a freedom loving country. It uses man units like inches and pounds not surrender eating metric. It more likely weighs about 6feet and gets 50 110 volts to the mile.
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It is news to me that the Romans used forks for eating. As far as I know (along with a small bit of Internet research) forks were only used by the Romans for carving and had two blades.

Since this is what it is, perhaps it has the wrong date and/or cultural attribution.
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I'm fairly certain the fork wasn't introduced until around the 1600's. And it took a long time to be accepted as a tool for eating. The church was vehemently opposed to its use claiming that God already provided us with the best tools for eating (our hands) and to imply that a fork was an improvement was akin to blasphemy.
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Hmm, ok, according to Wiki, forks are referenced in the old Testament, were used by the ancient Greeks AND that the Romans used them. Furthermore that there were many examples of Roman forks to be found. A casual search yielded a Roman fork that was awfully small if it was just for serving. So unless there is a rather widespread conspiracy sponsored by the Pro-Forks-For-Romans-League, I think a travel fork might be something a Roman might actually have.
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'The photos give enough detail for a skilled craftsman/smith to make one. Apply at your nearest Reenactor cutlery supplier'

They're ahead of us:

http://www.armillum.com/product.php?id_product=289
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@Johnny Cat

Might be difficult considering they didn't have corn. I suppose it could be made a flatbread, and allow you to get a nice mouthful of delicious garum. Mmm, fermented fish pasty goodness!
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