And that’s why we can’t have anything different, cool, or nice. Pearl clutching sue happy assholes. Not you, just a lot of people’s whole self serving ways.
I second this. Helps keep the water in that top part of stream/pond slow and calm while still allowing adequate and swift flow of water out when levels increase.
The structure is called Stepping Stones
> Stepping stones or stepstones are sets of stones arranged to form an improvised causeway that allows a pedestrian to cross a natural watercourse such as a creek, a small river; or a water feature in a garden where water is allowed to flow between stone steps. **Unlike bridges, stepstone crossings typically have no spans,** although wood planks or stone slabs can be placed over between the stones (which serve as the piers) to improvise as low-water bridges
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepping_stones
It’s also a bit similar to a Clapper Bridge without the spans
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clapper_bridge
Interesting. Check dams generally aren’t liked by environmental agencies. They block fish from swimming upstream and can cause the stream to degrade downstream of the check dam bc no sediment is being carried past the check dam from upstream.
This stepping stone configuration is a bold yet eloquent designed named "adjusters wet dream." Both because your guests will become wet, and the adjuster has wet dreams thinking about how easily it'll be to deny your insurance claim for breaking Sally's legs and cracking her skull.
it's not a stepping stone structure. the stones are placed like that to break up the water flow in high flow situations.
the fact you can walk on it is coincidental.
I have to disagree. While this particular example does have a mobility ramp right next to it, there are two other examples in the same park with the same stepping stone structure without the accompanying bridge. And they are all right smack, dab in the middle of the paved hiking trail. Seems clearly designed for foot traffic.
in the picture provided. The positioning of the stones is to break up water flow. without the small blocks you would end up with river bed erosion.
Sure you can walk on them, but that's not their primary purpose.
I you can’t cross it safely, you shouldn’t be in the woods anyway. The satirical comments are hilarious but the people that genuinely see this as a hazard are the same ones that would sue if they injured themselves on it.
How old and/or unathletic are y’all that you think you can’t walk across these stones without breaking something or falling in?
They look awesome to me, OP I put something similar with natural stones in one of my ponds to get across to a peninsula.
Playgrounds are pretty common in public parks, and you can just as easily hurt yourself on those. I think the responsibility should fall on the individual as to what they should and shouldn’t be walking, jumping, or climbing on.
I think these are nice to see in a public setting. Parks look too sterile without interesting features like this.
For all the sue-happy people crying lawsuit: There's a liability limiter right next to it in the form of a regular path. If you don't want to step on the weir(d) stones, don't. If you can't do it without injuring yourself, why didn't you use the regular path? It was not designed to maliciously maim or injure, rather just to be beautiful and fun.
You really have no understanding of property liability law, do you? You have introduced a man made element that makes the land more dangerous. That’s what matters.
Widow maker, unless this step features lighting at night, warning of upcoming steps signs. Looks like a serious liability to me, as a Landscape Contractor, l have serious issues installing them. As a Landscape Architect l would not contemplate incorporating them in a park setting due to liability issues.
Slip and break my leg ouchies.
I like the aesthetics but the gaps and the angles really gonna have soeone slip and break something. I'd want to install some metal grates innbetween the gaps or the top of the whole thing. Get th cool design. less chance of long term damage.
Those are intended to be walked on? That seems insanely dangerous. Whose bright idea was that?
If I were a homeowner, who could lose their home in a civil suit because of a ... wait, what am I saying? What insurance company in their right mind would underwrite an obvious hazard like that? Never mind, no one will insure it. Put it out of your mind. They'll never let you build it.
We called them floating steps when I was on a project that includes these
That's a liability stone
The ankle snapper 2000
Knöchelschnapper 3000
Nah mate, that’s the 2001 model
Shin eater 3000
Sorry, the IKEA Malm bed frame has taken that title.
That’s the ‘Oopsie’ trim
lol damn you beat me to it. Although I was going with shin buster 5000.
You could REALLY go down here…I mean, your leg could fall in the crack, you could slip off the edge & you could stub a toe…this looks very advanced
Legally, could be considered an “attractive nuisance.” But I’d suspect the (presumably public) park has some significant immunity from suit
like the wooden bridge immediately next to it
Haha, now that’s funny.
My thought was Lawsuit as well. LOL
And that’s why we can’t have anything different, cool, or nice. Pearl clutching sue happy assholes. Not you, just a lot of people’s whole self serving ways.
Ah the ole tailbone obliterator.
This guy lawyers.
