11.01.2021 Agricultural espionage?

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Monday, 41F, milder but yet more rain and even some wind. 

It is quite amazing how diligent online research can provide surprising detail and obscure information. YouTube is usually an encyclopaedic source if you can get past the glaringly obvious. 

Watching company promotional videos can plumb hidden depths you would never find in their carefully framed, sales brochure illustrations. The panning camera captures far more than was ever intended by the film maker. If only you know what to look for.

For example: The jointing method and internal reinforcement of seams between the segments of animal housings is laid bare. Without ever having to see the object first hand. Even if armed with a tape measure and LED torch. 

Capture a still from a slow motion replay and it can be processed to show infinitely more detail. Scale can be measured in image handling software without ever seeing the real thing. Lifelike images of enlarged objects, in colour to taste, can be set against photographed backgrounds. To be tentatively shared before the hideous "carbuncle" draws a partner's ire. 

This all helps to eliminate difficulties long before they arise. Or they can be studied and the process of adaptation can be set in motion. Long before the items are actually sitting on the lawn. Letting a problem lie quietly at the back of your mind will often lead to insights, reiteration and a problem solved. Make no hasty decisions. Only to repent at leisure. The design team [of one] has no room for costly wasters.

My long-winded rehearsals may well be seen as obsessive to some. If that is the case, then consider yourself extremely lucky. You must have the means at your disposal to overcome all obstacles. Simply by paying somebody else to worry about it and to overcome all hurdles. 

A solo attempt at anything places the onus on the perpetrator to get everything right, first time. The danger lies in grossly overestimating the design team's limited skills and knowledge! How can one possibly judge without testing them all in turn?

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