Million Dollar Idea. Glass Magnet

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

They sell magnets to pick up nails, screws, tacks and other sharp bits of metal from yards and driveways. But what about glass? This is an old farm house/yard and the people tossed everything everywhere. I'm constantly finding shards and other fragments of glass in all shapes and color. Some of them could easily go through a shoe or into a tire. So far I haven't cut anything important while digging.

So, some of you AT geniuses need to come up with a glass sweeper like those nail sweepers.

Send me the royalties for the idea.

 

[deadlyapp]

Just use a large lint roller.

 

[brianmanahan]

i don't think electromagnetism is going to allow that

but maybe you can get something to work with the strong or weak interaction

 

[Charmonium]

but maybe you can get something to work with the strong or weak interaction

Abso-smurfly. Get a bunch of "strange" quarks together and then wave that over your yard. The only downside is that they convert other quarks to strange and pretty soon you've got a strangelet black hole that consumes the earth. But it would definitely get rid of that glass.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Glass is conductive when it's molten, so you could raise temp of the entire area high enough, then use some kind of inductor to induce eddy currents in the glass, not exactly a magnet, with the right frequencies you can maybe get it to move or something.

But since you've now raised the temperature high enough to melt glass you probably have more things to worry about, like the fact that the temperature is high enough to melt glass.

On more serious note, probably need some kind of rock strainer, it will at least get the bigger pieces of glass.

 

[zinfamous]

that's what feet are for

 

[Scarpozzi]

that's what feet are for

It could be used for fighting too, if you're not close to a Marble Slab Creamery or Baskin Robbins.

 

[sdifox]

If you don't break it, you don't have yo try to clean it up. So op, dump the rocks in your burlap sack.

 

[brianmanahan]

that's what feet are for

that's what my buddy did 25 years ago when his parents got a new dumpy place

found the nails and glass in the yard by not looking where he was going and stepping on them

plus, it gave him a reason to go get a tetanus shot

 

[ultimatebob]

A giant sticky roller would work if you had an asphalt or a concrete driveway.

If you tried that on a stone driveway, you're gonna have a bad time.

 

[Charmonium]

A giant sticky roller would work if you had an asphalt or a concrete driveway.

oh shit, why didn't I think of that. Pave the yard and put up a parking lot.

edit - OK, if you want to go all booshy, a tennis court or something.

 

[ultimatebob]

oh shit, why didn't I think of that. Pave the yard and put up a parking lot.

edit - OK, if you want to go all booshy, a tennis court or something.

You didn't really like mowing the lawn anyway... right?

 

[Charmonium]

You didn't really like mowing the lawn anyway... right?

That's probably for the OP, but WTF

I haven't done that in years. Mainly because the electric mower was under powered and I (probably still am) grossly out of shape. Not morbidly obese any more so there's that anyway.

There's a nice young man who, with a couple of partners, do my lawn. They kinda suck but it's not like I care. For my part, I'd just buy a couple sheep or let it grow into the grassland it was always meant to be. The ferals would probably love it.

Anyway, he used to do one of my neighbor's lawns but they had some sort of falling out so I raised his rate from $50 to $60. He likes to work on his own schedule and that's cool. If I feel like it's getting out of hand, I'll text him and he eventually shows up. But he's got this beast of a stand-up riding mower that could probably handle stalks of bamboo.

 

[nakedfrog]

i don't think electromagnetism is going to allow that

but maybe you can get something to work with the strong or weak interaction

All the guy needs is some unobtainium, I'm sure that can do it after you dethazzle the morpherizer.

 

[dullard]

But since you've now raised the temperature high enough to melt glass you probably have more things to worry about, like the fact that the temperature is high enough to melt glass.

If only you moved a bit south, like the Phoenix suburbs, then you can have your melted glass just with the occasional weather pattern:

 

[Red Squirrel]

Lol that's a classic. He's so natural about how he handles it too.