D-I-Y Flood lighting

[Bill]

In message , bert writes

Oh dear..................................

[Tim Lamb]

I remain uninsulted. Plentiful, adaptable, non-hazardous, discreet... every serious d-i-yer should carry a pocketful.

[Nightjar]

Farmers seem to carry enough in their pockets to provide nests for a number of small mammals. The rest of us have alternatives, although I do admit to using some hairy string (like bailing twine, but bio-degradable and not bright orange) today.

[Mike Barnes]

Baler twine is also infinitely reusable. As long as you don't mind there being more knots than string.

[bert]

All tied up with baler twine.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

A single un-guyed scaffold pole will sway a bit in the wind, with a light on top.

[bert]

Not an issue. As long as we can see the sheep and the dog we are OK. But we can always tie it with baler twine.

[Nightjar]

Night vision goggles will allow you to do that and, I am very reliably informed, are also good for spotting poachers. Of course, you may need a pair for the dog as well, if it has to see the sheep.

[bert]

It would be helpful if the dog could see the sheep although we could get round that by spraying them with fluorescent paint. Then we wouldn't need the night vision goggles.

[John Williamson]

LED's, that's what you need. Skip the first minute:-

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

Paint the dog in luminous paint. Or do this...

[alan_m]

Nature has provided the sheep with fat and a wick so if you set fire to them they can be seen by the dogs for a long time.

[polygonum]

Surprisingly we do not often hear of spontaneous ovine combustion. In fact, I don't remember a single case, though I am aware of burning animals after a lightning strike, for example.

Is this a difference between ovines and humans?

[Clive George]

Beagles might be more likely to suffer it given the normal means for starting "spontaneous" human combustion.

[Johny B Good]

It's worth watching the whole video. I've seen this one before but it still brought a smile to my face (I'm not _quite_ that jaded yet).

The thought "Blade Runner" came to mind but I somehow don't think this was what was in the mind of Philip K, Dick when he came up with the title, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?".

[Johny B Good]

"Spontaneous Combustion" was a misnomer in the first case. Nobody has ever witnessed an actual case of "Spontaneous Combustion" in progress from beginning to end (i.e. A person happily demonstrating the attributes of a living entity suddenly and inexplicably going on fire before being burnt to death by this mysterious affliction).

In every case of "Spontaneous Combustion", it has always proved to be a post mortem process. The victim was already dead before becoming, for whatever reason, a 'human candle'.

[John Williamson]

It's a good video right enough, but I was recommending avoiding the "This is Fred, he owns the sheep" "This is Joe, he owns the dog" and so on bit.

[Adam Aglionby]

Few old VW blocks and the hillsides daylight

[polygonum]

Or porcine in at least some attempts to demonstrate the post mortem combustion.

[Johny B Good]

I wasn't decrying your time saving advice, just commenting on the video as a whole. :-)