In a 1975 monograph called Chicken Plucking as Measure of Tornado Wind Speed, Bernard Vonnegut considers what might happen to a dead chicken if it were fired from a cannon. He explains: “One way of estimating the wind in a tornado vortex is to determine by experiment what air speed is required to blow all […]
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For chicken pluckers (part 2)
Following on from the discussion of Herrick Kimball’s book Anyone Can Build a Whizbang Chicken Plucker, here is a discussion group devoted to Mr. Kimball’s subject: The above photo was posted to this group by David Ely of Indiana. He built the Whizbang Plucker shown in the photo for approx. $200. Those 9 kids (count […]