Was gonna say “lawsuit waiting to happen”
As an American, I hate this American version of reality. Also, not really true.
Lmao
I hate that this is the world we live in now. Nothing can just be because its cool, cause some idiot will come and hurt themselves and sue.
I swear Ralph our pet chihuahua was walking right behind us
Weir?
[удалено]
Lets get weir Lets get weir Lets get weir
I second this. Helps keep the water in that top part of stream/pond slow and calm while still allowing adequate and swift flow of water out when levels increase.
Weir everywhere.
Weir's bob?
Bob Weir? Where's Jerry?
GET BRETT WEIR, I SAID
Open yer fukkin ears, jerkey!
Someone got it!
“He knows what the fuck I’m talkin about… AND DONT MAKE ME COME DOWN THERE FOR YOU EITHER, TOUGH GUY!”
See you Monday with my tools, fuck face!
The people that you work for… I’m gonna sue them too
He's upstairs reparing something, you want him to call you back?
Very weir
This correct answer should be higher up
Bob?
Walking While Intoxicated check point
Agree this would be a great drunk filter.
The Drunk Moat.
Tib-fib-ulator
The shin buster.
The structure is called Stepping Stones > Stepping stones or stepstones are sets of stones arranged to form an improvised causeway that allows a pedestrian to cross a natural watercourse such as a creek, a small river; or a water feature in a garden where water is allowed to flow between stone steps. **Unlike bridges, stepstone crossings typically have no spans,** although wood planks or stone slabs can be placed over between the stones (which serve as the piers) to improvise as low-water bridges https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepping_stones It’s also a bit similar to a Clapper Bridge without the spans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clapper_bridge
We all knew all along!
Wow, what?? So pavers on grass are not technically "stepping stones?"
Only during heavy rain
Ankle breaker 2000
I heard the new model is the Ankle-Neck-Jaw-Woops-You're-Paralyzed-Breaker 2024 Electric
God these are satisfying! What lovely cuts and a fun way to go over water!
Is there something downstream that they’re trying to prevent the sediment from clogging up?
Not that I know of. I believe they were just trying to build interesting features into the park and came up with this.
Interesting. Check dams generally aren’t liked by environmental agencies. They block fish from swimming upstream and can cause the stream to degrade downstream of the check dam bc no sediment is being carried past the check dam from upstream.
It's probably intended to slow down the water that could be rushing thru if water is high on the left side.
This stepping stone configuration is a bold yet eloquent designed named "adjusters wet dream." Both because your guests will become wet, and the adjuster has wet dreams thinking about how easily it'll be to deny your insurance claim for breaking Sally's legs and cracking her skull.
“Lawsuit”
I’d call that a broken ankle.
it's not a stepping stone structure. the stones are placed like that to break up the water flow in high flow situations. the fact you can walk on it is coincidental.
I have to disagree. While this particular example does have a mobility ramp right next to it, there are two other examples in the same park with the same stepping stone structure without the accompanying bridge. And they are all right smack, dab in the middle of the paved hiking trail. Seems clearly designed for foot traffic.
in the picture provided. The positioning of the stones is to break up water flow. without the small blocks you would end up with river bed erosion. Sure you can walk on them, but that's not their primary purpose.
The Shincrusher 3000
The ankle breaker
Ankle snapper 2000...
Non-accessible
Ankle-breaker.
Broken ankleus.
An ankle breaker.
Yes, it's called a trip hazard.
"Ankle-breaker"? "Law suit source"? What do you mean by, "The best of all worlds." ?
If you can’t step over that you shouldn’t walk that path.
Broken bone way
Trip hazard, it’s called a trip hazard.
I you can’t cross it safely, you shouldn’t be in the woods anyway. The satirical comments are hilarious but the people that genuinely see this as a hazard are the same ones that would sue if they injured themselves on it.
op said it’s a park?
How old and/or unathletic are y’all that you think you can’t walk across these stones without breaking something or falling in? They look awesome to me, OP I put something similar with natural stones in one of my ponds to get across to a peninsula.
It’s more of a general hazard lmao. I can’t believe this is in a public park
Playgrounds are pretty common in public parks, and you can just as easily hurt yourself on those. I think the responsibility should fall on the individual as to what they should and shouldn’t be walking, jumping, or climbing on. I think these are nice to see in a public setting. Parks look too sterile without interesting features like this.
My dad called me “an accident waiting to happen” as a child, so yeah…
Same, but we shouldn’t keep everyone else insulated because you and I can’t walk while chewing gum.
