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Old 5th Jul 2006, 18:42
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Originally Posted by BEagle
Agreed!
Does anyone have a copy of that splendid old cartoon "What the aircrew wanted" featuring a swing hanging from a tree branch? It really summed up the way procurement screws things up....
The final delivered solution had a tree with one branch either side of the trunk, a large section sawn out of the trunk for swing and occupant and a complicated truss system to hold the whole thing in place!
For you Beagle,,, I won't put in one of those "Search the forum" or "google" funnies, I just assume you didn't find it because JB is at the bottom of the forum list now

Here is your tree poster,,,,,,,,,,

http://www.pprune.org/forums/showpos...6&postcount=49
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