They have a classroom and area for animals. So not exactly a traditional barn but a large metal building. The building was bought for the ag program but along with robotics we have a maintenance shop where the school stores additional things like salt truck, snow blades, etc. And also the school bus shop and office, also called the bus barn.
Right now there is a calf and also pigs, but soon they will have chickens. Last year I had a lot of free eggs. The cow is nice. Though you can smell the animals more sometimes especially just arriving.
The next sentence in that post states the issues was primarily that the person left the area in a mess without cleaning up. Can’t say I’d be too happy in that situation either…
Like I said it wouldn’t have bothered me if he had cleaned up after himself and besides there is a regular drill press 20 ft away. No the drill chuck was just used for making motor mount holes and our 47mm hole saw which we will no longer need that hole saw shortly since a 47mm annular cutter is on the way
Edit: the boat really gets on my nerves since its always in the way. I honestly wouldn’t have know it was supposed to be a boat if he hadn’t left the prints for making it laying out, that’s how little is done on it
and I thought it was bad when we got to our room and discovered some kids got in and dumped 3 liters of pop all over the floor (it was our pop too). Was a huge pain to clean, but that’s all they touched
me, personally, i think it’s a gorgeous piece of art, worthy of critical acclaim and a spot in the louvre. and you say “this is why we can’t have nice things” as if we ever had nice things HAHAHA
A shop instructor that is no longer at our sponsoring school had a partially-complete gyrocopter suspended from girders (a girder?) of the shop ceiling using non-rated rope and pulleys and no redundant tie-offs. They expected their students and the robotics team to just work under it.
This is called a ‘critical lift’ because people can walk under the load (and be injured or killed if the load drops) and thus requires a ton of oversight. When tying to a building’s structure a critical lift often (should?) requires a PE plan and signoff and over-rated lifting equipment.
The class was also ripping 18650 cells out of old laptop batteries and hand-soldering them together into larger packs in an attempt to make an EV battery pack ‘like Tesla.’
So we have two instances of people trying to make electrical fires in this thread… I’m sensing a pattern. Non-robotics people + robotics stuff = fire and magic smoke
We walked into our shop last night and one of the teachers who doesn’t work with the team had disassembled our sheetmetal break without warning or asking. He just decided he needed to rebuild it. These photos are what we saw when arrived.
Why are people like this? What were they trying to to actually accomplish because it doesn’t look very rebuilt… Kind of exactly the opposite of built in any fashion.
I’ve walked in to find people using our drill press a couple of times. Construction Tech teacher (he has permission at least) and one of our hall monitors (did not have permission, but they at least knew how to operate it correctly)
