Inspiration needed for this year's beermountain

[-Lummox-]

Some of you may have seen our effort last year on Houx Annexe, it was a 10.5 foot monster not far from the kebab truck.

Thing is, we have many newbies this year (some of whom have yet to prove their beer consumption prowess...) so I'm thinking a straight-up pyramid may be unstable. Last year's effort was produced by 12 drinkers, this year's will have 21 contributors (quite happy with our recruiting efforts!) but I'm thinking if we try to build a mountain much taller than 10.5 feet it'll just fall over.

So... any suggestions for other shapes/structures that we could build? Guessing we'll probably have around 3,000 bottles to build with by the end of the weekend

[TonyHetherington]

Do you glue your beer mountain together?

[Munter]

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[Nick M]

Rather than just going up, why not spread out and try and make a replica of a Lola Aston Martin in beer bottles ?

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TonyHetherington said:

Do you glue your beer mountain together?

Yes, because we're cheating bds like that.

HTH

[mbl4]

could go for the Beer Pyramids or Giza, like the mountain last year, just have three next to each other and in realtive scale to the pnes in egypt?

[TonyHetherington]

-Lummox- said:

TonyHetherington said:

Do you glue your beer mountain together?

Yes, because we're cheating bds like that.

HTH

That's not cheating - when it's 10.5ft high it's bloomin needed!

If it's glued, why can't you just go higher and wider?

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TonyHetherington said:

-Lummox- said:

TonyHetherington said:

Do you glue your beer mountain together?

Yes, because we're cheating bds like that.

HTH

That's not cheating - when it's 10.5ft high it's bloomin needed!

If it's glued, why can't you just go higher and wider?

We got grief off people last year for not just stacking the bottles. Frankly anyone who can build a 10.5 foot beermountain without bonding it together... well, they just can't, and they're lying if they say they can. Various camps near us last year tried it and managed about 2 feet before it fell over, if that.

The trouble with going higher is that it gets above tent/car/gazebo height and becomes a windbreak which then gets blown over quite easily. Law of levers and all that sciencey malarkey...

[TonyHetherington]

Yup indeed!

How about going "a bit clever" and making a beer mountain that says "LeMans 09"...?

Glue will be needed, but that's fair game in my book.

[Munter]

How about a beer bottle iglu. You could all sit inside it drinking, and simply build it around you.... Or pick a victim and build it around them depending on how many bottles you think you'll have...

[boolay]

How about a beer bottle shaped beer mountain. You would need to stack the bottles vertically, creating diameters of beer bottles bonded together, then placed on top of each other.

...One to think about!

Edited by boolay on Thursday 16th April 16:03

[mbl4]

the problem with building any shape that isn't only two diomensional is that the bottles do not have grooves to sit in, even when bonded this is very hard to do.

for anyone interested, this is the 10.5' mountain of 08:

[-Lummox-]

The gazebo's looking a bit worse for wear there, Mike. Think we need a sturdier one this year. Or pre-emptive reinforcement with cable ties and garden canes

[MiniMan64]

What this from last year at our campsite?



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[Gingerbread Man]

Could you make a 3D pyramid?

[thanetspeedshop]

How about making your beer bottle display INSIDE A RECYCLING BIN?

Easy, environmentally friendly and allows you more time to WATCH MOTOR RACING.

just a thought...

[boolay]

What motor racing?

[rev-erend]

Seems like no one has any idea's..

OK - We have all done the beer pyramid .. old hat.

Why not try a beer bottle castle .. OK - it does not have to be high but it can be long and deep going around cars and tents , marquees etc.... battlements can use up those odd big shaped bottles (sweet sherry ) and why not have a moat and a draw bridge to walk across..

English mans home is his castle and all that ..

Moat could be just simple plastic sheeting .. and if deep enought - a handy way to get around the no swimming pools ACO stuff..

Edited by rev-erend on Wednesday 22 April 15:32

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thanetspeedshop said:

How about making your beer bottle display INSIDE A RECYCLING BIN?

Easy, environmentally friendly and allows you more time to WATCH MOTOR RACING.

just a thought...

That's one thing that can be said for the pikeys... I'm pretty sure they womble up the empty beer bottles to reclaim the recycling value of them. So long as people don't smash them up, of course.