PlaxMacaws
08-20-2013, 08:21 PM
Now this is just bizarre! I was on my computer doing some Internet work, and Salsa (my GW) was on a nearby perch stand. There's a stainless steel bracket with a huge stainless steel nut and bolt clamped through a large hole in the bracket. It's one of many threaded beak-grinding fixtures that I've placed here and there - Zaf especially loves to grind on them. Well, for quite a while I've had 12 inches of stainless steel chain wrapped tightly around that particular bracket between the huge bolt and the end of the perch. The chain was fastened with a stainless steel quicklink inserted through the chain's links on each end. And the quicklink was/still is tightened to a seized bind with wrenches.
Okay, now for the weird part... Salsa was being nice and calm playing with the chain on the bracket, as he often likes to do. I then hear a big CLANK! I go to investigate and find that the quicklink had fallen onto the hard floor and that it was still closed and wrench-tight. The chain was draped over the bracket just danging there, with all of its links perfectly intact.
The best I can determine is that one of two things must have happened. Either Salsa is a magician in disguise... OR he somehow managed to break the wrench-tightened seize bind of the quicklink, then unscrew the quicklink, then pull it through and out of both chain links, and then finally, re-tighten the quicklink to a wrench level bind before dropping it.
Here's a photo that I snapped of the chain and the link immediately after Salsa removed it:
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Okay, now for the weird part... Salsa was being nice and calm playing with the chain on the bracket, as he often likes to do. I then hear a big CLANK! I go to investigate and find that the quicklink had fallen onto the hard floor and that it was still closed and wrench-tight. The chain was draped over the bracket just danging there, with all of its links perfectly intact.
The best I can determine is that one of two things must have happened. Either Salsa is a magician in disguise... OR he somehow managed to break the wrench-tightened seize bind of the quicklink, then unscrew the quicklink, then pull it through and out of both chain links, and then finally, re-tighten the quicklink to a wrench level bind before dropping it.
Here's a photo that I snapped of the chain and the link immediately after Salsa removed it:
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