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Published: 2004-11-29 02:16:46 +0000 UTC; Views: 306; Favourites: 0; Downloads: 24
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The are called bloodless castrators but they were everything but!The fetish people on DA might like them - but I just use them to bend heavy wire.
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Its funny how many guys back off a step when I tell them what they are. Inviting my inevitable response, 'You're not a sheep. What are you worried about?'
Because their purpose is too close for comfort, they have been called a few things to disguise their purpose, emasculators is my favourite. These obscure names make it hard to track down specific information on certain tools.
In the trade around my area these particular tools were called 'bloodless sheep castrators', which is again a misdirection because they were anything but bloodless. In theory they are a duel purpose tool designed to crush the offending plumbing within the sack, and later to cut the sack clean off once it has shrivelled up and died. In practice they often cut the sack open first time around if used incorrectly, which is why they are thankfully just a historical curiosity. Farmers are notorious for not following instructions.
This particular model had two blades on either side of the hinge when I bought it, and was too dangerous to use for anything. Several hundred hours of modifications later I could work with it all day and not get so much as a blister.
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wow i bet you'd make a fortune selling those on e-bay if you mention their past history! not that you'd sell em of course they probably do a bloody good job (no pun intended)
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Its just the history of the tool. I use it to bend heavy guage wire. It is just better built than modern plyers. But it does have a sort of weirdness that I like. I do a lot a my wire work in public and it always brings a laugh from the girls. But the boys - they usually back off - its quite funny.
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Objects that were made to harm have an appeal. The first time I picked up a gun I certainly felt it. I hope that I never have to fire a gun at anybody, but the feel that you have something in your hands that could cause a great deal of misery to someone. It's strange, almost paradoxical.
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Another thing about them is just how simple they are. How can such a simple thing destroy such a complex creature as a person.... phew!
I guess they are attractive because they are very powerful 'tools' for the job they do. Artist's love powerful tools because of the possibilities they present. The question I ask myself is what could you 'create' with bullets fired from a gun - becides a loud noise?
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Depends on what your intentions are. A bullet creates entertainment, destruction, fear, and sadly at times a mix of the first and last two. Can't say that I find a firearm to be a powerful artistic aid, but I do enjoy experimenting with new tools. Discovering photoshop provided me with a large degree of fascination and enjoyment, as I recall.
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No I really can't see a use for a firearm as a creative tool because it is so hard to control. The nearest we get to it is fireworks I supose. I personally will stick to photoshop as well.
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Strange how inventions that advance mankind also can be used to destroy it. I often think of Wernher von Braun, how his designs were used by both Hitler and Nasa. My grandpa actually met him, if you can believe that.
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Even stranger is the story of Russia's counterpart S P Keroliof (spelling?) He was building rockets for fun in the 1920's and 30's but he worked for a General whom Stalin murdered in the great purge. SPK ended up in a Gularg for 10 years. Somehow he survived until the begining of the war when Stalin suddenly realised he needed him and dragged him back to work designing anti tank rockets to kill the Germans.
He became 'Chief Designer' of the soviet space program yet never received any personal credit for his work. His name was unknown to the Russian public let alone the west. His death in 1967 left the sovet space program in chaos and was one of the main reasons why the American's won the race to the moon.
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can't say that I know much about the Russian space program. A lot of things were kept secret, as I understand. The first casualty of the space race was only publicly made known until recently, I believe.
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Its a very sad story from start to finish. Most new histories of the space race I have seen now cover the Sovet program very well. A lot has been made public over the past decade.
I've even see video footage of the Rusian lunar landing craft. The real problem for the Russians in the late 60's was a fight between rival groups of engineers over the design and fuel for the main launch rocket. They lost critical years in the race and could not capitalise on the Apollo 1 desaster. They would have got to the moon around 1972 if nothing else had gone wrong.
After Apollo 11 the sovet government shut down the moon project overnight, and put all of their energy into orbiting space labs.
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and then you've got the people who say America never went to the moon, either.
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yeah... I really don't undersatnd that.... I mean you can SEE the lunar landing sites with a high power telescope.
And then there is the whole thing of why? No why go to the moon but why fake that mission and not all of the other space missions? What do they have to say about all of thousands of other space missions both manned and unmanned?
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people suspect anything of being a conspiracy. hell, even 9/11 has become one.
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trouble is, it is very hard to pull a conspiracy off unless it is only one or two people involved. Someone always stuffs up or can't keep themselves from blabbing.
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exactly, it's never taken into account just how many people would have to be "in" on the conspiracy for it to work.
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If my study of history has taught me anything, it is is:
Historians write and rewrite the history; not the victors; and because of this the victors can only ever postpone the truth.
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uh well, that thing would be good for dentists while taking teeth 
i dont understand whats that but, i like it
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its a very powerful set of pliers that I use to bend think 4mm wire into sculpture like my dragon wind dancer.
They were originally used to destroy a male sheep's reproductive organs on a farm - very terrible. Now I use them for a much nicer creative activity.
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