Post #2403907
2026-05-09 18:35 UTC
Another interesting piece of measurement equipment we happened to notice while #hiking a few months ago. I guess they're measuring how much the stones in old adobe construction pull apart over time, and it's a pretty cool simple piece of kit. It's installed in a ruin that dates to about 1916, that was built with stones from an older 1100s ancestral puebloan #ruin. #NewMexico
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@croyle@wandering.shop 2026-05-09 18:41
@akkana@fosstodon.org That's a pretty neat solution. I can't be sure from the image, but it looks like it's only secured by a screw or something on one side? Maybe two-side tape on the other? Anyway, it makes me wonder about the practical use of it, like at what point do you need to act...
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@bhhaskin@social.bitsofsimplicity.com 2026-05-09 19:06
@akkana@fosstodon.org that's pretty neat!
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@kinsale42@mstdn.games 2026-05-11 16:28
@akkana@fosstodon.org where I'm working, there's a tunnel between two buildings that goes under a city street and there's one of those over a crack in the concrete 😊