Build Your Own Roller Coaster

Usquebaugh submitted this link to a guy who built his own roller coaster. The guy builds grain elevators for a living and - let me take a wild, city-slicker guess - they probably use some sort of rail system for transporting grain, so.... Update: 03/14 14:29 GMT by M : We overran the bandwidth limit on his webpage - sorry buddy! From the comments below I see a mirror and another mirror.

Not gonna ride that one

[FCAdcock]

Wait, beer comes from wheat... This man has tons of wheat nearby. That is one rollercoaster I will NOT be riding!

Well, looking at the pictures...

[Loki_1929]

Judging by the rust on that thing, I'd say this guy's life expectancy is somewhere around (now + 4 rides).

The government built rollercoaster

[Anonymous Coward]

It's the new Homeland Defense Terrorist Chart(TM).

It goes up and down more often than the Orient Express.

How long before ...

[Augusto]

... this guy wins a Darwin Award ?

What a way to go though ...

um, i'll sit this one out.

[cygnus]

grain elevators. if they break, you get spilled corn.

now, roller coasters are a different beast. spilled brains.

something tells me this is a field best left to engineers...

Looks Cool!

[Victa]

What!!! Have you guys NO sense of adventure??? You have to die sometime... May as well have fun doing it...

The Best Quote from the Site

[Twiki]

"No someone did not fall off, the lift was not able to carry me all the way up the lift (I'm working on losing weight and It should be able to carry me in a month or so plus the engine wasn't working up to par due to the 30 degree temperatures)."

Read it for yourself here [0catch.com].

Re:Pneumatic Blowlines

[Rebel Patriot]

Nice to meet someone else who's been stuck doing Industrial Automation for Grain Elevators

Actually no, I've never done any one that. I happen to be a farmer in Southern GA. We used to grow allot of cotton, sorgum (I can never spell that right), and corn for feed. Then we went full-scale into hogs untill the market hit rock-bottom in '87 and hasn't come up since. Now we raise horses almost exclusively in addition to my job doing network engineering.

Not everyone who uses grep and vi doesn't chew tobacco. :^)

I slashdotted his site.

[bartyboy]

I saw page 1.

I saw page 2.

I clicked on the link to page 3 and got this:

This site has exceeded its limit of 3 Gigabytes of transfer for the month. You may buy extra Gigabytes of transfer by logging in to the user menu and choosing "upgrade". Thank you, 0catch.com

Re:An analogy (may not be apt)

[VasilyPupkin]

This site has exceeded its limit of 3 Gigabytes of transfer for the month. You may buy extra Gigabytes of transfer by logging in to the user menu and choosing "upgrade".

Suscribtions on slashdot get a whole new meaning :-)

Over his limit

[moniker_21]

This site has exceeded its limit of 3 Gigabytes of transfer for the month. You may buy extra Gigabytes of transfer by logging in to the user menu and choosing "upgrade".

And I was SURE that his roller coaster was going to be the first thing to go down. Oh well.

You're going to trust this guy? (joke)

[wrinkledshirt]

This site has exceeded its limit of 3 Gigabytes of transfer for the month. You may buy extra Gigabytes of transfer by logging in to the user menu and choosing "upgrade".

I can just see it now:

"You've currently run out of track for this roller coaster. You may purchase new track by screaming bloody murder at the top of your lungs."

Re:all in good fun...

[Kerinsky]

Then it's one-eyed fun!

Zero Catch web hosting???

[jshare]

Uh, doesn't a transfer limit seem like a catch? Lame.

DOS?

[Anonymous Coward]

Denial Of Service and/or Displayed On Slashdot?

Slashdot is a floating party of doom

[WankersRevenge]

This site has exceeded its limit of 3 Gigabytes of transfer for the month. You may buy extra Gigabytes of transfer by logging in to the user menu and choosing "upgrade".

I don't know what Hitchhiker book Douglas Adams wrote it in - but there was this floating party that literally floated above a planet, causing all sorts of havoc. Whenever it needs supplies, the party would raid some poor country, take all their booze, then float away.

Slashdot is so like that. Its a floating party that hijacks poor websites, kills them, then moves on to other unsuspecting fools

To that - I can only say -

Drinks on the house ;)

Re:Pneumatic Blowlines

[dillon_rinker]

Be sure to tune in next week for the next installment of Redneck Geek Holy Wars: smoking vs. chew

Thank you

[Raven_Rider]

Dear Slashdot; I'd like to say thank you to everyone who contributed to helping me purchase more bandwidth for my site. That bandwidth (5 Gigs) has been all used up so the site will be down until the hubub dies down unless someone else feels like contributing. There are a couple of mirrors up and I sent off a copy of the pages to another person to create a better mirror with all of the pictures. Hopefuly that will be up later so you all can see the coaster. I am flattered with all the attention and I'm over my frustration of last night when the site initially went down. Like many people online my site is an extension of myself and with it down it's like a part of me is not functioning but I'm learning to deal with it. I'll make sure the new mirror is up later tonight for the Blue Flash pictures and I'll have a link posted to it as soon as it's up. I'm going to be speaking to John (the coaster builder) tonight and I'll let him know what everyone thinks. Please check out the pictures at the mirrors and if you are interested in coasters please revisit my site (www.negative-g.net) sometime in the future but not all at once. Thanks Paul B. Drabek [e-mail]

Tomorrow's Headlines

[theCURE]

I can see it now, it's going to read:

"Poor webmaster purchases new T3 connection and computers after mystery donations appear via paypal!"