A very brassy walzmas to you all

[Pogi Si David]

In!

[SPSheep]

If it's still open I'll throw my hat in the ring!

[Impactfour]

Consider your hat thrown!

[Toestr]

In please.

[Impactfour]

Just a slight update; entrance into the contest will end on 11/22. At that point I'm going to need to eat quite a few more oyster than Initially predicted and wait for the right conditions to run the contest. For clarity's sake, Ive attached some photos of the type machines the will a major part of the contest.The shells will enter the uplift hopper and ride down the tumbler tube to victory!

Unfortunately we use a different series of aluminum tubes for different activities at the farm. Our harvesting tube is solid aluminum spare the end for the sake of retaining as much water as possible to clean the oysters. Our sorting tube is swiss-cheesed with a series of holes to grade out the oysters by size. Obviously the ladder is much better for the sake of filming the contest, but we're about to to finish sorting oysters for the year in the next week or two (weather dependent). So I'd have to do a fair bit of craning and keeping deckhands around to keep the contest open any longer. Sorry for the last minute adjustment, but best of luck to everyone.

The contest list has been updated, let's see how many dozens of oysters I'll end up having to consume!

[Jonnydread]

Count this princess in

[Impactfour]

Knight emoji

[Impactfour]

Two day warning to get those last minute entries in! As some enticement here's some photos of the final mock-up I'll be sending out (unless I have the time to swap out the Phillips head frame screws and obnoxiously long rva screw)

Edit: I almost forgot, she's leak free now and will come with a few replacement face seals. I haven't had the chance to Chrono it yet but it click, clacks and bloops!

[Super Nova]

Very nice

[Impactfour]

Thanks! Hopefully whoever wins it has better photography skills than I do, the patina has a really nice color to it!

[BrickHaus]

Okay. I want in for the sake of watching my oyster, and hoping for a victory! I've been trying to resist, but I just can't.

[SuperAtomic]

I'd like to be added to the list, please!

[Impactfour]

Get those entries in before midnight!

[mmblake]

sign me up.

[Impactfour]

The entry period is officially over, I'm pretty dang sure I added everyone to the list, but check the second post in the thread, if your name is missing give me a holler.

Otherwise I'm gonna start shucking oysters and labeling their shells. The contest itself is likely to happen after Thanksgiving. Fortunately we finished up the "reseeding season" on Wednesday after 5 months of hard work, unfortunately I spent the last few days sick as a dog, and we need to plant our kelp this upcoming week.

My plan is to go with 2 heats. The Top 10 from the first race will move on to the final heat. My plan is to record both races on the same day, release the 1st video and top ten list one day, and then the finale and the winner the following day. Best of luck to you all!