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2013 Horizon League Championship Central Page
By: Ryan Hartwig (@RyanHartwig)
CHICAGO, Ill. (GreenBayPhoenix.com) - The Green Bay men's and women's swimming and diving teams wrapped up a successful four days at the 2013 Horizon League Championships on Saturday night at the UIC Flames Natatorium in Chicago. The women's squad finished third in a tight race for the team title, while the men's squad moved up a spot to fourth place after finishing fifth in each of the last five seasons.
Green Bay accumulated 647 points on the women's side, finishing 10.5 points behind second-place Cleveland State (657.5) and 41.5 points back of champion Milwaukee (688.5). The Phoenix edged UIC (646.5) for third by just a half of a point. Green Bay scored 533.5 points on the men's side, which was over 100 points more than it scored in last year's meet (432).
Aiding the men's team's improvement was freshman Willem Poelmans (Hasselt, Belgium), who earned Horizon League Men's Newcomer of the Year honors after picking up a pair of individual titles in record-breaking fashion. The newcomer first won the 200-yard IM on Thursday with a Horizon League and school-record time of 1:49.06, and then claimed the 400 IM in 3:52.85 on Friday while shattering another school record. Both swims were also good enough for NCAA B-cuts.
Women's Team
1 - Milwaukee 688.5
2 - Cleveland State 657.5
3 - Green Bay 647
5 - Wright State 391
6 - Youngstown State 343
7 - Valparaiso 176.5
Men's Team Scores
1 - Cleveland State 800.5
2 - Milwaukee 754
4 - Green Bay 533.5
5 - Wright State 445
6 - Valparaiso 166
Women's Newcomer of the Year: Veronica Gibson, UIC
Men's Newcomer of the Year: Willem Poelmans, Green Bay
Women's Diver of the Meet: Whitney Johnson, UIC
Men's Diver of the Meet: K.J. Heger, Milwaukee
Women's Swimmer of the Meet: Melanie Waszak, UIC
Men's Swimmer of the Meet: Mark deSwardt, Cleveland State
Women's Swimming and Diving Athlete of the Year: Emily McClellan, Milwaukee
Men's Swimming and Diving Athlete of the Year: Al Shillito, Cleveland State
Women's Diving Coach of the Year: Susan Bromberg, UIC
Men's Diving Coach of the Year: Todd Hill, Milwaukee
Women's Swimming Coach of the Year: Paul Moniak, UIC
Men's Swimming Coach of the Year: Wally Morton, Cleveland State
The Phoenix women, who entered the day just 28.5 points back of then-leader Cleveland State, could not have asked for a better start to Saturday's finals as junior Kendra Rottier (Green Bay, Wis.) and senior Melissa Killpatrick (Elk River, Minn.) finished 1-2 in the night's opening event - the 1650 freestyle. Rottier finished first in 16:50.94, marking her second individual title of the meet, while Killpatrick touched in at 16:55.91.
Megan Burley (Hazelhurst, Wis.) concluded her strong senior campaign with a third-place showing in the 200 butterfly on Saturday, finishing in 2:06.36. Another senior, Heather Bodin (Maple Grove, Minn.) was fifth in 2:07.64.
Sophomore Ryan Korslin (Rudolph, Wis.) produced the top finish for the Phoenix men on Saturday, racing to a fourth-place effort in the 200 breaststroke in 2:02.58. Poelmans was fifth in the 200 breast in 2:02.81, while senior Jonathan Lesniak (McHenry, Ill.) was sixth in 2:03.33.
Senior diver Mitchell Spaeth (Fredonia, Wis.) turned in an exceptional performance in his final Horizon League meet, placing fifth on the 3-meter board with an impressive score of 322.40.
Despite sitting in fourth place, the Green Bay women's swimming and diving team (459 points) is within striking distance of first-place Cleveland State (487.5 points) heading into the final day of the 2013 Horizon League Championships. The Phoenix men's squad is also in fourth following Friday's finals at the UIC Flames Natatorium after picking up a pair of individual conference titles in school-record fashion.
