Another Use for Stanwell Pipe Cleaners

[woodsroad]

I love the Stanwell bristle pipe cleaners, but my cat likes them even more than I do:
https://youtu.be/eKjnVNGWasg

 

[tnfan]

Too funny!

 

[Chasing Embers]

My cats keep down the wild infestations of pipe cleaners and straws.

 

[snagstangl]

My cat does the same exact same thing.

 

[woodsroad]

What is it that drives cats nuts about pipe cleaners?

This cat is ten years old, and has become rather sedate. With this pipe cleaner, she's like a kitten again.
Well, "she" is a "he", but that's a rather long, off-topic story.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Pretty cute, but I agree with Ogden Nash on kittens and cats.
BUT- and this is important.... Dan's video was followed by two vids of bulldozers being stuck in very wet mud/clay. With no experience pulling such out of mud (with another dozer), I ask this question of those who may have experience with the physics of same. The stuck dozers kept running their treads while being pulled out of the muck. Wouldn't that tend to remove material and actually cause them to sink deeper? Once traction is obtained, yes, power on the treads.

 

[woodsroad]

Have you ever tried towing a dozer that was in neutral?

 

[rmpeeps]

Cute cat!

On the other topic, my brother in law buried a 15ton cherry picker in the mud. So he extended the boom and attached it to a metal barn with slings. He figured he’d just suck the boom in and pull himself out. The barn didn’t survive.

 

[woodsroad]

When the DOD first started auctioning off Deuce and a Halfs, and they were going really cheap, I almost bought one. A friend stopped me, said if I got one, I’d need two more to pull me out after I got the first one stuck.

 

[mikethompson]

A pipe cleaner and cat thread transforms into a construction equipment thread right before my very eyes!
I can't say my cat plays with my pipe cleaners, but my daughter has started making shapes at school with those craft pipe cleaners. I think I will just keep mine hidden for now, lest they all end up twisted together.

 

[Chasing Embers]

I think I will just keep mine hidden for now

My kids are constantly trying to get into mine even though they have the craft ones. Their argument is that mine hold their shape better.