Bridge Building at the Humbug AGM 2008

The President of Humbug 2008 announced we’d be building paddlepop stick bridges after the AGM.

Provided with hot glue guns and paddle popsticks, I think we were supposed to start straight away. Only no one did. Except Clinton. So I decided I’d help.

Team one: Clinton Roy, Me and Murray McAllister.
Team two: James Iseppi, Mark Ellem and Scott Wilson (Greg Black and I think so anyways)
Team three: Russell Stuart.

And “team four” was Gary Curtis.

And so, the pictures….

The bridges: from the top – Team 1; Team 2; Team 3.

Initial load testing of ~2 kgs water, plus the first appearance of Gary’s laminated bridge.

There was no way we could balance a milk bottle on the skinny bridge, so we found some strapping.

~8kgs of water, with no sign of breakage.

Again, no sign of breakage, however, a significant amount of balancing required.

Easy peasy.

We were out of milk bottles. Clinton had assumed that 8 kilos would be enough to break the bridges. He was wrong. Humbug library put to good use.

It was not enough. A trolley was added.

And with a few books from the library, and 4 kgs of water. Ker-rack!

Point of failure.

Trolley, books and 4 kgs…

It didn’t last

Point of failure

Trolley, books and 8 kgs

Not enough, so we added the Treasurer’s “box of stuff”

It’s going…

Gone!

Point of failure

The new and improved laminated bridge

With 6 kgs, and it was barely clearing the floor

Clinton tried standing on it. It broke the bridge even more. Surprise, surprise.

Team 2 also tried standing

With little success

Since the bottles of water and strap barely cleared the ground, Gary decides to lift the bridge

And up…

And down…

And … snap!

Broken…

Where dead bridges end up

Om Nom Nom Nom

The winner was Team 2.

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