"It's interesting on the women's side to have the top four teams very much in the mix heading into Saturday," Green Bay head coach Jim Merner said. "We have some good opportunities tomorrow to make a move, but it's going to be very difficult. Only time will tell."
Senior Megan Burley (Hazelhurst, Wis.) continued her strong conference meet for the Green Bay women with a runner-up finish in the 400-yard IM, touching in at 4:25.87.
One day after bursting onto the scene with a record-setting win in the 200 IM, men's freshman Willem Poelmans (Hasselt, Belgium) was at it again on Friday with another dominant performance. Poelmans claimed the 400 IM with a winning time of 3:52.85, smashing the 2003 school record of 4:02.80 previously held by Dan Brzozowski. The time, which was less than a second away from the Horizon League record of 3:52.07, was also good for his second NCAA B-cut of the meet.
Sophomore Ryan Korslin (Rudolph, Wis.) also earned an individual championship, a school record and an NCAA B-cut on Friday, winning the 100 breaststroke in 54.81. The time broke the old school record of 55.11 set by Jason Askew in 2011. Senior Jonathan Lesniak (McHenry, Ill.) was third in the 100 breast, finishing in 55.96.
For a complete day three recap, click here.
Green Bay freshman Willem Poelmans (Hasselt, Belgium) made some noise in his first Horizon League Swimming & Diving Championships experience on Thursday, winning the 200-yard IM in record-breaking fashion at the UIC Flames Natatorium. The Phoenix men moved up a spot into fourth place following the second day of competition, while the women's squad remains in second, just 16 points behind first-place Cleveland State.
Poelmans finished the 200 IM with a blazing time of 1:49.06 in the finals, breaking the Horizon League record of 1:49.09 set by Cleveland State's Jakub Dobies in 2010. The time, which earned an NCAA B-cut, also shattered the 14-year-old Green Bay record of 1:52.67 set by Jens Sonntag in 1999. Poelmans also broke the school record in prelims earlier in the day, finishing with a time of 1:49.37.
The Phoenix also had success in the 200 IM on the women's side, as seniors Heather Bodin (Maple Grove, Minn.) and Megan Burley (Hazelhurst, Wis.) finished second and third behind Milwaukee junior standout Emily McClellan (2:00.49). Bodin grabbed the runner-up spot with a time of 2:03.34, while Burley was close behind in 2:04.67.
Junior Kendra Rottier (Green Bay, Wis.) followed up Wednesday night's win in the 1000 freestyle with a runner-up finish in the 500. Rottier finished with a season-best time of 4:55.80, less than three seconds behind champion Melanie Waszak (4:52.95) of UIC.
For the complete day two recap, click here.
Led by Kendra Rottier's (Green Bay, Wis.) victory in the 1000-yard freestyle, the Green Bay women's swimming and diving team finished the first day of the 2013 Horizon League Championships at the UIC Flames Natatorium in second place, just nine points behind leading Cleveland State. The men's squad ended day one of competition in fifth, only five points out of third.
Rottier, who won three individual championships as a sophomore at the 2012 Horizon League meet in Milwaukee, successfully defended one of her titles on Wednesday, touching in first in the 1000 with a season-best time of 10:07.32. The junior finished three seconds ahead of UIC freshman Veronica Gibson, who was second in 10:10.20.
The highlight for the Phoenix men came in the night's final event - the 200 medley relay. The underclassman quartet of Matt Hollub (Appleton, Wis.), Ryan Korslin (Rudolph, Wis.), Cole Hackney (Highlands Ranch, Colo.) and Ben Loeffelholz (Dubuque, Iowa) raced to a second-place finish with a time of 1:30.04, breaking the Green Bay school record of 1:31.71 set at last year's conference meet. Hollub, Korslin and Hackney were also on last season's record-setting relay team.
For the complete day one recap, click here.
Head coach Jim Merner previewed the 2013 Horizon League Championships on this week's episode of Poolside.
