25 October 2021

A satisfying video

 
Unimportant and perhaps trivial, TBH, but rather satisfying to watch.  I used to do stuff like this when I was young, and would do so again given the opportunity (but I'd use a rake or a tool rather than my hands).

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  1. Or at the very least, heavy-duty rubber gloves!! Yuck!

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  2. I don't get it, if the trap is there to stop that crap from going into the culvert why is he clearing the trap by throwing the crap into the culvert?

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    1. Because it's easier to clean the trap than to unclog the culvert, which might require a diver in a wetsuit.

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    2. if you watch it all the way through, you get to see that the culvert is huge; it will not get clogged by what he is throwing in there.

      I-)

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    3. So the culvert should have a way to prevent larger material from getting in, yes? Like a metal grate of some sort which isn't meant to be bypassed.

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  3. I was thinking that if one of the sides could be lifted, then flipped (so that what was on one side of the grate is now on the other), the current would do a great deal of self-clearing of the grate. It would initially wash stuff into the grate, but then, flipped, it would wash it out (and downstream).

    But, indeed, I love this kind of stuff. And, yes, I've done stuff like this before.

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  4. that guy has numerous 'unclogging' videos. in this one, it is the sound of the water that is so good (at least to me).

    i stripped the audio, from the video, deleted the speaking parts, a little editing, and ended up with a 19 minutes audio file of really soothing water rushing (flowing? going by?) sounds.


    I-)

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    1. Feeding your ASMR?

      https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2014/04/autonomous-sensory-meridian-response.html

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    2. sorry - not in to ASMR. to me, ASMR often sounds like (feels like) a fuzzy insect has crawled into my ear - get it out, quick!

      i do enjoy hearing natural sounds, wherever i am. no headphones for me. that edited audio is me pretending to be near a gurgling stream, but not too near. the 'plops' of him dropping debris on the the other side of that grate add to the randomness of the gurgling stream sounds. i am more of an Enoite than an ASMRian.

      I-)

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  5. I regularly watch this guy;s videos on YouTube; it's ususally very strngely satisfying to watch. In this case, IIRC, the grates' main goal is to make it difficult for beavers to dam up the culvert, which they often do in that area.

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  6. I watch Post 10 a lot. He's a hero, doing road maintenance that our tax dollars are supposed to take care of. We can install curbing and drainage systems but can't manage maintenance of the improvements

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    1. But R.M., if that were true our beautifully curbed roads would have potholes. Oh, nevermind.

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