X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,4214241d37373295 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-07-20 08:43:36 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-04!sn-xit-01!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: lgbeard Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Fishwheel Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 10:40:49 -0500 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <8nclhvgcarfmph37ov7o6nk7n1becng0b0@4ax.com> References: <2uvr8v4ler5mr797840s5f3t58ieqju5mc@4ax.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 121 Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:24291 On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 15:37:30 +0200, "Rainer Rosenthal" wrote: > >Sasquatch >> lgbeard wrote: >> >A fishwheel >> > >> > >> > >> > .--. >> > | | >> > .-----. .--. | | >> > / `-. `-. | | | | >> > | `-. `-. | | | | >> > \ `-. `-. | | .|''|. >> > \ `-. `| | '.' .'____________ >> > \ `-..| |.' .'_________ _.-'\ >> > \-------------' |''| ''-----------'. \ >> > `--------....' |..| ' \ \ >> > _____________'| |'`-. \ \___________ >> > .'--------------| |----`-. \ .'--------.'.' >> > .'.' | | `-. |.' .'.' | >> > .'.' | | \ `-...../' .'.' .' >> > .'.' .'| | '. .'.' .' >> > .'.'____________.----/--' '-/----._______________.'.' .' >> >'---------------/_________________/-----------------' .' >> >|_____________.'| .'|_________________|' >> > .'________________.' . LGB >> > | | .' >> > |_________________|' diddle: right part one char >> > prolonged and other changes >> > for perspective >> >lgbeard >> >> Excellent, Good Sir! >> > >I third that. > >R@ineR :) Works a lot better does not look so twisted. Thanks .--. | | .-----. .--. | | / `-. `-. | | | | | `-. `-. | | | | \ `-. `-. | | .|''|. \ `-. `| | '.' .'____________ \ `-..| |.' .'_________ _.-'\ \-------------' |''| ''-----------'. \ `--------....' |..| ' \ \ _____________'| |'`-. \ \__________ .'.-------------| |----`-. \ .'-------.'.' .'.'| __________ | | ______`-. |.' _____ .'.' | .'.'.' | | \ `-...../' .'.' .' .'.'.' .'| | '. .'.' .' .'.'____________.----/--' '-/----._______________.'.' .' '---------------/_________________/-----------------' .' |_____________.'| .'|_________________|' .'________________.' . LGB | | .' |_________________|' The fisrt try at a fishwheel /`. `. `. _..---.._ /`./ .' \ /'. .' | / '. .' \ / '. .' | / '. .---. .' _..--' / '.| |.' _..--'/ / |.-.| _..--' / / _..--'|'-'|_..--' / / _..--' | | / /_..--' .`| |'. / _..--' .` | | '. / | .` | | '. / _____\_______________.`______| |______'.___/________________ .'==============================================================`. `.______________________________________________________________.' LGB `-.___.-` /`./ `. `. `./ The first time i heard of a fishwheel was from an article in Alaskan culture title Cutting fish, by the hundreds from Floyd Davidson. It got the curosity going what was a fishwheel ? With the article was a drawing of a cutting table an the method employed. A fish cutting raft looks something like this, ==========||||============||||========== raft ===+----+=||||============||||=+----+=== <== logs ===| |=||||============||||=| |=== | T | |||| |||| | T | | A | |||| wire mesh |||| | A | | B | |||| fish pond |||| | B | | L | |||| |||| | L | ===| E |=||||============||||=| E |=== raft ===+----+=||||============||||=+----+=== <==logs ==========||||============||||========== \ / Floyd Davidson \ / planks to walk on lgbeard