The Phoenix women, coming off a third-place finish at the 2012 Horizon League Championships, enter this year's meet with a 5-4 record in dual meets. Among this year's highlights, the Phoenix claimed the team title at the seven-team IUPUI House of Champions Invitational on Dec. 2. Prior to last season, Green Bay had won seven consecutive Horizon League titles.
On the men's side, the Phoenix aims to improve upon its fifth-place finish from a year ago. Green Bay, 3-5 in dual meets, earned a pair of invitational victories this season at the House of Champions Invite and the Butler Invite.
For a complete schedule of events, visit the Championship Central Page on HorizonLeague.com.
###For the latest and most up-to-date information on Green Bay Athletics and Green Bay Swimming & Diving, please visit GreenBayPhoenix.com.


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"The British violinist has a big, rich sound and a big, enquiring spirit." – Los Angeles Times
Daniel Hope - Biography
It was probably inevitable that Daniel Hope should make the violin his life. He started studying it aged four, and his journey to those first lessons is a story in itself. He was born in Durban, South Africa in 1973. When he was six months old, his father, the distinguished novelist, poet and anti-apartheid activist Christopher Hope, was finally granted an exit visa on condition he never return. The family went first to Paris, then to London, where Hope's mother Eleanor was engaged by the celebrated violinist and conductor Yehudi Menuhin to be his secretary, later becoming his long-time manager.
As a child, Hope used to play with Menuhin's grandchildren and, in 1978, took up violin lessons with a neighbour, Sheila Nelson, a renowned teacher who had a special gift for
On those solid foundations, Daniel Hope began to build an impressive career, ultimately appearing all over the globe with the world's most renowned orchestras and conductors and winning numerous prizes for his recordings, including six ECHO Awards, a Classical Brit Award, the Deutscher Schallplattenpreis and numerous Grammy® nominations.
Back in 1985 he had been invited by Menuhin to join him in a programme of Bartók duos for German television. This launched a long association between the two violinists that would eventually take in more than 60 concerts, and in 1999 Hope performed a Schnittke Concerto in Düsseldorf as part of what was to be Menuhin's final concert.
In 1996 he gave the world premiere of Douglas Jarman's critical edition of the Berg Violin Concerto and worked with Toru Takemitsu, later recording his violin concerto Nostalghia. In 2000 he played and conducted before an audience of 20,000 on Munich's Königsplatz, while in 2001 he was voted "Classical Performer of the Year" by London's Evening Standard. The following year he became the youngest-ever member of the legendary Beaux Arts Trio, with whom he gave 400 concerts until the Trio ended in 2008. He also gave the premiere of Jan Müller-Wieland's violin concerto Ballad of Ariel in Berlin, one of more than 30 works he has commissioned from composers.
In 2003 Daniel Hope gave the world premiere of Schnittke's newly discovered Sonata 1955 in London. A year later he was named "Young Artist of the Year" at the Classical Brit Awards and began his relationship with the Savannah Music Festival as Artist-in-Residence; the festival formally appointed him Associate Artistic Director in 2004, a position he still holds today. In 2005 he premiered Abraham, the concerto composed for him by Roxanna Panufnik; presented the US premiere of his East Meets West programme with Indian sitar master Gaurav Mazumdar at Savannah; and gave a concert at Dachau to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camp.
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Hope tours extensively, performing a hugely varied repertoire and working with chamber partners as diverse as Menahem Pressler, Jeffrey Kahane, Leif Ove Andsnes and Anne Sofie von Otter. He has collaborated for more than 15 years with distinguished actor Klaus Maria Brandauer on projects exploring the life and work of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Someone had to do something), music and war (War and Pieces) and the life and work of Goethe (Mephisto), as well as in Stravinsky's L'Histoire du soldat. He has appeared at the world's top festivals, and his 2014 tour dates cover Europe, Canada, the USA, China, Japan and South Korea.
Despite his busy life, Hope also finds time to write and is an enthusiastic video blogger and broadcaster. His books include the autobiographical Familienstücke. Eine Spurensuche; Toi, toi, toi!, a book about concert mishaps; and Wann darf ich klatschen (When do I applaud?), all making the bestseller lists in Germany.
