Boomstick $109.95

Type: tree | Size: small | Origin: Planet Mall | Extends: Cylindrical Cylinder Bagger
MODIFICATIONS
Break Barrel Trunk
COMPONENTS (Cylindrical Cylinder Bagger ROOTS)
Disc Roll
Lever
Spring
Plastic Bag
PROBLEM

Some negotiations require a closing argument from the sporting goods department.

SOLUTION

The Boomstick is a double-barreled persuasion branch, retailing for about a hundred and nine, ninety five. Walnut stock, cobalt blue steel, and a hair trigger. Made in Grand Rapids, Michigan, which the committee notes was also peak industrial design era and refuses to elaborate. The Boomstick is classified as a communication device: it has never needed to be used, only introduced, at which point the meeting reaches consensus and everyone asks where they can get one. Deployed exactly once in corporate history, during the Snurra Reel Works acquisition, where it converted a hostile Swedish board into enthusiastic customers in under a minute. Shop smart.

components

The Break Barrel Trunk is the service-access configuration of the Trunks pole platform, redesigning the conventional utility pole architecture by relocating all junction hardware, circuit breaker panels, fiber splice enclosures, and Uni-Adapter service ports from the top of the pole to a break-open barrel housing at standing height on the lower shaft body, accessible to a technician without any climbing equipment, elevated platform, or personal risk above ground level. The barrel housing opens via a quarter-turn key lock on two hinged panels that swing outward to expose the full internal wiring harness and service infrastructure in a single motion, with all connections labeled, color-coded, and terminated on standard DIN rail assemblies for rapid service. The upper shaft above the barrel housing contains only passive structural elements and fixture mounts with no serviceable connections, meaning the fixture at the top is replaced as a complete unit from the ground using a pole-mounted release mechanism rather than a technician ascending to disconnect it. The Break Barrel Trunk reduces average service time per pole from 47 minutes to 11 minutes in field trials and eliminates the category of incident in which a person falls off a pole.

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EXTENDS

A modular washer dispensing unit that mounts to the Glove Thing. It accepts standard disc rolls, feeds them through a spring-loaded trigger mechanism, and places them cleanly into plastic bags one at a time without fumbling, at 30 yards away. Pez eat your heart out. Clumsy glove fingers, meet your match.

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Inputs
  • comp_big_red_button
Outputs
  • comp_onoff
TREE
AVAILABLE INPUTS
AVAILABLE OUTPUTS
Schema
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    ],
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        "comp_onoff"
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    ],
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            },
            {
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            },
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            },
            {
                "id": "comp_plastic_bag",
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            },
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}

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