Station Instruments
Visitors sometimes ask what equipment the Station uses. Here is the complete list. Nothing has been left out. There isn't anything else.
The Rock
- Material
- granite, grey, with one white vein
- Weight
- 1.1 kg (weighed on the kitchen scale, 1994, with permission)
- Found
- at the side of the road on the way back from my brother's
- Service
- continuous since 1994, except one day in 2002 (Kevin)
- Maintenance
- none required. The rock maintains itself.
The String
- Current
- String No. 5, garden twine, installed 2019
- Previous
- No. 1 (rotted, 1998), No. 2 (replaced after the 2002 incident, on principle), No. 3 (a bird took it for a nest, 2009 — allowed), No. 4 (frayed, 2019)
- Notes
- The string is the most important part of the station after the rock. Without the string, "swinging" can't be measured, and a rock on the ground is just a rock.
The Post, the Chair, the Notebook
- The post
- part of the fence. It was there first.
- The chair
- a folding chair kept by the back door, for observations of longer than a minute
- The notebook
- No. 14. The first thirteen are in a box under the stairs. I am told they should be "digitised." This page is as digitised as they're going to get.
- Calibration
- Every New Year's Day I go out and look at the rock and say what it's doing out loud. It has always been doing what I said.
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