In 2007 Daniel Hope signed an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon, his debut recording of works by Mendelssohn including the original version of the Violin Concerto was selected as one of the CDs of the Year by the New York Times. That same year he also participated in Anne Sofie von Otter's album of music written by Jewish composers imprisoned in the Terezín concentration camp, while his live performances of Elgar's Violin Concerto with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Sakari Oramo, and of Tippett's Triple Concerto at the BBC Proms were made available for download within the DG Concerts series. Among his recent releases are collaborations with Neo-classical composer Max Richter, including a remix of Vivaldi's Four Seasons which also features on an iPad Masterwork app. Hope co-produced a film documentary about Terezín called Refuge in Music, released by Deutsche Grammophon on DVD in 2013.
Throughout his career, Hope has fearlessly broken through barriers and embraced the wilder fringes of musical experience with rewarding results, as demonstrated in such releases as
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also the quests have horible explanation!
it just says what you need to kill/collect, but it doesnt tell you where to find it :S
so you are supposed to look everywhere by yourself, until you find it?
also everything seems to be delayed! like if you click a mob, or NPC, it takes about a second before its selected, and if you want to use a skill, or pick something up, your character also waits for about a second before he does anything :S
is this a cummon problem? i have a 10Mbt connection, so its not because my connection is slow... i am downloading while playing though, but on a 10mbt connection it shouldnt have big effect?
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|I got spare rooms in south lake tahoe
|aspen grove is a good place to stay. i worked for northstar ski patrol for 15 years. and squaw for a couple. you definitely need to hit both of them and alpine. northstar has some of the best tree skiing around. also they have a cat tour so you can take a cat up to the saw tooth area and get some great untracked powder. use to be open to skinning in only. a lot of people hitch hike in north shore all the time. northstar and squaw have a great village for night life.
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There's a bus that goes from Reno to South Lake Tahoe state line. If you stay there you'll get all the night life and Heavenly, Sierra, and Kirkwood ($10) all have shuttles to get you to their mountains.
Squaw, Alpine, Homewood, Northstar all have shuttles. Your cheapest bet to stay in North Lake is the Tahoe Biltmore, Cal Neva, etc. I think they offer like $29+/night rooms.
From CalNeva your drive to Squaw and Alpine will be nearly as long as to Heavenly. It's a casino on the Nevada side, and Biltmore has a nightclub, but it's pretty low rent. If you want night life, just stay in SLT. If you want big mountains just minutes away, stay in Tahoe City on the northwest shore. That's where Alpine, Squaw and Homewood are, with Sugarbowl and Northstar not too far off. Tahoe City isn't a city at all, though. Very laid back Cal town, some nice restaurants but no nightlife.
And don't let them fool you...Kirkwood is NOT at lake Tahoe, though it is definitely a must-visit no matter where you stay. It's a fair distance off South Lake, and if the weather is bad you may have trouble making it in (or back out) across the Carson Pass. Oh, and the only reason we've ever stayed in Reno is because our flight got in too late to make the drive across the mountains to the lake...it can be scary in the daytime, but terrifying if it's late and you're tired.
There's a bus that goes from Reno to South Lake Tahoe state line. If you stay there you'll get all the night life and Heavenly, Sierra, and Kirkwood ($10) all have shuttles to get you to their mountains.
Squaw, Alpine, Homewood, Northstar all have shuttles. Your cheapest bet to stay in North Lake is the Tahoe Biltmore, Cal Neva, etc. I think they offer like $29+/night rooms.
|will be there too in feb. travelling over from UK,, staying in South Lake tho easy access to Kirkwood and Sierra
the weather may have played a factor, but it was consistant when we went to squaw and heavenly. i didn't see any tree runs, the upper bowls were closed off and it was iced to the max. the bottom half of squaw seemed literally flat. their terrain parks? i almost missed them! a few pieces randomly layed out, not taken care of, utter garabe. you're right about heavenly, you get separated and you won't see each other. it happened to me, but the mtn. kept me entertained alone.
if there's powder, any mtn. will be a good time. some mtns' ice over quicker than others depending which way they face, etc. the upper half of squaw was in the shade half the day. unless its snowing, i don't see it being much fun up there.