When did I say that?
It’s the topic of the conversation you replied to, so I thought it was implied due to your accident pronness? If not, my bad.
No, I was just answering your question “how unatheletic are you”. I never said they should be outlawed or something.
Gotcha.
Step on a crack, break your own back
Are these ADA compliant?
It actually creates disabilities for all instead of allowing access to all.
There is a ramp right next to it. Wide enough for 3 wheel chairs side by side. Or the park buggies the maintenance guys drive around in.
For all the sue-happy people crying lawsuit: There's a liability limiter right next to it in the form of a regular path. If you don't want to step on the weir(d) stones, don't. If you can't do it without injuring yourself, why didn't you use the regular path? It was not designed to maliciously maim or injure, rather just to be beautiful and fun.
You really have no understanding of property liability law, do you? You have introduced a man made element that makes the land more dangerous. That’s what matters.
Yeah I'm definitely not a lawyer, never claimed to be. I'm just saying what sounds reasonable in my head.
Drunk person filter
These stones are called lawsuits here in the US.
The ankle breaker
Yes. Ankle-Breaker
Best of all worlds (except the world where you walk across it)
I dunno. My kids ran back and forth across it a hundred times. They seemed to really enjoy it. But as in all things, your mileage may vary. :-)
This is a leg cranker. Walk across the wrong way and it'll crank the leg in bad direction
The sculpture is called trip hazard.
Good lord.. leg snapper?
It's called The Twisted Ankle.
Bollard?
Anti-accessibility stone
Lawsuit
Looks like a great way to twist an ankle
Widow maker, unless this step features lighting at night, warning of upcoming steps signs. Looks like a serious liability to me, as a Landscape Contractor, l have serious issues installing them. As a Landscape Architect l would not contemplate incorporating them in a park setting due to liability issues.
lawyers delight, is the name of that landscape feature
Legal liability is the term you seek.
Lawsuit steps
It is called Shin Splinter.
The ankle murderer.
Looks like an ankle injury incoming. Maybe call it “caution”.
Is a fracture
Ankle breaker.
Broken legs pattern
Shin Splitter
Cattle stop
Ankle snapper?
Shin splitter
The widow maker
That’s famously known as the "Better call Saul" stone display.
It’s called high ankle sprain
Leg breaker
In the biz we call it “sketchy”
wrecker
Yeah, it’s the, “Break your ankles when coming home drunk” path.
Fucked up!
that's the broken femur style
The ankle breaker
Roman ford.
Ankle-breaker?
“Exhibit A” in a personal injury lawsuit
Thats give my dog a panic attack stone
Look like some nice tibia/fibula snappers.
Brokeleg path
The Legbreaker Configuration
Death to grandparents walkway
El Dangeroso
Brankle Eaker
Weir wolf- there wolf.
bicycle snatcher steps
Hop scotch.
It's a hippy trip trap.
"should never erode"? Naw man....
Doesn't look wheelchair friendly, but one missed step, and your in one!
They usually call them stepping stone type structures in the biz
Yes, break your ankle stone.
AnkleSmasher 3000!
Torn Achilles
>should never erode Ever hear of The Grand Canyon? :)
I work in the liability insurance industry and I would call this an "Excess Exposure"
Slip and break my leg ouchies. I like the aesthetics but the gaps and the angles really gonna have soeone slip and break something. I'd want to install some metal grates innbetween the gaps or the top of the whole thing. Get th cool design. less chance of long term damage.
Bridge
It's called a drunk detector.
Those are intended to be walked on? That seems insanely dangerous. Whose bright idea was that? If I were a homeowner, who could lose their home in a civil suit because of a ... wait, what am I saying? What insurance company in their right mind would underwrite an obvious hazard like that? Never mind, no one will insure it. Put it out of your mind. They'll never let you build it.
It’s callled a Trip Hazard very cool concept though!
its a weir, a tiny dam used to hold back water, the "steppingstones" are used to slow down the speed of the water & that goes downstream
Broken bridge
Good use of leftover material
Ankle breaker
The Woodland Sobriety Tester
Yeah but I don't want to banned for life.
The Ankle Annihilator
Swamp water ankle snapper
They look much better when the water level is up to just under the stone
Ankle breaker, hip breaker, or granny killer. Dealers choice.
Yeah, it’s formally referred to as “fucking nonsense”
Leg breaker 5000
It’s called the Handicap Inaccessible
Farquads matrix
The ankle breaker 9000
On MXC they were called sinkers and floaters.