P.S. Bring PBJ sandwiches. $10 hot dogs aren't cool.
i called an agent yesterday to see the availbility for condos. There's a few rooms left just outside of northstar village and you take a complimentary shuttle in, the condo is called "aspen grove". There's also 1 room that's available near the ski-trail near the village? it's called "ski-trail" condos. Just wondering if you guys have stayed at any of these places?
that being said, i found out that there's busses that come to the village and drive to different mountains so that's pretty easy to do. Will definately be checking out SV
LACK of diverse terrain at Squaw?! You can't be serious! What did you do, just take the gondola up to High Camp and ride Main Street with the tourists all day? I've been to Squaw 6-8 times and still haven't ridden all of it. The fact that you thought Heavenly was better speaks volumes. What Heavenly has going for it is the view from the ridge, which is spectacular (and there is something cool about riding in two states in one run). I admit to having a couple proverbial "best days ever" at Heavenly, but they were because of perfect powder and great friends. Otherwise, it's an overcrowded maze...get separated from someone in your party, you likely won't see them again till the parking lot. And it's crazy to say Squaw sucked because it was icy. We've all hit mountains on bad days, that just means the weather sucked, not necessarily the mountain.
I maintain that SV is a must-visit for the Tahoe noob. Between the epic terrain and the history, it's an experience, not just a ski trip. Just don't spend your day riding the middle around High Camp.
|i did a trip to tahoe in the beginning of this year. we did heavenly and squaw. i would never go back to squaw again. the lack of diverse terrain and the terrain parks were just as bad as they are here in the midwest. the bowls were iced over and the terrain was slush. no compromise whatsoever. heavenly was a nice mountain, pretty good terrain park, large mtn, but it was pretty damn busy for an average weekend. the hiking was a bit much since there's a lot of flat terrain and lifts that don't take you where they should or want to.
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We usually stay at Tahoe for two weeks, so we get a Snow Bomb card. You can get a free one online, but the deals aren't as plentiful. If you get a paid Snow Bomb card ($60 last time we went) it comes with a free lift ticket to somewhere, and then there are discounts at various mountains on different days. Check 'em out at Snowbomb.com. You never know...the first year we went they were doing an online slot machine promo...just keep playing, eventually you'll win. We got two free tix to Heavenly. And Shell stations were offering 2-for-1 Northstar tix with min. 10 gallons, but since you won't have a car that doesn't help you. With the economy sucking, I'd bet there will be a few deals this year. Spend some time with the google. You'll probably be able to find something.
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This video demonstrates the importance of using eye protection. This guy is shooting an AR15, but it can happen with any type of gun.
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This video demonstrates the importance of using eye protection. This guy is shooting an AR15, but it can happen with any type of gun.
im glad you posted that js,i always wear eye protection its very important.anyone that doesn't is just dumb...imo
Good post JS. Safety is paramount.
I like the cool, calm, collective response of the shooter.:smt082
Quick Q though. When at the range should I opt for range googles or am I safe sticking with my everyday glasses?
I don't know. They are just plain presciption glasses. How would I find out if they are rated to ANSI specs?
Would anyone mind explaining what happened in this video?
Glasses that meet ANSI standards normally have an almost-invisible "watermark" etched in the corner of the lens that reads, as I recall, "Z87." Unless you specified safety glasses with a minimum lens thickness when you filled your eyeglass prescription, though, you almost certainly do not have specs that meet ANSI standards.
All that said, standard polycarbonate or hi-index plastic is impact-resistant enough for shooting. The inexpensive CR39 plastic and unhardened glass are not safe for shooting, however.
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That's scary. Any clue what the hell happened there?
Backfire. From the sound of things they were using reloads, and not very good ones. Heard something about "bad primer", or maybe they were talking about the charge on the rifle. In any case, either an underloaded round lodged a bullet in the barrel that the shooter then accidentally tried to shoot through, or an overloaded round exploded in the chamber. Either way the hot gas and shrapnel comes back out the ejection port and can burn or blind.Quote:
That's scary. Any clue what the hell happened there?
Digging up an old thread here, but I had my first backfire today and thought I would tell people about it.
I am not sure what exactly happened, and that is the answer I am looking for in my post. Here is what happened.
I had just gotten to the range and had about 3 magazines ran through my XDm, so the gun was nice and warm. All of a sudden, about half way through my next clip BAAAAM! The gun kicked differently, the sound was much different, and a lot of debris I am assuming was gunpowder game back really hot and fast right into my entire face. It hurt like a son of gun and scared the hell out of me. I was at the range all alone, but I gathered myself and immediately set the gun flat on the bench, pointed down range. Once I had myself gathered up I dropped the magazine out of the gun, and realized there was a casing lodged just to the side of the barrel opening. I opened and locked the slide. Next I disassembled the gun and quickly realized the problem was with the cheap ammo.
Moral of the story...always always wear eye protection. I am very confident that my eyes would be hurting really bad right now if I had not been wearing my safety glasses.
What might have caused this?
Few things could have happened here.From what i hear in the video ,this is reloaded ammo,u can hear him say i didnt reload these some one else did.If so many things could have been at fault.
1.If they reloaded 5.56 NATO brass with civilian reload specs thats a disaster waiting to happen.5.56 NATO brass is thicker so if you reload a heavy load there isnt enough room in the 5.56 case as would be in a civilian case,such as Remingtons or Winchesters case.Thus you can create a huge amount pressure.
2.If this brass was just reloaded alot it could have gotten to thin.Everytime a case is resized it gets thinner and thinner.Could have even had a hair line crack in it that wasnt seen.Alot of things can go wrong when reloading.Could have even had a double powder charge which can be real bad news.Wrong powder,hard to tell,just have to be carefull and always wear the proper protection.
That will make me think twice next time I go shooting at my range


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|March 17th, 2008, 09:11 AM
Manual Hoist-A-top
I finally got around to installing this thing over the weekend. I don't have pics yet, but overall I'm fairly disappointed.
Kit contents:
One 1 ton come-a-long
2 1/2" eye screws
The T cross assembly made of 1/8" wall 1 inch square tubing.
3 rubber cushions
3 rubber coated hooks for T assembly.
The installation instructions show the hoist being installed in a standard garage with typical 12 foot ceiling.
The first dilemma I saw from the install drawing was I didn't care for only having the 2 eye bolts. For one I didn't want the come-a-long angling out from the wall towards the ceiling because it would be in my way no matter what wall I chose.
The second dilemma was my garage studs. I have compound trusses above and thus I didn't feel comfortable with a single eye screw into a single 2x4. I replaced that with a 12 inch 1/2" eye bolt and put that thru a pair of 2x4's nailed together braced above straddling 2 trusses.
I then put the anchor point eye bolt into the wall and another on the wall near the ceiling where I'd run the cable thru to the ceiling eye. This is where dilemma 3 surfaced. The come-a-long only has like 6 feet of travel if that. So, I made an extension out of 3/16" cable to go from the hook at that point to the T-frame. Another 6-7 feet. The length had to be short enough so that the come-a-long could actually lift the top off the jeep using its full length of travel. The intent being to stow the top against the ceiling.
Dilemma 4. Stowing. Top removed I lifted it all the way to the ceiling as far as it could go. This being 8-10 inches down from the ceiling. The eye bolt int he ceiling, the pulley, the eye bolt in the T-frame, and then the distance between the T-frame and the top itself left the bottom edge of the top at roughly 5'8" off the ground. I'm 6'2". There was no way to rotate the top once off into any position to have the top sufficiently clear of the walkway or even high enough for the wife's Expedition to park underneath as pictured in the install sheet.
Dilemma 5. Upon realizing I couldn't leave it on the hoist I had to figure out how to remove it from the hoist. The problem though is fully lowed it was still 5'8" to inside top center of the top. Or about waist high to the bottom lip. You couldn't remove it from the hoist without removing the weight from the hoist and then removing the hooks. So, I rolled a tire underneath and stood on it bracing the top on my back while the wife removed the hooks. I then walked it out to my backyard.
Final thoughts, I will be constructing a nifty little "cart" to set the top down onto to remove it from the garage after its off the jeep. The hoist itself is fine and works great, but limitations of a standard garage make this a useless product for removal AND storage. The T-frame is excellent though if you have another location to mount some kind of hoist like a tree or a boom off a polebarn for instance. Or in a high ceiling barn/garage of at least 15+ feet.
|March 17th, 2008, 01:22 PM
Interesting. Is the spindle of the winch attached to the wall? Trying to picture how it would crank. Replacing the come-a-long with something that can drop it to the floor would be nice. I could then at least set the top on my 2 wheeled wheelbarrow and move it to the backyard and then figure out what to set it on.
|March 17th, 2008, 01:48 PM
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I just lock the crank when its all the way up, 15 foot ceiling helps
|March 17th, 2008, 01:53 PM
What did you guys do for the actual connection to the top. That's really the only reason I got the kit. I didn't have time/materials for the T-frame bit. The rest I had laying around as well.
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|March 17th, 2008, 07:29 PM
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I mounted the crank to a 2x4x8 and made a "z" with the cable goin to hooks on the ceiling. The top is just connected with 3 ratchet straps, one up front one in rear and one to keep them taught together underneath. All in all takes about 15 mins to do, you dont need a t-bar
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I feel like I have spent more time posting in this thread than it actually did to build the hoist
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Mine worked great for two years in my standard garage...only thing I wish I had (as you mentioned) was another eye bolt so the cable could go straight up from the come-along instead of angling to the center of the garage (and rubbing against my top).
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I'll see if i can make the difference between subsidy and tax break even more simple.a subsidy is when the government gives money to a company, or person. because the government has no money of it's own, it is giving my money to a company, or person. a tax break is when a company, or a person, is allowed to keep more of their own money.
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GPS Capital opens
office in London
GPS Capital Markets Ltd., a Utah-based foreign exchange brokerage firm, has opened an office in London that will serve as its European headquarters. Founded in 2002, GPS is a provider of foreign exchange management services to businesses with international operations or supplier networks.
U.S. trade deficit
up in November
The U.S. trade deficit expanded in November to its widest point in seven months, driven by a surge in imports that outpaced only modest growth in exports. The Commerce Department said the trade gap widened 15.8 percent to $48.7 billion from October. A wider trade deficit acts as a drag on U.S. growth. It typically means the U.S. is earning less on overseas sales while spending more on imports.
Honda to slash
800 jobs in UK
Japanese automaker Honda said it will cut about one in four jobs at its UK factory as it struggles with low demand in Europe. Honda Motor Europe said poor sales due to the region's economic crisis are behind the loss of 800 positions among its 3,500-member workforce in Swindon. The plant makes the Civic, Jazz and CR-V models.
Wells Fargo posts
Q4 earnings record
Wells Fargo, the country's biggest mortgage lender, says it earned a record $4.9 billion in the fourth quarter, up 25 percent from the same period a year ago. The bank made more loans, set aside less money for potential defaults and enjoyed above-average returns from the investments made by its private equity business.
Research In Motion
shares jump 14 pct.
Research In Motion shares jumped 14 percent to close at $13.56, the most in more than two and a half years, amid rising confidence that the new BlackBerry 10 lineup will boost sales for the struggling smartphone maker. Optimism the new phones will be successful has caused the stock to more than double since late September. The company has indicated they will be unveiled on Jan. 30.
Netflix got unfair
postal advantage
A federal appeals court ruled Netflix received an unfair advantage from the U.S. Postal Service's special handling of its DVDs. The court ordered postal regulators to remedy the discrimination. The unanimous decision is a victory for GameFly, which said the postal service should treat the games it ships similarly to Netflix DVDs.